The Challenge

Another derivative genre entry from John Frankenheimer, The Challenge is one of those American shows up to a foreign country, gets involved in a fight that isn’t his, and ends up at the center of it all for some reason movies. The Japanese settings and fight between old world and new world viewpoints recalls the (much) later The Last Samurai, but otherwise, this is just a generic fish out of water movie without nearly enough action in it.

Rick Murphy (Scott Glenn) is a penniless man who s...