Roadhouse is a movie with the great Patrick Swayze where he is a badass bouncer at a Honky Tonk called the Double Deuce. The movie is full of action, gratuitous nudity and great fight scenes. You should definitely check it out.
I’m very disappointed that Roadhouse was a showing mostly of what a Rated R faithful Double Dragon could have been.
Or Tango and Cash except 2 badass Warriors mostly smashing bad guys similar to Marked For Death, and using available weapons including knives, bats, barrels, etc.
And like Tango and Cash the main Villain in Double Dragon does kidnap a gorgeous woman and he has a syndicate so will be challenging to rescue Marion the damsel because
The whole argument doesn’t have much story is a lameass argument because that same thing could be said about the (2020) Sonic the Hedgehog movie before that movie was released.
The writer knew that the movie needed other events to be in the movie besides the main attraction. Doctor Robotnik chasing Sonic with the intention to kill a alien bipedal blue hedgehog.
The writer gave that because 3 acts, shown is who Doctor Robotnik is, a valid reason why he’s chasing Sonic with the intention to kill him, who Sonic is, Sonic has 1 main goal and Doctor Robotnik has 1 main goal, who is the likable good guy Tom and why is he helping Sonic, etc.
That’s why a great writer could write a terrific Rated R faithful Double Dragon movie that has other events happening before the Badass Lee Brothers have to fight multiple gangs and multiple Gang Leaders, also the Main villain Willy Mackey that has same submachine gun used in the famous great action movie Die Hard and his gang the Black Warriors because Willy and the Black Warriors kidnapped Marion.
Give a not on the surface reason why the Lee Brothers love Marion.
Give her a personality so she is a well written character instead of she’s a flat character because the only reason they love her is because she is a babe which is lazy terrible writing.
Show how the Billy and Jimmy became great Martial Artists, why they choose to learn Martial Arts, show the nuclear war that killed off most of New York City,show them running Martial Arts Dojo’s because that’s how they make money, and the society devolves into chaos after the nuclear war which should get shown, etc.
if you want to read about why the original Double Dragon arcade game could be a 3 acts longer than 100 minutes movie then here is a article about the post apocalyptic (1987) Double Dragon beat em up set in New York City arcade game.
Most likely the creator was inspired by the terrific Science Fiction Action Antihero post apocalyptic movie (1981) Escape From New York.
The True Story Of Double Dragon
A great entertaining action movie that has believable characters including the main hero that is a Martial Arts expert because shown and in movies show don’t tell, the charismatic main Villain that has loyal henchmen, great action scenes also I enjoyed Kevin Tighe playing the likable good guy for the whole movie as Frank Tilghman.
Before that movie I mostly knew him as the you are supposed to hate his character because he nefarious charismatic Narcotics Kingpin the main villain in the action comedy movie K-9.
That’s why was great to see he can play a likable good guy in a movie.
All scenes showed Frank as a likable man including the whole bigger line might be a inside joke that maybe Arnold Schwarzenegger was possibly going to be cast as Dalton or maybe that’s what Frank expected because Dalton is a big shot bouncer , and he wasn’t wrong that Wesley was scared because Wesley shooting his gun was him seeing his syndicate would not win that fight.
If his subordinates were winning then he would have just continued to drink alcohol and enjoy the violent entertainment.
I did before the 2020 greatly shortened MLB regular season started.