Finally, I watched the Karate Kid in SG, hahaha~
It’s still not released in HK….
The new kid is Dre Parker, played self-consciously by the physically striking Jaden Smith, son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith (both among the movie’s producers). His mother is Sherry Parker, played by an exuberant, overly broad Taraji P. Henson. Following mom’s car-industry job, they move from devastated Detroit to booming Beijing, introduced with a tour of the recent landmarks you’re most likely to already know.
Almost immediately, Dre meets love-interest Meiying (Han Wenwen), an excessively smiley aspiring violinist. Shortly thereafter, he gets bludgeoned by Cheng (Wang Zhenwei) and his fellow bullies, all of them students of a teacher who — much as in the original — disregards the spirituality of “real kung fu.” (Yes, the movie’s fighting style is kung fu. “Karate,” a Japanese term, is featured in the title just for branding purposes.)
It’s a long time coming, though. Carrying at least a half-hour of excess fat, The Karate Kid detours to a festival, a mountain monastery and, inevitably, the Great Wall.
Despite the local color, the movie isn’t especially globalized. The major characters all speak English, and the action sequences throb to the music of Jay Sean, Lady Gaga, the Roots and Gorillaz. Han’s truisms don’t seem especially Chinese either, but in this context one of them is fitting. When a fight montage pits AC/DC’s “Back in Black” against the overamplified thuds of blows to the gut, it’s time to follow the master’s advice and “empty your mind.”
OK… i can tell… i never watch the 1984 version…
but after i watched this Jaden Smith Version, I think I will try to find the 1984 version, cuz’ lots of ppls said it’s just only REBOOT the 1984 one…
Simplexity 