A relatively early Chuck Norris effort, an actual karate movie, before he just walked around shooting people. Plot involved mercenaries, terrorists and guys who like killing terrorists. A woman decides a karate expert would be the perfect person to destroy a mercenary/terrorist training camp run by Japanese martial artists.
I saw it in a movie theater with a friend who was an avid reader of Soldier of Fortune magazine. He started repeating lines from the movie, like I hadn't seen it with him a few days earlier. We were in the same high school. I knew he didn't fight terrorism.
Thinking back, it's strange that he identified with Lee Van Cleef rather than Chuck Norris. Although Van Cleef had better lines.
Saw the movie again later at the university. It was before home video had taken over. Student groups would show movies on the weekends. Some of the classrooms had projection booths.
The college kids laughed at the scene where Chuck Norris says, "That's an insult to both of us. It makes me stupid. And you a whore," and at the high speed chase. The bad guys pull their car across the road blocking Chuck Norris, so he backs up and goes around as the terrorists watch helplessly.
It was all right, though.
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