In this hybrid of THE KARATE KID and ROCKY IV, Kurt McKinney plays Jason Stillwell, a young Bruce Lee devotee who relocates to Seattle with his family after his karate instructor father gets into trouble with the mob in Los Angeles. As often happens when one moves to a new town, Jason runs afoul of the local karate students and he heads to Bruce Lee's grave to ask for help. Instead, he incurs the wrath of his father for using karate aggressively and is kicked out of the house. Jason relocates to an abandoned house and it is there that he receives a visit from the spirit of Bruce Lee, who proceeds to train Jason so that he can whoop some ass. WHAT!?! Yeah, you read that right...this film centers around a kid being trained by Bruce Lee's ghost!
Yeah, okay, so I stole the preceding synopsis from William's review. He did such an excellent job, there was no way I could do any better. Good job William, you're as cool Scott...hahahaha. I agree 100% with William, the movie is pure cheesy fun. If you read any reviews of NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER you're gonna see at least one line of dialogue quoted from it. You could pick any line of dialogue and it's so bad, it's funny. I don't know how the actors could read their lines without laughing. Then again, it's not like any of them could act anyway.
The movie's low point would have to be showing Bruce Lee's grave not once, but twice! The Kim Tai Chung footage isn't all that long, but is good none-the-less. Bruce tells Jason that you learn martial arts for defense only, not for revenge, then proceeds to smack Jason upside the head whenever he says/does something stupid. Funny then is that when Jason first goes to Bruce Lee's grave he calls him "Sensei Lee", don't you mean "Sifu" you dumbass!
Jason(McKinney) spends the first part of the movie getting beat up by Van Damme and then some local karate fighter, and always runs away in a pouty fit, that's funny in itself. Jason's friend RJ is pretty funny. He first shows up on his BMX with a boom box stuck on the front. After helping Jason move some stuff he procedes to "breaks it down" with a rap routine in the garage. Later he shows up dressed up like Micheal Jackson and busts a move in a disco. Don't you miss the 80's? Jason and RJ's chubby rival, Scott, is equally as funny. When he not stuffing a hamburger in his mouth, he's either kissing ass to his seniors or making trouble for Jason and RJ, sometimes both at the same time. I think they should've thrown Scott into the ring with Van Damme. Seeing that fat ass get his fat ass kicked would've made NRNS my new favorite movie. Unfortunately, it never happened.
