An average movie

Like most of the kids of my generation, I grew up with those Karate Kid flicks and it was with a great joy and nostalgia that I re-watched them with Nick, my step-son. To be honest, even though I really enjoyed the first installment, the sequels were not really good and this 3rd installment was obviously the weakest one (at least, until they released ‘The Next Karate Kid’ starring a young Hilary Swank which turned out to be even worse). By now, even though they were still surfing on this hype, it wasn't really working anymore. In my opinion, one of the issues with this franchise was that Ralph Macchio was just too old to play this part. At least, at first, with his baby face, it did work for a while but with this 3rd movie, it was really obvious that the guy was in or reaching his 30’s. Anyway, the biggest issue was above all the fact that the plot was just so repetitive. To be honest, the formula was never really complex but it was entertaining enough but, instead of taking any risk, they kept repeating the same plot in all the sequels and, at this point, it was just getting really tedious. To conclude, it is easily the weakest movie in this trilogy and it is not really worth a look, I’m afraid, except maybe if you are a die-hard fan of the genre.

5/10