Street Fighter (1994)

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

Director:

Steven E. de Souza

Writer:

Steven E. de Souza

Stars:

Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raul Julia, Ming-Na Wen

Bottom Rated Movies #75 | 2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jean-Claude Van Damme	...	Colonel Guile
Raul Julia	...	Bison
Ming-Na Wen	...	Chun-Li
Damian Chapa	...	Ken
Kylie Minogue	...	Cammy
Simon Callow	...	A.N. Official
Byron Mann	...	Ryu
Roshan Seth	...	Dhalsim
Andrew Bryniarski	...	Zangief
Grand L. Bush	...	Balrog
Robert Mammone	...	Carlos Blanka
Miguel A. Núñez Jr.	...	Dee Jay
Gregg Rainwater	...	T. Hawk
Kenya Sawada	...	Captain Sawada
Jay Tavare	...	Vega

Storyline

Col. William Guile leads an army of soldiers into the country of Shadaloo to find traces to lead him to General M. Bison, who has captured many people including three missing soldiers. Among them is Carlos "Charlie" Blanka, in which Bison decides to turn into a hideous mutant. On the other hand, Chun Li is a reporter who seeks revenge against Bison for the death of her father years ago. Then two small time hustlers Ryu and Ken, are arrested along with Sagat, a powerful arms dealer and Vega for dealing of illegal weapons. Guile recruits them in order to find Bison's base. Now Guile, T. Hawk, Cammy, Ryu, Ken, Chun Li, Balrog and E. Honda have three days before Bison murders the hostages and takes over the world.

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Plot Keywords:

man punches a woman | time bomb | woman punches a man | guile | hostage | 

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Taglines:

The ultimate battle.

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for non-stop martial arts and action violence

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

Japan USA

Language:

English Japanese Esperanto

Release Date:

23 December 1994 (USA)

Also Known As:

Street Fighter: The Battle for Shadaloo

Filming Locations:

Bangkok, Thailand

Box Office

Budget:

$35,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$6,859,495, 23 December 1994, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$33,423,521

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$105,414,729, 31 December 2004

Company Credits

Production Co:

Capcom Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

102 min

Sound Mix:

DTS-Stereo DTS Dolby SR

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.39 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Capcom was co-financier of the film, so every aspect of production required their approval. Among other things, they mandated a December 1994 release date, which required the cast and crew to maintain an aggressive filming schedule. Capcom had long envisioned Jean-Claude Van Damme as Guile and asked him to be cast. Van Damme's fee took nearly $8 million of the film's $35 million budget. After Raul Julia was cast as Bison, most of the casting budget had been spent. The majority of other parts had to go to little-known or unknown actors.

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Goofs

While Guille watches a video of him, Blanca and their wives, the Brazilian flag stitched on Blanca's uniform is clearly backwards.

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Quotes

Ken: This sucks! Those guys are good guys, like us!
Ryu: Lately, I don't feel very good.

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Crazy Credits

The Shadaloo Radio DJ jumps in to talk every so often during the end credits.

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Connections

Referenced in Loco (2012)

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Soundtracks

"Rumbo N Da Jungo
Performed by Public Enemy (Chuck D) and introducing The Wreck League
(Five-0, Punk Barbarians, Melquan and the Alias K.B.)
Written by C. Ryder, M. Keyes, R. Harding, J. Michael O'Brian, V. Brownlee, D. Thompson and J. Harrod
Produced by Kerwin Young and Chuck D
Chuck D appears courtesy of Def Jam Records

User Reviews

Everyone says its terrible but...

I first watched this as a young lad when it came out in 1994, i would have been in grade 4 at that point. I watched it as a street fighter gamer and loved the movie. I still watch it occasionally and I'm a 19 year old harsh movie critic. Now its obviously no Goodfellas or The Pianist, but for kids its a fun movie to watch and is pretty faithful to the games.

I still watch it and cannot understand why everyone thinks it is so terrible, i only see the massive gunfight between Van Damme and Bisons army as the only terrible part of the movie. Its not oscar material and was never supposed to be.

The plot has Bison (Julia) causing trouble in Shadaloo, some fictional pacific rim area I believe. He uses his drug money to fund his army in an attempt to take over the world. Guile (Van Damme) is a colonel in a fictional version of the UN, and is charged with stopping him, rescuing some hostages Bison has captured, and saving his old buddy. Now its personal.

Long story short, it obviously lacks in some acting, character developement etc. But on the plus side the fight between Ken and Sagat and Vega and Ryu is as good as gold.

People may think this movie is terrible, but i enjoy it for nostalgic reasons.