Fighters moved with near-superhuman precision, but the gritty authenticity that made the best fight in Cobra Kai resonate was gone. It looked cool, but it didn’t feel earned.

However, he may be best known for playing Kreese, the leader of the Cobra Kai dojo in 1984’s “The Karate Kid” and its sequels, as well as the recent “Cobra Kai” series on Netflix.