The Golden Child (1986)

Silly but enjoyable adventure-comedy starring Eddie Murphy as the “chosen one”, who must save the Tibetan child whose fate determines the future of mankind. Charles Dance plays the shape-shifting demon baddie and Charlotte Lewis plays the appealingly understated Kee Nang, who has remarkable powers of her own and who Murphy falls in love with. 

The plot is thin indeed – a quest for the mystical Ajanti Dagger, which can defeat evil – but that’s not really the point. It’s a good-natured romp with a few (but not enough) laughs. As with Coming to America, the scenes featuring Eddie Murphy are dynamite. He’s incredibly watchable. All the rest is a daft contrivance that you tolerate to get to the next scene he appears in.