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The Last Dragon (1985)

PG-13 Mar 22, 1985 Action, Adventure, Music, Comedy, Drama 1h 49m
User Score
64%
262 votes
Internet Movie Database
68%
Rotten Tomatoes
57%
Metacritic
5800%

His family thinks he's crazy. His enemies think he's no challenge. But she knows he's THE LAST DRAGON.

Overview

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.

Michael Schultz
Director

Top Billed Cast

Taimak
Taimak

Leroy Green
Vanity
Vanity

Laura Charles
Christopher Murney
Christopher Murney

Eddie Arkadian
Julius Carry
Julius Carry

Sho'nuff / The Shogun of Harlem
Faith Prince
Faith Prince

Angela Viracco
Leo O'Brien
Leo O'Brien

Richie Green
Mike Starr
Mike Starr

Rock
Jim Moody
Jim Moody

Daddy Green
Glen Eaton
Glen Eaton

Johnny Yu

Full Cast & Crew

Media

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Modern Trailer
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Official Trailer
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Reviews

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A review by GenerationofSwine
Written on January 14, 2023

With "The Last Dragon" it really depends on when you saw it. If you saw it as a child in the 80s, well, it's crazy good. It's Chinatown excellent. It's one of the most beloved movies of your childhood and it lingers into your adult years with a heavy dose of nostalgia.

Honestly though, if you are walking into it now...it's a bit dated and in the cheesiest possible way. But then, even in the 80s it was trying hard to be cheesy, just, unlike it's peers, some of the cheese didn't age well.

Fortunately though, it holds it's own in that little notch, the Black-Fu subgenre of blacksploitation, and it holds its own in the funnest possible way.

The Bad Guys are over-the-top and hysterically so. The hero is brilliantly naive and pulls off the wang chung with an ease that is convincing for ...

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