i saw this movie on cable, it was really funny, from the stereotype police chief to the stereotype big bad guys, jay leno and mr mayagi from karate kid star in this good comedy about a prototype car part. I compare this movie to "RUSH HOUR" in which a local cop has to partner up with an asian police officer to solve a case. The chase through farmers market in downtown detroit brings back memories. Enjoyable soundtrack, good script, i give it 10/10.

After the success of The Karate Kid movies, Pat Morita carried on his shtick as the crafty old Japanese. The joke in this movie is that he does not know karate.

In Collision Course, Morita is a Japanese detective Fujitsuka Natsuo chasing a stolen prototype turbocharger. He comes to Detroit, motor city itself and teams up with renegade cop Tony Costas (Jay Leno) to go after potential suspect Madras and his goons. It seems they gunned down one of Costas former colleagues and he wants payback.

While in America, Natsuo faces casual racism, gets blamed for the US trade deficit and the decline of the American motor car industry.

This buddy cop action comedy was made in the same year as Letha Weapon 2 and basically it is no contest between the two movies.

Collision Course is a dismal lame movie, not funny and embarrassingly racist.

Jay Leno? Yep comedian Jay Leno stars alongside Pat Morita (of "Karate Kid" fame) in director Lewis Teague's fundamentally nonsensical, but likable cross-cultural (there's plenty of gags stemming from that) action comedy that sees the mismatch pair team up to chase down a new turbo charged engine prototype that was illegally smuggled into the US. With murder on the cards, it doesn't look like its going to be easy for these two Tokyo and Detroit detectives. No surprise, but a genial Leno really chews it up with his wittily side-splitting dialogues and the script rapidly keeps it coming. Morita's dry style works off him well enough making a dynamic duo. Everything else (including its intrusive material that gets topical with its industrial backdrop of motor companies) feels secondary to their comical bickering and investigative follow-up. Sadly from that, the rest of the stellar cast are overshadowed. Tom Noonan (a survival nut) and Randall "Tex" Cobb make impressive henchmen thugs, who work for Chris Sarandon's seamy businessman. Also joining in is Ernie Hudson, John Hancock, Al Waxman, Denis Holahan Richard Grant and a blink-and-you-miss-it Mike Starr. Formulaic conventions aside, it's well shot, moves at a good pace and engineers some excitingly loud action (where it even rips Norris' famous jump-kick through car windshield) in this very much flamboyant 80s buddy cop product.

"I don't get paid to be civilised".