I waited with anticipation for "Street Fighter" the live action movie to be released over in the UK, i waited in line calmly holing my own video copy of the movie patiently waiting to be served. Finally it came to my turn i paid for it and was on my way home to watch it in the comfort of my own home. I sat back and prepared for utter thrills, spills and kills to be unleashed upon me. I sat for about 90 minutes thinking "did i make the right choice in buying this?" At the end i put the video away and continued with waiting for "Mortal Kombat Annihilation" to be released in the next 3 years.
The thing with the "Street Fighter movie" wasn't that it was bad, it just wasn't good.
The story has three perspectives: 1) Ryu and Ken are 2 ruthless Honoured martial artists who like the thrill of gun smuggling, the reason why is they would sell toy guns to a very powerful cage fighter called Sagat but they are arrested along with Sagat and his faithful follower Vega who is also a cage fighter. The foursome wind up in a UN prison camp.
2) Colonel. Guile is a hard American (Belgian if we are speaking of Jean Claude van-damm)soldier who has held a grudge against warlord general M Bison for a number of years, after striking an agreement with Ken and Ryu to set up Guile's fake assassination in exchange for there freedom and help. Guile leads a UN army to battle that of Bison's.
3) Chun LI a feisty Japanese reporter turned mercenary along with her two bodyguards an ex-boxer and a sumo wrestler also are on Bison's trail, after a failed attempt at killing him they are imprisoned with Ryu and Ken after they to were discovered to be spys.
The Film ends with the confrontation between Guile and Bison with some other fights with the rest of the cast, and the destruction of Bison's HQ, hooray everybody good wins every bad guy loses. Your basic good vs evil plot, the film is to be taken as light-heartedly as possible because there is quite a bit of non sensical humour.
New comers will enjoy, whereas fans of the cracking Manga and games will feel unimpressed.
My rating would be about 5/10
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