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No Retreat, No Surrender
1985
A teenage Bruce Lee fanatic, tired of bloody noses and getting beaten up, finds himself a karate instructor. But his instructor is forced out of town by a crime syndicate, he is guided by the ghost of Bruce Lee. His next gym is under threat too from the same syndicate, they have found a secret martial arts weapon Ivan the .. Read more
| Starring | Kurt McKinney, J.W. Fails, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Kathie Sileno |
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| Director | Cory Yuen |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
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No Retreat, No Surrender
A teenage Bruce Lee fanatic, tired of bloody noses and getting beaten up, finds himself a karate instructor. But his instructor is forced out of town by a crime syndicate, he is guided by the ghost of Bruce Lee. His next gym is under threat too from the same syndicate, they have found a secret martial arts weapon Ivan the Russian (Van Damme) but Jason chooses to fight back...
| Starring | Kurt McKinney, J.W. Fails, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Kathie Sileno, Peter 'Sugarfoot' Cunningham |
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| Director | Cory Yuen |
| Studio | 4 FRONT VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 19 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 14 Jun 2004 Production year: 1985 |
| Format | DVD |
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With a plot reminiscent of The Karate Kid, this has Kurt McKinney as a young martial arts enthusiast. New in Seattle, he is victimised by his peers until he acquires an unexpected ally — the ghost of Bruce Lee. Almost charming in its silliness, the movie gets close to the so-bad-it's-good level but too often takes itself too seriously. This is most noteworthy as Jean-Claude Van Damme's first real role, though his unspeaking character is introduced only so that McKinney has someone to fight in the inevitable final tournament.
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McKinney, a Bruce Lee freak, is disappointed when his karate instructor dad opts out of a confrontation with some dumb... read more on Time Out
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10 out of 14 people found this review helpful
Fantastic feel good karate movie
I loved this movie as a kid and watching it again recently was fantastic! It really is a feel good karate movie with the classic matrix type plot: likable kid gets bullied, works hard to learn a new power (in this case karate) and then wins big (including the girl).
The acting is truly terrible and it is full of clichéd characters but that is a price well worth paying to restore your childhood dreams. -
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Who edited this DVD!?
This is a classic slice of 80s Martial Arts.
It was a guilty favourite of mine so i decided to rent it. Low and behold this version has been butchered. All the cheesey american music has been replaced with some monotonous classical music which in no way fits the film. Scenes have been cut out, replaced with other pointless scenes, the dubbing at times is atrocious (and not in a good way). The quality of transfer is crap too. It looks like a bad video copy transfer at times. I was gutted as this was a 'cult' film in the 80s and the least the distributor could have done is use the cut which was released in this country in its VHS heyday. AVOID ! -
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