Street Fighter [Blu-ray]

For those complaining that its not "faithful to the source material" please stop. It was a video game movie made in the early to mid 90's. It stars Jean Claude Van Damme. It was also based on a video game that had NO depth of character or plot. All you had from the game to write a movie off of was the way the characters looked and one or two sentences from each of them when they won a fight. I think its pretty reasonable they took some liberties. You want a "faithful" SF movie go buy those anime movies they made after this one. Okay, all that said... I like this movie very much. No, I did not see it as a kid, I first saw it this year and I'm 26. No, it is not a GOOD movie at all, but I rate films based on entertainment value and this has it through the roof. Yeah, its a stupid cheese-fest but its a really FUN cheese-fest that's also fast moving, never boring, and has TONS of personality. Its kinda like if Megaforce had been made in the early 90's and actually gotten half of the one-liners right for a change. This was Raul Julia's final film, and its sad to see an honestly great actor die fairly young like he did. That said, those who feel his role as Bison was sad and beneath his dignity should pay more attention to his performance in this movie. He clearly is having an absolute blast as Gen. Bison, hamming it up in a truly delicious way. Every time he's on screen its a hilarious treat and probably the best bad guy overacting I've seen since Michael Gough's performance in Konga . Julia's performance is the best one, but all the acting is hammy and over the top, but thankfully never so much that it approaches the wink-wink level of irony. Instead, everyone does what they should do, and what always makes these movies more fun -- they play it straight, as if the material were serious and important, but ratchet everything up well above where it should be. My wife put it well when she said the movie feels "like a big comic book." Sometimes its funny on purpose, most of the time its fun unintentionally, but through and through its fast and entertaining. As far as trying to incorporate the video game elements in, I got a real kick out of how they managed to get everyone in their video game costumes at some point, no matter how crazy the reasons behind the change of outfit. Ryu and Ken finally get into their karate outfits when they're mistakenly taken in as Bison's new recruits. Chun-Li dresses in her ridiculous getup from the game as its apparently Bison's fetish outfit of choice for her (LOL!). Blanka finally appears monstrous as a victim of a genetic super-soldier experiment. Dhalsim starts out as a normal Indian guy with hair but looks like his video game counterpart after getting his shirt and hair (!!!) burned off. Balrog just shows up in boxing gear toward the end of the movie with no explanation offered at all (not even in the deleted scenes). For those who might know me or have read some of my other reviews, it might seem weird that I like Street Fighter given my unbridled contempt for other big Hollywood adaptation crapfests like the Transformers movies. The main difference to me is tone. Street Fighter is completely ridiculous but creates a world where everything is that way, giving the movie a unified feel (again, "like a big comic book" as my wife put it). Movies like Transformers are just set in the real world, with average people (no character in Street Fighter is portrayed as just a normal everyday guy) doing the dumbest most nonsensical stuff possible. Another difference is the audience respect factor. Street Fighter is dumb, but its dumb in a silly good natured way. It knows its dumb but it's heart is in the right place and it invites its audience to get in on the fun. It doesn't condescend to its audience or treat them as idiots, it revels in its brainlessness and wants you to dig in too. The Transformers movies are cynical, and people like Michael Bay honestly know how to make a better movie, they just don't care. They have no respect for their audience, treat them like cavemen, and go about their films in the laziest way possible, thinking if they wave enough explosions and hot chicks in front of our eyes it'll be good enough. The sad part is, it works. Plenty of idiots keeping buying tickets, not caring that the filmmakers are being condescending to them and insulting their intelligence, so they keep getting giant turds when there's literally every reason (both monetarily and talent-wise) for movies like Transformers to be way better than they are. I'm not against dumb movies, but there's a right way and a wrong way to make them. Street Fighter gets it right, it actually shows effort and heart. If you want a truly entertaining dumb action movie, one that knows what kind of fun its having, you've found a great one in Street Fighter.

Fun movie everyone everywhere can enjoy.

It's not a good adaptation but it IS a fun movie. I watched it on VHS as a youngin(way to carbon date myself) and decided it was about time to own it on a modern form of media. Blanka still looks as awful as I remember. They still say Ryu wrong, Cammy is there. Guile is the main character for some reason. The casting was actually pretty solid for (almost) everyone honestly, I did like that. Also, the Bison recruitment extra was super funny and my friend and I got a good laugh outta it. I miss stuff like that.

Perfect

Whenever I think of video game movies, I always think of only three movies: Super Mario Brothers, Street Fighter, and Double Dragon. Perhaps because these were the first three made or perhaps because I loved all three as a kid. Either way, of those three, it's Street Fighter I seem to always think of the most as far as these kind of movies go. Street Fighter: The Movie came out in 1994, a year after the release of Super Mario Brothers. Let's just be upfront in saying it's no where near being an Oscar worthy movie. It's probably not even really "good", at that. It's a somewhat cheesy or campy movie (but not as much as SMB and no where near as much as Double Dragon). But I've always really enjoyed the movie. So what is the plot of the movie? This is one place I think it hurt itself with a lot of Street Fighter fans. As was once said, for a movie called Street Fighter....there's a glaring lack of street fighting, much less a tournament. I could have easily seen the movie be your standard martial arts film in that sense had they made it a bit more like the games. However, in the movie, Bison is as he is in the games: a power mad dictator out for world domination. Opposing him is the Allied Nations with Guile commanding the army. And that's basically the plot. Bison has taken a large group of people hostage and has given the world 72 hours to hand him $20 billion in ransom while the main characters set out to stop him and rescue the hostages (though they don't all come together until towards the end of the movie). Many of the major characters from the games out at the time are in the movie as well. Ryu and Ken are a couple of con artists who rip off criminals, Sagat and Vega, both former cage fighters, operate as arms dealers for Bison, Chun Li, out to avenge her father, Balrog, who is one of the more major departures from his game counterpart, and E. Honda work as reporters, and Guile, like his game counterpart, is after Bison partially to avenge his friend Charlie who is combined with Blanka from the game as in the movie, Charlie IS Blanka. Zangief, though not like in the game, works for Bison. I bought the blu-ray "Extreme Edition" version of the movie. Admittedly I never owned the DVD so I can't compare. But I thought the image quality was nice. I have no complaints there. There's several special features but so far I've only watched the deleted scenes. There's unfortunately only two of them and both center around Chun Li. The only "big name" people in the movie are Raul Julia as M. Bison and Jean Claude Van Damme who plays Colonel William F. Guile. Both give good performances (as good as it can be given the circumstances). Raul Julia definitely takes the cake though as my favorite performance of the movie. It was clear he was enjoying himself with the role. It's only sad because Raul Julia died not long after the movie came out. I remember always seeing the "For Raul. Vaya con dios" at the end but never realizing what it meant (both with RJ's death and I didn't know Spanish at the time--it means go with God). Now that I do, I felt a twinge of sadness as it appeared and the credits rolled. Another thing I've heard people didn't like about the movie is they changed the central character. In the games, Ryu is the central/main character while in the movie, it's Guile. While Guile is my favorite character (in both the games and movie), I can understand. All in all, can you really say Street Fighter is a "good" movie? Probably not. But something about it I can't quite put my finger on has always made me really enjoy the movie. Truth be told, it's probably my favorite video game movie.

It’s like the video game

So bad it’s good a must have for 90s fan

Good

Llego bien la película

Très bien satisfaite merci à vous à Amazon

bon film , souvenir de jeunesse

Todo bien ah llegado perfecto a españa Barcelona y tiene los audios ingles frances y latino

Really good picture and sound.