No Code of Conduct (1999)

Disappointment for a huge fan!

Boring, long, and too preachy.

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

For some reason, it took a grand total of FIVE screenwriters to make the script for this movie. But despite all these people working on the story, apparently none of them were able to make it interesting. It's a real slow-moving exercise; it feels like a script for a weekly television show stretched out to twice the length. And the various plot turns also come straight out of a clichéd and predictable television police show. But the script is just one of the problems with the movie. The two Sheens and Mark Dacascos are not used well - the Sheens can't seem to generate any chemistry in their scenes despite their real life relationship, and Dacascos doesn't get to use his real life martial art skills. Instead, the action is confined to shoot-out and car chases, which might have been okay had they been directed and edited in a professional manner, but they're not. In fact, they are surprisingly incompetently constructed. (Well, except for the exploding building at the climax - I admit that looked pretty cool.) And the whole package is directed by Bret Michaels in a way that not only makes everything look real cheap, also strangely hides anything that would show without doubt that the movie was actually shot in Arizona. In the end, the movie is a real disappointment from Millennium Films, who usually does a lot better than this.

Teaming the Sheen family together was not a bad idea and if you liked the great acting skills of this family, you will definitely enjoy seeing them act as a father and son on the police force. Charlie Sheen,(Jake Peterson) was a senior detective getting ready to retire and his son Martin Sheen,(Bill Peterson), was completely devoted to his job and neglected his beautiful sexy wife and daughter, Meredith Salenger,(Rebecca Peterson). There was a big scheme among the higher ups and a underworld gang which involved a group of characters who would just look at you and blow your head off. The boss of these real bad dudes was a very hot number, Tina Nguyen,(Shi) who had these guys doing anything she wanted and they just about licked her boots. In one scene, Shi got the hots for Rebecca Peterson and I was beginning to wonder just where this picture was going. Plenty of balls of fire and a classic mustang being feather dusted. As years past by, this film will become a classic, only because the Sheen Family both appeared together.

From the mind who invented the song "Unskinny Bop", Bret Michaels, comes "No Code Of Conduct", his second directorial effort after "A Letter From Death Row"."Charles" Sheen as he liked to be called for 2 years (1997- to early 1999) was okay in this film. He plays a cop on the edge. He drinks too much and spends little time with his family etc.... His father Martin is in it and plays a nothing role as his father. Joe Estevez of "Money To Burn" fame plays a helpful mechanic. The editing is very silly because there's always a "whoosh" sound before the scene starts. It is a ** star film.For more insanity, please visit: comeuppancereviews.com

No Code of Conduct was a last ditch effort rented on a rainy night for my sick boyfriend who loves shoot em ups! We both really enjoyed this one and thought the Sheen's did an great job. The action scenes were great and the end scene with all the pyro was awesome. Glad we rented it.