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Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins

1985 · 121 min

A breezy, tongue-in-cheek spy caper with slapstick training montages and a wisecracking hero, fun but forgettable.

Directed by
Guy Hamilton
Genres
Action, Adventure, Comedy
Tagline
A hero who doesn't exist must save America from an enemy we never knew we had.
Overview
Tough Brooklyn street cop Sam Makin is unwillingly recruited as an assassin for a secret United States organization known as CURE, who fake his death and give him a new identity: Remo Williams. With his appearance surgically altered, Williams is trained to be a human killing machine by his aged, derisive and impassive Korean martial arts master Chiun.

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Directed by
Guy Hamilton
Genres
Action, Adventure, Comedy
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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
  • campystrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • conspiracy
  • corruption
  • friendship
  • power
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • twist ending
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action7
Horror1
Humour6
Realism4
Romance2
Tension4
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight3

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Genres
action, adventure, comedy
Directed by
Guy Hamilton
Written by
Christopher Wood, Guy Hamilton
Starring
Fred Ward, Joel Grey, Wilford Brimley, J.A. Preston, George Coe, Kate Mulgrew, Charles Cioffi, Patrick Kilpatrick
Music
Craig Safan
Cinematography
Andrew Laszlo
Runtime
121 min
Country
United States of America, Mexico
Languages
English

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