In my previous review of Double Impact I mentioned about bad films falling on the correct side of "So bad it's good". Double Impact does. Street Fighter, however, does not. Nowhere close.
Released in 1994 after the success of the video game Street Fighter 2 (which I fondly remember playing on the SNES), Street Fighter was written and directed by Steven E. de Souza who had previously written Commando and Die Hard. Sadly he also wrote Hudson Hawk and The Flintsone's Movie.
The casting was catastrophic. The choice to play All-American hard man Guille? The very Belgian Jean-Claude Van Damme who actually dyed his hair ginger for the role.
The choice to portray British intelligence agent Cammy? Kylie Minogue. Obviously. Where else do you go for a British actress - an Australian singer of course!
The villain in the piece is M. Bison and Raul Julia who was most famously known for playing Gomez in The Addams Family movie. Sadly not long after Street Fighter was made, Raul Julia died. And to be brutally honest it was probably of shame.
The movie is a disaster on all fronts. I know it must be difficult to make a movie out of a video game which basically is just a series of fights, but this is a horrific attempt. The plot is that M. Bison has kidnapped some people, and Guille and company, along with a few other hangers on who are shoehorned into the film have to go save them.
The start of the film feels like you have missed the first ten minutes. It's just an absolute mess. There's some totally piss poor attempts at humor which fall flat and just lots of pointless running around.
I don't even think children would like it! It's just too stupid. Maybe the severely retarded would get something out of it.
As a post-script they actually made a video game adaptation out of this film. Thats right. The video game based on the film based on the...erm...video game.
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You know it's bad when you use the statement "It's so bad not even Van Damme can save it".
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