not as good as the videogame

It's hilariously dumb and doesn't make a lick of sense, but it's got the T-1000 and moustachioed super stuntman Al Leong fighting against the chairman of Iron Chef America, some white dude and Alyssa Milano in tight clothing so it can't be all bad, can it? Oh it can!

While I didn't get to watch Double Dragon until I was an adult (I'm certain I would've loved the heck outta it had I seen it as a kid), my inner adolescent magically convinced me to have a good time while watching this. It's cheesy, it's made for the youngins (and is therefore more than just a little inappropriate at times), and the action makes the Power Rangers look like black belts, but I never thought I'd see Abobo forcefed spinach by Alyssa Milano or Jimmy/Bimmy raise the people's eyebrow.

Pathetic action scenes and idiotic attempts at story are bad enough. Miserable failures at comedy are even worse. But what really makes this so bad is how HUMILIATING and downright DISGUSTING so many scenes were, such as anything featuring Abobo, especially him being fed until he throws up, as well as the two brothers "transforming" into flagrantly homosexual constumes at the end. Utterly painful garbage.

It's cheesy. I loved the game as a kid, but the movie is a disaster.

i used to like when i was a child...

Uwe Boll before Uwe Boll.

I thought to myself, "It's got Mark Dacascos and Alyssa Milano when she was still young and hot...how bad could it be?" The answer is very, very bad indeed, almost unwatchable. WTF was up with that Abobo monster?

A very '90s movie based on a very '80s videogame. Everything about this is terrible but it somehow manages to be borderline entertaining thanks to Alyssa Milano's ridiculous shorts and Robert Patrick's moustache-twirling villain. Apparently it also follows the plot of the game, for the 2 people who knew or cared that the game had a plot.

Born in 1989, the more films I see (or rewatch) from the 1990s the more I realise how strange the years were, making the 1980s seem sane in comparison at times. With its bright colours, futuristic visions and clashes between utter fun and incompetence, this film with a few others are starting to show me what these years were really like, the moment before the internet and nostalgia becoming a commodity where the last few years before the Millennium collapsed in their own pop culture.

Imagine a film with the carefree juvenile playfulness of Bill and Ted combined with the imposing, crushing gloom of Blade Runner. Now dial the Blade Runner back to where its just a sort of an allusion to that gloom, maybe contained safely behind a window with a few out of place looking back drops. Now place it in the 90s with its generic dance music and neon coloured clothes. Throw in a couple of twinks and that%u2019s roughly where we are with Double Dragon.

And you thought Mortal Kombat was bad?

Did I miss something? Wasn't this a stand up arcade game in like the mid eighties? Why was this movie made in 1994? It was too late to be relevant, too early to be nostalgic , just in time to be crap.