You can get carried along by the exuberance and likability of Remo: The Adventure Begins, only to have the despair of the pop mythology underneath it catch up with you the morning after.

... just tell me when it ends.

Although inexcusably racist now as it was then, "Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins" remains a curiosity of mid-1980s action — with some terrific stuntwork and chemistry despite being a DOA effort.

A missed-opportunity exercise that might as well have been called Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins... and Ends.