Well, here we start with Video Game Month and it's very sad for me to watch this movie at all. At least I got to look back at some of the Nostalgia Critic's reviews. As an early video game movie, it's as awful as ever. The main problem is that it focuses on Guile instead of Ryu and/or Ken. Even worse, I would have at least given this film some credit if it had included the Hadouken or Sonic Boom, but we get absolutely none of that at all! Seriously, I was waiting for that at least at the end. The plot is stupid and really has little to do with the games at all. It's mostly just M. Bison trying to take over the world (of course!).The pacing in this film is terrible. I keep thinking there were deleted scenes that I missed. One scene we have Chun-Li talking about how she's going to get revenge on M. Bison and then later we just see them together. There's a good line or two, especially M. Bison's, "For me it was Tuesday". This was Raul Julia's last film and it's pretty easy to say that this was the worst last film of a noteworthy actor. It's a pity I knew little about him. It was dedicated to him which is pretty insulting. The sets in this film look terrible. The props are all bad looking.We just random talking scene after random fighting scene. There's no rhyme or reason for what's going on. I think this might have worked as a short film because it certainly feels like one stretched out to the length of a feature film. The scenes are redundant, especially with Bison just flying over and over. It mostly just suffers from being dreadfully boring. Even the stupid fight scenes have at least something going on. My pain has begun, my friends. *

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!

Video game movies are still more often disappointments than successes, but at least we've moved on from the era of crud like Street Fighter. Movies like this were made in such a way that they didn't appeal to the fans of the games or the casual movie audience.My primary complaint is the laughable casting. It's like the makers of the movie knew absolutely nothing about the games except for the sex, names, and races of the various characters. They make a huge effort to work the names of every character into the movie, just so the audience will (presumably) think it's cool to see their favorites on the big screen. But, Van Damme as an American soldier? Kylie Minogue as Cammy? Oh, and let's briefly mention the story. Balrog is a cameraman and Ryu and Ken (with brown hair!!) are some type of lovable con-men? Shadaloo City? Ugh. Actual street fighting wouldn't give me enough brain damage to want to ever see this again.

This movie sure has a lot of faults in trying to base itself off a video game. First of all, many of the characters were either miscast or shallow. However I'm gonna start off by saying that Raul Julia has changed the way we view M.Bison in the franchise. He glorifies the persona as a simple dictator bent on taking over the world. A few other characters such as Zangief and Chun-Li also kind of helped me enjoy the movie a bit better. It might be because they were the closest in having resemblance to their game counterparts.Other than that, it's pretty funny casting or interpretations of everyone else. JCVD as Guile? LOL..... Kylie Minogue as Cammy, uh.... I guess she looks the part and this extends to stuff like E.Honda being Hawaiian to Ryu and Ken being con men. So practically the movie tried to change much of the law for the shake of making a movie. It's pretty messy or as I like to say...Cheesy.The movie is pretty goofy.... The effects are pretty over the top and same goes for the fight choreography. I mean look at the fight Ryu and Vega have... The dialogue also does belong in this category too but it's pretty laughably entertaining. Alright let's talk about the story.....Well, other than the fact M.Bison wants control. Let's see what the protagonists are up to. They just need to stop him. I mean there should have been more depth for us to care about Guile or Chun-Li's reason to hate Bison. It might have been a better idea to make Charlie a deceased dude rather than integrate the name into Blanka. That's just me, but I don't think adding the name 'Charlie' means a whole lot since later games in the franchise introduce the actual character. Chun-Li on the other hand needs a more fleshed out insight into her story, that's all I want from her. Ryu and Ken who are naturally the poster children of the franchise are nothing more than two goofy side characters who go about switching alliances. They're pretty bland. To wrap this movie up, the movie is sure not a good adaptation of a video game but the movie is a good time if I want to have a bit of roast.