ron_iamamo Instead if boring you with a long text, here are the reasons why this movies blows penguins:karate in a chinese context movie... moronsjaden smith, assholehe's 11 years old and black, good luck finding a chinese girl.chinese are being portraited as assholes... china even had to edit the moviejaden smith (yeah I already put it but that's how bad he is).horrible acting from everyone (yeah even jacky chan is not doing his best which is already not great).obviously made to make money in china

Alphonse Sclessin Hollywood should really stop making remakes of classics and this film is, next to films such as Ben Hur, a great example why. Opposing to other reviewers I don't think the actors can be made responsible for this kind of washout, it's just a poor script put on a story everyone already knows. The only way you could make this kind of remake into a success is by altering the story on key points and that's just what they didn't do.Me myself and I think many with me aren't waiting on old movies remade with today's (better) CGI and poor scripts.

Dave I don't know why this Beijing-set remake was successful. It's inferior to the original in several respects. It's longer and there are a lot of boring scenes. The acting is much worse. The protagonist is twelve (as opposed to seventeen) which makes the theme and storyline less believable. He lacks the likability of the original film's protagonist. The martial art here is kung fu, which makes the film's title nonsensical.

mmunier I guess because I wait for many movies to be on TV I don't feel too bad if it's not up to scratch... Just the same I had a good time watching it and although I did compare here and there I also talked myself out of comparing - It's entertainment and it did entertain. Looking at some of the reviews it seems people expect a gem every time a movie is out. Well did that kid needed to act? Apparently the consensus is that he can't, but I think just being himself was just right then! The original Karate kid was a Brady Bunch type this one is what you probably see in the streets of NY everyday so what's the problem. I do prefer the original but this does not mean I hated this one. A few bad ideas to fill in for wax on wax off but I lived through it. Some did not like the mother's role some did, again that the way she could have been. As for the KongKarafu there were some good moment with this. Then the shots of China beauty was definitely a freebie. I have been to Beijing and enjoyed much the encore.