Saturday 17 April 2021

The Next Karate Kid (1994 Christopher Cain)

Shows signs of having being mucked about with. Surely the reason the Zen monks are there is to get involved in the action at the end? Where's the reunion with Mom (Constance Towers)? Some of the action looks badly staged, a lot of the dialogue is awful, so is the music. The hawk is kidnapped, then the next scene is they pick it up from animal rescue? (By the way, there are two shots of the hawk flying that are the same shot used twice, which I think is very poor.) The Oldsmobile 442 doesn't do very well. What is the boyfriend's job? He says it's 'security', but just seems to walk up and down on top of trains.

Still, we quite enjoyed it although it was nonsense and Hilary Swank is good in the title role. Maybe Pat Morita was on the sauce. Laszlo Kovacs shot it, so that alone makes it worth watching. Is it worth watching? Not really.

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