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Very disappointing...

A lot of fun.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

The only respectable characterization was Guille, and that was Van Damme's acting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Imagine how AWFUL the rest is.Sad, because the budget was good enough to make it work. It was a simple concept "Death Race" style. How can you screw that up?

I don't understand how you can seriously write a bad review for this movie (or any JCVD movie for that matter). It's based on an 8-bit video game from the 1980s that has a witch doctor who breathes fire and stretches his limbs twice the length of his body, a Chinese schoolgirl who kicks at the speed of sound, and a radioactive electricity monster with orange spikes for hair. You wanted a Gary Oldman-esque performance from Jean Claude? You were expecting less random objects to explode for no reason? Maybe more verisimilitude when it comes to geopolitical crises? Come on. Have a sense of humor. This is one of the most fun films you'll ever see as long as you don't try to take it seriously.

In the southeast Asian nation of Shadaloo, military dictator General Bison (Raul Julia) are holding hostages and battling the forces of the Allied Nations led by Colonel Guile (Jean-Claude Van Damme). Guile's friend Blanka is one of the captured soldier who Bison turns into a mutant. Ryu Hoshi and Ken Masters get into trouble dealing with criminal Viktor Sagat (Wes Studi). They are all arrested by Guile. Ryu and Ken are recruited by Guile and they stage an escape for Sagat. They even fake killing Guile. Reporter Chun-Li (Ming-Na) discovers the truth.The story is a mess trying to weave together all these game characters. It is sad to see Raul Julia in this and it's obvious after the fact that the man was sick. To his credit, he put in plenty of effort but the man looks sickly. The movie looks bad and silly. This grand mess is not compelling and all the action in the world can't save it. It's not even so bad that it's fun.

Pretty sure I went about this all wrong . . .I haven't played the video game since the '90s; and even then, it was never one of my favorites. I came to "Street Fighter" out of morbid curiosity. It's had a certain negative reputation for 20 years, and sometimes you just wonder what people mean by "bad".I would go with "meh", instead. It's not bad, it's just kinda boring. After awhile, I just got tired of seeing these underdeveloped characters all shoehorned into the story to fill a quota. Oddly enough, I got a real GI Joe vibe from this movie, far more than anything Street Fighter. One needs to watch something like this with beer in hand to fully appreciate the b-movie fromage. Alas, my fridge was tragically devoid of oat sodas, so I missed out (a mistake never to be made again, honest).I feel like I'm rambling. The point here, I guess, is that it's not the sacrilege that the internet has made it out to be . . . obviously, it's not great either, but hopefully if you approach this in the proper frame of mind, you might have a good time.Don't watch it alone. That's doing it wrong.5/10 Even so, Ming-na Wen: Hellooo, nurse!