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Street Fighter: The Movie is a 1994 action film loosely based on a popular fighting game of the same name published and developed by by Capcom.

It was written and directed by Steven E. de Souza, and it was also distributed by Universal Pictures in the United States and Columbia Pictures internationally.

The film stars Jeane Claude Van Damme and the late Raul Julia, along with Minga-Na Wen, Damian Chapa, Kylie Minogue, and Wes Studi as supporting roles.

Plot
General M. Bison, leader of an evil organization known as Shadaloo, has captured a great many people, and is turning them into mutant supersoldiers, including Charlie, who is now Blanka, under his command in an effort to take over the world.

Meanwhile, Colonel William Guile is sent on a mission to free the hostages and defeat M. Bison. Along the way, he recruits two small-time smugglers, Ryu and Ken, a news reporter named Chun-Li, along with her two associates, Balrog and E. Honda, as well as his two military partners, Cammy White and T. Hawk, and together, they all unite to infiltrate Shadaloo headquarters, and stop Bison from succeeding in his evil plans.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) This film has almost nothing to do with the source material of the game, because it is about a group of martial artists working together to stop an evil organization from taking the world, whereas in the games, the lore is about martial artists from around the world competing in a fighting tournament.
 * 2) Speaking of source material, most of the characters are nothing like their video game counterparts. For example, Ryu and Ken are a duo of small-time con artists (though not evil) and the former isn't even the main protagonist like he is in the games, and Balrog is a good guy on Chun-Li's side instead of being one of Bison's henchmen.
 * 3) The acting (except Raul Julia as M. Bison) is terrible and the dialogue and one-liners are incredibly corny.
 * 4) This movie has a very generic "stop the villain from taking over the world" plot, and it has nothing to do with a fight tournament like in the games.
 * 5) There are some very confusing plot holes. For instance, Sagat takes Ryu and Ken to a cage fight, but then Guile comes in and arrests the whole audience. If Guile was after Sagat, and Sagat alone, then why did he feel the need to arrest everyone who was watching the cage fight and presumably had no wrongdoings at all?
 * 6) The fight scenes are very bland. Not to mention that most of the famous moves from the games like Shoryuken, Sonic Boom, and Spinning Bird Kick aren't present in them.
 * 7) Despite being based on Street Fighter II, Akuma is nowhere to be seen in this movie, not even as a cameo or a reference mentioned by another character.
 * 8) Bison's villainy is often overexaggerated, like he has to make paintings out of him or name cities and dollars after himself.
 * 9) Jean-Claude Van Damme gives a very poor American accent and still makes Guile sound Belgian, despite the character's nationality being American.
 * 10) As mentioned in WIS#3, the dialogue is filled with stupid quotes, most notably Zangief saying "Quick! Change the channel!".
 * 11) Ryu's name is pronounced incorrectly as "Rae-You" instead of "Ree-You" like it actually is in the games.
 * 12) The special effects are poorly done, especially when Ryu unleashes his Hadouken with the light flashing all over the screen once instead of an energy ball coming from his hands.
 * 13) There's barely any character development, and a lot of characters are just one-dimensional.
 * 14) Dee Jay and Zangief are Bison's henchmen, despite the fact that neither of them have ever worked for him in the games.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Raul Julia is considered to be the only good actor in the whole film with memorable quotes like "OF COURSE!", and "For you, the day that Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life, but for me... it was Tuesday.".
 * 2) There are some pretty cool nods to the game the film is based on, like Bison using an arcade cabinet to fire missles at Guile, and some of the characters doing their victory poses from the game at the end of the movie.
 * 3) Some characters are still faithful to their game counterparts, like Bison being the leader of Shadaloo, and Chun-Li being a kung-fu martial artist who lost her village to Bison.
 * 4) Some may find this movie to be enjoyable because of how bad it is so in other words: it's so bad, it's good.
 * 5) Though stupid, Zangief's quote "Quick! Change the channel!" is pretty hilarious, and Dee Jay's reaction to it afterwards adds to its hilarity.

Trivia

 * 1) This was the last film to star Raul Julia, and after they were done filming it, he died of a strokes two months before the movie was released.

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