646f9e108c Lyle, a motorcycle champion is traveling the Mexican desert, when he find himself in the action radius of a time machine. So he find himself one century back in the past between rapists, thiefs and murderers…. A maverick motorbike racer wanders into a top-secret time-travel research test site which unintentionally teleports him to the mid-1800s and ends up having to fight violent outlaws for his survival. &quot;Timerider&quot; has one of the really killer movie posters. A motocross spaceman, horse-mounted posse in pursuit, the glowing laser grid design like an Omni magazine cover; it&#39;s first-rate advertising that really sells you on the movie (one that&#39;s taken me a few years to get my hands on). <br/><br/>This is exactly the kind of thing you&#39;d stumble on in a video storea kid. B-movie to its core, it doesn&#39;t complicate matters with intricate plotting; just a simple fish-out-of-water story (as simplea high-tech biker in the Old West can be anyway). No one among this cast has any illusions that they&#39;re making high art, and that&#39;s a big part of what makes this work. <br/><br/>Once the movie actually gets going (the opening is bogged down by POV riding shots, although they&#39;re attractive) this is a breezy distraction. There are plenty of other movies that don&#39;t live up to their one-sheets, but I dig this one. It&#39;s a relic of its time and sensibilities, and I think that&#39;s the best part. <br/><br/>7/10 As a young boy watching the end credits roll, I so badly wanted the Adventure to continue. It did not. Not in movies anyway. But the book series most certainly has continued. As it turns out, this movie was based on a long-running series of books– The Destroyer series by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir.<br/><br/>So, if you are looking for a hard-boiled, martial arts-rich, action-crammed, mystical espionage thriller novel from 1971, on which the 1985 movie, &quot;Remo Williams: the Adventure Begins&quot; starring Fred Ward of &quot;Remo Williams: the Adventure Begins&quot; fame, was loosely based, you should look no further than &quot;Created, The Destroyer&quot;, book one of the Destroyer Series.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, if you are looking for a hard-boiled, martial arts-rich, action-crammed, mystical espionage thriller movie from 1985, gently based on &quot;Created, The Destroyer&quot;, book one of the Destroyer Series by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir, you should, at that point, look no further than &quot;Remo Williams: the Adventure Begins&quot;.<br/><br/>Both book and movie are quaint time capsules of their respective bygone eras, the former filled with &quot;hoods&quot;, organized crime syndicates, and fresh memories of Vietnam, the latter with &quot;thugs&quot;, sinister politicians, and Cold War mercenaries. And both feature &quot;orientals&quot;. The chief of which, is Chuin, Remo&#39;s aged Korean trainer, the standout character of the book(s?) and the movie. He is a caricature to be sure, ladenhe is with the folksy eastern mysticism, and a distaste for all things western, but with the improbable exception of our soap operas– so he is at least a charming caricature.<br/><br/>There is some talk of a reboot of the movie, provisionally titled, &quot;The Destroyer&quot;. Meanwhile, if you already revisited this bit of mid-eighties childhood kitsch and are looking for more, may I remind you of &#39;Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swan&#39;. If &quot;Back to the Future III&quot; didn&#39;t quite do it for you, you have another option. This entry in Fred Ward&#39;s oeuvre notably also involves the word, &quot;adventure&quot; in the title. And a colon.
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