No Retreat, No Surrender

Jason Stillwell (KURT MCKINNEY) is a Bruce Lee fan and keen Karate student. His family is forced to flee their home after a local Protection Racket threatens the Dojo which Jason's Father (TIMOTHY D. BAKER) owns. Next come some fight scenes proving the fact that Jason's Father isn't very hard, his leg is broken by 'Ivan the Terrible:actor' (JEAN CLAUDE VAN-DAMME) and his wellbeing is disrupted.

Seattle seems as good a place as any, and the family scoot. Jason can't settle in, and soon finds that the local thugs arent too impressed with his wooden dummy and his sweat pants. He is ridiculed and beaten up trying to join the local Karate Centre and even the hip breakdancing scenes from neighbour R.J (J.W FAILS) cant sway his mood. Finally the last straw comes when Jason's Father sacreligiously rips up a Bruce Lee poster!! Jason runs away from home and quite miraculously, the ghost of Bruce Lee appears to him and gets his fan-kicks in shape.

After some twenty minutes of love story vs. karate subplot meandering, Jason uses his newly acquired skills in a Seattle Tournament to save everyone from the same Martial Artist who broke his poor Dad's leg. He is spurred into the ring when the vicious Van-Damme grabs his Girlfriend Kelly..and pulls her hair!

This movie was a box office hit for its time, grossing $5 million shortly after its release. Some people have called this movie bad cinema and some also claim it borrows a lot from the theme of the The Karate Kid (1984) and Rocky (1976) films. By others it is considered a cult classic, especially among buffs of martial arts films or nostalgia fans. Hong Kong film expert Bey Logan stated in the audio commentary to another Corey Yuen film, (Ninja In the Dragons Den), that Corey had watched The Karate Kid, liked the movie, but thought that the fight sequences could have been a lot better.