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D+ |
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D+ |
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C |
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| Direction: |
C |
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B- |
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Serious Case of Deja View
by Chewie (movies profile)
Mar 28, 2008
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If you weren’t old enough to see movies and understand them back in 1984, this may seem like a pretty good movie. If, on the other hand, you were old enough, then you will see this movie for what it is: an updated version of “Karate Kid”, a much better film.
Before seeing this, I looked up the movie and read the plot, and that was the first thought that ran through my head; seeing it only proved it. By the time the movie was over, I counted at least 13 similarities between the two films, and yet nowhere did I see any credit given to the original writers. Shouldn’t they be suing for plagiarism?
1 Poor kid is star
2 Moves out to a coastal city
3 Meets pretty girl
4 Pretty girl is attached to jerk boyfriend
5 Jerk boyfriend is local fighting champ
5a 2 years running no less
6 Poor kid knows a little about fighting
7 Gets into fight with jerk boyfriend and gets
beat
7a Local rep takes serious nosedive
8 Meets up with a teacher in the same style as
jerk boyfriend
8a Teacher is foreign born
8b Teacher has experienced great personal
loss
9 Poor kid and girl have tiff
9a They get back together after he apologizes
for being a jerk to her
10 While jerk boyfriend is good fighter, has bad
focus
11 Poor kid and jerk boyfriend face off in
tournament jerk boyfriend is champion of
12 In the tournament, poor kid suffers a
serious injury
13 Poor kid wins anyway and earns jerk
boyfriend’s respect
There are some other plot holes which stretch the credibility of this movie even further. The main villain is in good shape, as he walks around half the movie with no shirt on, revealing some well-defined abs. I find it awfully hard to believe that a high school kid could achieve something like that.
The other plot hole which also made me scratch my head was the death of the lead character’s father. He got drunk at a bar, got behind the wheel and wrapped his car around the tree. The lead was with him and I was wondering, “What is a high school kid doing at a bar? Do they check IDs any more?”
And another thing: what are high school kids doing participating in full-contact fighting tournaments? Isn’t there some kind of law against that?
The one good thing I did like about the movie was the villain. He had a whole smug attitude which came off as highly believable. But still, that isn’t nearly enough to make up for this rip-off. I’m just glad this was a sneak preview so I didn’t have to pay to see this. |
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