One of my favourite childhood games gets the typical nineties Hollywood makeover and only just entertains for all the wrong reasons!Set in the future, well, if our year of 2007 really turned out like this, in the city of New Angeles. With vehicles powered by burning rubbish, police curfews, buildings held up by jacks, and lots of colourful clothes and bad jeans, we enter the god awful world of James Yukich's Double Dragon.In a nutshell - Embarrassing acting from most cast members, all but Dacascos, Wolf and Nickson, that only adds to the unintentional humour, terrible make-up, costumes and direction. Its only saving grace is its two gorgeous leading men who give us some decent fight scenes and a number of funny enough one liners!In my opinion - Hollywood, oh Hollywood... For many years you have astounded us with your inability to chose directors that know what they are doing, that suit the project in action, or generally just can't stop ruining great things! Taking a documentary film maker and handing him one of the ultimate and most popular games of that time, should have been the first sign to the studio fat cats that this was going to be as much of a success as the previous years, Super Mario Bros.Haunted by that typical mid nineties costume department that helped make a lot of then films look naff, there is pretty much nothing in this 90 minutes of madness that stays true to the game. Every extra looks ridiculous and is annoying as hell, with most of it playing out like some bastard child from a Power Rangers episode!Is there anything good in Double Dragon I hear you ask? Well, yes if I'm honest. Both its leading men are absolutely gorgeous and perfect leading men material for such a film. They probably act the best out of everyone, and Scott manages to hold his own in the fight scenes alongside the always incredible Mark Dacascos. It is only a shame though that Hollywood executives thought this would be the best film to introduce Mark as a leading man, instead of his classic Crying Freeman which went unreleased in the US for many years!Double Dragon has its moments. It just makes me so angry to see such a great thing wasted, and another case of what could have been if it was in the right hands. In one scene, the spinach feeding scene, the actor in terrible make-up states, 'I'm not acting...'Never a truer word said.

The most fascinating aspect of the human brain is memory. For instance having seen this movie, my brain did not remember what I saw. I would have to watch this piece of sh*t movie again in order to access those memories. Do you think I would go through the effort to remember? No, I would not. If you have seen The Doubled Dragoons then you know why I am never going to try to see this movie again. On a personal note, I like to thank my brain for forgetting. I don't need to remember this movie or what happens, its my gift to myself. Now, let's spend the remaining characters required for a submission talking about something pleasant like pizza. I like pepperoni, it's classic, if I could only eat one kind of pizza for the rest of my life, it's pepperoni.

In the years following the great Los Angeles earthquake, two orphans are raised and trained in martial arts by Satori, who also happens to be the caretaker of one half of a magic amulet.When the evil Koga Shuko finds the other half, he immediately goes on the attack to take Satori's piece and claim the power contained within the amulet.Only Satori's two boys, Billy and Jimmy, can stop Koga from reaching his goal.....The video game was simple, walk from left to right and beat up anything in sight. It was fun and provided many hours of entertainment on my holidays.22 years later, and i finally get to see the movie. i'm a fan of dodgy movies, especially video game movies, because they provide entertainment, even though they are poor.But hands down, this is the worst video game adaptation I have ever seen. The saving grace here is Patrick, at least he puts in something of a performance when he isn't turning into a piece of folding paper.The two leads are awful, plain bad. If you thought Ryu and Ken were bad in streetfighter, they are like Pacino and De Niro in Heat compared to these two.There's not enough action in this, no references to the game, and all the humour is laid on too thick to be funny.If you like bad movies that are really bad, then give this one a whirl. It's no surprise that this has never been on TV in the UK.

Mark Dacascos and Scott Wolf star as Jimmy and Billy Lee, two brothers who join forces to keep a magic medallion out of the hands of a gang leader (Robert Patrick in an embarrassing performance) he already has the half of it and he'll do anything to get the other half. People often times wonder why Robert Patrick and Mark Dacascos never got that far in their careers. Well for those that are curious, here is your reason. Double Dragon is easily one of the worst video game adaptions and from what I remember about the video game, this isn't one that is all that hard to adapt. Indeed had this been done as an Indianna Jones style thriller with numerous martial arts fights, we might have had something. What the movie ends up being is a cheeseball adaption that fails to engage anyone over the age of 11. Although i'm not sure even if small children will enjoy something so stupid. It's a bad movie. Just plain bad.* out of 4-(Bad)