Review of Street Fighter (1994) by Gabriel E — 27 May 2018
Why would anyone hate this? The campiness makes this movie deserve its status as so bad it's good. It's so cheesy that it's hard not to resist. The performances aren't that good except for Raul Julia as M.
Bison, OF COURSE!!!! The action isn't all that mind-blowing either. Yet why can't I resist when I see JCVD kick ass? Must be him being hard to take seriously with that thick Belgian accent and everyone sort-of rolling along with it.
One problem it does have is too many characters making the plot hard to keep up with. Blame Capcom. The director wanted to only allow relatively few characters from the games for the sake of a coherent storyline but Capcom saw the movie as nothing more than a 100-minute long advertisement for their games and inserted every character from the roster that existed at the time.
For a movie called Street Fighter, there's not much street fighting. I know the franchise was still young at the time and we knew nothing beyond M. Bison is evil back then but come on. Street Fighter is not good yet I find it too irresistible to give it a lower rating.
This review of Street Fighter (1994) was written by Gabriel E on 27 May 2018.
Street Fighter has generally received negative reviews.
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