Street Fighter Reviews

A movie based on a video game never gets good reviews and 'Street Fighter' is not an exception! The only attraction of this crap is Raul Julia, but his good performance isn't enough!

I have never played the game but I get the idea and it just won't work as a movie which they made a year after a crappy Mario movie. Did they think that 'Street Fighter' could improve! It may have been a box office success but it's worse than 'Super Mario Bros'

To conclude the movie is a waste of the late Raul Julia's talent and definitely not worth your time at all

I remember it very well, before this movie came out, there was a huge buzz about this flick. Indeed, back in those days, I was a huge gamer and 'Street Fighter II' was one of the most popular games at the time and it had became a huge pop phenomenom. In the gaming community, this movie was highly awaited. Indeed, the movie adapations of video-games were really new at the time and even though 'Super Mario Bros' was a huge flop, many believed that with this 2nd video game adaptation, there was some potential to make something quite awesome. Since I was and still am a big Street Fighter fan, I had to see this flick in the movie theater... What a terrible experience! It was easily one of the worst movies I have ever seen... Luckilly, I was not the only one thinking that way so there was no sequel for this pile of horsesh*t.... The whole thing was just bad on every level. At first, it seemed pretty simple, they could just have made a straight-up fighting tournament à la 'Enter the Dragon' but instead it was just very unfaitful to the source material. Basically, it is a piece of garbage and you should avoid it, even if you love the video game like I do.

"If good men do nothing, that is evil enough."

Street Fighter is a woeful film adaptation of the popular Capcom arcade game. I'm sure there are many fans (or nerds, more precisely) who expected very good results...but what was released was far from good.

I don't think words can describe what a complete and spectacular disaster this film turned out to be.

First and foremost...the plot was utterly useless. It was an even worse excuse for Van Damme to execute fight moves that look incredibly fake and downright stupid!

And why was the film so tame?! Whose idea was it to water down all the violence?! As a result the film feels tremendously bad, tame, childish and corny beyond belief! And then of course the script...was dismal. Attempts at humour made the already painful experience exceedingly worse. And I didn't know it was possible for this film to be any worse.

The one-liners made me gasp in embarrassment. And of course the wooden Belgian made the lines sound even worse. But what made Van Damme worse than ever is the tame violence and the horrible script. Some of his movies were pathetically entertaining because they showcased awesome action...but the fight scenes didn't even look impressive. Instead they're underwhelming and childish.

And you just need to see Kylie Minogue in the cast to further cement our every fear. Her lines sounded so contrived and unnatural. There is not enough room to criticise all things that are wrong with this movie.

The poor excuse for a plot basically follows Colonel William F. Guile (Van Damme) who is in the middle of a war against some evil dictator who couldn't look sinister even if he's pitted against Kermit the Frog! Guile and his team of soldiers (including many who are scaringly good at martial arts for grunts) must go and free some hostages who are being held for ransom.

Many have looked upon Street Fighter as the worst movie ever made. This title sounds rather accurate. The entire film is childish, embarrassingly corny and even extremely boring. Why couldn't the character kill the screenwriters instead?!?!

I was actually more impressed than expected considering the acting talent that was on board for this video game adaptation. Don't get me wrong, it was bad, but what can you expect, it's from a video game whose storyline relies on beating up a single opponent, how complex could it be?