In overall, not a bad movie as well as not a good either.
Its a fair one.
(+)
The story has a good morale from some conversation involving Pak Khalid and Dani Ruso
Plot seems nice with
Some nice view
Yayan Ruhian, Surya Saputra and Maizura are good!!
(-)
Main character's name Dani Ruso? Same as Ralph Macchio's Karate Kid hahaha
Since Dani seems was very weak, all of sudden in one month (might be less), he became very good at fight and so powerful.
Tutu and Gogos tried to be funny, but frankly, they cannot as funny as I expected.
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Ok remake of The Karate Kid
chrisfambrough4 January 2021
Warning: Spoilers
The main character in this movie's name is Deni Ruso. The main character in The Karate Kid is named Daniel LaRusso. The influence is upfront and not at all hidden, including training techniques the main character doesn't recognize as such until later and several other sorry beats. Whether you feel it is an homage or a rip off may well depends on how familiar you are with the original. Still, Danji Zoni as Deni is game enough, and the Mr Miyagi role is played quite well by Yayan Ruhian (The Raid/John Wick 3), given that this is on Netflix in the US, you can't argue with the price, and the cheeky setup for a sequel did make me smile in spite of myself.
It's quite enjoyable to watch!
v-8693420 November 2021
This movie let me learn about other country cultures and traditions and open my eyes to things I didn't know, but there's a slight flaw in this movie is that they copy a part of Karate Kid. Some comedy part I didn't quite get it I think it's because of subtitle but overall it's a nice movie to watch and learn.
Great fight? But not the lead actor
qwereena24 March 2021
Dont waste your time
yudgian-darian4 January 2021
The plot is broken. Non logical and insult to common sense. No way you can master martial art in 1 month
The act also not good except for Yayan
Rather than labeled as action movie should labeled as religious movie like Azab and co
Dont waste your time
good, full of moral messages, but was mistaken for ethnicity.
mehorid2 January 2021
A lot of moral messages in this film. good plot but standard twist. type of badik are badik gallang from makassarnese, it should used badik lagecong from buginese. because the bugis and makassarnese are different tribes, different language, different traditional music, different custom clothing, although many similarities. Also, location at rammang-rammang, maros (The term for this place comes from the makassar language. rammang2 in the makassar language means fog. ) and selayar, actually the people in that two place didn't use bugis language, but makassar language (in rammang2) and silajara tanete/palemba language (in selayar) :D. last, If dani is a bugis person and he returns to his hometown, he should go home to bone/soppeng/sidrap/pinrang/pangkep/sengkang district, not to makassar, it's the same as you tell the Javanese to return to the land of sundanese, or vice versa.... :)) but in spite of that, this film is amazing.
Not so epic combat
matius_ridwn10 January 2021
I really enjoy martial art movies. And it seems that the real martial artist are only yayan ruhian and his bro. The fight coreography seems really weak and fake. This movies would be better if at least they use real fighters for the main characters.
Trying Too Hard
milleniums16 January 2021
Starting from the beginning, the movie attempted so hard to give an impression that the leading character is so rich beyond belief. I believe Indonesian audience are so fed-up with self-proud scenes with mixed language in the conversation. To look smart and sophisticated by mixing English and Bahasa. Unfortunately, they look so prententious instead and unwatchable indeed.
More real fighers should be involved the making of the movie. But even then lazy acting and directing make this movie unbearable to watch. Don't waste your time. Go watch something else.
More real fighers should be involved the making of the movie. But even then lazy acting and directing make this movie unbearable to watch. Don't waste your time. Go watch something else.
An almost decent Karate Kid remake.
reinhart_lightmourn18 August 2021
Plot is so much similar to your original Karate Kid movie that the protagonist even have similar name. That's the only passable part. Well, that and Yayan Ruhian being a calm caretaker.
The original Karate Kid movie introduce and let audience learn about the people and cultures of Japanese. So, the maker in this movie attempt to do the same. But instead of culture of certain ethnicity, it is now a religious culture, Islam. The once coming of age action movie is now a religious movie, which some people may find the approach cringey, absurd, and even ridiculous.
The original Karate Kid movie introduce and let audience learn about the people and cultures of Japanese. So, the maker in this movie attempt to do the same. But instead of culture of certain ethnicity, it is now a religious culture, Islam. The once coming of age action movie is now a religious movie, which some people may find the approach cringey, absurd, and even ridiculous.
nice plot
arifahschool1 January 2021
Karate Kid Remake from Indonesia
shakeyz829 February 2021
Warning: Spoilers
This is clearly a karate kid remake..the story line of a weak cute boy learning the martial arts way.. the master teaching the intricate ways of sulawesi martial arts just like Mr Miyagi and his karate.. finally.. even the name Dani Ruso rhymes with Ralph Macchio's La Russo
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