Availability Originally intended for a theatrical release, the film was released directly to videocassette and was given only limited theatrical releases overseas and was screened at various film festivals, including a run at the 1993 MIFED Film Market. The movie has never been released on DVD in the United States and as of March 2019, MGM has yet to announce any current plans for a Region 1 DVD release. Critical reception The film received mixed to mostly negative reviews. TV Guide ridiculed the film, writing: "Underachieving stars Michael Paré and Jan-Michael Vincent try to infuse Deadly Heroes with rousing patriotism. But most of the time, they simply glower unflinchingly as if to compensate for the fruity overacting of Billy Drago, who plays the villain." The site's reviewer condemned the film's "irritating gung-ho patriotism and its lip-smacking preoccupation with Marcy's [Claudette Mink's character] abduction into white slavery". Schnittberichte.com praised Billy Drago as a "convincing villain" and Michael Paré as a decent leading hero. The Movies or Minute website wrote that "Deadly Heroes is chock full of idiotic moments of glee." Comeuppance Reviews provided a mixed evaluation, criticising Paré's "wooden" performance. Action cinema-related website Cool Target labeled the film as "a trashier remake of Menahem Golan's earlier hit The Delta Force", and Paré's character as sexist. Steve Q. of Zero Star Cinema agreed, considering the film "boilerplate 90's action schlock" and comparing it to The Delta Force. He criticized its plot inconsistencies, and added: "It's silly, but it keeps moving." In the review for VHS Retro the film was praised for its "tacky but irresistible" opening. Drago's supporting role was also cheered but Paré and Jan-Michael Vincent were deemed to be "absent" and "bored" in their acting. The plot was branded as "nonsensical": "Brad, terribly beaten up and tortured by Carlos and his thugs, acts like he's at the peak of his powers soon after he escapes captivity." Marta Górna of Górna Ogląda considered Deadly Heroes to be a case study of the action star's downfall (in this context, Paré's and Vincent's). Albert Nowicki (Yippee-ki-yay, Motherf*cker!) thought that Vincent's Cody Grant was an "expendable" character and Paré gave a stiff, "wooden" performance. He noted that Paré's "marvelous physical form" is one of the film's advantages but "impressive musculature won't patch lack of charisma". Nowicki criticized Golan's direction, calling the film sexist and unintentionally funny, and thought that Paré's torture scene is "inadvertently