wow. this is an "action movie" with Van Damme that is based on a FIGHTING GAME for home video game consoles.
Sounds like it could be pretty cool huh? wrong. where's the action anyways? there's a couple of fight scenes in the film, but nothing is even close to impressive.
Isn't the reason WE (van damme fans) watch films like this for the fighting? So much potential, but the film would rather wallow around in the cheesiest plot line ever...as opposed to giving fans a lot of kick ass fight scenes.
The film attempts to throw a bunch of the popular video game characters into the film, if only to have them in there and nothing else. It was a tremendous letdown to see the character "Vega" turn into such a wimp. Vega didn't even do much fighting either...very disappointing.
The bright spots are Raul Julia's character, "M Bison". Although, its a sad film for such a great actor to leave on (RIP). There's also some humorous moments (intentionally) that made me chuckle, but those moments also took away from the film at the same time.
CLIFF NOTES: hardly any real action, mostly some cheesy gun battles. when the fight scenes did happen, they weren't anything impressive...especially since most of them DIDN'T have van damme in them. The film gets stuck in trying to make a plot and throw as many characters from the popular video game into the mix. This doesn't even seem like a van damme movie, now that i think about it. where's the van damme fightings?!?!?!?! RATING: 3/10
Sounds like it could be pretty cool huh? wrong. where's the action anyways? there's a couple of fight scenes in the film, but nothing is even close to impressive.
Isn't the reason WE (van damme fans) watch films like this for the fighting? So much potential, but the film would rather wallow around in the cheesiest plot line ever...as opposed to giving fans a lot of kick ass fight scenes.
The film attempts to throw a bunch of the popular video game characters into the film, if only to have them in there and nothing else. It was a tremendous letdown to see the character "Vega" turn into such a wimp. Vega didn't even do much fighting either...very disappointing.
The bright spots are Raul Julia's character, "M Bison". Although, its a sad film for such a great actor to leave on (RIP). There's also some humorous moments (intentionally) that made me chuckle, but those moments also took away from the film at the same time.
CLIFF NOTES: hardly any real action, mostly some cheesy gun battles. when the fight scenes did happen, they weren't anything impressive...especially since most of them DIDN'T have van damme in them. The film gets stuck in trying to make a plot and throw as many characters from the popular video game into the mix. This doesn't even seem like a van damme movie, now that i think about it. where's the van damme fightings?!?!?!?! RATING: 3/10