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Whatever the reason, he seems uncomfortable and, especially in the action scenes, including one atop the Statue of Liberty, ungraceful. Ward, who was very fine as Gus Grissom in ''The Right Stuff,'' may be too legitimate an actor to be able to believe in this sort of nonsense. There's something deeply unpleasant about seeing this many millions of dollars being spent to such paltry purpose.
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Thus begins ''Remo Williams,'' another elaborately produced, brutal, all-too-jocular adventure film, which cost so much money that it's difficult to take it as lightly as it means to be taken. ''This is a wonderful country, my boy,'' says Harold, ''but our legal system doesn't work the way it's supposed to.'' Says Harold Smith ( Wilford Brimley), the avuncular old fellow who recruits Remo (Fred Ward), ''Professional assassination is the highest form of public service.'' ''Why?'' Remo Williams might ask, though he doesn't. It's about an ordinary New York cop who, through an intense course in martial arts and something like Zen, is physically and spiritually reconstituted to become an invincible, top-secret United States agent, the sort who murders freely on behalf of good government and honesty in business. ''REMO WILLIAMS: THE ADVENTURE BEGINS,'' which opens today at the Criterion and other theaters, is a live-action comic book of a movie.