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  Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★ 5

  god this movie is fuckin awful. not one person in it is good. i love it

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  Review by P U R D I E ★★★ 15

  Lets not fool ourselves here - Street Fighter is a piece of shit.
  But I'll be damned if time isn't being kind to this car crash. Watching it as a straight comedy last night in a packed cinema, it was a hoot.

  Things that are bad about Street Fighter = Everything.

  Things that are amazing in Street Fighter =

  - Raul Julia's straight delivery of a proposterous script.
  - Van Damme's inspirational call to arms.
  - Van Damme calling Bison a dick head.
  - Bison's clown painting.
  - Bison's horseback painting.
  - Everything Zangief - EVERYTHING. The guy is dynamite.
  - Dr Dhalsim's vanishing hair.
  - Blanka maintaining his humanity watching video's of Dolphins and Puppy's.
  - Van Damme telling a polititian that he's lost his balls.
  - Bison's Arcade Controller.
  - E.Honda & Zangief's slow motion fight with overdubbed Godzilla sound effects.

  The list could easily go on. This movie is a riot.

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  Review by Florin Scanlon ★★★½ 6

  "Troopers, [encouraging patriotic army music starts playing] I just received new orders. Our superiors say the war is canceled. We can all go home. [cut to soldier shaking his head] Bison is getting paid up for his crimes and our friends who have died here will have died for nothing. [cut to soldier blinking] But... we can all go home. Meanwhile, ideals like peace, [cut to Asian soldier] freedom [cut to female soldier] and justice [cut to inspired-looking soldier], they get packed up. But... we can all go home. [cut to soldier blinking] Well, I'm not going home. [cut to soldier smiling] I'm going to get on my boat [cut to soldier nodding] and I'm going up river and I'm…

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  Review by comrade_yui ★★★★ 1

  basically a PG-13 paul verhoeven movie. van damme in this is so coked out of his mind that it feels like he's acting on a different plane of existence, and all the actors named after the videogame's characters are stumbling around trying to make sense of what, if anything, are their character motivations/emotions, which half of the time results in them under-acting and the other half of the time results in de souza's pulpy dialogue achieving this gawky iconic humor that makes this film so incredibly quotable.

  and raul julia... what a fucking legend. too good for this world.

  this a luminously special film, an essential 90s text. everyone should be required to watch it in order to truly understand american cinema.

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  Review by David Sims ★½ 6

  zangief really runs away with this

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  Review by Parker ★★ 10

  I don't think there's a single street fight in this whole movie.

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  Review by adambolt ★★★

  how the hell does this have more blood and death in it than the Mortal Kombat movie

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  Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★½ 7

  For those who don’t know this, the late Chadwick Boseman scored four nominations at the SAG Awards and to be honest he totally deserved it. That being said, the fact when this movie came out Raul Julia didn’t get any major recognition it almost feels like an insult and goes to show how rigged is the Awards system cause this man, with a foot and half his body on his grave, the man got to do things not even some of the healthiest people can as he chew, hammered and slay this entire picture while holding it in its back and lifting the heck out as it was just a plastic ball. Every line he was given (especially on the…

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  Review by Justin Decloux ★★★★ 4

  I never liked this movie as a kid. I was wrong.

  In the Holy 90s Video Game Trinity of Live Action Adaptations, this is clearly God.

  MORTAL KOMBAT is weighed down by trying to be cool, and SUPER MARIO BROTHERS is made by people who are filled with shame at having to make a video game movie, while STREET FIGHTER is simply a goof 'em up with a game cast, big colourful sets, and all the characters I vaguely know (I was a MORTAL KOMBAT boy) doing fun stuff. JCVD gives a rousing speech! The big Russian guy makes jokes! Raul Julia steals the entire show while on the brink of death! As a lover of Steven E. de Souza's other masterpiece HUDSON HAWK, I should have given this another chance sooner.

  Oh, I forgot DOUBLE DRAGON was a live-action movie that came out in the 90s. In religious terms, it's clearly Hot Stuff, The Little Devil.

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  Review by Slig001 ★★ 2

  This movie is a complete mess. The film tries to spin a narrative out of the popular video game series a la Mortal Kombat, and ties it into a war story with Raúl Juliá's M Bison apparently trying to take over the world with Jean-Claude Van Damme's Colonel Guile and a bunch of others trying to stop him. It's a real festival of total nonsense, with every character in the game being completely wasted - mostly notably fan favourite Blanka who is built up leading to absolutely nothing at all. The plot is completely incoherent, with numerous characters just sort of being there. Considering this is a film version of a beat em up game, there is surprisingly little fighting…

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  Review by Josh Trank ★★★★★

  “For Raúl. Vaya con Dios.”

  A perfect score for the following reasons, a reason for each star:

  1) Raúl Julia’s final performance, in which he gave it his all. The “it was Tuesday” scene is legendary. 

  2) “Quick! Change the channel” is one of the funniest and most memorable lines of all time to me. 

  3) Bison dollars.

  4) The sheer ambition to have made a pre-digital era globe-trotting war movie with big, practically shot action scenes and espionage involving fictional countries etc, instead of just saving money and making a movie about a fighting tournament for fans of the video game. Two thumbs up for chutzpah. The easy route was obvious, but they went the other way. 

  5) They…

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  Review by Richard ★★½ 11

  I have never really gone in for rewatching films and some of my legacy ratings date back 20 years or more, so I have decided to start revisiting one film each week from my pre-Letterboxd days. But where to start? A stone-cold classic like Citizen Kane? A personal favourite like Withnail & I? Or a half-remembered curiosity like The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension? I’m sure their time will come but, no, I decided to start by finding out whether Street Fighter was really as bad as my herd-minded teenage self believed when he awarded it the same rating later awarded to monstrosities like Cats.

  And Street Fighter is just glorious chaos. If it weren’t a video game…