Kreese, walking toward his flight, closely misses passing by Daniel and Mr. They exchange military salutes before Silver drives off, after dropping Kreese off at the airport. Miyagi have to pay for humiliating Kreese. Then he's going to formulate a plan to make sure Daniel and Mr. ![]() First, he is sending Kreese for some rest and recuperation time in Tahiti. Miyagi and promises to help Kreese with a plan of revenge. Silver learns the story of Daniel and Mr. Silver declines, getting Kreese to tell him the story of his troubles, and promising to take care of him. ![]() Kreese goes to hand Silver the dojo keys, saying he is going away and will pay him the back rent soon as he finds a new line of work, as he has had no students for nine months. As he listens to a recording on his answering machine of his phone provider threatening to disconnect him, he picks up a newspaper clipping article devoted to Daniel's victory in the tournament and crumples it in his hands.īroke, hungry and alone, Kreese goes to the one friend he has left: Terry Silver ( Thomas Ian Griffith), an army buddy whose life was saved by Kreese several times, and the founder of the Cobra Kai, now a shady and very wealthy businessman dealing with nuclear energy. The organizers of the All Valley Tournament are dropping the Cobra Kai from its membership rolls due to non-payment of dues. All of his assorted creditors are beginning to criticize him for payment on now-long overdue bills. His dojo has been completely empty for several months now, leaving him with no income and now broke. Kreese, now a humiliated and destitute alcoholic, has lost all of his students and the Dojo risks being closed down. Miyagi defeated John Kreese, saving Johnny Lawrence from the attack. Only when the dead-certain final battle arrives, there is a sense of the trilogy regaining whatever it lost from Part II onwards.In September 1985, just over nine months have passed since Daniel LaRusso won the All-Valley tournament and Mr. Even worse, though, is the over-the-top behavior of the villains: Griffith does nothing but stare manically, shout and laugh, while Kove, who was funny in the first installment of the series, transforms Kreese into a grotesque parody of his earlier work. ![]() As a matter of fact, the more explicit violence suffocates the franchise's trademark comedy bits, leaving a few underwhelming Daniel/Miyagi moments with the duty of lightening the tone. Love, vengeance, honor, blood and gratuitous butt-kicking are all thrown in the mix, though hardly any of them work to full effect. Getting them to fight back, however, will prove harder than usual, as Miyagi is more interested in opening a bonsai shop and Daniel refuses to act violently since he is - what a surprise, this - in love. Miyagi (Pat Morita) suffer like never before. ![]() Broke and lonely, Kreese decides to ask an old army buddy, Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith), to help carry out a diabolical plan that will make Daniel and Mr. The "driving force" (assuming there is one) of the screenplay (if you can call it that) is John Kreese (Martin Kove), the sadistic karate teacher whose students got their asses kicked by Daniel Larusso (Macchio). Whereas the first film dealt with a recycled subject (young boy gets revenge on those who humiliated him) from a new angle, Part III resurrects the revenge theme with all its clichés. Sadly, Ralph Macchio never realized this, and so here we are: The Karate Kid, Part III. He has a point: some films, like Star Wars or Indiana Jones (even Rocky or Rambo, to a reasonable extent), can and in fact deserve to have follow-ups, because the people who made them genuinely think there is more to tell about those characters (Rocky V is too much, though) others, like Top Gun or The Karate Kid, are crippled from the beginning by the fact that they are indelibly connected to the decade that spawned them, and also suffer from having fairly basic scripts and characters that wouldn't really benefit from any continuation of the story. Rumor has it Tom Cruise was offered the chance to reprise his signature '80s role in two (!) Top Gun sequels, but refused because he didn't want to do the same thing over and over.
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