There was a rash of bad video game movie in the early 90s, including: Street Fighter, Super Mario Bros., and Mortal Kombat, and Street Fighter is by far the worst. It stars the goofy Jean-Claude Van Damme, a low rent combination of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Lee, who's idea of acting is based on grunts and a heavy dose of stink eye. There is also pop star Kylie Minogue and...Raul Julia. What the hell is he doing in this? At least he is having fun, but this is not the type if film that should be remembered as his last. Watching somebody play Street Fighter is more enjoyable than this. The characters are morphed into these freaks of what they are in the game, several of them bear no real resemblance. Vega, Blanka, Dee Jay, and Dhalsim are the ones that come to mind. The fights are lazily choreographed, with little attention paid to what characters were capable of in the game and the movie even falls to give any background or real motivation. It's just a dumb, boring, and laughable waste of time that doesn't look like it should have cost in excess of 30 million to make.
Review of Street Fighter
