Very best movie i ever watch

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Best movie ever!

The basic plot of No Retreat, No Surrender is horribly familiar with bits of silliness thrown in for good measure. It goes something like this: a young man in a new town is pushed around and made to feel an outcast. Through training, hard work, and the help of Bruce Lee's ghost (who he prays to?), he makes himself into a karate expert. In the end, he alone will be forced to face-off against the New York-based karate thug to save the Seattle dojo from being taken over by organized crime. Sound ridiculous? It is.I must be missing something, because I'm at a loss to explain all the positive comments on IMDb for No Retreat, No Surrender. Other than some pretty decent fight choreography, I can't find much else positive to say about the film. I know it was one of Jean-Claude Van Damme's first roles, but let's be honest, outside of the fights at the end, he's barely even in the thing. The acting is pathetic, some of the characters are cringy, the dialogue sounds like it was written by a 10 year-old, and the whole Bruce Lee's ghost bit is beyond ridiculous. It doesn't help that the dude they hired to play Bruce looks nothing like Bruce. A real stinker.

The appearance of Bruce Lee in this film is almost the only bright point of the film, the film is not top quality but few martial scenes and the appearance of Bruce Lee saved this movie, I personally was not thrilled because I have not seen a deep plot. The cast except Van Damme is a low class cast with poor acting, I watched this movie once and that's enough for a lifetime...

This is more of a comment on the reviews rather than a review of the movie. This is one of my favourite movies of all time and like so many other people have said it helped me through my childhood. Everyday after school i would come home and watch No Retreat, No Surrender on our VHS machine. I just wanted to say how happy i was to read so many reviews saying exactly how i felt about this movie. Sure it has some of the worst acting for it's time but that just added to it's charm. Movies like No Retreat, No Surrender, Iron Eagle, Just One of the Guys, Lost Boys and the Wraith and music by Roxette, West End Girls (English Girl Band) & Michael Jackson, this was my 80's and i miss it terribly.Cheers :-)

I recently caught this movie on you tube and must have blocked it out of my mind for the last 27 years. WHAT A CORNBALL, CHEESY, CONTRIVED PIECE OF DOO-DOO!!! This wasn't a B-movie this was a Z-movie! Who in the name of all that is holy produced, directed and wrote this cinematic suppository? Not to mention the horrific acting that i am sure nobody would even dare put this on their resume, especially Van-Dame who's acting was so bad in this movie it makes his turn in "Cyborg" look Oscar worthy. You know a movie is beyond redemption when they not only have a uber hokey title like "No Retreat, No Surrender" but has an actor shouting it throughout the movie. I swear, every time that line was uttered, i could feel the bile rising up from my stomach. Do yourself a MAJOR favor and avoid this movie like the freaking plague.