No Retreat, No Surrender

Corey Yuen’s American directorial debut is one of the cheesiest pieces of garbage you could possibly watch. It sets itself up as a karate dojo vs. the mob story, but immediately becomes a teen drama after the opening scene. Our humiliated dojo instructor moves to Seattle and his son befriends a Michael Jackson impersonator. He is soon the target of the local bully and does exactly what you’d expect: conjures the ghost of Bruce Lee and trains to fight the ultimate exhibition karate fight against Jean Claude Van Damme. The only bit of competent direction is final fifteen minutes of karate matches, The rest is pure 80s cheese.