For some reason, she has an outfit on that can best be described as short jean shorts with stockings and a baby doll t-shirt. Luckily, they save their mother Satori with some help from a vigilante gang called the Power Corps and their leader, Marian, who is played by Alyssa Milano. Too bad they’re on the rum from gang members, trying to beat the citywide curfew. Now, he’s coming after Billy and Jimmy Lee (Scott Wolf, the one who is funnier than he fights and Mark Dacascos, who does the opposite) to get what’s his. ![]() Now, crime lord Koga Shuko (Robert Patrick, giving what he referred to as a “pretty extreme performance”) already has half of the Double Dragon. And 2000 years ago, a magical medallion called the Double Dragon (everyone cheer when the name of the movie gets said out loud) was split into two pieces. No one goes out after dark, thanks to the gang activity. ![]() The city has been decimated by earthquakes and tidal waves. In the year 2007, all that’s left of LA is New Angeles. Double Dragon took its inspiration from the arcade beat ’em up - indeed, producer Don Murphy talks about it on the bonus feature included in this collection - but it goes way, way, way out there after that. ![]() You may get movies based on board games, like Battleship and Ouija - but we had movies based on video games. What could bring me to talk about it all over again? Well, the maniacs at the MVD Rewind collection have put out a blu ray release of this movie that has the kind of care that you’d expect from a Criterion Collection film. A year ago, I posted about Double Dragon on this site.
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