How did this happen? Seriously? How do they go wrong with Karate kid? They must have had a change in writers. Possibly some 10 year old who won a chance to write the screen play for the next Karate kid film by finding a golden ticket under the lid of his Go-gurt bottle, because this move is terrible!
Until Karate kid 3 came a long, we had two perfect Karate kid films. So I had high hopes for the next Karate kid film. I of course was let down. The film really could have been good. In this 3rd installment, Danny is living with Mr. Miyagi while his mother is away and he is planning on going to college. But when he learns of Mr. Miyagi's dream of owning a tree store. He spends his college money on a shop for him. While all this is going on, Martin Kove's Character John Kreese is sending a friend (Mike) after Mr. Miyagi and Daniel as revenge for beating his student in the tournament. These guys are nuts! Seriously! There is a dialog scene where they actually get into how they or going to go about hurting Daniel and Miyagi fiscally and mentally. Jeez! Like I said before, Karate kid villains are so over the top.
So while the bad guys are arranging this epic revenge battle, Danny is helping Mr. Miyagi around the shop and meets a girl who works at a pottery store across the street. He hangs around with her through out all most the rest of the film. But back to the bad guys. Mike Finds this tough Karate kid who is really dangerous and sends him after Daniel. He keeps trying to get him to sign a contract to fight in the next Karate tournament so he could beat him up. But Daniel refuses repeatedly, as Mr. Miyagi had taught him earlier in the film that Karate is used to defend honor and life, not a trophy. Once again, this bad Karate kid is way over the top! He even threatens to drown Daniel and his girl at one point in an attempt to get him to sign the contract again. At this point, Daniel is so angry he wants to fight, but Mr. Miyagi still refuses to train him. Which is stupid because by fighting a kid who has been pushing him around, he is defending his honor. But Dan is too stupid to come out and say it.
Once Dan is frustrated enough, Mike starts playing games with his head. He introduces him self to Daniel and comes off as a real nice guy who wants to help train him. And boy is this guy an actor. But once he starts training Daniel, he goes against everything Miyagi taught him about skill and turns Daniel to using rage and anger in karate, Turning Daniel into a monster. He starts lashing out at Miyagi, bringing him to tears and breaking some kid's nose out of anger. It's insanity.
So coming down to the end. Dan gets back on the right track and realizes Mike is out to get him. He turns down the challenge against his Karate kid, resulting in a fight in which Miyagi shows up and kicks every one's butt. Awesome as always! After this Miyagi decides to train Daniel. However, there was no awesome training montage like in the others. Just one scene of Miyagi and Dan doing Karate moves slowly on a hill. What was that? Come on! And in the final battle in the tournament against the bad Karate kid, he gets BEAT UP, only to win in over time or whatever by one point in which he flips the kid on to the ground. As the bad guys look at each other in disappointment and Daniel and Miyagi hug with joy as if they have just triumphed, I'm thinking "WHAT IS THIS? ARE YOU KIDDING?"
This so not Karate kid. All the Karate kid movies sit you through scenes of Daniel getting beat up and pushed around, making it all the more fun to watch him beat them up and fight back in the ending scene. But after all the crap Daniel has been put through again, he win the tournament by one point in over time. That is Horrendous !
Over all, a terrible way to end the trilogy.
1 Star
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