Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins

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Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins

PG-13

Released Oct 11, 1985

2h 1m

Action

Adventure

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A New York cop wakes up from a mysterious accident with a new identity. He finds himself in the employ of a secret unit which was set up to investigate a dangerous industrialist whose organization has secured several government armaments contracts, including a top-secret strategic defense system.

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Michael Sragow

The Atlantic

You can get carried along by the exuberance and likability of Remo: The Adventure Begins, only to have the despair of the pop mythology underneath it catch up with you the morning after.

Sep 6, 2018

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Paul Attanasio

Washington Post

... just tell me when it ends.

Jan 4, 2018

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

A missed-opportunity exercise that might as well have been called Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins... and Ends.

Rated: 2/4

Feb 19, 2022

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

Over and over again he's caught in a jam that could be resolved by a simple firearm, but he insists on remaining stupidly unarmed.

Rated: 4/10

Sep 7, 2020

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Tom Long

Santa Cruz Sentinel

Need a tough guy? Call the "Commando." Forget "Remo."

Feb 4, 2019

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Ed Travis

Cinapse

Remo Williams is one of the most outright enjoyable action adventure films to ever come out of the 1980s, science and logic be damned.

Dec 7, 2018

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It’s a cheesy 1985 action movie. Pretty dang fun, I really like the way Chiun ran on water at the end. That was cool I think. Other than that, not much else to say, not gonna change your life or anything and that’s ok. 3/5 stars.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

10/23/24

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Cookie M

Watched this when it originally came out, watched it again, in a day where cgi is the majority of the movie, refreshing to see a movie holding by itself.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

08/15/23

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Captain T

Okay Remo is a bit outdated, a little corny, not for the safe place types dialogs and the sound! Almost hurts my ears. But other than that, it is a movie that gave a few laughs and made me miss the free 80s

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

07/21/23

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Dark M

I'll take watching this over and over to watching any of the MCU movies any day.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/26/22

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shoeless j

Cult classic. Part of HBO's OG library. Joel Grey is great. Was supposed to be a mega franchise. For the most part, this hero's origin popcorn movie works.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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christopher c. m

It's exciting but it does drag in places, it's way better than the critics said. The stunts are impressive and most of the characters are cool. Doing research for this review I can see one of the biggest problem, besides the Asian character of Chiun was a stereotype marital arts master trope but I didn't realized until now that it was white actor and singer Joel Grey in yellow face. Not sure in 1986 they couldn't hire an Asian actor to play an Asian character, I thought we were past that. But I still like it as a problematic but still good classic.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Guy Hamilton

Director

Fred Ward

Remo Williams

Joel Grey

Chiun

Kate Mulgrew

Maj. Rayner Fleming

Wilford Brimley

Harold Smith

J.A. Preston

Conn MacCleary

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Synopsis

A New York cop wakes up from a mysterious accident with a new identity. He finds himself in the employ of a secret unit which was set up to investigate a dangerous industrialist whose organization has secured several government armaments contracts, including a top-secret strategic defense system.

Director: Guy Hamilton
Producer: Larry Spiegel
Screenwriter: Christopher Wood
Distributor: Orion Pictures
Production Co: Orion Pictures
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Action, Adventure
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 11, 1985, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 16, 2008
Box Office (Gross USA): $14.4M
Runtime: 2h 1m
Sound Mix: Surround
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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