Street Fighter (1994)
Directed by Steven E. de Souza
Colonel Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of dictator M. Bison and his cohorts.
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What critics compared Street Fighter to
Sure, there’s a certain campy pleasure to watching Jean Claude Van Damme and Kylie Minogue leading battle in Street Fighter ; the Resident Evil films (especially the first) have their gory charm; and, whitewashing casting controversy aside, the sight of Jake Gyllenhaal in Prince of Persia is enough of an aesthetic appeal to forgive that film of its sins…but for every one of those, there’s a Double Dragon or a Super Mario Bros. to constantly remind you that the transferred medium is a tough ask.
Popularized in the 90’s by bombastic adaptations like the original Mortal Kombat series, Super Mario Bros , Street Fighter , that all became known as notable misfires, it was clear that crafting a film that was faithful to the original product yet still worked on its own was a seemingly impossible task.
Compare that to Street Fighter , which came out around the same time and had a much higher level of talent (RIP Raul Julia), yet failed on its own terms because it wanted to tell a story for some reason.
When the original Mortal Kombat arcade game was released in 1992, it was meant as direct competition to and to raise the stakes against the then-popular Street Fighter series.
With good video-game adaptations hard to find, it may be that Wright has given us the best video-game inspired film yet, taking many of the conventions of games such as Street Fighter and Tekken and creating a visually exciting and instantly recognisable world for his audience.
Not many films could reference Bollywood, Shakespeare, an NBC sitcom, “Street Fighter” and the filmography of John Hughes without collapsing in a messy heap.
Based on the graphic novels of Bryan Lee O'Malley, "Scott Pilgrim" is a cinematic mashup of the first order, managing to combine (and spoof) elements of modern teen romantic comedies, superhero flicks and arcade games of the "Street Fighter" era.
But when the fighting starts—and there’s a lot of it—1990s-style video games take over; the movie becomes a sort of mash-up homage to Super Mario Bros., Doom, Street Fighter, etc. Through it all, there’s a tension between Scott Pilgrim’s adopted too-cool-for-school attitude and its mosh-pit desperation to be the Hot New Youth Thing that’s actually pretty endearing.
It is a bold, brilliant spectacle, an offbeat romance patterned after a Street Fighter -style video game.
He imagines Scott as a Street Fighter Lancelot out to win the heart of his Guinevere, Ramona (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), a mercurial punkette whose moods are as changeable as her hair color.
Digo, yo creo que Mortal Kombat (1995) y la terrible Street Fighter (1994) tienen su encanto: la primera por ser una completa locura alucinada (y por Christopher Lambert con rayos en los ojos); la segunda por tener el honor de ser una de las últimas apariciones de ese gran tipo mítico que fue Raúl Juliá.
There have been a handful of mildly enjoyable ones though with Mortal Kombat and Warcraft: The Beginning, and guilty pleasures like Street Fighter and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.
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This scene is the first time we really see the power of an Excalibur-wielding Arthur, and while it is a bit of deus ex(calibur) machina, it’s still satisfying, like finally figuring out that intricate combo move in Street Fighter or whatever.
“Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time” will go down in history akin to other video-game-to-film failures including “Resident Evil: Extinction,” “Max Payne,” “Postal,” “BloodRayne,” “Doom,” “Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life,” “House of the Dead,” “Mortal Kombat,” “Street Fighter” and “Double Dragon”.
That’s a lesson learned again and again and again, with movies like Street Fighter , Hitman , and Max Payne consistently drawing the lowest of critical approval ratings and the steepest of box office drop-offs.
He is played by martial arts star Sonny Chiba, whose Street Fighter movies were grindhouse staples.