Director Harald Zawart has done a phenomenal job capturing real emotions of the characters– yes, Jackie Chan cries – and encapsulating picturesque China – the Beijing skyline, the Forbidden City and the green, temple-lined Chinese mountains – all in two hours and 20 minutes that tick by unnoticed.
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Of the other movies I’ve seen this summer (“Robin Hood,” “The A-Team” and “Shrek Forever After”), this movie wins the best photography of the summer award so far. I won’t say anymore about the plot of the movie because most of it is stripped from the original film, but the photography is worth mentioning – and complimenting. Han explains to Parker, “Kung Fu is in everything in life: It’s in putting on the jacket and taking off the jacket and how we act with others.” Then, the real training begins. When Parker finally tires of this monotonous, seemingly worthless task, Mr.
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He has “Little Dre,” as he fondly calls Parker in Chinese, repeatedly take off, hang up and put on his jacket all day through rain and shine for several days. Han doesn’t get his fence painted or cars and patio waxed. Han employs the nonchalant, Yoda-like training style of Mr. Han then takes Parker under his wing to teach Kung Fu him for the Kung Fu tournament.Īs seen in the film’s trailer, Mr. Han is able to suspend the challenge until an upcoming Kung Fu tournament. No mercy,” he challenges Parker to a one-on-one fight with Cheng. Han and Parker go to confront Cheng’s “bad teacher,” Cheng’s Kung Fu master, who beats into his students the mantra of “No weakness. Han (Jackie Chan), a maintenance worker at Parker’s apartment complex, comes to his rescue with the flying fists and healing hands of the ancient Chinese martial art of Kung Fu. When Cheng and his gang chase Parker down, corner him in an alley outside of his apartment and begin to beat him mercilessly, Mr. Parker discovers fairly quickly that Beijing is a whole different world compared to Detroit, and wants to go home.Īt school and on the playground, Parker is bullied and beat by Cheng (Zhenwei Wang), who becomes Parker’s rival, and his gang because of Parker’s welcomed advances on Meiyeng, a violinist and family friend of Cheng.īut, Cheng forgets the first rule of all martial arts: only use it in defense. moves with his mom and her car factory job to China – a critique of modern times that was not lost on this movie viewer. In the movie, Dre Parker (Jaden Smith), 12, of Detroit, Mich. Like any classic remake, the plot of “The Karate Kid (2010)” is edited only slightly from the story of the original 1984 film, but is set in China, which adds just enough of a new twist to an old favorite to make it desirable to see.
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The lyrics of once little-known artist Joe Esposito’s 1980s mega-hit on “The Karate Kid” soundtrack, “You’re The Best,” echo throughout the fourth addition to the much-beloved series “The Karate Kid,” in theaters since June 11.
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THE ROUNDUP Jaden Smith stars as "Dre" on the Great Wall of China in Columbia Pictures' "The Karate Kid." (Courtesy of Jasin Boland/MCT)