Street Fighter

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Street Fighter

PG-13

1994

1h 42m

Action

Adventure

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Gen. Bison (Raul Julia), the evil dictator of Shadaloo, captures a busload of relief workers and holds them for ransom. Col. Guile (Jean-Claude Van Damme) leads an international strike force to invade Shadaloo and rescue the hostages. Along the way, Guile recruits Chun-Li (Ming-Na Wen), a reporter and martial-arts expert whose father was killed by Bison years ago, two young con men (Damian Chapa, Byron Mann) and a sumo wrestler (Peter Navy Tuiasosopo).

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Critics Consensus

Though it offers mild entertainment through campy one-liners and the overacting of the late Raul Julia, Street Fighter's nonstop action sequences are not enough to make up for a predictable, uneven storyline.

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Gene Seymour

Newsday

23 hrs ago

2/4

...it's the cinematic equivalent of one of those big, shiny, unwieldy contraptions your parents used to spend hours putting together only to shatter within seconds of your first touch.

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Dave Kehr

New York Daily News

1 day ago

1/4

After the relative respectability of "TimeCop" and "Hard Target," "Street Fighter" (which contains no street fighting) is a big step backward for Van Damme, recalling his earliest days in low-budget brawlers for Cannon films.

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Jeff Millar

Houston Chronicle

1 day ago

I wasn't able to follow much of the narrative [Steven E. de Souza has] constructed, but I didn't care, and neither will anybody who'll see this film because they like to play the video game upon which it's based.

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Barbara Vancheri

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

23 hrs ago

1/4

Writer-director Steven E. de Souza has figured out how to make an action picture that is pure action - no messy character development or other distractions here.

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Gary Thompson

Philadelphia Daily News

23 hrs ago

2/4

In an effort to work all of these characters into the plot, the movie has become incomprehensible, though I doubt anyone will care, since the movie is one big blizzard of karate chops, and that seems to be the point.

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Chris Cobb

Ottawa Citizen

23 hrs ago

1/5

Street Fighter is plain boring. Frequently, it seems, even actors are only going through the motions. It's a movie void of passion, which is the one ingredient Van Damme's movies usually have.

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Timothy B

@RT54507179 Sep 18, 2026

Why? Dear god why. It’s like it wanted to be dumber and worse than any action movie that came before it.

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Gaston O

@RT27529755 Sep 13, 2026

9 palabras NOSTALGIA! 🥲

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Johnathon W

@Hoppynsc Sep 9, 2026

Messy but fun film that works in a so bad its good way. The cast is all over the place, with Jean Claude Van Damme clearly fueled by cocaine from behind the scenes reports. However, the late, great Raul Julia is brilliant as M. Bison, giving the kind of over the top performance only a professional actor like he could deliver. Behind the camera, writer/director Steven E. de Souza crafts a mess of a movie, with the biggest problem ditching the street fighter story for a military action one. As a result, characters from the game are shoehorned in strange ways, from Chun Li being a reporter to DJ a computer hacker. That being said, the action is fun if a bit crazy, with some solid set designs and pieces. Overall, not a good movie but a good time in a so bad its good way.

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Cristian B

@icebad Jul 17, 2026

JCVD at its finest. A groundbreaking action film, with beautiful fights, music that fits the genre perfectly, and sleazy acting that gets the job done. A must-see!

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diogo13 T

@Tua_mera Jul 11, 2026

O filme é uma porcaria, mas acho que o tempo tornou ele um filme de comedia de tão mau que é.

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Mickey B.

@Mickerdoo Apr 14, 2026

Nostalgia for practical effects. Expected design and some cheesiness for a video game movie. Needed more combat throughout.

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Synopsis

Gen. Bison (Raul Julia), the evil dictator of Shadaloo, captures a busload of relief workers and holds them for ransom. Col. Guile (Jean-Claude Van Damme) leads an international strike force to invade Shadaloo and rescue the hostages. Along the way, Guile recruits Chun-Li (Ming-Na Wen), a reporter and martial-arts expert whose father was killed by Bison years ago, two young con men (Damian Chapa, Byron Mann) and a sumo wrestler (Peter Navy Tuiasosopo).

Director: Steven E. de Souza
Producer: Edward R. Pressman, Kenzo Tsujimoto
Production Co: Edward R. Pressman Film Corp., Capcom
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Action, Adventure
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 19, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $33.2M
Runtime: 1h 42m
Sound Mix: Surround

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