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The Karate Kid

2010

Harald Zwart

Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan, Taraji P. Henson, Wenwen Han ...

5.7

30,052

Action. Drama 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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Is this 'Karate Kid' as good as the original? No, although it is better than the sequels"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"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: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"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"	NEG
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"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"	POS

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