Review of Street Fighter (1994) by Steven Y — 27 Mar 2009

Lord, I remember this movie. No, I didn't see it when it first came out, but I remember one scene from the trailer: Guile shouting "Now who's going home, and who's coming with me?" After that, I don't remember anything, and I heard the movie mentioned every occasionally on video game message boards.

This movie is based on the video game series of the same name by Capcom. The characters look like their video game counterparts, and I think that's pretty much where the similarities end. If you know anything about the video game series, it's sort of best to forget everything you know except that M. Bison is a bad guy and Guile is a good guy before watching this movie. However, if you're a really anal video game fan and you can't accept the fact that stuff has to be adapted to be made into a movie, you might as well never watch the movie.

All in all, this movie is hokey and fun, but in reality, it's stupid. It's nice that they tried to make it seem somewhat realistic, but in the end it seems more Saturday morning cartoonish than real. Leave your brain at the door and have some fun.