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Summary: Great if you want a Comedy - God aweful otherwise.
Review: I thouroughly enjoyed this movie because it made me laugh on many occasions. i came to watch this movie expecting an action thriller, but left knowing that this was a comedy, no matter what the original intention was; Case and point - Chun Li decides to sneak into the morgue to take a look at Guiles body to decide if he's really dead. the problem is is taht its 4PM in the afternoon and she is in full black and trying to sneak around. no one notices her untill she takes off her ski mask. pure comedy.
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Summary: street fighter
Review: Street fighter is a bad film! In the original story,Ryu and Ken
were the main characters.In this film,Guile,a military grunt with
an impressive reputation,takes the lead.Most of the actors for chosen for the roles of the fighters are perfect for the parts. Blanka was not perfect.Too bad it was not a CGI CHARACTER.I bet
that if it was made by someone who was competent, it would be a better film with a better script.
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Summary: Low-rent action doesn't mix with subpar karate...
Review: Raul Julia's last film keeps itself alive using his performance as the bad guy. "Street Fighter" is a cheekishly bright kids movie based on the hit video game, although the plot and characters are very different. The violence is very stylized and almost slapstick. The humor here is arid, missing any form of timing or wit. Most of the movie just falls flat on its butt. It's not the worst video-game movie ever, but it's really not that good. I do, however, reccommend it to kids who are into karate. They might get a "kick" out of this... get it? Kick? Sorry about that one. At least it was better than the jokes in "Street Fighter."
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Summary: I don't know where to begin
Review: Being an avid Street Fighter fan, I was outraged at how ridiculously bad this movie was when I saw it in a theater all those yeras ago. First off I want to set something straight, the original storyline in Street Fighter revolved completely around Ryu and Ken, who were reduced to supporting characters in the film to make Guile the lead, only Guile was the one who was a supporting character originally (I guess they couldn't find a different role for Jean-Claude Van Damme though). Second, some of the roles they have reversed for the characters, Balrog was a bad guy who worked for Bison, not a good guy, and Dee Jay was a good guy as well. Now onto the movie itself. Everything about this film is horrid, the acting is ridiculously bad as is the dialogue which sounds like it was written by an overzealous third grader, and the costumes were laughable. The late Raul Julia is here in his last film role, and it's a shame that this was his last film considering how great an actor he was. Van Damme is mind nummingly dull, and other actors who are usually good; Ming-Na (Chun-Li, she voiced Aki in the Final Fantasy movie) and Wes Studi (Sagat) are plain dull as well. All in all, even if you are a die hard hardcore Street Fighter fan, you will be repulsed by this dismal live action movie. A little side note: present day pop superstar Kylie Minogue plays the rather sexy Cammy, one good point of this film.
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Summary: I love the game ... but the movie is horrid
Review: WARNING MOVIE MAY INDOUSE UNCONTROLABLE VOMITING TO ANY BODY WHO HAS AN OUNCE OF TASTE IN THERE ENTIRE BODY.Why do you ask?
I haved saved you the trouble of reading some of the longer reviews and made you a list:
1]Vann Damme is an empty shell of his former self
2]The dialouge could have been writen by a 2 year old stricken with aurthrightis(Im sure i spelled that wrng but im on a rant and cant be stopped)
3]The 2nd worst movie ever filmed(2nd to Kung-pow:enter the fist)
4]The acting is so brittle it would shater if flicked.
I could go on all day but that would prevent other people from reading my package of wisdom and they would fall prey tho this ...
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Summary: Could Have been Better
Review: Street Fighter could have been better I thought Jean-Cluade Van Damme would be the star but no and it could have more action in it,I think it desevre a 3 instead of 5 stars.Also it could have been a little bit anime like the animated series then it would have been better-I think anime is better so get it
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Summary: Poor Excuse For A Video Game
Review: It is not uncommon for action films to have lousy storylines, but most at least have fun combat scenes. Street Fighter, however, fails in providing even this level of cheap entertainment. The barely introduced characters slap eachother when they punch and clip the opponent with their toes when they kick. The fighting is so bad that it makes the WWF look authentic. How can you have that in a movie that is solely about fighting? They somehow managed to get everything wrong in a movie based on a video game. Except for one upside-down kick by Guile in the very end, special moves are absent. Many of the characters from the video game don't even do much fighting. Blanca never electrocutes anyone, Dhalsim never does his yoga stretch attack, and DJ also does nothing. Sagat and Vega are included as M. Bison's henchmen, but they manage to be extaordinarily flaky in everything they do. The good characters, Chun Li, Ken, Ryu, Balrog, and E. Honda are even worse. Every line they speak is hackneyed, trite, and stale. M. Bison himself is excruciatingly annoying because he stops for a fit of maniacal laughter after practically every sentence. In one scene where the good characters come after him, M. Bison flees to safety and laughs his silly evil laugh while his attackers are knocked out with sleeping gas. "You could have defeated me had you worked together." He admonishes with a big, arrogant smile, and then laughs some more. Uggh!!! Perhaps the biggest mistake is that the movie is supposed to be in the real world. Guile is a colonel sent by the U.N. to fight M. Bison, a super duper evil crime lord/dictator/mad scientist. The story should have left more room for the supernatural so that special moves could be better incorporated into the plot. M. Bison gains his powers in the very end by using some giant machine to electrify himself. No! That doesn't work! If everything isn't bad enough already, Bison's palace/dungeon/batcave is guarded by stormtrooper wannabees. Naturally, they can't aim, and Van Damme knocks one of them out with a light tap on the helmet. It takes skill to make Van Damme look bad in an action movie! I have never in my life seen a film that is more saturated with ineptitude. Anything in the movie that can be made bad is bad. It is so bad that it's not even a good laugh because it is bad. Any entertainment value is eliminated with amazing thoroughness and it's not even faithful to the good ol' video game that we all know and love.
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Summary: Heaven!
Review: Finally salvation has been delivered to me. Jean-Claude Van Damme portrays Colonel Guile in this video game masterpiece. Based on Capcom's "Street Fighter", this film is about a warlord who wants billions of dollars and world domination. So, M. Bison (the late Raul Julia) takes innocent people hostage and demands for his requests to be met. Unfortunately for him, Guile will not obey the wide-eyed psychopath and asks him on international televion, 'hamanee doctors and nurses have you killed?' and 'hamanee children have you orphaned this week Bison?". It was chronicle! Guile's friend has been taken by the lunatic and Bison changes him into a fighting mutant! Carlos Blanca's life will never be the same. Oh well, enough of that soppy story. Back to action! Guile gathers all of his men and recruits a nosy reporter, a sumo wrestler, a boxer and two brothers who look nothing alike! Considering there is no street fighting what so ever in this mammoth production, Van Damme managed to impress me once again with his lordage. He fought Bison with roundhouse kicks, jumpkicks, his trademark 360* kick and the flash kick! YES, genius! Aside from the monumental superbeing, he saves the world and makes this the best video game movie ever. Forget "Mortal Kombat" or "Super Mario Bros." Van Damme would super kick all of those piddily mortals into the garbage where they belong!
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Summary: So laughably bad it becomes a collector's item!!!
Review: When I first heard that Van Damme, great thespian that he is, is to essay the lead role of Col Guile, my heart sank because my past experiences of Van Damme movies have been extremely unpleasant. Well, thank his lucky stars, this TIME Van Damme isn't the ONLY reason for the phenomenal flop that is this piece of celluloid wasteland. The director, screenwriter and (non-existent?) fight-choreographer should be hung by their thumbs for dumping onto us lovers of the arcade game this piece of ... . ... (1) The extremely filmsy plotline bears little relation to the actual character backgrounds of the arcade Street Fighters. One gets the feeling that the director and writer for this movie were non-fans of the game, and decided to invent their own "story". (2) There is not a single good *fight scene* in the entire movie. If they had spend the money saved by not hiring the expensive stars on a fight-choreographer, perhaps the movie could have been redeemed. (3) Terrible miscasting: Raul Julia is far too scrawny to be M.Bison, and Van Damme never even made me believe for a second that he was an American soldier. (4) The dialogues were exceptionally insipid, puerile and an insult to any zombied arcade-slave's intelligence. There were only two good parts in this movie. The first is when a group of Japanese intelligence officers spied in on M.Bison's lair and saw Zangief and E.Honda duking it out atop a miniature model of Bison's future headquarters. This was a very clever spoof of the Japanese Ultraman series. It even replicated the cheesy roars of Ultraman's usual dinosaur-nemeses in the background. Funny! The second was good because it was unintentionally funnny. At one point the actor playing Zangief, dressed only in red underwear, is seen clutching and crouching way "too-close-for-comfort" behind a crouching Ken. ... However, if/when this scene becomes the only cultish selling point for the entire movie, you'd know how lamentable the rest of it actually is! Final word, if you have money to waste, buy the Mortal Kombat DVDs first before you get into this one.
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Summary: I Was Fooled!
Review: I was tricked into watching this movie, I swear. My friends told me I was going to see "Forrest Gump", but I saw this in the theaters instead. They taped me to the seat and made me watch "Street Fighter", a movie I want to forget so much. It haunts me when I see E. Honda fighting Zangief like Godzilla monsters in my dreams. I am forever haunted with Van Damme movies.
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