Typical mid Eighties Hollywood hokum, with a streetsmart cop (Fred Ward) being 'killed off' so that he can start life afresh as Remo Williams, supreme righter of wrongs for a secret syndicate. Director Guy Hamilton's job is to dress this up so that it doesn't seem too preposterous, at least while we're watching, and he doesn't do a bad job of it. Remo is trained in martial arts by an ancient Korean, then pitted against a corrupt armaments manufacturer whose weapons, great and small, are not quite what they're cracked up to be. There's a fair-enough dice with death around the Statue of Liberty and an amazing encounter with three lethal and inetlligent Doberman dogs in the film's serial-like developments on the way to the bad guys meeting a demise that seems tame by the Eighties' exacting standards of violence. Most of the cast seem to be in need of acting rather than combat lessons, although Joel Grey enjoys himself as Ward's Korean mentor.


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