Friday, 26 February 2010

Karate Kid remake explains itself

The "international" trailer for the Karate Kid remake ("spiritual successor," more like) includes dialogue explaining/excusing the problematic title/content dissonance - i.e. the movie is set in CHINA and the "kid" is clearly using/learning KUNG-FU - and otherwise continues the alarming trend of the domestic trailers of looking actually pretty good:



What can I say? I'm liking the unromantic/unvillainous vision of contemporary China, and it looks like Jackie Chan has made a conscious decision to NOT phone this one in. Who knows, anymore...

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