Charles Cioffi

Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins - 3/5

This movie is not the high action one man army movie that it may seem on the surface. Remo gets the elite training, sure, but he bumbles his way through most of the fights. It’s a campy, fun family B-movie that has enough heart to pull it through the rougher low quality production patches. Some will be turned off of this movie by the white actor playing an old Korean man done up to look and act Chinese, but it’s in the upper half of this film’s well done to poorly done spectrum. And if that sentence doesn’t agree with you, maybe skip this one.

Closest comparison: It’s like Person of Interest by way of The Karate Kid (1984).

Setting: Adventure
Plot: Zero to Hero
Tone: Espionage