Street Fighter [Blu-ray]

Love this movie!

For those complaining that its not "faithful to the source material" please stop. It was a video game movie made in the early to mid 90's. It stars Jean Claude Van Damme. It was also based on a video game that had NO depth of character or plot. All you had from the game to write a movie off of was the way the characters looked and one or two sentences from each of them when they won a fight. I think its pretty reasonable they took some liberties. You want a "faithful" SF movie go buy those anime movies they made after this one. Okay, all that said... I like this movie very much. No, I did not see it as a kid, I first saw it this year and I'm 26. No, it is not a GOOD movie at all, but I rate films based on entertainment value and this has it through the roof. Yeah, its a stupid cheese-fest but its a really FUN cheese-fest that's also fast moving, never boring, and has TONS of personality. Its kinda like if Megaforce had been made in the early 90's and actually gotten half of the one-liners right for a change. This was Raul Julia's final film, and its sad to see an honestly great actor die fairly young like he did. That said, those who feel his role as Bison was sad and beneath his dignity should pay more attention to his performance in this movie. He clearly is having an absolute blast as Gen. Bison, hamming it up in a truly delicious way. Every time he's on screen its a hilarious treat and probably the best bad guy overacting I've seen since Michael Gough's performance in Konga . Julia's performance is the best one, but all the acting is hammy and over the top, but thankfully never so much that it approaches the wink-wink level of irony. Instead, everyone does what they should do, and what always makes these movies more fun -- they play it straight, as if the material were serious and important, but ratchet everything up well above where it should be. My wife put it well when she said the movie feels "like a big comic book." Sometimes its funny on purpose, most of the time its fun unintentionally, but through and through its fast and entertaining. As far as trying to incorporate the video game elements in, I got a real kick out of how they managed to get everyone in their video game costumes at some point, no matter how crazy the reasons behind the change of outfit. Ryu and Ken finally get into their karate outfits when they're mistakenly taken in as Bison's new recruits. Chun-Li dresses in her ridiculous getup from the game as its apparently Bison's fetish outfit of choice for her (LOL!). Blanka finally appears monstrous as a victim of a genetic super-soldier experiment. Dhalsim starts out as a normal Indian guy with hair but looks like his video game counterpart after getting his shirt and hair (!!!) burned off. Balrog just shows up in boxing gear toward the end of the movie with no explanation offered at all (not even in the deleted scenes). For those who might know me or have read some of my other reviews, it might seem weird that I like Street Fighter given my unbridled contempt for other big Hollywood adaptation crapfests like the Transformers movies. The main difference to me is tone. Street Fighter is completely ridiculous but creates a world where everything is that way, giving the movie a unified feel (again, "like a big comic book" as my wife put it). Movies like Transformers are just set in the real world, with average people (no character in Street Fighter is portrayed as just a normal everyday guy) doing the dumbest most nonsensical stuff possible. Another difference is the audience respect factor. Street Fighter is dumb, but its dumb in a silly good natured way. It knows its dumb but it's heart is in the right place and it invites its audience to get in on the fun. It doesn't condescend to its audience or treat them as idiots, it revels in its brainlessness and wants you to dig in too. The Transformers movies are cynical, and people like Michael Bay honestly know how to make a better movie, they just don't care. They have no respect for their audience, treat them like cavemen, and go about their films in the laziest way possible, thinking if they wave enough explosions and hot chicks in front of our eyes it'll be good enough. The sad part is, it works. Plenty of idiots keeping buying tickets, not caring that the filmmakers are being condescending to them and insulting their intelligence, so they keep getting giant turds when there's literally every reason (both monetarily and talent-wise) for movies like Transformers to be way better than they are. I'm not against dumb movies, but there's a right way and a wrong way to make them. Street Fighter gets it right, it actually shows effort and heart. If you want a truly entertaining dumb action movie, one that knows what kind of fun its having, you've found a great one in Street Fighter.

Good

This is a fun somewhat campy video game adaption film. Great cast. Looks and sounds pretty good for blu-ray.

Yes upgrade from vhs

Funny, campy movie. It's also quite tragic because the great Raul Julia was dying from cancer, and he looks like it, through the whole movie. Yet he was determined to leave a fun action movie that his kids could watch after he was gone. I've read stories about his children being on the set during filming so they could spend as much time with them as possible. Mr Julia gives everything he has to the roll. He is an absolute delight. JCVD is all kicks and swagger and charm, as usual. It's not the best videogame to movie adaptation but it's very far from the worst. See it for fun, buy it for Raul Julias final performance.

Na

I have always loved this movie. During the mid 90's, the special effects were getting better. Still cheesy, but better. Of course, between this and the Mortal Combat movie that come out about almost the same time, Mortal Combat won that one in the movie theaters. However, even though this movie bombed in the theaters, it's still great entertainment for those of us that like the cheese to go on your fries, lol. Obviously, they weren't trying to win an Oscar award with this film, however, it was Raul Julia's last movie before he passed and it was cool that they mentioned his name at the end of the film. Anyway, if you're into Martial Arts movies and 90's flicks, then this is for you.

Un clásico de los 90.

El envio perfecto y todo bien pero es español latino,una decepcion.Deverian especificarlo.

Really good picture and sound.

Bon divertissement ! excellents acteurs

rapide merci 🥳