"Street fighter the movie" 1994

Well being that I have already reviewed "Street fighter the legened of chun li" I figured it would only be necaserry to reveiw the orignal live action movie.

What can I say about this movie, well the only thing that I think can be said is, well, it was pretty crap, but in a good way, ha, you were not expecting that now were you?

But first I think it s only necaserry I point out what is wrong and right with the movie.

Now even though "Jean Claude Van Damne" looks like Guille from the game, tell me one simple thing, does he at any point in this movie sound like an American. Half the damn time you can hardly understand a word that he is saying, but then it gets to his imfamous line "Get da Hostages Out!", but for me it was just hallarious to listen to, and watch "Van Damn" try to act, it's kind of like watching a Schwarzneger movie even though he such a bad actor he is such a delight to watch, and not to mention it is kind of funny.

The rest of the casting isn't actally all that bad, all of the people look like the characters they are supposed to be playing like, Ryu, Ken, balrog, E. Honda, Blanca, zangeif, M. Bison, and Chun Li, Unlike in...............That other film. the only Character that they got completly wrong was dhalsim who at first looks like a scientist and then for a little bit we don't see him and the next time he comes back on camera he looks like a monk slash indian warrior, and the movie of course decides not tell us what the hell happened.

The acting, for some people was o.k., but for some others like the guy plays Zangeif, the guy who plays Blanca and of course the star of the film, Van Damn, it is pretty apparant they can't act to save their lives. For one thing the guy who plays Zangeif seems like he has never acted before in his life and all he seems to do is just yell like a retarted wrestler, but then again I guess thats what the character is like in the game, and blaca just talks in that really low voice and tries way too damn hard.

The action scenes are O.k, the only one that wasn't that good was the one where guille and M.Bison have their final fight and in some places it so obvious that they are repeating footage, and in one spot where Bison is supposed to be flying from off camera, into a computer it seems like he's just runing in for the other side and it was just fucking hallarious, and then the movie decides to rip off star wars and have M.bison wearing a Life support system in his suit like Darth Vader and then shooting lightining bolts like te emporer, WTF!

The Story, of course, has absolutley nothing to do with the street fighting Tournament, I mean come on, what is so damn hard about making a movie about a bunch of people fighting in a martial arts tournament, "Enter the Dragon" With "Bruce lee" did it and it was one of the best martial arts films ever made, and not to mention it's pretty much all Dragonball z lives for anymore so why the hell not?

But Overal this for me is just so over the top, stupid and badly acted and some of the action scenes are so awesome that you don't give a flying fuck about anything wrong with the movie, even though it is pretty apparant that there is loads wrong with it.

**1/2 - *****

So bad its good, seriously give it a watch, just for a chuckle, and as always don't watch the peice of shit known only as "Street fighter the Legened of Chun Li."

"Street Fighter - the legened of Chun Li" 2009

Why is it, every time hollywood tries to make a movie based on a game it allways seems to fail.
Imean "Mortal Kombat" was O.K and "Hitman" was O.K., but it seems every other attempt at trying to make a movie based on game is a complete failure, and for me one of the best examples is "Street Fighter - The legened of Chun Li".

One of the real sad things about this was that it was made recently, and it just shows how hollywoods attempts to cash in like this haven't change and they allways seem to fail.

But enough of my Blabbing, lets talk about the movie.

The first Problem with this movie is how it has nothing to do with the Street Fighter games.

For one thing they got Chun Li's background story completly wrong, anyone who reads the manual for the games can find out what the back stories are.

In the game Chun Li is out seeking revenge for the Death of her Father and she is after a gang of smuglers which leads her to the street fighting tournemant, in the mmovie however Chun Li's Father is Captured by Bison and Balrog, at this point Chun Li is living america living with her family (and any morron would know that she was born and raised in Hong Kong and didn't go to america until she went into the street fighting tournament), and she then travels to Bangkok (which wasn't even one of the locations in the Game! WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) to find Ken and train with him and then to find bison and seek revenge.

Wow it's bloody amazing how much the movie has nothing to do with the game in which it is FUCKING NAMED AFTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The next main problem with the movie is the casting, the casting is absoluttly horendus, none of the people in the movie look anything like the Charcters that they are supposed to be playing, the worst example is, in the game Ken is a Blonde American guy, in the movie he's played by a Chinese guy with the long black hair, Talk about the complete fucking oppisite!
Next and most immportant, Chun Li who in the game is Asian, in the movie is played by an American woman, WTF!

Balrog is played by Michael Clark Duncan, now I love this guy but my god was he misscast, not only does he look absolutly nothing like Balrog from the games, he doesn't even act like him, that is just fucking rediculous.

And of course the main villian of the Movie M. Bison, who, take a wild guess, Looks nothing like M. Bison, he doesn't even dress like him or act like him or do any of his special moves, good god the M. Bison in "Street fighter - The Movie" was way fucking closer to him than this pile of Steeming dog Shit.

The only character that was partly done right was Vega, but guess what, he's only in the movie for about 2 minutes, the one character they got right and he's only in the movie for 2 minutes, WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now we're onto something that anyone could guess hollywood would fuck up, the Special effects, which in the movie are just so damn obvious and look like they were just cut and pasted in at the last minute. One of the worst examples is when not Balrog blows up not Kens house just before not Chun Li shows up, and it just looks so not realistic, and fucking horribly inserted.

The Script as you might guess is filled with one liners, cliche ideas and unoriginal plot devices, for example, there's a side plot involving interpol and a buch of special agents that have been going after bison for fucking ages, and as you can tell, there doing a fucking horrible job at it, and besides, didn't Hitman already do the whole thing with interpol going after agent 47. So let me get this straight, this is a movie based on a game, ripping of another movie based on a game, WTF!

The only thing about this movie that is remotly decent is some of the action scene, but like I said only some of them, some of them are pretty good and some of them are pretty bad, I didn't even know that was possible in one movie, but well, there we go.

*/*****

Fuck it, I say stick with the "Street Fighter" animie's and The "Street Fighter" Movie with Jean Claude Van Damne.