Street Fighter (1994)

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

First of, this is an adaptation of the Street Fighter video games. Listen, how you make a game of two guys or gals fighting and then one die... eh? Make a storyline as you can. I think anything could work. And after seeing what they make with street fighter after this movie, and that include the mini-series with zero budget everyone is saying it's good... no it's not. This movie is by no way a masterpiece but it delivers.Why it is a success and make 100 mil at the BOX-OFFICE when it cost barely 35. The kids like it at that time, i know, i was 11 ! It was not PG or G, but it was suitable for children. I was there alone between Christmas and new year's eve. One awesome gift my father gives to me. I also had tons of action figures and vehicules that year. You know what... it's 2017 and I still have them. It was based on the GI Joe.The way they built Guile was right. He need to be strong and look good. Cammy was MILF all the way ! Chun-Li OK a reporter but when she fights, she is a beast. Bullrog, E. Honda are fun and have chemistry. Ken and Ryu are right on target ! Always see them as friends just like the Double Dragon team of Billy and Jimmy Lee.The villains are fun as hell. I remember hating so much Raul Julia because he was right on target with his Bison performance. The man deliver his last live performance before passing away and that's sad. Truly a highlight here.The only storyline I found a big boring is the one with Carlos Blanka and Dhalsim. They have chemistry, it's just that it's bland and a bit bad. Blanka should have become that huge beast and kill tons of people at the end.Andrew Bryniarski is the only Zangief i will believe. Jay Tavare was made for Vega role. Too bad there is no sequels or spin off. That man will have made a perfect Vega live film. Imagine him fighting Wolverine/Logan ! oooh ! Maybe the film has not aged too well, many complains about the change... try to make a good film out of a Street Fighter game when there is NO storyline... good luck ! Don't be too hard on theses movies, even if Mortal Kombat as a higher score.... watch Mortal Kombat 2 you will see what a true bad video game adaptation truly is. This movie, is not !

I actually liked this film. Okay, the story was vague, but the action, fight and stuff was awesome, and that was what most wanted to see –wasn't it? after all, this is what Street Fighter is all about since the movie is based on the successful and popular video game series. For its time, it was a pretty good movie. I feel the film is overly criticised, but I feel people are expecting too much these days. I'm sure most who saw this film when it first came out were those who were either Street Fighter fans or Van Damme fans or both – who knows? so I don't understand why fans of either of them would be disappointed of the movie since Street Fighter was a decent film, and Van Damme played his part really good. What I enjoyed the most about this film was how so many characters were involved, and that the film wasn't just really centred around the assumed main character – Van Damme (Guile). Yes, it could've been a lot better in terms of plot, but it was an entertaining movie in the end, and that's what matters. You should be glad that there wasn't a sequel afterwards – A lone Street Fighter film with the poster boy being Van Damme is enough if you ask me.

Well, here we start with Video Game Month and it's very sad for me to watch this movie at all. At least I got to look back at some of the Nostalgia Critic's reviews. As an early video game movie, it's as awful as ever. The main problem is that it focuses on Guile instead of Ryu and/or Ken. Even worse, I would have at least given this film some credit if it had included the Hadouken or Sonic Boom, but we get absolutely none of that at all! Seriously, I was waiting for that at least at the end. The plot is stupid and really has little to do with the games at all. It's mostly just M. Bison trying to take over the world (of course!).The pacing in this film is terrible. I keep thinking there were deleted scenes that I missed. One scene we have Chun-Li talking about how she's going to get revenge on M. Bison and then later we just see them together. There's a good line or two, especially M. Bison's, "For me it was Tuesday". This was Raul Julia's last film and it's pretty easy to say that this was the worst last film of a noteworthy actor. It's a pity I knew little about him. It was dedicated to him which is pretty insulting. The sets in this film look terrible. The props are all bad looking.We just random talking scene after random fighting scene. There's no rhyme or reason for what's going on. I think this might have worked as a short film because it certainly feels like one stretched out to the length of a feature film. The scenes are redundant, especially with Bison just flying over and over. It mostly just suffers from being dreadfully boring. Even the stupid fight scenes have at least something going on. My pain has begun, my friends. *

In the southeast Asian nation of Shadaloo, military dictator General Bison (Raul Julia) are holding hostages and battling the forces of the Allied Nations led by Colonel Guile (Jean-Claude Van Damme). Guile's friend Blanka is one of the captured soldier who Bison turns into a mutant. Ryu Hoshi and Ken Masters get into trouble dealing with criminal Viktor Sagat (Wes Studi). They are all arrested by Guile. Ryu and Ken are recruited by Guile and they stage an escape for Sagat. They even fake killing Guile. Reporter Chun-Li (Ming-Na) discovers the truth.The story is a mess trying to weave together all these game characters. It is sad to see Raul Julia in this and it's obvious after the fact that the man was sick. To his credit, he put in plenty of effort but the man looks sickly. The movie looks bad and silly. This grand mess is not compelling and all the action in the world can't save it. It's not even so bad that it's fun.