The Karate Kid Part III
by John G. Avildsen
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Actor: Martin Kove, Pat Morita, Ralph Macchio, Robyn Lively, Thomas Ian GriffithDirector: John G. Avildsen
Brand: Sony
Cinematographer: Steve Yaconelli
Editor: John Carter
Producer: Doug Seelig
Producer: Jerry Weintraub
Producer: Karen Trudy Rosenfelt
Producer: Sheldon Schrager
Writer: Robert Mark Kamen
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown); Chinese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Portuguese (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 112 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-07-10
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of The Karate Kid Part III
Movie Review: I Love It When He Pounds Him!
Summary: 5 Stars
I love Karate Kid 3, but not because it's a good movie-the movie's actually rather bad. Storywise it seems to take a step backward instead of forward. The plot is very similar to the first film. John Kreese is back(yeah!) and looking for revenge coz his students abandoned him after his humiliating loss in the first film. He turns to millionaire Vietnam buddy and toxic waste dumper, Terry Silver for help. Silver devotes his life and fortune to getting revenge on Daniel and Miyagi. The plan involves turning Daniel against Miyagi so Daniel will come to Silver to train for the next karate tournament. Naturally, Silver's training goes against everything Miyagi teaches and Daniel basically becomes a Cobra Kai-type fighter. Some badazz challenger wants to take a stab at Daniel in the tournament(of course he's working for Kreese and Silver). This movie's pretty lame and unintentionally funny. Daniel has always been a whiny, irritating wuss, and here it's cranked up tenfold. Being the human punching bag he is, he's always walking around with a limp, black eye, etc. It's so common now, we hardly notice. There's also a terrible subplot involving a bonsai tree. There's a chick, but she's barely worth this sentence. The challenger/bully Mike Barnes spends about a half hour of the movie terrorizing Daniel into entering the tournament in typical Karate Kid bully fashion which consists of destroying property, beating up Daniel and eventually getting beat up by Miyagi. After saving Daniel's ass for the upteenth time, Miyagi decides to train him and the tournament is on! It's not so thrilling this time because after fighting for his life in Karate Kid 2, another tournament seems like small potatoes. Something else no one ever seems to mention about this film is the fact that the bad guys seem to win! Sure, Daniel foils their plans to win the tournament, but so what? He gets a lucky punch in during the "sudden death" part of the match, winning it, but he has had the ever living crap beat out of him up until that point. Terry Silver's whole plan was to basically have Daniel bullied throughout the match, and he succeeds! That's another point. I don't know much about the rules of karate tournaments, but you cannot tell me that Barnes could do all that stuff and not be disqualified. If you ask me, the best part of this film is the film debut of Thomas Ian Griffith, my favorite direct to video action star. He gives us a sly, funny and rather crazy villian. Plus he's probably the only actor in the series that actually knows martial arts. Lame, fun and worth every penny!
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