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[March Climber]

What are the stakes in this film? I feel like the "All Valley Champion" ridiculously overblown title for the OG KK and Cobra Kai works as incentive for karate competition on and off the mat, but I'm missing that lure for this film. I guess the anti-bullying vibe is enough for the kids but since they bothered to get Daniel back for this I was hoping for more to appeal to me. As much as I love Jackie, "old man jackie" minus the crazy stunts doesn't do much for me either. I'm still gonna see it, just waffling on in theater unless my kid pushes for it (which he isn't so far).

I think you are viewing this movie from the lens of a continuation of an 80s/90s film, which I consider that continuation along with the 80s/90s-esque cheesiness, to be the Cobra Kai TV show.

Based on what they're showing here and how Ben Wang is implying that Jackie had much more input on this film's direction than we thought, I'm expecting more of a late 2000s hong kong-style movie in terms of feeling. That could potentially mean a weaker story but potentially better fights and stuntwork.

I guess we will see when the reviews start coming out.

 

[jason10mm]

I think you are viewing this movie from the lens of a continuation of an 80s/90s film, which I consider that continuation along with the 80s/90s-esque cheesiness, to be the Cobra Kai TV show.

Based on what they're showing here and how Ben Wang is implying that Jackie had much more input on this film's direction than we thought, I'm expecting more of a late 2000s hong kong-style movie in terms of feeling. That could potentially mean a weaker story but potentially better fights and stuntwork.

I guess we will see when the reviews start coming out.

Yeah, if this is actually a very dynamic martial arts film with lots of classic HK style stunt work, I'm def down for that. But if it is just another soft relaunch of KK, then I don't think I"m the target audience.

 

[March Climber]

Yeah, if this is actually a very dynamic martial arts film with lots of classic HK style stunt work, I'm def down for that.

It won't specifically be this, and that's why I said late 2000s HK rather than 70s, 80s, and 90s HK style.

I'm thinking more along the lines of Jackie Chan's "Who am I?" movie as a good example. The only huge stunt in that was the dangerous skyscraper slide, but most of it was simply well filmed fights with some parkour sprinkled in.

But if it is just another soft relaunch of KK, then I don't think I"m the target audience.

Nah I don't see that happening, especially considering certain spoilers from Cobra Kai's last season. This main character might meet just one other character from the show, but otherwise this is more of a continuation and a simple way to merge two timelines.

 

[jason10mm]

It won't specifically be this, and that's why I said late 2000s HK rather than 70s, 80s, and 90s HK style.

I'm thinking more along the lines of Jackie Chan's "Who am I?" movie as a good example. The only huge stunt in that was the dangerous skyscraper slide, but most of it was simply well filmed fights with some parkour sprinkled in.

Screw that, if this film doesn't end with a pan shot featuring Jet Li, Donnie Yen, Sammo Hung, Tony Jaa, and Stephen Chow for a massive 30 minute fight that took them all 6 months of meticulous work to choreograph....then I'm not interested

 

[HRK69]

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Banger

 

[touchfuzzy]

Couldn't give less of a shit what critics say about anything really, excited to see it this weekend. Love the lean 94 minutes runtime too, franchise movies are too damn long these days (looking at you, Mission Impossible).

 

[Fbh]

He basically says it's not very good. Feels like they had 2 different ideas for the plot and decided to do both poorly instead of 1 of them right.
One half feels like a more interesting new take but isn't given the time to properly develop, the other just feels like a rushed retelling of the same old Karate Kid stuff.
Action is ok but nothing special

 

[YCoCg]

Mother fuckers if the rumours are true...

Spoiler

Han (Jackie Chan) and La Russo (Ralph Maccio) are only in the movie for the last 30 minutes

Straight up MGS2'd us in the trailers.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Another movie with Ghostbusters syndrome

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

saw it, it was ok, hard carried by jackie chan.
There's a real weird pace to this movie, where things just happen to force the plot to move in a certain direction; there's a fight in the movie that ends really abruptly and there's zero consequences for how it ended, they just gloss over it and just fast forward to the next story beat.
I feel like in the end there should've been some kind of rivalry, but there barely is because of how fast everything moves.

The fights were alright, but jackie is the highlight.

 

[AJUMP23]

saw it, it was ok, hard carried by jackie chan.
There's a real weird pace to this movie, where things just happen to force the plot to move in a certain direction; there's a fight in the movie that ends really abruptly and there's zero consequences for how it ended, they just gloss over it and just fast forward to the next story beat.
I feel like in the end there should've been some kind of rivalry, but there barely is because of how fast everything moves.

The fights were alright, but jackie is the highlight.

Is he only in it for 30 minutes.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

Is he only in it for 30 minutes.

who?

 

[AJUMP23]

who?

Chan.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

Chan.

who knows, I didn't sit there with a timer clocking his every minute on-screen; the movie is pretty short but it feels like he was in most of it, he's at the start, then they move to the US and he's away for a bit while they set up the "rivalry" and then he's back for the whole thing.