Remo Williams and the Most Tactless Secret Organization in the World Why tactless? Because the way Remo was recruited is, of course, something about something. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
Who is Remo Williams? Well, this is another native of the world of palp literature - fantasy-thriller detectives in soft covers, where such venerable guys as Conan, Shadow, Doc Savage and so on began their way. However, unlike the above Remo saw the light not in the thirties, not in the dawn of superhero masks and capes, and in the seventies, when the world already hung unflappable grin of James Bond, so a series of these novels made a bias in such espionage.
So who to call in the director's chair, but Guy Hamilton - the director of not just several parts of the Bond - the director of Goldfinger, which for me is not only the best Bond film, but also one of the most beloved films in general. Yes, of course, in the following parts, Hamilton noticeably succumbed - but the gunpowder is not yet damp, is it?
Well, I don't think it's damp. “Remo Williams” is not the most intelligent, but in general an interesting action movie, which does not particularly try to cope with the realism of the actions shown on the screen (and dodging bullets will, and running on the water too), but quite cope with their entertainment. Let there be no hover-bearing chases and do not blow up cities - but they will squash and fight, and the Statue of Liberty will be balanced - everything will be here. Of course, despite the twists of Remo and his mentor Chiun – the superman in the flesh – there won’t be any cyborgs or anything like that here (as far as I’ve heard, there was something in the books), the fantastic part here is somewhat grounded.
Despite smoothing out some of the scenario angles of the fantastic component, I still have questions to some scenes, for example, why the hero of Kilpatrick leaned into the scene with the pressure camera. I'd just stand there, wait for three minutes, and everything would be on ointment. And it would be more interesting to know more about Williams’ life before recruitment. Everything happens very quickly, before you blink. But then much more thoroughly show training with Chiun, how his friendship with Remo was born. I have no questions about this part.
Even though the adventure ended before it really started (the movie was not very successful), I still found it quite interesting. Yes, and Fred Ward I always liked his masculine habituality, earnestness, lack of casual, revealing, protruding coolness, and then he again in his repertoire - puzzled by what happened to him, he begins to slowly resign and train - and how else. Case is case. So here's what we've got - a funny action movie for the evening, sit down yes, what's called "pull up." You won’t get much from this tape, but I don’t see anything too much here either.
7 out of 10