‘Karate Kid: Legends’ Is Just so Incredibly Weird, and Not in a Good Way

The most exciting and intriguing thing about the new movie, Karate Kid: Legends, is its unification of a 40-year-old franchise. On one side, you have Ralph Macchio, the star of three Karate Kid movies and a long-running TV spin-off, Cobra Kai. On the other side, you have Jackie Chan, one of the most famous movie stars on Earth, who remade The Karate Kid 15 years ago to massive financial success. Seeing these two, literal, Karate Kid legends sharing the screen for the first time is why this movie exists. So, would you believe it if we told you they’re not in it that much? And when they are, the story is incredibly rushed and confusing? You probably don’t believe it, because it doesn’t make any sense, but such is the disappointing oddity that is Karate Kid: Legends. Directed by Jonathan Entwistle, from a script by Rob Lieber, Karate Kid: Legends centers on Li Fong, played by Ben Wang. Li is a teenage kung fu student in Beijing whose mother (Ming-Na Wen) is the niece of Mr. Han (Chan). S ... Read full article.