India, May 30 -- As the opening credits for Karate Kid: Legends begin, you can already see the climax. It is the story of a kid who is bullied and must fight boys stronger than him. In the process, he meets a wise master (or two) and learns martial arts, and eventually comes of age. That is what every Karate Kid film has been about for the last 40 years. But it has largely worked. What makes Legends so irksome is that not only do you know what is going to happen, you can accurately predict exactly how it is going to go down, right down to the dialogue most characters will mouth. It is just so predictable, formulaic, and cliched. Meant as a movie to evoke nostalgia with its throwbacks to the original film, Karate Kid: Legends only ends up ...
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