Col. Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of Dictator M. Bison and his cohorts. After months of fighting, a multinational military force of the Allied Nations has managed to enter the city. The AN is fighting against the armed forces of drug-lord turned the evil warlord General M. Bison, who has recently captured a couple of dozen AN workers. Bison makes his demands in a live two-way TV broadcast with William F. Guile, the commander of the AN forces. If he is not paid $20 billion in three days he will kill the hostages! And so Guile and M. Bison will be facing off in the ultimate final showdown! I wrote a review for DERAILED (also a Van Damme film).In it I seem to remember saying that it was perhaps the worst film I'd ever wasted 2 hours of my life watching. Then I got to thinking about it. It's not even the worst Van Damme movie I've seen. This has got to be it. You've really got to hand it to everyone who contributed anything to this film. It really takes a lot of effort to make a film with no redeeming value at all. Like another reviewer I read said of another film, "Look ma, No Plot!". It's really too bad that such a talented actor as the late Raul Julia had this blot to any actor's filmography as one of his final films. I hope he got paid a whole lot of money for it. This is possibly one of the most embarassing movies ever. Take a really, really poor script that for some reason rejects the most obvious approach - an Enter the Dragon/Bloodsport/Kickboxer martial arts tournament - and goes for a ridiculous special forces operation against evil dictator Bison. The large crew of comicbook-like characters could logically turn up for a martial arts tournament (that's what the game is about), but that they all happen to turn up in Thailand at the same time instead is absolutely ludicrous. <br/><br/>Just as silly is the film's attempt to recreate the characters from the video game onscreen. John Claude Van Damme would have been an acceptable Guile had he been a supporting character that didn't say much, just kicked ass, but as the lead….he sucks. The guys supposed to be Ryu and Ken are hilariously wrong for the part, as is the wrestler-type guy supposed to be the male model like, acrobatic Vega. And why is Kylie Minogue Cammy? The only casting that is in anyway accurate to the game is Raul Julia as Bison, and he gives the only decent performance, an amusingly tongue-in-cheek explosion of evil. Thankfully the urban myth that this was his last film isn't true. <br/><br/>Then there are the terrible attempts to recreate the moves from the game. Watch 'Ken' do what's supposed to be a Dragon Punch on 'Sagat' and laugh - that's what we kids used to do in the school yard in 1991! The other moves are just as laughable. The entire film is shot in a bright, cartoon-esque way that makes it even more ridiculous, and the costumes and make-up are cheap and tacky. <br/><br/>To put it as bluntly as possible, Street Fighter is terrible.
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