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FILM: "Double Dragon - The Fifth Dimension"



Title: Double Dragon - The Fifth Dimension title: Double Dragon
Country:

USA Year:
1993

Genre:
Action Director : James Yukich

Starring: Robert Patrick, Mark Dacascos, Scott Wolf, Kristina Wagner, Julia Nickson-Soul, Alyssa Milano, Nils Allen Stewart, Henry Kingi, John Mallory Asher, Leon Russom, Jeff Imada, Al Leong, Cory Milano, Michael Berryman, Deanthony Langston Rating:
And so dominated

Trash-Factor:

OCOG s comment: captivating computer games usually not exactly a complex story, much less if there is a 80-year-fighting game that once with pleasure machines and was played on various consoles. This popularity took advantage of it-even though many years later until 1993 and that is turned the former fighting game Double Dragon the same underground film with virtually non-existent plot. But what works as a game, must be for a film far no good. In this case, write a dark future version. In 2007, the former Los Angeles, which now is very creative New Angeles, unrecognizable. After a huge earthquake, half the city may be under water, the houses are of the collapse, however, been spared. Radioactive rain seems to bother anyone, and the oh so evil gangs that dominate the city exactly at sunset (and not a minute earlier), and connect the people in fear and terror. In this would-end-time scenario, humanity has then also made the effort, rather than the city from scratch to develop rather a lot of technical nonsense, how could he uncreative are not effective technology actually reminiscent of '80s video games. So this is the background against which the two teenage brothers Billy and Jimmy Lee (Mark Dacascos and Scott Wolf) grow up as orphans. Your guardian is the young Satori (Julia Nickson-Soul), which owns half of a precious talisman with supernatural abilities, like a terribly cheap, molded plastic and looks like brushed with gold paint toys. The other half is very clever hidden somewhere in China, where one lives still, apparently, as simple as two thousand years. Our villain Kogo Shuko (Robert Patrick), which for simplicity will know at least one major American city for whatever reason, of course, steals the medallion in China and want to own the other half. When he noticed that our two main characters lax, annoy continually with silly outfits, hairstyles and ugly pseudo-cool sayings, have the other half of the amulet, he is of course after them. Jimmy and Billy do Shuko abluchsen but his half of the medallions and get them even more support from the young leader the colorful Power Corps, a group of brightly colored children and young people who supposedly fight for peace and security in New Angeles' streets, but basically hingammeln only in some underground hall in front of him and the film as meaningless as the film for humanity . With an FSK 12 does not go through Double Dragon ever as a real action movie. Neither apocalyptic nor fantasy elements are so far thought that you could assign the film one of these genres. What remains is a quirky, absurd Trash strips for children, but especially for fans of trash movie that leaves no lasting impression. And if so, at most one bad. The performances are underground, but you have to say fair to say that the preposterous script by the cast except for a huge portion of annoying overacting anything demanded. Of emotional depth and subtle social criticism one can only dream (but that one has come to be expected not be otherwise). All the scenes look cheap, be it the stupid technical inventions or even the souped-up car of the two main characters, which is driven by burning paper and place an exhaust such a thing as a flame thrower has that regulates the speed.

the gangs and all the evil consist of a motley motley bunch Clichés. Strunz stupid Cyberpunks with fancy hairstyles live dressed in filthy rags in the most run-down areas, laugh Grenzdebile heat chases, their burning tonnes on the streets after with dirty river water and build up threatening to chain-rattling against innocent main characters, without them ever inflict serious damage. Shuko, the chief villain, has no human features in itself is corrupt through and through and ruthless, and also with also a long flowing coat and sunglasses!

Double Dragon
of silly stereotypes, a strunz stupid humor (the only unfortunately is not at all funny) and the most uninspired ideas, held together again by smaller fights, if you want to call it that, or even more popular pursuits that are never exciting but always absolutely harebrained. In the silly finale, when one believes that it bad no longer going to unite Billy and Jimmy finally the medallion and received via its power in the next moment the most ridiculous colorful glittering combat suits, which were probably each tailored for a film. who liked the computer game to date, should therefore keep the hand of the cinematic botch, to play it on pure conscience and to remember. Only the trash-fan should Double Dragon enjoy, for as much as in this unintentionally funny garbage trash strip is finally offered a not every day.