Duncan Ryan-Ross (DuncanRR)

Considering all the praise heaped upon this movie, I was expecting something better. It's one of the few horror movies where a mockumentary style is actually realistic as opposed to gimmicky, due to the absence of music, and a cast made up of people that act, and look, like real people. That being said, the movie doesn't really pack any scares until the last 10 minutes or so. Plenty of startles, but not a whole lot of scares.

Raul Julia's delightfully eeeeevil turn as M. Bison (the movie's flamboyant villain, for those not in the know) is one of the major contributing factors that saves this movie from being a total waste of time. The other would be who you see it with. Street Fighter is a bad movie, that goes without saying. Apart from Raul Julia's gleeful scenery-chewing, the acting is dreadful on all counts (including, I'm sad to say, Wes Studi and Ming-Na). On top of that, the movie has nothing to do with the video game it says it's based on, apart from character names, costume design, and-I'm not joking about this-a control panel from the arcade cabinet featured as a prop. And for a movie called Street Fighter, it's pretty light on the action.

As terrible as it is, though, it's got a certain so-bad-it's-good charm that makes it a perfect party movie, and some of the one-liners are memorable. It's more entertaining than the Mortal Kombat movies, that's for sure.

Holy crap, is this movie good! Full review coming soon...

Groundbreaking upon it's release, it still an exceptional cyberpunk sci-fi today. The action scenes are spectacular, and the concept of the human race being ruled by these machines is enough to make you ponder your own existence. And like "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" and "The Princess Bride", this movie is one of the most quotable ever made.