PG-13

Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins

A hero who doesn't exist must save America from an enemy we never knew we had.

1985 • 121 min • Action · Adventure · Comedy

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Synopsis

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.

Our family guide

Best from age 13

Movie Knight Score

290 reviews

63 Audience · 290 · 100%

Remo Williams, a Brooklyn cop, is faked dead and recruited by a secret US organization to become an assassin. He receives intense martial arts training from a master to become a "human killing machine" with a new identity. The adventure begins as he takes on dangerous missions.

Violence & peril: 6/10
Language: 3/10
Drinking, drugs & smoking: 2/10
Romance & sensuality: 1/10
Scary moments: 4/10

Heads up

Martial arts violence, including weapons and falls from heights
A character wears prosthetics to appear as another ethnicity
Some mild language and suggestive remarks

What it models well

Dedication to training
Loyalty to a cause
Finding purpose

Talk about it after

The ethics of secret government operations
Adapting to a new identity
Cultural stereotypes and representation

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