10 Biggest Video Game Movie Flops

Budget: $7.8 million

US Box Office: $2,341, 309

One of the earliest video game adaptations, Double Dragon allowed audiences in 1994 to see what lay in their future: a string of astonishingly daft action movies that purported to be based upon games but instead reminded you of other, better films.

Set in Los Angeles in the not-too-distant future – well, 2007 – Double Dragon takes place in a city crippled by an earthquake, which looks like a particularly garish post-Mad Max wasteland. There’s shades of Big Trouble In Little China as two brothers with half of a Chinese talisman encounter the villainous Koga Shuko (Robert Patrick) who owns the other half, but don’t expect it to stack up well against John Carpenter’s film.

What The Critics Said: “A Ninja Turtle soup of computer gimmicks, karate chops and kiddie Confucianism.” (Washington Post)