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[CONTAINER][POSTER] [/POSTER][MOVIE]Title: Street Fighter

Tagline: Adventure is the name of the game

Genre: [GENRE]Action[/GENRE], [GENRE]Adventure[/GENRE], [GENRE]Thriller[/GENRE]

Director: [DIRECTOR]Steven E. de Souza[/DIRECTOR]

Cast: [ACTOR]Jean-Claude Van Damme[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Raúl Juliá[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Ming-Na Wen[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Damian Chapa[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Kylie Minogue[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Wes Studi[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Byron Mann[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Roshan Seth[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Grand L. Bush[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Jay Tavare[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Simon Callow[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Andrew Bryniarski[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Miguel A. Núñez Jr.[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Robert Mammone[/ACTOR]

Release Date: [RELEASE]1994-12-22[/RELEASE]

Runtime: [RUNTIME]102[/RUNTIME]

Plot: [PLOT]Colonel Guile, the Allied Nations commando leads an elite team of street fighters against the forces of the mad General M. Bison. Bison who has hatched an evil plan for world domination, takes dozens of relief workers hostage and gives the world only 72 hours to respond to his twisted demands. Guile must find the captives and confront Bison in an electrifying battle for the fate of the free world.[/PLOT][/MOVIE][/CONTAINER]
[DOUBLEPOST=1392044284,1392044163][/DOUBLEPOST]Only a bad movie if, like Jean Claude Van Dam, you think it's supposed to be serious. The best live action G.I. Joe movie, heck the best G.I. Joe movie that is not Resolute.

Yeah, Raul Julia!

'nuff said.

Replace "Benji Saves the Universe" with "Street Fighter", and there's my review:

That computer has one weird looking monitor.

The worst movie I ever enjoyed so much. The movie that killed Raul Julia. Oh, they told us it was cancer, but we all knew it was Street Fighter.

Also, who can forget the immortal exchange between Bison and Chun Li -

"It was twenty years ago. You hadn't promoted yourself to general yet. You were just a petty drug lord. Huh! You and your gang of murderers gathered your small ounce of courage to raid across the border for food... weapons... [indicates her binds] ... hmph. Slave labor. My father was the village magistrate. A simple man with a simple code: justice. He gathered the few people that he could to stand against you. [laughs] You and your bullies were driven back by farmers with pitchforks! My father saved his village at the cost of his own life. You had him shot as you ran away! A hero... at a thousand paces. "

"I'm sorry, I don't remember any of it."

"You don't remember...?!"

"The day Bison graced your village with his presence was the most important moment of your entire life. For me it was... Tuesday?"

"Quick! Change the channel!"

A retitled GI Joe the Movie. Just change the names to GI Joe characters and you have a straight up GI Joe movie that's almost perfectly faithful to the old cartoon, good or bad.

Even the movie toys were GI Joes, I refuse to believe that's coincidence.

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It gets two stars. One for existing, and another for Raul Julia.

Charlie Don't Surf said:

It gets two stars. One for existing, and another for Raul Julia.

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Let's be honest here, both of those stars are for Raul.

I can't say I love this movie, but I do like it. It's a live-action cartoon version of GI Joe or Pro Wrestling, or whatever 80's cliche you want to bring up. It's a spectacle, a circus, and definitely entertaining.

--Patrick

I remember this came out around the same time as the first Mortal Kombat movie. Basically, one movie wanted to be a serious adaptation of a video game, the other wanted to be a funny send-up of the genre. Guess which one was successful?

They both failed?

Frank said:

They both failed?

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Well, yes, but one sucked harder than the other.