The Karate Kid part 3 is one of the most outlandish sequels ever, especially in comparison to the first two Karate Kid films. However, I've always highly enjoyed this film and the amount of disregard it gets is unjustified in my eyes.
Acting wise it's as good as ever Ralph Macchio is still spot on as Daniel, Pat Morita is better than ever as Mr Miyagi and Martin Kove is back as Kreese. You've also got newcomer Thomas Ian Griffith as Terry Silver, the craziest and most stupendous villain in any Karate Kid film, Terry Silver is highly unpredictable and completely off his nut, a millionaire who's main goal in the film is to go after Daniel and bully him into entering the all valley tournament (again) so new "bad boy" Mike Barnes can humiliate him in front of his town. It's a bonkers plot, but it completely works! Similar to the original Daniel finds himself a girlfriend, Jessica played by Robyn Lively; although this time she's not interested in him romantically.
The plot's quite good and is most similar to the original with many new plot points such as Daniel and Mr Miyagi opening up a bonsai tree shop instead of Daniel going to college and, most intriguingly is when Daniel chooses the super violent and very handsome Terry Silver to be his teacher over Mr Miyagi putting strain on their relationship, and also his body as Terry seems obsessed with sadistically pushing Daniel to the limit training wise, Silver is really a psychopathic character. The music is also of very high quality and is just as good as the 1984 original, if not better with Bill Conti again taking the reigns as composer.
8/10: Extremely entertaining and no where near as bad as some reviewers make it out to be
Acting wise it's as good as ever Ralph Macchio is still spot on as Daniel, Pat Morita is better than ever as Mr Miyagi and Martin Kove is back as Kreese. You've also got newcomer Thomas Ian Griffith as Terry Silver, the craziest and most stupendous villain in any Karate Kid film, Terry Silver is highly unpredictable and completely off his nut, a millionaire who's main goal in the film is to go after Daniel and bully him into entering the all valley tournament (again) so new "bad boy" Mike Barnes can humiliate him in front of his town. It's a bonkers plot, but it completely works! Similar to the original Daniel finds himself a girlfriend, Jessica played by Robyn Lively; although this time she's not interested in him romantically.
The plot's quite good and is most similar to the original with many new plot points such as Daniel and Mr Miyagi opening up a bonsai tree shop instead of Daniel going to college and, most intriguingly is when Daniel chooses the super violent and very handsome Terry Silver to be his teacher over Mr Miyagi putting strain on their relationship, and also his body as Terry seems obsessed with sadistically pushing Daniel to the limit training wise, Silver is really a psychopathic character. The music is also of very high quality and is just as good as the 1984 original, if not better with Bill Conti again taking the reigns as composer.
8/10: Extremely entertaining and no where near as bad as some reviewers make it out to be