It's a cute and sweet movie. Different enough from the others, you also have a new lead, a young but already good Swank. Pat Morita is great as always. Julie's journey is nice, especially since we have different locations and scenarios, the monastery scenes are really good. You can feel there is a good heart.

This is not a masterpiece by any means but I would say it’s better than the awful reviews it’s got. Have to say the story didn’t really go anywhere or interest me but there were still some fun scenes which made it at least watchable. The main cast aren’t that great or interesting and the villains were pretty lame tbh like a Temu version of kreese and Johnny. Of course Mr Miyagi was the best part as always him and the Monks was quite funny going bowling 😅 just random but fun the scenes with monks was strange but they were funny. Julie wasn’t a great main lead character tbh she did grow on me towards the end but still no Daniel. Overall nowhere near as bad as I thought it would be but nothing special just average.

Worth it for the scene of the Buddhist monks hijacking Julie's practice session to do an improvised, synchronized karate/dance routine, to The Cranberries' "Dreams". Also: Tha God Laslo Kovacs shot this. The long shot of Julie in the field of lavender flowers is some Absolute Cinema level shit. The worst part of this movie is the fight scenes. They're shot too close & rough.

Another try , this time with a girl. The steam is though gone from the franchise and the movie is just a weak shadow of the original. For fans only.