My Street Fighter review
Intro: Why is 50 cent in this movie? Is he trying to ruin his street cred?
I guess the third time is not the charm for this franchise. The first film as a G.I. Joe movie with street fighter characters. The second movie tried to go in Christopher Nolan direction and it was ridiculous. This movie has the same problem as the Mario Galaxy movie that is style over substance. Don't you dare ask was I expecting Shakespeare this movie tried and failed to be Shakespeare. (wink, wink) It couldn't tell a simple story without it being all over the place. Speaking of the story it's lazy, I mean it's similar to a Street Fighter animated movie. Plus, it suffers from too many subplots with other characters.
Speaking of other characters, there are too many of them in this movie. Some of the fights in this movie are contrived, and we don't see all of the fights in the tournament. What gives!?! If the director is trying to set up a sequel this is not the best way to do it. The film has editing problems and some of the humor didn't do it for me. The soundtrack is also distracting because it plays sounds the came out after 1993. What's wrong with using songs from the games?
Do I really have to talk about the characters? They range from comic relief to serious. ( and I use the term comic relief loosely.) Plus, they are not like there video game counter part. The conflict between Ryu and Ken was contrived. As tempting as it is to comment on Chun Lee's thighs I'm not going to do it, the actress gets enough of that. As is it me or does bison has some gay undertones in this movie?
The only thing I like about this movie is parts of it is animated. It made me wish the whole movie was like that. Overall: If you were expecting this to be a fun version of Enter the Dragon I don't know what to tell you. You can watch this at your own risk.
Rating = rental