Just because I knew at 11 years old that Karate Kid III was bad, it didn’t mean the movie was all that bad. I sat down to rewatch it, open to the idea that the movie might be better than I remember. God, how I wish that had been the case.

But with boyish charms and youthful energy, it's easy to forget that Wang isn't a kung fu wunderkind like he appears in Karate Kid: Legends."I feel a privilege," Wang told me over Zoom last week, just before Legends debuted in cinemas this past Friday.

Legends before we even knew what Karate Kid: Legends was. The film was announced in 2022 but it took more than a year after that for the news to break that both Ralph Macchio and Jackie Chan would star,