“Karate Kid: Legends” is steeped in nostalgia, which helps paper over a formulaic script and the strange reality that its domestic scenes are more effective than its fight action. It opens with a ...

Taking an amusingly formulaic “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” approach, Karate Kid: Legends echoes the plot of both the 1984 original and the 2010 Karate Kid films with its familiar underdog story ...

Karate Kid: Legends director Jonathan Entwistle reveals that Jackie Chan dislocated his shoulder during a fight sequence, only to then pop it back in himself. Serving as the sixth movie in the Karate ...

As a fan of Chang Can Dunk and Destin Daniel Cretton‘s American Born Chinese, I was ecstatic to see that Ben Wang would be leading a major film. While he did a bit of fighting in American Born Chinese ...

While Ben Wang and Sadie Stanley give strong performances, Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio are wasted in this misguided and unnecessary legacy sequel. Coming off the heels of the extremely popular ...

The Karate Kid was nothing short of a sensation when it was first released in 1984, so it's no wonder that the underdog story blossomed into a multi-faceted franchise. Following the original trilogy's ...

When I ranked all five Karate Kid movies, I put the original at number one because, you know, I like to give the people what they want. Even though The Karate Kid Part II and III each have their fans, ...