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Overall Rating
  Awesome: 4.65%
Worth A Look: 6.98%
Average: 5.81%
Pretty Bad: 12.79%
Total Crap: 69.77%
2 reviews, 74 user ratings
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by Ryan Arthur
"It can't be any worse than...oh hell, yes it can."
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Raul Julia's last movie is, without a doubt, the worst of an otherwise fine career.If you've read my review for the Jean-Claude Van Damme hunk o' cheese movie Knock Off, you'd know of my general dislike for hack screenwriter Steven E. De Souza, the man responsible for chunks of cinematic feces such as The Flintstones, Judge Dredd and Beverly Hills Cop III, and the occasionally good action movie, such as Die Hard (and its sequel).
Well, Mr. De Souza also wrote and directed Street Fighter, possibly the worst video game-to-movie transfer ever.
Dear Lord in Heaven, does this movie suck sour frog ass.
The details aren't important, since the plot doesn't matter. All it really does is serve as an excuse to get the characters from the game into a central location so they can beat the hell out of each other. Oh wait, it's a PG-13 movie, so the hellacious beating will be toned down quite a bit. Right. So let's look at the casting here.
Raul Julia is the power-mad General M. Bison. 'Kay. He looks a little scrawny, which may have been the illness. So they gave him this God-awful padded suit to try and make him look bigger. He looks like a guy wearing a suit made of sponges getting ready to go on Letterman and sit in the water tank. Jean-Claude Van Damme plays Colonel Guile, the All-American United Nations soldier with a French accent, who sounds and acts like every other character Van Damme's ever played. Uh-huh. There's Ming-Na Wen (an actress I normally like) playing the role of TV reporter/ninja girl Chun Li...and that's it. The rest of the roles are filled out by basically unknowns, with the exception of Cammy, played by Kylie Minogue (yes, THAT Kylie Minogue), who had the dubious distinction of being referred to as "the worst actress in the English-speaking world" by The Washington Post.
With praise like that, it's hard to see why this movie didn't do very well.
Actually, no it isn't. Even as a movie aimed at kids and fans of the game, the movie's a miserable failure. Oh sure, you see a few of the signature moves of the characters, but they certainly look goofy as hell on the big screen. It's obviously a lot more fun to control the action yourself. The action here breaks out pretty frequently (so you don't have to worry about that silly little plot or dialogue stuff), but none of it is all that entertaining.
Unlike the game, you're unfortunately left to the devices of Mr. De Souza. I pity you, viewer.This was Raul Julia's last movie. I'd hope this wasn't what killed him, but I have my doubts.
 del.icio.us 
link directly to this review at http://efilmcritic.com/review.php?movie=90&reviewer=7
originally posted: 01/27/99 03:09:40
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USA
07-Apr-1995 (PG-13)
DVD: 27-May-2003
UK
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