Karate Kid III - The final decision
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| German title | Karate Kid III - The final decision | ||
| Original title | The Karate Kid, Part III | ||
| Country of production | United States | ||
| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 1989 | ||
| length | 112 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
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| Director | John G. Avildsen | ||
| script | Robert Mark Kamen | ||
| production | Jerry Weintraub | ||
| music | Bill Conti | ||
| camera | Steve Yaconelli | ||
| cut | John G. Avildsen John Carter |
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Karate Kid III - The Final Decision is an American film from 1989. It is the second sequel to the cult film Karate Kid from 1984.
action
Karate Kid III starts with the plot of the first Karate Kid part and shows in flashbacks the victory of Daniel LaRusso in the main fight of the championship event against a student of Cobra Kai Sensei John Kreese.
After this defeat, all students leave the Cobra Kai owned by John Kreese, who turns to his fellow Vietnamese Terry Silver in his need. He develops a plan to humiliate Daniel, but especially Mr. Kesuke Miyagi. Terry Silver hires the karate fighter Mike Barnes, to whom he promises 50% of a new dōjō if he wins the title fight against Daniel . Mike immediately gets to work and provokes Daniel by destroying the bonsai shop, stealing all the bonsai trees and injuring Daniel's friend Jessica. Daniel and Jessica are now trying to get the last bonsai tree brought from Okinawa out of a ravine to save the bonsai business, but when they want to climb back up, their ropes have been pulled up by Mike Barnes and his buddies. Only after Daniel signs the registration to defend his title are they pulled up.
Miyagi refuses Daniel to help with training for the title fight, Terry Silver sees his chance here. He offers himself to Daniel as Sensei . Its three mercury rules are:
- "A man who cannot stand cannot fight."
- "A man who can't breathe can't fight."
- "A man who cannot see cannot fight."
Daniel is at first intimidated by this violence, but finally lets himself into it. In order to keep Daniel under his spell and his kind of violent karate, he hires a guy in a disco who turns Jessica on before Daniel. Daniel knocks him down.
Frustrated and upset, Daniel Miyagi tells about the action and finally decides to break away from his new teacher. Terry Silver now reveals himself and lets Mike loose on him. Miyagi appears to the rescue and promises to finally train Daniel. But only according to his rules.
Miyagi and Daniel bring the bonsai tree back to its sheltered place in the gorge.
Daniel and Mike meet again in the title fight. To humiliate Daniel, Mike scores a penalty point by kicking and punching the head, soft tissues and knees to compensate for every honest point. Miyagi encourages Daniel to fight his best karate . So strengthened Daniel begins to perform the beginning of the Kata Seienchin in front of the visibly confused Mike , and finally puts it down. Daniel could thus defend his title.
criticism
"The per se sympathetic concern to present karate martial arts as an instrument for inner maturity petered out in the predictable action."
Awards
The film was nominated for the Golden Raspberry in five categories in 1990
Sequels
In 1994 Karate Kid IV - The Next Generation was produced and directed by Christopher Cain . The karate student of Kesuke Miyagi was played this time by Hilary Swank .
Web links
- Karate Kid III - The final decision in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Karate Kid III - The final decision in the lexicon of international films
- Karate Kid III - The final decision onRotten Tomatoes(English)