once they realize what they have to do with the medallions that are at the heart of this post-apoca something weird adventure. Maybe it is because Dacascos is so poorly used by the film and so too is Julia Nickson, who plays the martial arts master, Satori, who has trained the brothers for their moment of glory. Maybe it’s because the director, Jim Yuvich, a newbie behind the camera, decided to cheese-up the tone of the flick. Sure, it's all goofy fun but, man, it's like no one on the set had ANY idea what they were doing. This film, like the souped-up car that brothers Billy Lee ( Scott Wolf) and Jimmy ( Mark Decascos) drive in the film, rockets its way to the top of the “so bad, it’s good” list thanks to some criminally bad acting and really shoddy pacing issues.
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Mind you, had the producers stuck to the original storyline of the video game (one of straight-up revenge), there would be absolutely no reason for this movie to suck as bad as it does and yet it does exactly that thanks to a story that seems to be discovering itself.
Based on a story idea by Tiny Toon Adventure’s Paul Dini and ditching the actual storyline of the video game (bad idea), the movie transports us to a future in which Los Angeles has been ravished by an earthquake and the television news channels are hosted by George Hamilton, Vanna White, and Andy Dick. Highly quotable and absolutely inane, this dumpster fire of a movie is back on shelves, once again fighting for space next to Street Fighter. "Highly quotable and absolutely inane, this dumpster fire of a movie is back on shelves, once again fighting for space next to Street Fighter." The retro-packaging does nothing to make the movie any better. Hounds of howlingly bad boneyard cult films however, should be warned.
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The movie, full of gregarious goons fighting against two clueless brothers and one great performance from Robert Patrick, who as the criminal overlord Koga Shuko, knows exactly what type of really bad movie he is in, has new life thanks to this Special Collector’s Edition. That’s what 1990’s nostalgia has brought us to and I for one, while totally appreciating what the MVD Rewind Collection has done here (now on their 14th release), am not ready to crown this pile of mutated garbage as King. It is a treacherous climb up, mind you, but there it is. That statement however, is not stopping this critically trashed flick from its climb back up to the tippy-top of the B-grade mountain of trash cinema. That being said, there can be no denying that this is ONE of the worst video game adaptations ever made into a 90-minute movie. It helps if you were a child when it was originally released, though.
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