Street Fighter
1994 Directed by Steven E. de Souza
Synopsis
Adventure is the name of the game
Colonel Guile, the Allied Nations commando leads an elite team of street fighters against the forces of the mad General M. Bison. Bison who has hatched an evil plan for world domination, takes dozens of relief workers hostage and gives the world only 72 hours to respond to his twisted demands. Guile must find the captives and confront Bison in an electrifying battle for the fate of the free world.
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Film disgraced the greatest beat em up franchise ever. Didn't stay true to the game hardly. Hadoushit
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'Come out from the curtain wizard!'
So this is my second time watching this in the last 3 weeks...
Kill me.
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Incredibly stupid, ugly and crazy. But I must admit that I love the stupidity and the insane dialog. If there is one thing I've learnt from movies, it is that Pax BIsonica will one day rule the world. I'll live in Bisonopolis and pay with Bison Dollars - a currency valued at more than five times the value of the british pound. But only if M. Bison succeeds in kidnapping the queen. Great stuff, really!
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"Street Fighter"
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I should probably start listening to what people say because this crap nearly killed me.
It ain't self-aware enough to be clever and it ain't serious enough to be a decent action flick...so if I carry the 2 and divide it by the 1 that means...oh! I got it! This is shit.
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I first saw this film on its day of release in 1994. I was 12 and me and so many of my friends went, we took up a whole row at the cinema. We all hated it. 19 years on and not much has changed. The film has very little actual fighting in it and even less streets. I hate the fact that every characters back story has been changed from the games. The whole film is just cringeworthy. The dialog is utterly awful. They throw in some of the worst attempts at comedy ever. Stuff that's borderline slapstick. There is potential for a good film to be made of the street fighter franchise but it needs to be dark. This was just embarrassing.
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Why is it called Street Fighter if there is no street fights like in the video game? They got all of these characters wrong! Chun Li is a journalist, Ken and Ryu are bad guys, and Guile is played by Jean Claude Van Damme.
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One Star for the decent set design.
One Star for some relatively well done fighting choreography.
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Not sure why I decided to watch this, but I did. I knew it was bad but I was hoping that it would be the kind of it's so bad it's good. Well it wasn't, it was just plain bad and dumb.
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A great guilty pleasure of a film! Sure, it's not based on the usual style of the Street Fighter games, but if it was it'd be boring. Instead we get the tough and excellent variety of characters such as Colonel William F Guile (Jean Claude Van-Damme), Cammy (Kylie Minogue), Chun-Li (Ming Na Wen) et al taking sides in a simple war of good vs evil. The Allied Nations, led by Guile, must battle the threat of war by the Shadaloo Tong, headed by the powerful warlord General M Bison (Raul Julia, in his final film role before his sad death).
There are plenty of nods to the game like some of the scenes which are fighting locations in the game…
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Shoddy Blanka. All American hero is played by JCVD. Crap acting, Kylie Minogue. Weird music. Slow. But still, I enjoyed it slightly.
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They got everything wrong here. Everything.
You don't claim a film is based on a game where people fight on the street and then don't really have any fighting in the street.
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Trainwreck video game adaptation is played largely for laughs, which works from time to time (usually when Raul Julia says anything), and is both awful but oddly watchable.
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Wow. Just ... wow. I should've known better as soon as I saw Van Damme's hair color. What a bizarre failure.