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Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

A secret government organization in the service of presidents called CURE fakes the death of a NY patrolman and inducts him into the organization. They give him a new identity Remo Williams (Fred Ward), and give him a trainer Chiun (Joel Grey) master of Korean martial arts Sinanju. Based on the series "The Destroyer" by Richard Sapir and Warren Murphy.This is definitely cheesy and pulpy. Joel Grey has great fun as the Korean master. The training sequences are fantastic and does all the well worn classic clinches. He's dodging bullets, and walking on water. It's all fun. I'm also amazed that they filmed an action sequence on the Statue of Liberty. It fun to see. The serious part of the movie doesn't work as well. Maj. Rayner Fleming (Kate Mulgrew) gathers evidence of defective weapons and faces a deadly weapons manufacturer. It's the more forgettable part of the movie.

I like this movie, whenever I come across it on TV I end up watching it to the end. Joel Grey does a fantastic job as does Fred Ward. I can't understand why it was panned so badly when it was released.There is one line in it that I've always found absurd though, Wilford Brimley's character tells Ward's that "there's one thing we can never do and that's embarrass the President". Are you effing kidding me? Presidents embarrass themselves so often who's going to notice!And I did read one review, in the Boston Herald, that I've never forgotten and always found hilarious even though I like the movie. It had to be the shortest review on record; Remo Williams, The Adventure BeginsWhen?Even if you like the movie, you have to laugh

Like any book turned into a film,this does not do the books credit. That said,it is very faithful to both the repartee between the master and student as well as the excitement and skills obtained during training by Remo. Sure its fictional,a lot of the moves taught are impossible,but a lot are also plausible, and that along with the humorous banter between master and student as the wisdom and skills are passed on to the latter are what made me so addicted to Remo in book form, and what also makes this film so much fun to watch.Being addicted to the books before the film was made, usually a hindrance to enjoying the film when made as gets your hopes up too high, did not deter me from enjoying Fred Wards performance as the Destroyer to be, and i find it almost unfathomable that a follow up film never became a reality-but i will live in hope of it happening, and if they made another film half as close as this one was to the books i will die happy i will die happy.

A classic American '80's action film that plays like an adult version of The Karate Kid; Remo Williams is a hybrid genre of classic American Martial Arts/Spy Thriller; more well crafted and enjoyable than Black Eagle or any other rare kind of that era.It's an action film that counts on few bare necessities and boasts more choreographed stunts than it does special effects. Majorly, it provides us with a well crafted human drama that is perfectly acted out between the actors and boasts an original sense of humour that surpassed The Karate Kid's "Master and Student" comedy formula, simply because it's more mature than Karate Kid.Some pass the film off as far-fetched but with hair-raising stunts being performed on top of towering fairground rides and the Statue of Liberty, who cares? What about the dogs walking the tightrope during the attempted sabotage or Chiun walking on water? It's just so much fun to watch! I still wish I could kill a man with my fingers after watching that film, it'd shorten the queue at KFC but I'll happily settle for my copy of this amazing film!