The Last Dragon

Name: The Last Dragon
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport, Comedy, Music
Released: March 22, 1985
Duration: 109 min
Rating: 58
Cast: Christopher Murney, Ernie Reyes Jr., Faith Prince, Glen Eaton, Jim Moody

1985

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Columbia Films | Release Date: March 22, 1985 | PG-13

Starring: Christopher Murney, Ernie Reyes Jr., Faith Prince, Glen Eaton, Jim Moody, Julius Carry, Leo O'Brien, Mike Starr, Taimak, Vanity

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.

Director: Michael Schultz

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Sport, Comedy, Music

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 109 min

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Gene Siskel

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. Read full review

Paul Attanasio

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. Read full review

Jeffrey Ressner

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. Read full review

Laurie Horn

The Last Dragon doesn't aim to be more than it is -- a good funny Afro-Japanese-American-hi tech-martial arts- archetypal-fairy tale. But that's something. [30 Mar 1985, p.D7]

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

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. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

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. Read full review

Janet Maslin

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. Read full review

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