In New York City, a young man searches for the "master" to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the glow.
Director: Michael Schultz
Stars: Taimak, Vanity, Christopher Murney, Julius Carry.
Dwight Baxter ... assistant to choreographer
Lawrence R. Leritz ... choreographer: Fire production number
Torrance Mathis ... choreographer: martial arts movements
Ernie Reyes Sr. ... choreographer: martial arts movements
Ron Van Clief ... choreographer: martial arts movements
Lester Wilson ... choreographer
Watched online, ok print.
21 songs in the Soundtracks, most in the score.
I never would have watched this except that Berry Gordy put his name over the title.
Although I like to see men move gracefully, martial arts doesn't seem to qualify. Especially since they might be flying via wires.
Handsome lead Taimak has plenty of martial arts cred (per his IMDb bio).
An excerpt (or 2?) of Bruce Lee movie(s) are included. Enter the Dragon ('73) was mentioned during a clip.
Julius Carry is familiar when he's not grimacing (which as the baddy, he almost always is.) From his credits, I'm guessing part of my knowing him is from a string of 5 Murphy Brown ('92-6) episodes as the same character, and other TV work.
Plenty of IMDb raters like this: average 6.9 with almost 11k votes.
This is not extremely bad, it's just not my thing. Although I found the light effects when both Taimak and JC found their own greater inner strength to be very cartoony, ala TV's Batman ('66-8), although they didn't overlay any words onscreen.
We're firmly into the 80's big-hair era.
Vanity (not the same actress as Apollonia, but was supposed to play that role in Purple Rain ('84)) sings at least once, and has a music video show, hence the Music genre for this film. I wouldn't nominate it for that, but it probably does qualify.
Avoid.
Motown Prod. & more, distr. TriStar, dir. Schultz; 5
