A fresh chapter in the beloved Karate Kid franchise hits theaters today with Karate Kid: Legends, uniting action icons Jackie Chan as Mr. Han and Ralph Macchio as Daniel LaRusso, the character from the original 1984 movie. The movie blends kung fu and karate in a thrilling new story.
A Familiar Heart in a New Tale
The film centers on Li Fong (Ben Wang), a talented Chinese teenager grappling with the loss of his older brother, a skilled kung fu fighter. When his mother, a doctor (Ming-Na Wen), takes a job in New York, they leave Beijing for a fresh start. Like past Karate Kid protagonists, Li struggles to fit into an unfamiliar world. In New York, he meets Mia (Sadie Stanley), who works at her father Victor’s (Joshua Jackson) struggling pizzeria. Victor, a former boxer, owes money to O’Shea (Tim Rozon), a loan shark running a karate dojo, whose top student, Connor Day (Aramis Knight), is Mia’s ex-boyfriend, sparking tension with Li.
