The movie starts out in New Jersey with a teenager named Daniel LaRusso and he is moving to California with his mother. He starts in a new high school and he makes friends quickly but he also makes enemies just as quick. His enemies are students of the Cobra Kai karate dojo and are very good a what they do. The main "goon" Daniel is dealing with is named Johnny. They start picking on Daniel because he has a crush on Ali, Johnny's old girlfriend. The sink in Daniel and his mothers apartment has a problem and that is when he meets the handyman Mr. Miyagi. Mr. Miyagi sees Daniel getting bullied in many different situations and offers to teach him karate as a way of self-defense.
Now with that comes a lot of training but this training is a bit unconventional. First it's waxing a car, then its painting a fence, after that building a gazebo and so on. As the training is still going on he is still getting picked on. So Mr. Miyagi goes to the Cobra Kai dojo and makes a deal with the sensi that they are not to pick on Daniel and save it for the karate tournament in a few weeks from then.
The cinematography in this movie is much better than you would expect from an 80's movie. The style is what you would expect from a drama not as much of an action movie. The reason for that is because its mostly a drama and some what action oriented. The editing jumps around to very different areas of the movie sometimes that you don't really understand until a few minutes into the scene. The way it is edited just goes from training then to some sort of problem in Daniel's life. Although I have explained the scene in the dojo, the final fight in the tournament is in my opinion the best scene in the movie.
This scene is what really makes the movie comes together. This is the end round of the final fight. Now people won't really understand the stance that Daniel is in while waiting for the round to start. It goes back to earlier during one of the many training scenes where they're on the beach on top of the old supports that were left from something before. They are on them practicing balance when Daniel sees Mr. Miyagi in the crane stance from a far and Daniel asks what it was and Mr. Miyagi tells him he is not ready to learn that yet. So as you would think this is a surprise ending to everyone. The ending in this is very realistic compared to the very very very very unrealistic ending of the Jaden Smith version.
I really like this movie and I feel that most other people would like it as well.
This gets a 4 out of 5 cups of milk from me.
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