No Retreat, No Surrender
Directed by Corey YuenJason, a Bruce Lee fan, sees his karate instructor/dad beaten by martial art thugs. They move to Seattle where, after humiliations, he trains with Bruce Lee's ghost so he can defend himself and others against thugs.
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- Jacob O’NealJune 13, 2025I’ll be short and sweet with this review - the acting and directing are terrible. It was shot like an old episode of The Streets Of San Francisco rather than a movie. The fight scenes were fun. If you want mindless action with little to nothing else, this is your movie. You can always fast forward through the talkie bits. Also, Van Damme is a bad guy in this. He shot this film around the same time he popped up as an extra in Breakin’.
- MrMitchieSeptember 24, 2025If you came to watch Jean Claude Van Damme then you may be disappointed because he really only appears in the last 15 minutes of the movie. Needless to say his performance is charismatic and you can tell that he was destined for future roles. His next film would be his first major role as lead actor in bloodsport. No retreat no surrender is about as camp as you can get for a low budget movie. It has however over time been seen as a cult classic.
- PedramMay 28, 2025All time classic
- christopherw34April 19, 2025The only way I can imagine this got watched in the 80s was if you sent you easily confused mom to the video store to rent karate kid and she brought this thing back. Bruce Lee's ghost looks nothing like Bruce Lee and doesn't so much train the dude as smacks him in the head and speak karate Riddles that some how empower the kid to dodge stuff better. The dad spends most of his time fake hobbling around after getting beat up (likely gaming the workers comp system) and telling his son not to fight people even though he is sticking up for his friend who was obviously a victim of raciallly motivated hate crime. But man can RJ dance. The final competition battle just happens all of a sudden and makes little sense. But dang Seeing van damm in an early appearance like this... He had it even then even if he got dat ass beat. From the -5 to 5 where negative 5 is a really good bad movie and 5 is a really good god movie, Chris Markus and Cooper give this one a -3.5. if you have people to watch with and make fun of it , there is plenty of fun to have.
No Retreat, No Surrender Trivia
No Retreat, No Surrender was released on May 2, 1986.
No Retreat, No Surrender was directed by Corey Yuen.
No Retreat, No Surrender has a runtime of 1 hr 34 min.
No Retreat, No Surrender was produced by Ng See-Yuen.
The key characters in No Retreat, No Surrender are Jason Stillwell (Kurt McKinney), Ivan Kraschinsky "The Russian" (Jean-Claude Van Damme), R.J. Madison (J.W. Fails).
No Retreat, No Surrender is rated PG.
No Retreat, No Surrender is an Action, Comedy, Crime film.
No Retreat, No Surrender has an audience rating of 5.3 out of 10.