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- 1985
- PG-13
- TriStar Pictures
- 1 h 49 m
- 1985
- PG-13
- TriStar Pictures
- 1 h 49 m
Summary In New York City, a young man searches for a Master to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the Glow.
Directed By: Michael Schultz
Written By: Louis Venosta
- 1985
- PG-13
- TriStar Pictures
- 1 h 49 m
- 1985
- PG-13
- TriStar Pictures
- 1 h 49 m
The Last Dragon
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Summary In New York City, a young man searches for a Master to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the Glow.
Directed By: Michael Schultz
Written By: Louis Venosta
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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63% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
25% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
13% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
58
63% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
25% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
13% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
The new martial-arts picture The Last Dragon is first and foremost a romantic comedy, and a very sweet one at that, and that's why it's martial-arts combat scenes work so well. We've been given enough time to care about who's kicking the stuffing out of whom.
An intoxicating blend of comedy, kung fu, corny romance, special effects and rock videos, it's as electrically sleepless as the New York it's set against.
Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon is a fun, frisky R&B/pop musical with touches of such recent hits as Purple Rain and The Karate Kid, but heavily sugar-coated with the glossy style of video music-movies like Flashdance and Footloose.
Take out the gangsters, pump up the Shogun role, give Taimak and Vanity a little more screen time, and you'd have a great entertainment instead of simply a great near-miss.
An enjoyable pastiche of martial arts, romance, music, and video, THE LAST DRAGON presents a likable young hero, Leroy (Taimak), who aspires to become a kung fu master.
The juxtaposition of head-spinning break dancing and mild martial arts (in which the fighters glow to show their level of mental attainment and nobody gets badly hurt) provides lots of whirling limbs, but the working into the storyline of a crook who wants to take over the nightclub to provide valuable exposure for his aspirant rock-goddess girlfriend seems lame indeed.
Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon is a multimedia movie of sorts, designed for those who can't bear the monotony of only one thought or sound or activity at a time.
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Production Company
Delphi III Productions,
Motown Productions,
TriStar Pictures
Release Date Mar 22, 1985
Duration 1 h 49 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline He's a martial arts master who refuses to fight. He's a Bruce Lee fan who's so sure he's Oriental that he eats popcorn with chopsticks. His friends think he's too serious. His family thinks he's crazy. His enemies think he's no challenge. But she knows he's The Last Dragon.
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Razzie Awards
• 2 Nominations
