Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
PG-13 | 11 October 1985 (USA)
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An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinary unique assassin in service of the U.S. President.

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Hellen

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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NekoHomey

Purely Joyful Movie!

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Contentar

Best movie of this year hands down!

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Jonah Abbott

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

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His death faked after his car plunges into a river, an American policeman is given a new identity and forced to become an assassin for a government-run secret organisation in this mix of action and comedy starring Fred Ward as the title character. As evidenced by the title, this was intended to the first in a series of James Bond like movies that never quite took off, which is unfortunate since this is as riveting and entertaining a ride as one would expect from 'Goldfinger' director Guy Hamilton. The story is not without its weaknesses. Ward is a little too accepting of his new identity and role in life, never once pining for what he left behind. The film also spends little time on the idea of assassinations made to look like accidents despite an intriguing suggestion that the secret organisation has been run for decades as a way of the government dealing with shady figures that cannot legally be touched. All of Ward's training scenes are very well done though and frequently suspenseful (hanging off amusement park rides). Joel Grey is also dynamite as Ward's trainer who compares him to a yak claims that "fear is nothing more than a feeling" while dodging bullets by predicting muscle movements (!). The film is filled with great set pieces too; whether it be hanging off the Statue of Liberty or evading intelligent guard dogs, there is nary a boring moment to be had here.

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DMCourt11-1

The movie wasn't very good. The producers made it too bland, with a generic villain and without a lot of the wild humor of the books.A few years after the movie they made a pilot based on a short story Murphy and Sapir had written for Inside Sinanju, a reader's guide to the series.So, while the actors are still so-so, the plot itself is, I thing, better than the movie.Encore's Action and Wam channels are showing it in July and August. The first time, to my knowledge, that it's been seen since it aired during the summer of '88.Air dates are: All Times ET/PT Tuesday, July 7th Encore Action 7:15am Tuesday, July 21st Encore Action 5:10am Friday, July 24th Encore Action 10:35am Tuesday, August 4th Encore Wam 1:45am Friday, August 21st Encore Wam 3:15am Wednesday, August 26th Encore Wam 4:30am Sunday, August 30th Encore Wam 3:05am

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zshrj02

When Maj. Rayner Fleming gets confronted about "who's she working for?" while on her way of the general's office, she places the clipboard, she was carrying out, on the meeting desk, and picks up the photos, turns around and serves up a confident retort to accusations. However, when she demonstratively leaves the room after picking up her hat, she "forgets" the clipboard on the meeting desk. The movie itself is a great little flick I enjoyed many times. Although acting isn't much to speak of, it surely fits well in the era when flick was shot. Some of the props are legendarily funny, the "computer" was a joke when this was shot. Right now, I let a loud roar of laughter when I see it. Still, in a twisted way, this is a "feel good" movie to me and I am sure I will be seeing it over and over again in the future.

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Jonathon Dabell

Screen writer Christopher Wood (who wrote the Bond films The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker) and director Guy Hamilton (who helmed the Bond films Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, Live And Let Die and The Man With The Golden Gun) join forces for this amusing and wholly improbable adventure flick. Based on the "Destroyer" series by Richard Sapir and Warren Murphy, there's a very real sense that this was to be the first in a series of films… but for one reason or another none of the proposed sequels were ever made. It could be assumed that the film isn't very good, hence the decision not to go ahead with any of the follow-ups - but that wouldn't be fair. Despite a degree of goofiness and some hammy performances, Remo Williams – The Adventure Begins is likable enough.Tough New York cop Samuel Makin (Fred Ward) is almost killed in an attack one evening. When he comes round in hospital he is bewildered to discover he has a new face, new fingerprints and new identity. He learns that he has been recruited into an ultra secret organisation dedicated to fighting crime. Makin is renamed "Remo Williams" and a Korean martial arts master named Chiun (Joel Grey) is entrusted with training him until he is skilled enough to be an agent. Chiun teaches Remo various strategies to improve his strength, speed and agility. Soon enough Remo is ready for action. He is sent by his boss Harold Smith (Wilford Brimley) to investigate a series of suspicious accidents involving army weaponry that have left a number of American soldiers dead. A shady company called Grove Industries, fronted by George Grove (Charles Cioffi), has been cutting corners in their production of military weaponry, making millions of dollars from inadequate products while placing everyday soldiers' lives in jeopardy. Grove will stop at nothing – including murder – to keep his affairs secret. But Remo has been assigned to bring Grove's organisation to its knees and, with his new martial arts skills and lightning agility, he means to do just that….Ward is a suitably abrasive, tough presence as the film's hero, while Grey has considerable fun hamming it up as his Korean trainer. Neither performance is a shining example of screen acting, but both men nonetheless bounce off each other with good-natured enthusiasm that upholds the spirit of the film. Particularly memorable highlights of the film include a dizzying action sequence on the Statue Of Liberty, which contains some hair-raising stunt work, and a fast-paced climax in the forests of the American Northwest. There are, it must be added, some ridiculously silly moments during the film. It's all good and well saying it is meant to be treated as light-hearted fun, but scenes of Remo running across sand and cement without leaving footprints, or dodging bullets fired at point blank range, topple into a realm of absurdity that is hard to accept. Also the very half-hearted attempts to create an element of romance between the hero and a hard-nosed lady army officer, played by Kate Mulgrew, are a woeful failure. Remo Williams – The Adventure Begins is no masterpiece, but if you're after a couple of hours of easy-going entertainment you could do a lot worse.

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