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Double Dragon (1994)
Not good, but not as bad as the ratings make it seem
Is this a great movie? No. It's not even really a good movie. But it's also not really a BAD movie either... it's just one of those totally mediocre based-on-a-video-game films. You have your standard heroes, bad guy, magical thingamabob that they fight over, and the inevitable Big Final Battle at the end. The acting and direction are nothing special, and neither are the effects for that matter, but for some odd reason I really like the end fight after the heroes get the magical thingamabob and start kicking butt... (Ok, you COULD call that a spoiler, but did anyone really have ANY doubts that that would happen? I didn't think so.)
4 out of 10 stars for being totally unremarkable in either a good OR a bad way.
Band of the Hand (1986)
Give me a break
This has to be one of the stupidest premises ever... Maybe this is a decent movie later on, but I wouldn't know. After about 15 minutes I had to change the channel because the entire concept of dropping five hardened juvenile delinquents off in the middle of the Everglades with only one guy to watch them is stupid beyond words! This wouldn't be legal for adult prisoners, much less teenagers. Also, they give the kids a knife! Since if any of the kids got so much as a snake bite they'd be sued for millions (even in the eighties), this just doesn't work. Cheesy B-movie horror flicks are more believable. If you can swallow the stupid premise, this one might be worth a look. Me, I give it a zero out of ten. Pure stupidity... not worth the waste of time.