No Retreat, No Surrender

Jason Stillwell (Kurt McKinney) plays the part of a young Bruce Lee fan who

tries, unsuccessfully, to be like the legendary kung-fu master. After numerous defeats and humiliations at the hands of some bullies that hassle his new friend RJ (J W Fails), he visits Lee's grave in Seattle and begs for his help. Before long he gets a visit from Lee's spirit (Kim Tai Chong, famous for taking over Lee's mantle in Game Of Death (1978)), who agrees to give him some training...

This film is a little silly now, but the end fight between Stillwell and Ivan the Russian (a pre-stardom Jean-Claude Van Damme) is pretty good. One fight that is silly is the one where Stillwell defends his father from a group of thugs he had previously barred from the bar he works at, simply because he beats all of the attackers up and tells them to 'get out of here'; the result is that they just get up and leg it as if the worst that had happened was that they'd tripped over a stone or something! Watching this scene makes me laugh out loud every time.