Ralph Macchio’s latest Karate Child film is now a worldwide streaming success following its record-breaking viewers rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Macchio has been concerned within the Karate Child franchise because the starting, from portraying the protagonist of the primary film to coming again within the forged of Cobra Kai. His presence has been essential all through the sequence’ prolonged historical past.
His newest look was in 2025’s Karate Child: Legends, the place he teamed up with Jackie Chan’s Mr. Han to coach Li Fong (Ben Wang), a brand new karate prodigy. The film acquired combined opinions from critics, sitting at 58% on Rotten Tomatoes. Nonetheless, its viewers rating on the location sits at 90%, the best for any film within the sequence.
Now, FlixPatrol studies that Karate Child: Legends has turn out to be the Quantity 5 film on HBO Max worldwide as of January 12, 2026. The film is #1 in 13 nations as nicely, these being Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia, whereas sitting at Quantity 4 in Poland.
Karate Child: Legends‘ worldwide launch on HBO Max is what allowed it to skyrocket to the highest in these areas, making it one of many platform’s hottest films on a worldwide scale this week. Nonetheless, the movie is not out there on HBO Max within the US. As an alternative, it is on Netflix for subscribers who’ve ad-free plans.
The film serves as a follow-up to the tip of Cobra Kai and the 2010 revival starring Chan and Jaden Smith. It tells a brand new story within the universe that retains Macchio’s character on the forefront whereas additionally emphasizing the subsequent technology in Li. It serves as a coming-of-age story very similar to the primary movie within the sequence, with martial arts as its lens.
The multitude of #1 spots the film has earned reveals how nicely its regional success has been going. Although the most recent entry within the franchise wasn’t successful with critics, its viewers rating and subsequent streaming success reveals there’s nonetheless loads of love for the sequence. What its future holds, although, nonetheless stays to be seen.
For now, it appears the most recent Karate Child film will proceed to take pleasure in its streaming success on HBO Max, with the movie having launched in most nations the place it is succeeding late final week. It makes for a robust chance that it will maintain rising in success for the foreseeable future because it earns renewed consideration internationally.
- Launch Date
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Might 30, 2025
- Runtime
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94 minutes
- Director
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Jonathan Entwistle
- Writers
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Rob Lieber, Robert Mark Kamen, Christopher Murphey