Alyssa Milano takes on a heroine role, but is ludicrously sexualized twice as she crawls away from Billy and Jimmy. Robert Patrick tries as the gang kingpin, and Scott Wolf is forced into a corner as brutal comic relief (“I saw my life flash before my eyes. Never mind that Dacascos and Wolf never look like brothers, Dacascos a Hawaii native with an Asian appearance. is a failed artifact of an extended franchiseĪt the time of filming, Billy Lee (Scott Wolf) was 26.
Production design busies up the scenery with stray debris, graffiti, and randomized objects to serve the fight scenes. Interiors sit cracking on their foundations, steel contraptions supporting any walls. Buildings stand only due to improbable steel jacks adhered to their frames. In Double Dragon, Los Angeles suffers the after-effects of an inevitable earthquake. It’s every bit the surreal, bizarre interpretation of videogame source material. One year before Double Dragon, a Hollywood studio famously twisted Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. Oh, and Vanna White joins Andy Dick to deliver nightly news.
The name Shadow Warriors is then taken to a literal extreme as Shuko (Robert Patrick) uses a medallion to turn into a floating black mist with a weakness to light. They get into fights with a rabid postal worker and Asian goons named Huey and Lewis (villain Koga Shuko later asking the pair, “What’s the news?”).
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Whatever methods created Double Dragon’s movie adaptation warped that idea into one where the heroes, Billy and Jimmy Lee, drive the National Lampoon Vacation station wagon with an attached flamethrower. It was every bit of ‘80s pop culture, colorful, rich, and hopped up on the idea of punk gangs runnng amok on city streets. The Double Dragon videogame finds two brothers punching their way through a nuclear-rotting city, using karate to take down Shadow Warriors gang members, on a quest to rescue love interest Marion.
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