The Karate Kid Collection

Ralph Macchio

Pat Morita

Robyn Lively

Thomas Ian Griffith

Martin Kove

Sean Kanan

Jonathan Avildsen

William Christopher Ford

Randee Heller

Pat E. Johnson

Rick Hurst

Frances Bay

Joseph V. Perry

Jan Tříska

Diana Webster

Patrick R. Posada

C. Darnell Rose

Glenn Medeiros

Gabriel Jarret

Doc Duhame

Randell Dennis Widner

Raymond S. Sua

Garth Johnson

E. David Tetro

Helen Lin

Meilani Paul

John Timothy Botka

Earnest Hart Jr.

Fred Moon

Jerry Weintraub

John G. Avildsen

Bill Conti

Steve Yaconelli

Edward Morey III

Mike Benson

Elizabeth Ziegler

Jeffrey R. Clark

Jeffrey Norvet

Joseph A. Ponticelle

Ralph Nelson Jr.

Ronald Batzdorff

Ross A. Maehl

David St. Onge

Scott Fieldsteel

Frank Keever

Jim Dunford

Gary J. Dodd

William Kenney

Michael Chavez

Barry Thomas

Forrest Williams

Clem Sheaffer

Catherine Mann

Jerry Wax

Ronnie Wexler

Elijah Bryant

Terry Shugrue

Sam Gordon

Richard Leon

Richard Evans

Carl J. Stensel

Stan McClain

Michael Muscarella

Joseph C. Fama

Robert Wittenberg

Dennis Dion

Walter Dion

Edward T. McAvoy

James E. Foote

Richard C. Belyeu

Russell Paris

David Holden

Jere Huggins

Trevor Jolly

Rick Tuber

Douglas Brumer

Kevin Lindstrom

Rex Stewart III

Stanley Wohlberg

Mark Sadusky

Robert 'Buzz' Knudson

Robert Glass

Don Digirolamo

Scott A. Hecker

Joel Valentine

Bobby Mackston

Susan Dudeck

Eddie Hecker

Dan O'Connell

Alicia Stevenson

Dean Drabin

Victoria Sampson

Mary Ruth Smith

Kay Rose

William C. Carruth

Kathryn J. McDermott

Joyce M. Warren

Jack Eskew

Stephen A. Hope

Howard Brandy

Sonny P. Filippini

Richard Davis Jr.

Anne Marie Yantos

Karyn Saffro

David N. Schrager

Roy Nagatoshi

James Barrett

Gary Burritt

Phil Hetos

Linda Landry-Nelson

David Stump

Tim Donahue

John Coates

Andrew Naud

Marcus Tate

James Crabe

Thomas DeWier

Fumio Demura

Clarke Coleman

Carol Neilson Smrz

Tony Snegoff

Debbie Lynn Ross

William F. Matthews

Clifford C. Coleman

Hope R. Goodwin

Brooks Arthur

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The Karate Kid Part III

Columbia Pictures

Weintraub International Group

United States of America

Filipe Manuel Neto

**The weakest of them all in the Karate Kid franchise.**

After an excellent initial film and a sufficiently honorable sequel, this film comes to us… and there is no way to hide that the quality of the material presented is substantially lower and that the film works badly.

The biggest problem with this film is the script, quite weak, poorly written and full of holes in which the lack of logic and credibility are closely associated with a dose of predictability that makes the film tiresome. The characters were also frankly poorly developed, the villains are stereotyped and loaded (the movie does everything it can to not like them) and the material given to the actors wasn't enough to guarantee a good job.

Even so, it is necessary to recognize that Pat Morita and Ralph Macchio did everything possible to rise to the challenge, and to live up to what the audience expected from their respective characters. Morita remains a sympathetic presence and Macchio is not as immature and stubborn as in previous films, which shows some maturity in the character (although I don't know if this was intentional). The disappearance of Macchio's character's mother from the scene is justified in the most stupid way possible, and the place that was supposedly leased for the bonsai shop looks more like a warehouse than a commercial space.

In the midst of these problems, the film compensates us with regular cinematography, good editing, a pleasant pace and no room for dead moments. Filming locations are satisfying enough. This being an action movie, a fight movie, karate, I expected to have seen some more fights, it has a lot less fights than the previous movies, and the tension is not as palpable, but what was done is quite well done, and the fight choreographies were well rehearsed and carried out.

I totally forgot about this one until someone at work made an obscure reference about it... and suddenly I was faced with memories I'd rather forget. Honestly, when you remember The Next Karate kid and not Part III, it should tell you something.

Anyway, he was right, it did have Robyn Lively in it and I think this is one of her early roles... and this and Teen Witch are kind of a shame because she can do a good job, a Twin Peaks quality job here and there but otherwise lingers in obscurity and really only surfaces for people like me who see her here and there in television roles and have fond memories of some of her better roles.

Anyway, it also has Ralph Macchio doing a job that kind of makes sure to tell the audience that he does not want to be there, he does not think III is a good idea, and otherwise convinces the audience not to like it.

And he was right, the script wasn't there. It was nice that he had a platonic interest and not a love interest, it was unique, it fit his character, it worked with the story... but the story otherwise wasn't there.

It's kind of a revenge tale that you have seen a thousand times over and this one doesn't say anything more than low budget Canon Pictures quality film.

English

The Karate Kid Part III (1989) Original Trailer [FHD]