I never thought much about the original 1984 flick, and this extra-long cliche-filled semi-tearjerker with throwaway characters and useless subplots, is filled with wise-sounding mumbo jumbo and not an intelligent script moment in sight (it's a mystery to me why every Chinese in the final tournament was cheering for the American kid). Jackie Chan employs his usual style of giving objects a different martial-arts-encoded meaning; but admittedly, regardless of his parental connections, Jaden Smith does have a future.
Mo says:
I havent seen it but from the clips I saw it should have been called The Kung Fu Kid?
ReplyDeleteKarate, kung fu, tae kwan do, ... who cares? When the movie is lame, they could be doing aerobics.
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I’m happy filmmaker is not here to hear all of these complements! Roger Ebert had better feeling! I like movie as an entertainment and almost enjoy the scenes of hard practice and training in any sport movies including this , however I know it’s total cliché. I liked the original movie and specially that old man trainer but Jackie Chan was good and agree about Will Smith’s son too.
ReplyDeleteStruggling to look back to see if I was cruel to this film. But the only thing I remember is two things: A Chinese girl dancing to Lady Gaga (whaaaat?), and a movie that is too long. Just too long.
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