SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot points, including the ending for "Karate Kid: Legends," currently playing in theaters. The most dramatic moment in "Karate Kids: Legends" is its final ...

In the pantheon of unnecessary legacy sequels — distant continuations that dig up decades of history to occasionally transcendent but mostly exasperating effect — it’s hard to come up with a film that ...

Credits: Directed by Jonathan Entwistle, starring Ralph Macchio, Jackie Chan, Ben Wang, SAadie Stanley, Joshua Jackson and Aramis Knight. Rating/Runtime: PG-13 for martial arts violence and some ...

The problem with “Karate Kid: Legends” is right there in the title: “legends,” as in multiple. Many beloved “Karate Kid” characters and icons of millennial sports movies enter the ring, but in the ...

The selling point of “Karate Kid: Legends” is the pairing of initial franchise star Ralph Macchio and Jackie Chan, a star of the 2010 reboot that shares the title of the 1984 original, “The Karate Kid ...

The "Karate Kid" series, which launched in the cruel summer of 1984, has already been sequel-ized (there were four films in the original series), remade (with 2010's "The Karate Kid") and rebooted ...

“Karate Kid: Legends” is steeped in nostalgia, which helps paper over a formulaic script and the strange reality that its domestic scenes are more effective than its fight action. It opens with a ...

A redundant legacyquel to the iconic martial arts film franchise introduces a bunch of new characters to act out the freshest storylines of 1984. But more importantly, “The Karate Kid,” for as much as ...