Review by nbutcher-69458

Let's not mince words here. This is a bad and stupid movie. The Street Fighter characters have been pulled from their video game lore and reassembled here into a film with a plot that barely makes sense, and not in a good way.

I would compare Street Fighter to "Big Trouble in Little China" - both being schlocky B-grade kung fu explotation films. However this film is wildly inferior. While the film is self-aware of it's stupidity, the tone is more puerile, cartoony, and childish. There are scenes which drag on while trying to be serious, but simply fail to convince. There are plot points that are needlessly tacked on, and plenty of jokes that don't land. The worst crime though, is that the fight and battle scenes are wildly unrealistic and contain plenty of cut shots.

With the exception of Raul Julia - who steals every scene he is in as a boilerplate cartoon villain - the acting is absolutely atrocious. Van Damme was rumored to be hooked on the Colombian marching powder during the filming of this film, and it shows. His attempt at a US colonel with a strong European accent is laughable.

Honestly if it weren't for Raul Julia - and this being his last movie role before dying from cancer - I would have rated this much worse. It is still something of a guilty pleasure for those who enjoy bad films - but goodness me.