Brain Assassin

Most of us will already know that a Karate Kid remake – The Karate Kid – is in the works and slated for a June 11 release. Jaden Smith plays the 12-​​year-​​old kid Dre Parker whose mother’s lat­est career move has landed him in China. Of course, he’s not even remotely as pop­u­lar there as he was in good old Detroit. Some kid beats him up but he is res­cued by main­te­nance man Mr. Han (Jackie Chan) who will teach Dre the kung fu. Wait, did you read that cor­rectly? Kung fu? Why the hell is this remake about kung fu and not karate even though the title says otherwise?

Well, Dre of course knows a lit­tle karate which is way too lit­tle to stand up against the class bully. The lat­est inter­na­tional trailer also shows that Dre is called “the karate kid” by the bully. Appar­ently, that’s it. Dre will no doubt mas­ter kung fu and will defeat his enemy in the tour­na­ment, obvi­ously. I don’t espe­cially like the plot but I think I’m going to watch it anyway.