NEON MARQUEE FILM FESTIVAL (PART 1): DOUBLE DRAGON (1994)

While we await the reopening of all our favorite film houses, we’re presenting an ongoing online film festival of a genre (of sorts) of B grade Sci-Fi, Action and Martial Arts, ‘so-bad-they’re-good’ faves and some truly unintentionally funny bottom-of-the-video-store-shelf gems! All those cinematic misfires and titles that may serve as a great hangover film, movie comfort food or a perplexing head scratch as to how a film like this got made in the first place.

Our procedure will include a pre-show warm up of classic relevant trailers, clips and commercials, then a link to stream either through official channels or via YouTube (multiple options will be presented if possible).

Played in sequence, it’s just like being at the cinema!

So, may we tear your ticket and show you to your seat for the first installment of the NEON MARQUEE FILM FESTIVAL with a true clunker that confirms there video game movies are almost impossible to be made well!

TONIGHT’S FEATURE:

DOUBLE DRAGON (1994), starring Scott Wolf (yup, from Part of Five) Scott Wolf, Mark Dacascos, and Robert Patrick trying to ride that wave of fame from Terminator 2. Based on the successful video game that blitzed arcades and Nintendo consoles in the 80s, it attempts to pad out the simplistic rescue adventure video game theme into a preposterous caper of two half-brothers fending off a slimy gang leader seeking their twin amulets that somehow grants absolute power.

Co-starring Alyssa Milano, probably in it for the paycheck, it’s a thick as bricks misfire that wants to be comedy, wants to be kung-fu but ends up being the type of film that needs to be converted into drinking game. Loaded with all the terrible dialogue and complete tone deafness that comes with Hollywood tackling Eastern culture in the 80s and 90s. Buckle up film fans, dim the lights and enjoy!

PRE-SHOW REEL

MAIN ATTRACTION

Also available to stream on Amazon Prime.