FlashCallahan a young man, who is obsessed with Martial Arts and chopping arrows in half, searches for the "master" to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the glow. But firstly, he must fight an evil martial arts expert , who influenced Busta Rhymes, and rescue a beautiful singer from an obsessed music promoter......This could have been a fun, video game style romp, but due to the deplorable acting from Taimak, and arguably, all of the cast, it turns into an ordeal, very, very quickly.In some ways, it's trying to be a camp 'blaxploitation' movie, but the characters are so typecast and one dimensional, it fails hugely.Like the other unique Martial Arts movie released around the same time 'Gymkata' it tries to be too ahead of its time, but the outfits and the admittedly brilliant soundtrack hinder it from the word go.It goes for comedy, but instead of making it a spoof of martial arts and Blaxploitation films ala I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, it goes for straight comedy, and when you have characters like Sho'Nuff, it just doesn't work.All in all, its a bad movie, but I can understand the love for it. Because the cast must have loving families.At least DeBarge are good.

mrscallop This movie, along with one or two more on this list, fall into a category that will only be appreciated by certain people. I'll be blunt, if you like martial arts movies, like myself, you'll definitely like this movie. If you have an affinity for Bruce Lee, like myself, you'll love this movie. Taimak plays a kung fu student searching for the final level to become a master while also falling for a popular singer and having to save her life. Simple enough but there's so much to this movie that brings you in. Like I said, if you understand and appreciate martial arts and know some of the Chinese culture on it, this movie does it justice in an 80's urban kind of way. Kung fu is seen in a different light with street familiarity and a hip hop vibe. Its ridiculousness somehow fits into the world of martial arts and main stream urban hip hop simultaneously and has to be nothing short of appreciated by anyone that enjoys movies of the genre. I mean, being tied from head to toe and getting out by break dancing can only work in this movie. Two guys glowing a la Dragonball Z while fighting works beautifully in this movie. Taimak, a black adolescent with a normal black family who dresses and acts like a China man can only work in this movie. The fighting scenes are great and the bad guys look like they popped out of a video game reminiscent of Mortal Kombat. A great, great watch that makes you wonder what happened to Julius Carry, I mean, before he died in 2008?

ElijahCSkuggs For some dumb reason or another I never watched this flick. Not only that, I never even heard of it. I guess you are what you watch, really. My friends, my family, they were all Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, Mortal Kombat, Van Damme fans, so I'm guessing saturating ourselves in that action was enough for us to keep a blind eye towards any other films on the video racks. But the sweet thing, it gave me a chance. And now I'm the baddest! But not as bad as the Harlem Shogun. No way.'Bruce' Leroy Green is a student of the martial arts variety. But his arch nemesis, Sho'nuff, is a student the badass variety! And he's also the self-proclaimed Shogun of Harlem! If I was Leroy I would've packed suit and got the hell outta Dodge! Dodge-Harlem, that is. Anyways, Leroy's got more testicular fortitude than your boy, so he continues on his self-improving journey, which unfortunately gets his family in trouble along the way. And to make matters worse, some flirty, eye-lash batting, cutey-pants, TV singing, dancer star is having problems with some greedy, evil bigwig! And of course, it's only up to Bruce Leroy to put an end to that as well. But can he? He can't glow if he can't find Sum Dumb Gai. If you're a little confused about what I'm trying to tell you...you should be. You should also be ashamed in yourself that you haven't seen this movie yet. Sho'nuff!! The Last Dragon is absolutely, without a doubt, sho'nuff, a classic 80's flick. It's got the cheese, which is almost carried entirely by our lead actor who plays Bruce Leroy Green. It's got the martial arts action, the dazzling dance moves, the bodacious beats, and of course, ya got the Shogun of Harlem himself being the baddest mofo around! If you have a difficult time finding the entertainment in this flick, you're a fool! A damn fool! Sho'nuff!!

smokecombs This movie is cheesy, it's very "kiddy-like", but it's also fairly innocent (a lead character who is a true hero, not the current anti-hero) and it also happens to be great. They rarely make movies like this anymore and if they do they don't get rented or watched because there isn't T and A or a bunch of foul language etc..Bruce Leroy and "ShoNuff" are classic immortal characters. They both went on to do some more acting but it's kind of a pity they didn't get more mainstream lead roles or make a sequel to this movie. The action sequences in this movie were great for there time and for their target audience of probably a slightly younger aged person. The buildup to the final fight is one of the great things about the movie. The training and the fact that the lead character, Bruce Leroy is a huge Bruce Lee fan and trains constantly and watches old Kung Fu to make him better really add to the movie. It isn't the best martial arts action ever but something about it just meshes perfectly with the story and the overall feel of the movie. I would rate the overall action scenes combined with a great final fighting scene as a 8 of 10.The acting for the movie is pretty decent for all the fairly young kids that are acting. The lead villain, ShoNuff is fantastically over the top in this movie. It hurts my eyes just trying to squint like he did for 30 seconds to give him that look that he did the entire movie. The acting was far better than a lot of younger actors I've seen in movies and TV (such as Power Rangers) in this genre. The lead female in the movie was adequate in her acting, and the hero, Bruce Leroy was just slightly good, but there are lots of supporting actors that add a comic element to this movie, sometimes it's ridiculous but it's still hilarious. Bruce Leroy's little brother cracks me up. As for the lead actress, Vanity (AKA Denise Katrina Matthews) she was adequate in her role as far as acting but she is one of the most gorgeous women I've seen. I mean she has rare classic beauty and it's a shame she didn't get more roles, or at least that I've seen her in.The story is really good. Maybe not so much the story but just how the overall acting went perfectly with the story and the action and for the audience the movie targeted. I was around 11 or 12 when the movie came out and maybe I'm having a little nostalgia but I can still watch this movie to day and enjoy the heck out of it. Really fun, cute story with a hilarious over the top villain.Action 8Acting for its genre 8Acting for all genres 6Story 9Overall I gave this a 10 In closing, I may have an overall ranking that is too high, but I think that right now the 6.2 is too low and want to help bring it up. This movie is an action movie with violence yet it has an innocence about it, yet it's still fun and thrilling. The ending fight scene and the classic lines at the end and just how it all carries out in the movie still almost gives me goose bumps, it's like Superman taking on General Zodd and those guys, just an epic battle. I think it may be sort of a cult classic but I think I could recommend this to anyone and not feel guilty about it. If more movies were made like this today with today's technology then we could maybe let our kids see what good viewing really was. I say just buy this movie if you find it for a good deal anywhere. If you haven't saw it buy it for you and your kids, it's a great family movie to watch with kids who like stuff like power rangers and things, probably from 8 to 12 years old or so, and all adults.Worth a rental: For dang sure! Buy it full price: I would Buy it on DVD for under $10: ShoNUFF!!