I personally think that the movie itself was fine. The set up was pretty new. The idea is partially new and the actors were OK. The story was told pretty well with young girl with her dream and stuff. The movie never had a strong plot any way and the end was rushing pretty ridiculously fast, especially near the end, the little girl is basically non-exited and it makes me wonder why the movie gave her a strong role to begin with.
The thing I really hate about this movie is that they are like cutting and paste the old idea and insert them into the movie blindly just on the purpose of making this movie a remake. The fight sequence in the final tournament is almost identical as in the original. The tournament is supposed to be the highlight of the movie but I ended up feeling much stronger when the little girl achieved her dream.
I think a remake of a movie should still have some new idea which this movie did a fine job until the most important part of the story. Some of the ideas during the movie were old but it was OK, they could be treated it as a taste of the original. The ending just seemed that they ran out of ideas and did not know what they were doing. Well, at least they did not repeat the crane style the kid was using in the original. The final move was actually quite nice.
I don't even know if the fans of original Karate Kid would be appreciated the effort. There was some funny and warm moment that I thought the director and the writer did a good job. They did not do a job to the important plot.
By the way, the Karate is not equal to Kung Fu. Even in the original movie, they were not using Karate either. In fact, Kung Fu is originated from China, misusing Karate and thinks all the marshal arts can be categorised as Karate is plain stupid. Well, it is a movie review, not a marshal art contest review. Perhaps it does not matter that much.
The thing I really hate about this movie is that they are like cutting and paste the old idea and insert them into the movie blindly just on the purpose of making this movie a remake. The fight sequence in the final tournament is almost identical as in the original. The tournament is supposed to be the highlight of the movie but I ended up feeling much stronger when the little girl achieved her dream.
I think a remake of a movie should still have some new idea which this movie did a fine job until the most important part of the story. Some of the ideas during the movie were old but it was OK, they could be treated it as a taste of the original. The ending just seemed that they ran out of ideas and did not know what they were doing. Well, at least they did not repeat the crane style the kid was using in the original. The final move was actually quite nice.
I don't even know if the fans of original Karate Kid would be appreciated the effort. There was some funny and warm moment that I thought the director and the writer did a good job. They did not do a job to the important plot.
By the way, the Karate is not equal to Kung Fu. Even in the original movie, they were not using Karate either. In fact, Kung Fu is originated from China, misusing Karate and thinks all the marshal arts can be categorised as Karate is plain stupid. Well, it is a movie review, not a marshal art contest review. Perhaps it does not matter that much.