Review of Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985) by Stuart M — 18 Jun 2016

Not as bad as expected. Sure, it had an incredibly racist yellowface sidekick and a lot of lazy stereotypes for a plot, but it was poking fun at those tropes more than embracing them. If you can tolerate the racism, the character's actually a fairly amusing parody of martial arts master stereotypes.

Aside from an overlong conclusion that doesn't really build tension the film's pretty good at hitting all the right beats. Once you embrace the parodic extremism of it all.