Very Cool!!!

It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Another bucket list movie which I never watched when it first came out. Coming from the mind of Berry Gordy & director Michael Schultz (Car Wash/Cooley High) this camp tale of a Bruce Lee wannabe (hell his name is Bruce Leroy) is on a mission to find out what his purpose in life is whilst fighting bad guys & protecting a video vixen (the late, great Vanity). It's hard to take this film seriously when it screams camp from the first reel but hey people really love this film. Look out for Keshia Knight Pulliam (Rudy from the Cosby Show), Chazz Palminteri & William H. Macy (billed as W.H. Macy) all in early roles. Taimak where are you?

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.

Needless to say, this movie is incredibly cheesy. But it's also deceptively clever at times, and if you just go with it, it's a lot of fun.Leads Taimak and Vanity (yes, they each have only one name) are surrounded by a talented and colorful supporting cast, allowing them to do what they do best; look good (and in the case of Taimak) kick a lot of butt.It's sort of a mash-up of two of the most prominent b-movie genres of the 70s; Blaxploitation and Kung-Fu. But it's the 80s, so there's pop music and it has a happy ending.

This martial arts movie is a true gem of the 80's. Lot's of magic, moves, and music to go along in the movie. The 70's was big with blaxportation. If you think "Black Belt Jones" was bad, you haven't seen anything, yet. In the movie "The Last Dragon", "Bruce" Leroy Green(Taimak) was a real bad cat. He idolizes Bruce Lee aka "The Dragon". He is so into his art that he pays little attention to the world. He would later help out a DJ named Laura Charles(Vanity) whom his brother has a thing for her. The one thing getting in his way of find the glow is a bully black belt named Sho'nuff(Julius Carry, 1952-2008). This martial artist is all bully and brawn and very little brain. He thinks he's all bad. But he's really all mouth! Another problem is is this shady promoter named Eddie Arkadian(Christopher Murney). He likes to give people opportunity, but the real deal is himself. The fight scenes are cool, the dancing everyone does is hot, and the videos are something else: DeBarge's "Rhythm of the Night" is tops. Great movie, great plot, Berry Gordy's film is a real gem! 4 out of 5 stars!