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

Steve Yaconelli

Bill Conti

Elizabeth Ziegler

Jeffrey R. Clark

Ralph Nelson Jr.

Ronald Batzdorff

Edward Morey III

Mike Benson

Jeffrey Norvet

Joseph A. Ponticelle

Jim Dunford

Frank Keever

Ross A. Maehl

Gary J. Dodd

David St. Onge

William Kenney

Scott Fieldsteel

Stan McClain

Robert Wittenberg

Sam Gordon

Clem Sheaffer

Richard C. Belyeu

Forrest Williams

Joseph C. Fama

Elijah Bryant

Michael Muscarella

Catherine Mann

Jerry Wax

Terry Shugrue

Robert Knudson

Bobby Mackston

Barry Thomas

Carl J. Stensel

Richard Evans

Scott A. Hecker

Ronnie Wexler

Richard Leon

Dennis Dion

Walter Dion

Michael Chavez

Howard Brandy

Richard Davis, Jr.

Kathryn J. McDermott

Joyce M. Warren

James E. Foote

Don Digirolamo

Russell Paris

Jere Huggins

Robert Glass

Eddie Hecker

Edward T. McAvoy

Trevor Jolly

Susan Dudeck

David Holden

Dan O'Connell

Sonny P. Filippini

Joel Valentine

Victoria Rose Sampson

Anne Marie Yantos

Stanley Wohlberg

Alicia Stevenson

Kay Rose

William C. Carruth

Kevin Lindstrom

Rick Tuber

Mark Sadusky

Jack Eskew

Dean Drabin

David N. Schrager

Douglas Brumer

Rex Stewart III

Mary Ruth Smith

Stephen A. Hope

Karyn Saffro

James Barrett

Linda Landry-Nelson

Thomas DeWier

Marcus Tate

Fumio Demura

David Stump

John Coates

Roy Nagatoshi

Phil Hetos

Tim Donahue

Debbie Lynn Ross

James Crabe

Tony Snegoff

Gary Burritt

Andrew Naud

Clarke Coleman

Carol Neilson

William F. Matthews

Clifford C. Coleman

Hope R. Goodwin

Brooks Arthur

The Karate Kid Collection

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The Karate Kid Part III

Columbia Pictures

Weintraub International Group

United States of America

English

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.

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

The Karate Kid Part III

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