Wax on, wax off

So the other day when I saw the Hurt Locker, I also had 2 and a half hours of peaceful fighting with the new Karate Kid.

It was interesting seeing some of Will Smith's facial expressions escape from his son as he got bashed in the face, or when he picked his jacket up. Even their laugh/shocked voice sound similar. Jackie Chan also stars as the famous mentor Mr. Hun, and didn't do such a bad job himself.

Anyway, the film was just a different interpretation of the original film, but a good one never the less. In fact, whether or not it's because i'm lenient towards modern film, i thought it was actually better than the original film. The way it was written was also a little more meaningful and believable. Since the original bad guys were a few high school white boys that learned karate, but in this new one, they used Chinese kids whose ancient tradition was to learn kong fu. The only problem was that it was kong fu, the movie should've been called the Kong Fu kid.

I would also just like to say that in this film, I cried when he completed his training, there's just something about those martial art films that get to me, the goes for pixar films actually. This version also did a great job with the training process for the kid.

Now Martial Art films are known for cheesy comedy, but that cheesiness always makes me laugh, no matter how dumb it is, it's still funny to me. Jackie Chan however, kind of annoys me most of the time, however, in this film, he was all like "Oh I'm so tired, Oh, I'm so drunk, Oh, I hit my head again cause I'm angry" Only he said it in a way that just made me get so pumped I really want to karate chop something. But not really.

The movie was a very tolerable film that I really did enjoy, especially as a karate kid film.