The remake moves the action and the fatherless undersized hero to Beijing (“It’s not karate, Mom!” “Okay, kung fu, karate, whatever”), where it seems less wonderful that the apartment-house handyman is a martial-arts master. Especially when the handyman is played by Jackie Chan, lying low. The underdog regimen, on a crash-course schedule, supplies the expected kicks, tidbits of Eastern esoterica (“Being still and doing nothing are two very different things”), and a lot of tedium in between. With Jaden Smith, Taraji P. Henson, Wenwen Han; directed by Harald Zwart. (2010) — Duncan Shepherd
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