So many times throughout the. Karate Warrior series, I have watched as the movies move away from karate itself and yet I stay with them. I blame Fabrizio De Angelis, who not only directed this but returned to write the final story. It is with great sadness that I share it with you, as I really wish there was a Karate Warrior 7.

Leo (Scotty Daffron) is the biggest moron you have ever met, yet the Karate Warrior who is Larry Jones (Ron Williams) stays by his side. That proves that he is not just a tough customer, but the kind of good person you want to lead four of six movies and a TV series in your franchise (which is the Italian exploitation version of Community‘s six seasons and a movie).

While he’s riding his bike — bike accidents are to this movie what diamond theft is to Jess Franco — he runs into the limo of a foreign leader. In order to keep his mouth shut, Leo is paid ten grand, money which he uses to take his friends Larry, Craig/Greg and Teddy to Greece because, well, why not? Maybe Fabrizio always wanted to go to Greece in the same way that surely Sergio Corbucci wanted to come to Miami and they both paid for it by making a wacky movie.

Keep in mind as I write what happens in this movie, I invented none of it. I have a great imagination, but by no means am I Fabrizio De Angelis, who I would love to meet but I am also very afraid of. The fear comes from knowing he has the power of a deranged god who makes film series that I can’t stop watching and writing about. Between this and the Thunder films, he has taken up more of my life than many of my lovers. He certainly means more than most of them. I am also not the first person who has reviewed this film that felt the need to give such a disclaimer about the veracity of what is about to happen.

After a man dressed as a mermaid is able to con Leo out of his money and the return tickets home. Leo decides to become a tour guide, despite knowing little of Greece, and scamming other people. That’s when they meet Mustafa (Rafaele Exina) who is a triple threat: martial artist, motocross racer and gang leader. He’s our new Joe Carson, who stayed back home for this final movie.

Mustafa and his young turks are menacing Elena (Gabriella Barbuti, who is also in Sergio Martino’s Craving Desire, Tinto Brass’ P.O. Box Tinto Brass and yes, improbably The Passion of the Christ), who the gangster claims to own. How does the gang solve this? By putting on a show — a karate show* — and have Larry battle Mustafa, but first, they somehow have enough money to fly Larry’s girl Betty (Dorian D. Field and his sensei Masura (Richard Goon) to Greece. Maybe Larry’s dad Lt. Alfred Jones (David Warbeck) will come too!

Before the fight, Betty says to Larry, “Make it quick. I want to go home.”

This is the fight of his life.

For this movie at least.

This movie also has a Pretty Woman makeover shopping spree at JCPenney.

How does this series end the saga? I mean, at this point, six movies in, it qualifies as a saga. Well, it ends with Leo trying to get hit by another limo when they get back home. These bodyguards, however, get out and trounce him.

That’s how a series called Karate Warrior ends.

Not with one last battle.

Instead with a chubby man comically beaten to within an inch of his life.

*Read this as Bob Odenkirk as Van Hammersly.

You can watch this on YouTube.