Two brothers have half of a powerful ancient Chinese talisman. An evil gang leader has the other half, and determines to get the brothers' half and have a complete medallion so he can gain absolute power.
Ex-Special Forces soldier Louis Stevens returns to Miami to find his former high school overrun by drugs and violence. A master of the Brazilian martial art, capoeira, Stevens pledges to ... See full summary »
Director:
Sheldon Lettich
Stars:
Mark Dacascos,
Stacey Travis,
Geoffrey Lewis
Bobby is a college freshman and as part of a fraternity prank, he poses as Roberta and becomes pledged into a sorority. There he falls madly in love with Diana. As the game escalates, Bobby... See full summary »
Director:
Jimmy Zeilinger
Stars:
Jonathan Silverman,
Alyssa Milano,
George Newbern
An American reporter teams up with a martial arts expert, whose half-brother is a "yakuza"--Japanese mafia--drug dealer to battle swordsmen from around the world n a Turkish arena.
Director:
Sam Firstenberg
Stars:
David Bradley,
Mark Dacascos,
Valarie Trapp
Escaped serial killer James Becket, who killed his own father whose expectations he never fulfilled, but now especially targets his wife Theresa 'Tess' and her family, is too good at ... See full summary »
A prototype enhanced human, on the run from Chinese-hired hit men, hooks up with a dread-locked bystander, and the two of them elude their pursuers narrowly each time.
Director:
Steve Wang
Stars:
Mark Dacascos,
Kadeem Hardison,
John Pyper-Ferguson
Candles in the Dark is the story of a girl who comes to visit her father's homeland, the Soviet Republic of Estonia. After she arrives, she finds that her father is part of the dissident ... See full summary »
Director:
Maximilian Schell
Stars:
Alyssa Milano,
Chad Lowe,
Günther Maria Halmer
New area deputy Jack Gales arrives on the island to find that a girl at the local Catholic girls' school has been found dead. After investigating, he finds that students have been ... See full summary »
Director:
Michael Robison
Stars:
David Keith,
Alyssa Milano,
Terry David Mulligan
Set 15 years in the future in post-earthquake California, where San Diego and Los Angeles are merged into one city, two teenage brothers have half of a powerful ancient Chinese talisman. Millionaire Koga Shuko (a.k.a. Guisman) has the other half and determines to get the brothers' half in order to have the complete medallion and the absolute power of the magical Double Dragon talisman. Written by
Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}
Dozens of arcade games appear in the Power Corps hideout. DOUBLE DRAGON is one of them. It's visible when Jimmy (possessed by Kogo Shuko) tries to kick Billy but misses and shatters the game screen. See more »
Goofs
The movie takes place in "New Angeles", California, however when Chief Delario goes outside of the precinct after telling the officers that they are going to take back the streets, an Ohio flag is shown flying on the flagpole. See more »
Quotes
Billy Lee:
My whole life just flashed before my eyes! Dude, I sleep a lot.
Jimmy Lee:
Are you crazy? We almost wrecked our CAR!
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What I Need
Written by Richard Payton / Douglas Smith / Crystal Waters
Published by Basement Boys Music Inc.
Kinda Kool Music/Party Payton Music
Dungeon Culture Music/C. Waters Music
Famous Music Performed by Crystal Waters
Courtesy of Mercury Records
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Here's the thing, I'm an avid video gamer, and I'd be hard-pressed to find a Double Dragon game I didn't play. As a fan of the games I was very much looking forward to the movie.
Sadly I was very disappointed from scene one. It had nothing to do with the games, and even the horrible animated series was better than this crap.
Sure, they have the main characters from the game, Jimmy and Billy Lee, but they only had one character played by a real martial artist played poorly by Mark Dascascos of the ill-fated Crow TV series.
Basically the movie takes place in an apocalyptic wasteland which was Los Angeles and does pretty much everything it can to bring down any kind of honor the game itself maintained.
I vote it as possibly THE WORST VIDEO GAME MOVIE EVER....aside from Mortal Kombat: Annhilation. If you see this movie, run.
1 out of 10.
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Here's the thing, I'm an avid video gamer, and I'd be hard-pressed to find a Double Dragon game I didn't play. As a fan of the games I was very much looking forward to the movie.
Sadly I was very disappointed from scene one. It had nothing to do with the games, and even the horrible animated series was better than this crap.
Sure, they have the main characters from the game, Jimmy and Billy Lee, but they only had one character played by a real martial artist played poorly by Mark Dascascos of the ill-fated Crow TV series.
Basically the movie takes place in an apocalyptic wasteland which was Los Angeles and does pretty much everything it can to bring down any kind of honor the game itself maintained.
I vote it as possibly THE WORST VIDEO GAME MOVIE EVER....aside from Mortal Kombat: Annhilation. If you see this movie, run.
1 out of 10.