just because "the kid in cornrows" is Will Smith's son doesn't make this any more than what it is (or less I guess). I don't doubt it'll make money and Will Smith will continue his streak of summer blockbusters. I really have no problem with Smith and have liked most of his movies, but producing his own kid in a movie is a very uncompelling reason to get me to pay money for a remake of an OK movie that spawned some really bad sequels.

and yeah Wooch, it isn't just in China that where the public cares to differentiate Chinese from Japanese culture. I'm friends with a Japanese-American who feels slighted that we now have a movie that reminds him of how insistant western culture is on homogenizing all the different Asian cultures into one convenient lump. I've also heard a couple of Chinese college students express as much. To an extent, its a slight towards the American movie audience because it suggests we're too stupid to know its a remake of an older movie and that we need brand recognition to figure it out.