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 The Karate Kid Part III :: 0767861469
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Author: Guest
What better way to end the saga of Daniel LaRusso than a final installment in `The Karate Kid Part III'. There was only one major problem...it was a great idea done terribly wrong. The story takes place right after Part II, where a sinister plot is hatched by the true villain of `The Karate Kid' saga, John Kreese. John pays a visit to Terry Silver, fellow soldier turned millionaire scumbag and loyal Cobra Kai. Kreese tells Terry of his downfall thanks to Daniel and Mr. Miyagi and Terry is more than willing to help his friend get his revenge. They hire a violent up and coming fighter named Mike Barnes to force Daniel to fight him for the All Valley Tournament title. Daniel is still true to the Miyagido style of karate and would rather spend his days helping Mr. Miyagi with their new business in Banzai trees. When Daniel is threatened under unavoidable circumstances, Terry jumps in to pose as a friend and teacher to Daniel. Learning a new more violent style of karate from Terry causes extreme tension between Daniel and Mr. Miyagi. For too long Miyagi taught Daniel that Karate was not about defending a title and Daniel is torn apart wondering why he has strayed from his friends teachings. No sooner when Daniel discovers that he was played for sap, Mr. Miyagi re-unites with Daniel not for revenge, but to prove the point that has been shown throughout the entire saga. One must be pure in heart and true to his honor in order to emerge a champion.
I gave this film a low rating because the movie as a whole did not live up to the plot. What knocks Part III down from the rest of the story is the sub par acting. `The Karate Kid Part III' comes off looking a lot like `3 Ninjas', with its cartoonish villainy and Ralph Macchio just whines too much. Not even the heavy use of adult language and the major role of John Kreese could save this movie. This movie could have been made much better because the premise of this story is quite good and it does work. I guess it was the staff, letting the movie going public know it was time to put an old dog to sleep. Unfortunately they didn't, but I'm not even going there. If you are a fan of `The Karate Kid' as a whole you will watch this movie more than once and really make an effort to enjoy it. Still, there will be a voice in the back of your mind saying...Sorry LaRusso...you lost this time.
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Author: Guest
Well this was just bad. I guess they felt as they had done a second movie, someone said we should just put a period on the sentance and make another. But this was just bad, wrapping up all elements of the first and second into too neat a bundle.
Daniel (who is probably about 40 by the time this movie was made) and Miaghi have returned from Okinawa to California having settled the business in Miaghi's hometown. While they were gone, Kreese, the evil sensai from the Cobra Kai dojo has hit rock bottem. After being disgraced at the tournament by the loss as well as his sore loser behavior, Kreese has lost his shirt. Cobra Kai has closed due to lack of enrollment, and he's bankrupt. Out of the blue, he meets up with an old buddy (from his days in Nam, no less) who looks like a young, thin Steven Segal who not only takes him in but agrees to plot revenge against Daniel and Miaghi. (I won't repeat his notable quotables, as they were just too corny.)
Daniel is once again the target of bullies, this time Kreese's renegad students who are causing havok among the town. They don't feel any qualms about beating up girls and kids that are smaller than them. What tough guys. When Daniel asks Miaghi to train him again, Miaghi refuses because he wants Daniel to not aspire to title and reward, but to be a true artist. In an uncharacteristic move, Steven Segal offers to train Daniel to become a killing machine, and Daniel accepts it. Once the plot against him is reveiled, Miaghi trains Daniel to win the tournament.
The whole plotting and revenge was a little too hoakey for me. By the time this movie got made there were a lot of action-revenge type movies out there (ex. Jean Claude Van Damme's and Steven Segal's movie careers), but as we felt we knew Daniel pretty well by then it was disappointing to see him give into evils and temptations. There was the proverbial happy ending, but they had done the Rocky story so many times in these movies that you expected nothing but a happy ending. If you feel you want to see Daniel triumph over the bullies yet again, then watch this because good will always triumph over evil somehow.
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Author: Guest
And here's where the wheels started to come off. Macchio was in his late twenties when Part 3 went into production, and that's only the most obvious evidence that this unnecessary sequel was a low-rent money-grab of the flimsiest order. What's most noteworthy about Part 3 (indeed, it could be the only noteworthy aspect) is the hilarious cartoonishness of its villains. (I doubt that "cartoonishness" is an actual word, but I bet you understand its meaning. So that makes it a word.) Back from Part 1 (and the prologue of Part 2) is Karate Master Kreese, but if you thought HE was the pinnacle of prickitude, well you haven't seen anything yet. We also get Kreese's old army buddy, Terry Silver, who is A) an evil black-belt Karate Master, B) a cackling and self-admitted dumper of toxic waste (!), and C) played by Thomas Ian Griffith. PLUS there's a brutal new upstart in the world of tournament karate, so you just know that this kid's gonna get involved. AND we have sniveling henchman Snake...as played by the director's own son! Now that's one spooky legion of doom for anyone to face, let alone an elderly Asian man and the world's oldest teenager.
The best thing I can say about Part 3 is that it's a clear indication that SOME time and effort when into Part 2. Whereas the first sequel was just too quaint and familiar, Part 3 approaches the Karate Kid formula as if it's the world's last home-cooked meatloaf. There are only so many times we can see Daniel whimpering at the mistakes he's made while Miyagi stands around tossing out vague platitudes and wizened smiles. Part 3 trots out the same training montages, the same tournament finale, the same chaste little romance, the same 1980s cheeseball tunes, the same old song and dance. But this time it all feels cynical and hollow...which is NOT the vibe we still get from Part 1.
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Author: Guest
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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Author: Guest
The Karate Kid Part III (1989.) The third film in the Karate Kid series.
INTRODUCTION:
1984's The Karate Kid was one of those movies that was a much larger success than the film's creators could ever have imagined. The film became and remains one of the most popular American films of all time. And what do the creators of a film do if the first one does really well? Release a sequel, of course. With Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita back on board, The Karate Kid Part II was released in 1986. And they didn't stop there. In 1989, The Karate Kid Part III hit theatres. Is it a solid entry in the series, or does it show that the series is getting a bit "played out?" Read on and find out.
STORYLINE:
Daniel Larusso and Mr. Miyagi have just returned home from their adventure in Japan (Depicted in the second film.) What they don't know is that an old foe is out for revenge. John Kreese, the Cobra Kai sensei, has met up with an old Vietnam buddy, who is now quite wealthy. Kreese wants revenge, and since this old friend of his had his life saved by Kreese on more than one occasion during their days in the war, he is more than happy to collaborate. With the All Valley Karate Championships fast approaching and Miyagi's reluctance to train him for the forthcoming tournament, Daniel takes a very different path in his training... one the revenge seekers want him to fall right into.
FILM OPINIONS:
My opinion of this film is basically the same opinion everyone else has - it's a solid movie, but it's not the classic that the original was. I'd say it's about on par with the second film in terms of overall quality. The storyline here is very similar to that of the first film, but there is just enough new and interesting stuff thrown in to keep things interesting. Once again, Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita's acting is top-notch. The music is also excellent - this is something that is often overlooked in the films, but it is true of all of them. The songs done for the soundtrack are great, as always, and once again Bill Conti and Zamfir do a great job on the orchestration. This movie isn't the masterpiece the first one was, nor is its plotline as original as the second but it seems like every saga has to have some kind of revenge story. And this is about as good as one could get in this series. By the time most film series hit the third installement, they start to suck. Not true with the Karate Kid. If you're a fan of this series, by all means check out the third film.
DVD:
The only extras this DVD has are filmographies and trailers. Nothing worth writing home about at all. It would be a better move, in the long run, to just buy the Karate Kid Collection Box Set. You get all four films in that set for one fairly low price, making it the better choice in that you'll save some money as opposed to buying the movies individually.
OVERALL:
Overall, the film cast and crew served up a pretty good second sequel here. Is it as good as the original film? No way, but it still gets the job done. If you've seen the original film and its first sequel, and you still want to continue exploring the journey of Daniel Larusso and Mr. Miyagi, the third chapter in the saga is worth viewing.
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