The Last Dragon (1985)
Shat the Movies: 80's & 90's Best Film Review
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4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
This week, Shat The Movies enters the world of Harlem kung fu, Motown soundtracks, and glowing fists with 1985’s The Last Dragon.
Commissioned by listener Daylen, this mashup of martial arts flicks and music videos introduced audiences to Bruce Leroy, the Shogun of Harlem and one of the wildest cult classics of the ’80s. But does its mix of camp and kung fu still shine today, or is it just a guilty pleasure best left in the VHS era?
Gene and Big D debate whether Taimak was an underrated action star or just a wooden lead propped up by Vanity’s charisma.
The Shat Crew relives Sho’nuff’s scene-stealing swagger, the bizarre Eddie Arkadian subplot and a soundtrack so strong it sometimes overshadows the movie itself.
Along the way, Dick and Gene marvel at the glowing special effects, question if Leroy’s innocence makes him endearing or frustrating and admit that this might be the most “1985” movie ever made.
Is The Last Dragon a true martial arts masterpiece with soul or just Motown’s strangest experiment? Who’s the master? Sho’nuff!
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| 0:00.0 | I feel like I could beat 15 to 20, well-trained 8 to 9-year-old children. |
| 0:06.3 | I would pick them up by a foot, one of them, and I would use as a weapon. |
| 0:09.8 | And I would swing that kid around to hit the other kids. |
| 0:14.1 | Remember when we first met John McLean? |
| 0:17.0 | Our God picked him up from the plane And took him down the Nakatomi Tower |
| 0:22.0 | At the Christmas party |
| 0:24.1 | And the terrorists were overzealous |
| 0:26.8 | But it was sweet when they killed Ellis |
| 0:29.7 | And with a little elf from Allen |
| 0:32.1 | John McClain kicked us |
| 0:34.4 | We're gonna die |
| 0:35.4 | Die die die die |
| 0:37.4 | Hard Hey my man What it looked like Gene tonight's kick dance we're going to die die die hard |
| 0:38.1 | hey my man what it looked like jean tonight's commission comes from |
| 0:42.8 | dayland d and daylin has commissioned four films uh so this is number two and four the other ones |
| 0:51.0 | he did three kings twins is coming up coming up. Apollo 13. And tonight's film, Gene, |
| 0:58.1 | it is where Kung Fu meets music, video mayhem, and glowing power quests for self-worth and shoulder |
| 1:05.5 | moves. So in the math here, let's think, Enter the dragon plus Purple Rain times Scott Pilgrim versus the |
| 1:12.9 | world or karate kid times flash dance plus coming to America with num chucks or I'll give you a third |
| 1:20.8 | one. This is rare. Shaft plus big trouble little China divided Logic Times, Showtime at the Apollo. |
| 1:28.4 | And that can leave only one film Gene for Dalyand. |
| 1:30.9 | He requested us to commission the 1985 American musical martial arts film, The Last Dragon. |
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