No Retreat No Surrender

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No Retreat No Surrender

PG

1986

1h 23m

Action

Crime

Drama

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Picked on by Seattle bullies, a karate student (Kurt McKinney) learns enough to face a Soviet (Jean-Claude Van Damme) twice his size.

Walter Goodman

New York Times

05/21/2003

The advice from this corner: Retreat.

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Craig Schroeder

Battleship Pretension

01/07/2021

No Retreat, No Surrender is an argument for JCVD as a hard-to-define, compelling action commodity.

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Ed Travis

Cinapse

11/13/2018

An objectively bad Karate Kid rip-off, No Retreat, No Surrender manages to never the less entertain and delight with a combination of pure earnestness and legitimately cool fight work.

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Austin Trunick

Under the Radar

02/28/2017

Come to No Retreat, No Surrender for the Van Damme-age, but stick around for the wall-to-wall WTFness.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

08/17/2005

2/5

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Slanty-Eyed P

Nov 22

This is quite possibly the worse movie ever. Bruce Lee's ghost is the only good thing about it.

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Bruce B

@BBreslow Feb 13

I appear in this film as a fight announcer wearing headphones. Only the clip in this movie was stolen from the film "Body and Soul." I was not paid for this movie nor had I ever heard of it until I was told I was in it and found out they used me. Shame on this director.

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Patrick R

08/07/2024

A classic for me I was hanging Sandbags from trees as a kid 😂😂🤷🏻

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08/03/2024

A absolute classic 👌

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Diana H

06/26/2024

My favorite classic of those films

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MichaÅ K

02/10/2024

What a massive garbage, JCVD in it only for a second, what a cash grab. The people in this movie looks like they never act, and the story is beyond ridiculous

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Synopsis

Picked on by Seattle bullies, a karate student (Kurt McKinney) learns enough to face a Soviet (Jean-Claude Van Damme) twice his size.

Director: Corey Yuen
Producer: See-Yuen Ng
Screenwriter: Keith W. Strandberg
Distributor: New World Pictures
Production Co: New World Pictures, Seasonal Film Corporation
Rating: PG
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 2, 1986, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 21, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $1.5M
Runtime: 1h 23m