Remo Williams is a fun mixture of Karate Kid and James Bond that makes up for its shortcomings with charisma and humor to spare. Cop Sam Makin(Fred Ward) is recruited in a bizarre fashion, having his death faked and given plastic surgery because he has no friends, family or other connections that will miss him, by super secret organization CURE. There he meets CURE head Smith and fellow operative MacCleary and they tell him that his options are basically accept the job or die. After reluctant acceptance Sam Makin becomes Remo Williams(which MacCleary gets from an unlikely place) and trains with Sinanju master Chuin(played unrecognizably in heavy makeup by Joel Grey, it was the 80s it was a different time) who plays the character with a well balanced mixture of Mr. Miyagi's wisdom and James Bond's Q's snark. The stunt work is also very impressive, mad even more so by the fact that Fred Ward did most of his own stunts. The biggest disappointment in the movie has nothing to do with anything mentioned and more to do with the villain Goerge Grove played by Charles Cioffi. He's not bad in the role, but he's just kind of a generic evil business man whose plan is simply to pocket taxpayer money on government contracts while deliver substandard equipment and a satellite defense system he has no intention of finishing....It's not as though you can't make a good villain from something like that, but in terms of the stakes and how this was meant to be an alternative to James Bond, Grove feels like a villain of the week you'd find in something like MacGyver or The A-Team. But poor villain aside, Remo Williams is till a lot of fun thanks in no small part to the great interactions between Remo and Chuin.