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Name: The Karate Kid
Director: Harald Zwart
Genre: action, adventure, drama, family
Released: 2010
Duration: 2 h 20 min
Rating: 6.3

The Karate Kid has an iRankMovies score of 64/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

The Karate Kid (2010)

A challenge he never imagined. A teacher he never expected.

Release:2010

Runtime:2h 20m

Country:China

Director:Harald Zwart

Language:English

Genre

ActionAdventureDrama

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Keywords

Martial ArtsRebootAftercreditsstingerDuringcreditsstingerKarate KidIntensePretentiousStraightforward

iRank64

The Karate Kid rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb6.3/10· 225K votes

Rotten Tomatoes67%

Metacritic61%

TMDb6.566/10· 7K votes

With 67% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 6.3/10 on IMDb and 61/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.

About The Karate Kid

12-year-old Dre Parker could've been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother's latest career move has landed him in China. Dre immediately falls for his classmate Mei Ying but the cultural differences make such a friendship impossible. Even worse, Dre's feelings make him an enemy of the class bully, Cheng. With no friends in a strange land, Dre has nowhere to turn but maintenance man Mr. Han, who is a kung fu master. As Han teaches Dre that kung fu is not about punches and parries, but maturity and calm, Dre realizes that facing down the bullies will be the fight of his life.

Cast of The Karate Kid

Jaden Smith
as Dre Parker
Jackie Chan
as Mr. Han
Taraji P. Henson
as Sherry Parker
Wenwen Han
as Meiying
Zac Wang
as Cheng
Yu Rongguang
as Master Li
Wu Zhensu
as Meiying's Dad
Wang Ji
as Mrs. Po
Tess Liu
as History Teacher
Xu Ming
as Bao
Zhao Yi
as Zhuang
Lü Shijia
as Liang

The Karate Kid facts

Budget: $40M
Box office: $359.1M
Collection: The Karate Kid Collection

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Audience opinions

What the audience liked

•Martial arts training offers inspiring personal growth through disciplined practice
•Intense action sequences deliver satisfying combat choreography and skilled competition
•Family-friendly adventure captures underdog hero overcoming pretentious rivals spectacle

What the audience disliked

•Remake criticism suggests inability to equal original film's cultural resonance
•Some critics found execution pretentious despite audience appreciation of formula

Saga: The Karate Kid Collection