Review of Street Fighter (1994) by Gavin C — 07 Nov 2011

Sometimes, it's hard to believe that some video game adaptations can be good, but only the rest of them are ordinary bad movies (and that's saying much people) and this movie known as "Street Fighter", is no exception.

Colonel William Guile leads an army of soldiers into the country of Shadaloo to find traces to lead him to General M. Bison, who has captured many people including three missing soldiers. Among them is Carlos "Charlie" Blanka, in which Bison decides to turn into a hideous mutant. On the other hand, Chun Li is a reporter who seeks revenge against Bison for the death of her father years ago. Then two small time hustlers Ryu and Ken, are arrested along with Sagat, a powerful arms dealer and Vega for dealing of illegal weapons. Guile recruits them in order to find Bison's base. Now Guile, T. Hawk, Cammy, Ryu, Ken, Chun Li, Balrog and E. Honda have three days before Bison murders the hostages and takes over the world.

With an ugly script, clunky plotting, clichéd visuals, and horrible acting (including Jean-Claude Van Damme's acting), they brought this movie to a level of badness.

The two things that keep this movie afloat is the spectacular action sequences and an amazing performance from the late Raul Julia (R.I.P. greatest actor that anyone's ever seen) since this was his final theatrical film before his death, but overall, even he can't save this movie from sinking.

To be honest, I've never actually played the video games in which the movie was only based on the first game, but after finding out that the movie's storyline of the game was altered and the tone was apparently lighter, I'll try to get that game for... Christmas or for my birthday, I don't know.

Anyway, horrible movie. Avoid it at all costs like a plague.