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The Karate Kid

ORIGINAL TITLE

The Karate Kid

YEAR

2010	Apple Trailer

RUNNING TIME

140 min.

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COUNTRY

(New) Visual section

DIRECTOR

Harald Zwart

SCREENWRITER

Michael Soccio

COMPOSER

Atli Örvarsson

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Roger Pratt

CAST

Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan, Taraji P. Henson, Wenwen Han, Rongguang Yu, Zhensu Wu, Zhiheng Wang, Jared Minns, Luke Carberry, Cameron Hillman

STUDIO/PRODUCER

China Film Group / Columbia Pictures / Jerry Weintraub Productions / Overbrook Entertainment

OFFICIAL WEB

http://karatekid-themovie.com

GENRE

Action. Drama | Remake. Martial arts. Karate

SYNOPSIS/PLOT

The Karate Kid, directed by Harald Zwart (The Pink Panther 2), stars Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan, and Taraji P. Henson. Smith plays Dre, a skateboarding video game buff who moves to China after his single mother is forced to go there for work. Unable to speak Chinese, Dre finds it hard to settle in, and gets beat up by the local bully. Chan plays Mr. Han, a maintenance man who spots his black-eye and offers to teach him both martial arts and Chinese, so he can defend against all the kung-fu students.

PRO REVIEWS

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"Is this 'Karate Kid' as good as the original? No, although it is better than the sequels" (A. O. Scott: The New York Times)

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"The original was one of its year's best movies. The new one lacks the perfect freshness of that one; there aren't many surprises (...) But here is a lovely and well-made film that stands on its own feet (...) Rating: ***1/2 (out of four)" (Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times)

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"It's a measure of the times that the new version of 'The Karate Kid' manages to be longer and bigger-budgeted than the original while having lesser impact (...) much of the original's charm has been lost" (Frank Scheck: The Hollywood Reporter)

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"his bigger-budget remake occasionally goes too far in its aim to be more epic. But the chemistry between Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan grounds the movie, imbuing it with sincerity and poignance (...) the film is solidly entertaining" (Claudia Puig: USA Today)

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