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The Last Dragon
A young man searches for the "master" to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the glow. Along the way he must fight an evil martial arts expert and rescue a beautiful singer from an obsessed music promoter.
Release : | 1985 |
Rating : | 6.8 |
Studio : | TriStar Pictures, Motown Productions, Tri-Star-Delphi III Productions, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Production Design, |
Cast : | Taimak Julius Carry Vanity Christopher Murney Faith Prince |
Genre : | Adventure Action Music |
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I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Slow pace in the most part of the movie.
what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
A super-cheesy US fight flick which has an unserious comic book-style atmosphere to it, along the lines of BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA or THE GOLDEN CHILD maybe, but with less fantasy. Watching this film is one huge dated experience, as every second is filled with bad '80s music, bad '80s fashions and some really REALLY cheesy bad guys dressed in ski masks. In fact I am halfway convinced that they went out of their way to make this film as cheesy as possible. Whatever the reasons, I didn't enjoy this film too much, due to the fact that there are far too many extraneous characters in the plot, too much comedy and not enough violence, far too much sitting around and talking in place of action, and far too long a running time to retain the interest. I counted only two martial arts fights in the entire movie until the finale, when predictably everything goes into overload, and the bits in between are pretty much boring. The film doesn't know whether it wants to be a blaxploitation movie, a comedy or a thriller and the different plot elements just do not gel.The acting is weak from an unmemorable cast, aside from a tiny role for William H. Macy if you keep your eyes peeled. Taimak is muscular but seems vain in the leading role and the bad guys are just bad over actors all the while. On the plus side, there are lots and lots of clips from different Bruce Lee movies to enjoy and some fairly decent fighting at the end of the film, although I could have done with less of the Chinese kid who just appears and starts kicking backside all the while. The final fight in the film is truly bizarre, as the two fighters suddenly start giving off different coloured auras and zapping each other with some of those cheesy computer effects I hate. Why the film becomes an out-and-out fantasy with superhuman fighters at this point I just do not know, as the scene is at odds with the realism of the rest of the movie and just doesn't make sense.
Taimak, Vanity, Julius Carry, Christopher Murney, Mike Starr and Faith Prince star in this 1985 action film. This tells the story of young martial artist, Leroy Green (Taimak) who seeks a master to obtain the final level, "The Glow." On his quest, he faces a fighter, Sho'Nuff (Carry) known as the Showgun of Harlem and his thugs. Leroy also finds romance with a beautiful music DJ, Laura Charles (Vanity) and also faces ruthless businessman, Eddie Arkadian (Murney) after saving her from him. Starr plays Arkadian's right-hand man, Rock, Prince plays Arkadian's former girlfriend & singer, Angela and real-life martial artist, Ernie Reyes, Jr. is also featured as Tai. I grew up watching this film and always liked it. It's got a great cast, especially Carry and Murney and it's another classic of the 80's I recommend.
I love this film, and although I haven't seen it in years it is one of my all time favourites. Sho'nuff was great and Leroy outstanding, both delivering tongue in cheek performances that make this movie what it is, a comedy kung fu classic! I will watch the remake if they do actually go ahead with it, I will enjoy it of that I am sure, but re-makes rarely capture the essence of the original, maybe because of flashy modern effects that the original didn't rely on or big stars who want to put their own stamp on the role. Hopefully they are after re-making it for other reasons than just making money from a loyal fan base. PS Is anyone else just a little gutted that Sho'nuff actor Julius Carry has passed away!!
This is a movie I LOVED as a kid. I probably watched my VHS copy twenty or thirty times and have very fond memories. However, it's one of those movies that when you watch it as an adult, you wonder "what the hell did I like about this"? Vanity is still super-hot in this, but everything else is worse than I remember. IMDb says $10m budget, so the film loses a lot of points for that. It's a B-movie with a studio budget and that's unforgivable. At a million bucks, I'd give the film a 7 or 8 our out of ten. The gags aren't funny, the writing is silly in parts and the characters are over the top (by design, I would suspect), but maybe the teen set was the only audience really targeted and they probably would still have fun with it.