Kung Fu

The first episode was promising but after that it went down hill. It's not a good action series.

As a Chinese who grow up with Kung Fu movie, action movie with martial art are too violent in this day. And violence seems to be the only thing they know.

But Kung Fu (not this show) is not about how to end the fight with violence. It's about to show who the character is between the fight. Therefore I give this show a 70/100. It cares about the character, and that's good enough for me.

Also, it it has a good story to remind me those day that Kung Fu movie entertain the viewer, not to use violence to compress them in the chair. I love to see what's coming next.

After watching the pilot, I must say I had higher hopes. This is aimed at a young audience, more pre-teen than young adult, but for that genre, it's a decent watch. I had hoped it would be a contemporary spin on the original series, but, then again, I was a young teen when I was a fan of it, so maybe it is the same audience. The plot is simplistic, the fights are engaging, it will appeal to young Asian viewers, and, despite the dumbing down of some of the dialogue, I'm going to give it a passing grade. I give this series a 6 (fair) out of 10. {Action Adventure}

No surprise at all, the biggest revelation so far is the stupidity of many "reviewers" on IMDb who don't have a clue how to actually review a TV program or movie. Their only objective is to try to trash it.

Why do we watch a show on TV? To be entertained. I really enjoyed the old Kung Fu show, but it was totally, yes totally, different from this one. So far after three episodes I have enjoyed this new TV series enough. But I decided to quit watching it simply because I have a certain amount of "viewing time" and this TV show doesn't give me that "I wonder what will happen next week" excitement. However it is a reasonably entertaining show that doesn't deserve the very harsh criticism from some quarters.

Comparing it to an old, totally different show has no merit. But then a few here on IMDb have no clue how to actually review anything.

Kung Fu and Kung Fu: The Legend Continues were interesting primarily because there was this one outsider, Cain, with a strong moral code about being kind to others, but who didn't really understand the world around him especially well. Cain would always zero in on some simple truth or flaw that lied at the heart of the episode's conflict, and explain what this was with an outsider's wisdom.

In this version, the new Cain, Nicky, is not an outsider at all. In the first episode, she returns to her childhood home to live with her large family and catch up with her friends. There is no real reason her perspective should be much different to that of the others, and it really isn't in any significant way. She's just a woman who fights well, occasionally with mild superpowers like in the original. The end result is something that's barely different to any other procedural with some mystical MacGuffins thrown in, and it's so very dull.