The Last Dragon Fully Reviewed
The Last Dragon is a film that was produced by Motown Records in the mid eighties as a sort of a Kung Fu comedy flick. It was really meant to promote some music from the company like Oh Sheila, but the flick has actually stood the test of time as one of the all time must download movies of the eighties. It’s a lot of fun, it’s kind of corny, and it works as an action movie.
The movie follows a young martial artist nicknamed Bruce Leroy as he teaches the kids at the local dojo and works at his father’s pizza parlor, delivering pies on foot throughout Harlem. He also tries to maintain his composure while dealing with hsi rival, Sho’Nuff, the Shogun of Harlem… Yep. Sho’Nuff… He’s the Shogun of Harlem, you see.
He really is a great character. Maybe one of the all time classic comedy movie villains. He’s colorful, ridiculous, short tempered and always funny. He wears visor sunglasses (You know, the ones that look like horizontal blinds), as well as shoulder pads, hakama (the baggy pants you always see in samurai films), and a top knot/Rick James kind of hair style. It’s just plain hilarious watching him come on screen. He always starts with his big introductory piece, demanding that his lackeys affirm his meanness, badness and prettiness before engaging in any business.
The only downside to the movie is the comparatively less interesting subplot revolving around a really, really awful Cyndi Lauper style singer and her manager/boyfriend who’s trying to get her some airtime on a local music show, produced and hosted by Bruce Leroy’s would-be-lover. This subplot isn’t the most interesting part of the film, but fortunately it’s not a main focus.
And of course, it does pay off in the end when the manager hires all the baddest dudes in the city to have it out with Bruce Leroy and his students. These “bad dudes” include a big fat old white guy with a Mister T Mohawk and an all gold one piece suit… Yep, real bad dudes, these guys.
There are also some really fun, corny moments along the way. At one point, Leroy tries to seek wisdom from the guy who writes the fortune cookies at the local Chinese restaurant, only to find that they’re written by a computer. Therein he finds that zen wisdom of emptiness and being.
Perhaps the movie might have been better without the relatively uninteresting subplot. After all, you just came for the kung fu, right? But nevertheless, it still remains a classic of its genre, and one of the few films to successfully spoof kung fu movies and honor them at the same time. It’s really a lot of fun, with just enough corny eighties style goofiness to make it one of the all time classic eighties comedies.
So it’s exciting, it’s funny, and it has all the goofiness and colorful style you want from an eighties movie. Give it a download.
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