For months I have heard about the pos­si­ble remake of The Karate Kid, and I said to myself, “the plot is sim­ple and to the point, so the odds of get­ting it wrong are slim”. Sadly, I was mis­taken with that assess­ment. The basic premise goes as fol­lows: Sin­gle mom and son move to new home — son has trou­ble fit­ting in — son takes...