Street Fighter (1994)

Director:

Steven E. de Souza

Writer (WGA):

Steven E. de Souza (written by)

Release Date:

23 December 1994 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Tagline:

The ultimate battle.

Plot:

Col. Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of Dictator M. Bison and his cohorts.

Plot Keywords:

Hostage | Chun Li | General | Warlord | Dictator

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Jean-Claude Van Damme	...	Colonel William F. Guile
Raul Julia	...	General M. Bison
Ming-Na	...	Chun-Li Zang (as Ming-Na Wen)
Damian Chapa	...	Ken Masters
Kylie Minogue	...	Lieutenant Cammy
Simon Callow	...	A.N. Official
Roshan Seth	...	Dr. Dhalsim
Wes Studi	...	Victor Sagat
Byron Mann	...	Ryu Hoshi
Grand L. Bush	...	Balrog
Peter Navy Tuiasosopo	...	E. Honda (as Peter Tuiasosopo)
Jay Tavare	...	Vega
Andrew Bryniarski	...	Zangief
Gregg Rainwater	...	T. Hawk
Miguel A. Núñez Jr.	...	Dee Jay (as Miguel A. Nunez Jr.)

Also Known As:

Street Fighter: The Battle for Shadaloo
Street Fighter: The Movie
Street Fighter: The Ultimate Battle (UK) (TV title)

Runtime:

102 min

Country:

USA | Japan

Language:

English | Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS-Stereo | DTS

Certification:

Finland:K-16 | Iceland:16 | Netherlands:12 | South Korea:12 | Peru:14 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Chile:14 | Finland:K-14 (cut) | Germany:16 | Norway:15 | Portugal:M/12 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:12 (censored version) | USA:PG-13 | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Bangkok, Thailand

Company:

Capcom Entertainment

Trivia:

The controls to M. Bison's floating "desk" are identical to the controls of the Street Fighter video game.

Goofs:

Continuity: Look closely after Colonel Guile jumps down from General M. Bison's hovering desk. When Guile lands on the ground, he is seen from his right side with his back to the camera, and he knocks Bison down with a kick. In the very next shot, when Guile says "Come on" to Bison, Guile is in the same spot, but he's now suddenly seen from his left side with his front to the camera without moving. In the very next shot, Guile is seen with his back to the camera again when he knocks Bison back down with another kick.

Quotes:

[Ryu and Ken have been grabbed by the neck by Sagat during the ambush of Bison's party]
Victor Sagat: [raging] Are you with me, or against me?
Ken: [desperate] Uhh, is that multiple choice...?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Street Fighter: The Later Years: (#1.2)" (2006)

Soundtrack:

Something There

Watch the animated movie instead.

Being the fanatic of the video game series that I am, I was eager to see this movie when it first came out.

One word.

Garbage.

The movie does the video game on which it is based no justice whatsoever. If you want to see a good video game based film, watch Mortal Kombat instead.

And what the hell was up with those guys playing Ryu and Ken.

And Jewan-Claude Van-Dumb playing Guile? A Belgian playing an American. How dumb can you get!

And the script?

Someone actually got PAID to write that crap-ola.

Let me take a shot at it....while I'm not a professional screen writer, I certainly couldn't have done any worse than that.

Whoever did the casting for that film needs to go flip burgers if that's any example of how they do their other projects.

Maybe I'm being to critical here, but I expect the movie to at least remind me of the game. Nothing did.

Watch the animated version.