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.

If you are looking for a genre filled with great films, I suggest you never consider movies based on videogames. This is because many of these films are among the worst movies you can find...with MANY on IMDB's infamous Bottom 100 List. "Double Dragon" is no exception to the rule...it, too, is a bad movie based on a videogame.

The story is a confusing bit on nonsense set in the dystopain world of New Angeles in 2007. This world is filled with evil gangs and it has a strong "Mad Max" look to it. In other words, it's a lot like Los Angeles in real life. The heroes are two dopey guys and a lady who, ineplicably, CAN actually act (Julia Nickson)...so I have no idea why she's in the film. The trio spend much of the movie fighting some baddie and being chased by his minions...all over some medallions which I couldn't have cared less about nor could many in the audience based on the reviews.

The film has many problems going for it...bad acting, terrible dialog and, I kid you not, the director was apparently a possum! The film is terrible and silly...and not even worth watching to see some tiny cameos by Vanna White, George Hamilton, Andy Dick or Alyssa Milano. Is it among the worst movies based on videogames....possibly not. But only because there are so many crap films based on videogames!!

DOUBLE DRAGON is one of a wave of video game adaptations that did the rounds in the mid 1990s. Others included STREET FIGHTER, MORTAL KOMBAT and SUPER MARIO BROS., and truth be told none of them were very good; this one's no exception. The story is nothing more than a couple of knucklehead brothers teaming up to battle a random megalomaniac, played by Robert Patrick making bad career choices in the wake of TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY. The story has plenty of jokes and action, but it's all very silly and very cheesy indeed. A young Mark Dacascos stars but fails to make the kind of impact he did in DRIVE, for example. As for the rest, expect bubblegum-style brightness but an entire lack of depth.