Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)

• Year: 1985
• Released: 11 Oct 1985
• Country: United States, Mexico
• Adwords: Nominated for 1 Oscar. 4 nominations total
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089901/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Remo_Williams_The_Adventure_Begins
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/remo-williams-the-adventure-begins
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: PG-13
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
• Runtime: 121 min
• Writer: Richard Sapir, Warren Murphy, Christopher Wood
• Director: Guy Hamilton
• Cast: Fred Ward, Joel Grey, Wilford Brimley
• Keywords: agent, new identity,

	6.4/10
	46/100
	41% – Critics
	58% – Audience

Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins Storyline

A cop who answers a call is ambushed. The next day he is buried. But in reality he is in a hospital and his appearance has been altered. He is then told by a man named McCleary that he now belongs to “them”. “Them” being CURE an organization whose job is to battle corruption. They give him the new name of Remo Williams. He then meets the head of CURE Harold Smith, who spends most of his time sitting in front of a copmuter and perusing over reports of individuals that have to be dealt with. They then give him to Chiun, a Shinanju master, which is the art of killing someone and making it seem like an accident or natural causes. Chiun’s regimen is hard on him. Smith then discovers a man named Grove, who is a defense contractor. It seems that whenever there’s a case against him, the key witnesses and investigators disappear. Currently a military investigator is pursuing him about his new project which for some reason, he is tight lipped about. Smith sends McCleary and Remo to help her but Grove discovers them and wanting to know about them decides to stir things up. He sends some people to take Remo out but he outwits them. And when he tells Smith about it, Smith doesn’t care who then tells him that unless they have more evidence against Grove they can’t do anything and if they are about to be exposed, they have to disappear. And while Smith and McCleary have made arrangements for their demise, Remo is told that Chiun will take him out. So he and McCleary have to get the evidence they need.

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Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins Movie Reviews

A good mixture of action and comedy.

This is a good movie…about a cop, who is recruited to be part of this secret agency. He is basically recruited there against his will, as he is given a new face and even a new name. It is funny how he gets the name Remo Williams; a lot of thought was put into it. Most of this movie is the training that Remo (play excellently by Fred Ward) must go through to become the agent. His teacher is an old Korean played by Joel Grey who is great in the role. It is funny watching this two do their roles cause they are great and have a very good chemistry on the screen. Most of the action takes place near the end, as Remo has to investigate this guy whom sales weapons and stuff to the military. Great conclusion to this one as there is some good action scenes. Too bad there was never a sequel to this one cause it was a fun movie to watch.

“Thou shalt not get away with it!”

Along with ‘Nick Carter – Killmaster’, ‘Kung Fu Master’, ‘The Executioner’, and ‘Black Samurai’, ‘The Destroyer’ was a popular series of action books from the ’70’s and ’80’s. Written by Richard Sapir and Warren Murphy, they told of the exploits of ‘Remo Williams’, a man brought back from the dead ( in the books, he was sent to the electric chair, but the movie has him as a cop almost killed in the line of duty ) to become an assassin for a U.S. organisation ( which officially does not exist ) known as CURE. Remo is trained in the art of Sinanju, an Eastern martial art that enables one to, amongst other things, dodge bullets and run across a beach without leaving footprints.

This entertaining 1985 adaptation was intended as the first in a series. Unfortunately, the adventure began and ended here, though it later acquired a cult following and, even now, talk persists of a sequel/remake in the offing. It came too late to cash in on the cycle of martial arts pictures that came with ‘Enter The Dragon’ ( 1973 ), and too early to join the roster of superheroes inspired by the success of Tim Burton’s ‘Batman’ ( 1989 ).

Scriptwriter Christopher Wood also wrote two Bond films – ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’ and ‘Moonraker’ – while director Guy Hamilton helmed four Bond pictures, including what some might term the very best one -‘Goldfinger’. There’s none of the glamour from the Bond series here however. But a spoof – as some have termed it – it most definitely is not.

Fred Ward is very good as ‘Remo’, as is Joel Grey as ‘Chiun’, his soap opera-loving Korean mentor. Some of the best film’s scenes simply features these characters by themselves, particularly the training scenes. Chiun gets all the best lines – “you move like a pregnant yak!”, he tells Remo at one point. He is a racial stereotype, of course, but thanks to excellent make-up and Grey’s performance one is prepared to overlook this. Kate Mulgrew provides the only major female character – ‘Major Rayner Fleming’.

Less impressive are the villains; Grove ( Charles Cioffi ) is a millionaire arms dealer selling defective weaponry – including a fake ‘Star Wars’-style satellite system ( a very topical touch for the time ) – to the U.S. Government. What was badly needed here was a foe of Bond’s calibre, such as ‘Dr.No’ or ‘Blofeld’.

Great action, including a fight on the Statue of Liberty which showcases some eye-popping stunts. There’s humour too, with Remo relentlessly chased by Dobermanns as he breaks into Grove’s plant. Barbara Woodhouse must have had a hand in training these mutts!

Retitled ‘Remo – Unarmed & Dangerous’ for the British market, this deserved to go on to become a franchise, a sort of ‘Our Man Flint’ for the ’80’s. It was not to be though, and an attempt to do a television version of ‘Remo’ ( starring Jeffrey Meek and Roddy McDowall ) in 1988 also flopped.

first half, good,…second half, crap

This is one of the strangest movies I have ever gone to the theater to see. During the first half of the movie, I was completely captivated and thought to myself “I hope they have a sequel”–it was just that good. However, about halfway into it, it was as if the writers and director were replaced (sort of like “tag team” movie making). It went from an interesting tale of a man, thought to be dead, being re-created through plastic surgery and intensive training into a government assassin, to what looked like an episode of the television show Private Benjamin. How did they do this and more importantly, WHY did they do this? I would have LOVED the lone assassin plot where he was sent to kill enemies of the country AND made it look like a natural death. Instead, he met Kate Mulgrew and went on a wacky adventure to kill some general (George Coe). Coe, you will probably recognize from his MANY television appearances where he usually played a light-weight sort of character. He was just the wrong guy to play Remo’s first target.