Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

FrogGlace In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

a-11737 What's not to like about this movie? Well, there's a lot actually. Like the characters, the music, etc. But because it's so terrible, it's what makes it such a fun, enjoyable movie. I've only played one of the Street Fighter games, that being the fourth one. So I watched this film not really expecting a faithful adaptation, but a fun, entertaining mess. The action sequences are so terribly amazing, the characters are laughably cheesy, the acting is so laughably awkward, and the movie has a very frail Raul Julia as Bison. Definitely a guilty pleasure movie at best. The final fight scene was pretty cool and I did like how they added the cliche of the main character supposedly be dead, but when he's really alive. A fun movie! If you like a good guilty pleasure movie, this might be the film for you. If you are a big fan of the video games, you're gonna really hate this movie.

TheLittleSongbird While there are exceptions, video games have had and still do have a dubious track record when adapted to film.'Street Fighter' is one such example. It is a terrible adaptation of the video game series, and is not a good film at all on its own terms (was actually familiar with the film before being familiar with the games, so even with no knowledge of the video game series it still manages to be bad).It can be argued that other video game film adaptations do a worse job making it clear what it's trying to be and what the target audience it's trying to primarily aim to, because from the get go it is clear what 'Street Fighter's' target audience is and that it's not meant to be serious or profound. That doesn't stop it from having a lot of things done wrong and from being one of the cheaper-looking video game film adaptations.The best thing about it is absolutely Raul Julia. As a result of dying from stomach cancer (he would die a few months later, but of stroke complications), Julia does look gaunt and frail which makes one panic as to whether he would cope with the demands of playing the larger-than-life dictator. Any concerns are obliterated, because he is the one actor who seems to know what sort of film he's in and how to fit in well with the tone, he goes for it full-throttle (he may look gaunt and frail, but he certainly doesn't act it) and makes for one hugely entertaining and sometimes menacing, but always memorable, villain.Ming Na Wen is also not too bad, playing her character with allure and dignity. Sadly the character is badly underwritten so she doesn't shine quite as much.Jean Claude Van Damme however is very wooden in a role that requires more heroism than what he gave, some of his line delivery sounds awkward and lacking in clarity too. Kylie Minogue's sexiness is not enough to disguises her limitations as an actress, complete with a non-existent accent and a fatefully ill-matched pairing with Van Damme with no obvious spark or chemistry. The rest of the cast struggle to bring believability or personality to underwritten and weirdly distorted characters, where the names are there but almost like thrown in into a completely different film with personalities that don't have what makes them so special in the first place or so far removed from before.Cheap-looking production values are also present with haphazard editing, tacky set design, inappropriately natty costumes and just everything looking and feeling rushed. The music consists of generic and repetitive rap that feels misplaced and out-of-place, and very under-powered orchestral scoring with compressed sound mixing. The action is both overblown and under-rehearsed, the nods to the fight moves in the games looking and feeling clumsily fitted in. The script is childish, with an overuse of one-liners and jokes that often jar with the mood or (apart from the odd amusing one from particularly Bison) are too intelligence-insultingly stupid to be a mild chuckle.Despite having a crisp, buoyant energy, the storytelling is hectic and confused with many things with potential but left under-explored and has a cobbled together feel, where the dropping of characters' names and the games' fight moves feel randomly thrown in. People will say that one shouldn't take it seriously, the thing is though to anybody who says it that those who criticise it for being silly and cheesy and all that actually are aware of what the film is trying to be and how to judge it. The argument is that we feel that 'Street Fighter' goes overboard in the silliness and stupidity, leaving room for little else, that it becomes exhausting, the games were silly but also fun and didn't forget to treat the audience with respect. Like it or not that is actually an understandable criticism, and one this reviewer shares.All in all, has a couple of bright spots, the biggest one being Julia, but it really is one of the biggest examples of video games not adapting well to film. 3/10 Bethany Cox

SnoopyStyle 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.

Mr-Fusion Pretty sure I went about this all wrong . . .I haven't played the video game since the '90s; and even then, it was never one of my favorites. I came to "Street Fighter" out of morbid curiosity. It's had a certain negative reputation for 20 years, and sometimes you just wonder what people mean by "bad".I would go with "meh", instead. It's not bad, it's just kinda boring. After awhile, I just got tired of seeing these underdeveloped characters all shoehorned into the story to fill a quota. Oddly enough, I got a real GI Joe vibe from this movie, far more than anything Street Fighter. One needs to watch something like this with beer in hand to fully appreciate the b-movie fromage. Alas, my fridge was tragically devoid of oat sodas, so I missed out (a mistake never to be made again, honest).I feel like I'm rambling. The point here, I guess, is that it's not the sacrilege that the internet has made it out to be . . . obviously, it's not great either, but hopefully if you approach this in the proper frame of mind, you might have a good time.Don't watch it alone. That's doing it wrong.5/10 Even so, Ming-na Wen: Hellooo, nurse!