Street Fighter (1994)

Director:

Steven E. de Souza

Writer (WGA):

Steven E. de Souza (written by)

Release Date:

23 December 1994 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Tagline:

The ultimate battle.

Plot:

Col. Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of Dictator M. Bison and his cohorts.

Plot Keywords:

Box Office Flop | Altered Version Of Studio Logo | War | 1990s | Corruption

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Jean-Claude Van Damme	...	Colonel William F. Guile
Raul Julia	...	General M. Bison
Ming-Na	...	Chun-Li Zang (as Ming-Na Wen)
Damian Chapa	...	Ken Masters
Kylie Minogue	...	Lieutenant Cammy
Simon Callow	...	A.N. Official
Roshan Seth	...	Dr. Dhalsim
Wes Studi	...	Victor Sagat
Byron Mann	...	Ryu Hoshi
Grand L. Bush	...	Balrog
Peter Navy Tuiasosopo	...	E. Honda (as Peter Tuiasosopo)
Jay Tavare	...	Vega
Andrew Bryniarski	...	Zangief
Gregg Rainwater	...	T. Hawk
Miguel A. Núñez Jr.	...	Dee Jay (as Miguel A. Nunez Jr.)

Also Known As:

Street Fighter: The Battle for Shadaloo
Street Fighter: The Movie
Street Fighter: The Ultimate Battle (UK) (TV title)
Street Fighter, la última batalla (Argentina) (Peru) (Spain) [es]
Street Fighter - L'ultime combat (Belgium: French title) (France) [fr]
A Batalha Final (Portugal) [pt]
Bagarreur de rue, Le (Canada: French title) [fr]
Son savas (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Street Fighter (Finland) [fi]
Street Fighter - A Última Batalha (Brazil) [pt]
Street fighter - Den sista striden (Sweden) [sv]
Street fighter - Det endelige opgør (Denmark) [da]
Street fighter - sfida finale (Italy) [it]
Streetfighter - Die entscheidende Schlacht (Germany) [de]
Streetfighter - Harc a végsökig (Hungary) [hu]

Runtime:

102 min

Country:

USA | Japan

Language:

English | Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS-Stereo | DTS

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Peru:14 | Finland:K-16 | South Korea:12 | Netherlands:12 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Chile:14 | Finland:K-14 (cut) | Germany:16 | Norway:15 | Portugal:M/12 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:12 (censored version) | USA:PG-13 | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Bangkok, Thailand

Company:

Capcom Entertainment

Trivia:

The final amphibious attack on M. Bison's compound, filmed on location in Thailand, was originally supposed to be an air assault. The Thai government wouldn't allow the use of its airspace for the large number of aircraft the scene would require, so the producers changed the final battle to a boat assault instead.

Goofs:

Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Chun-Li tries to grab the microphone from Guile after he flipped off Bison on live television, you can hear her say "what are you doing?", though her lips are not moving. The same thing happens to Guile soon after when he says "you wanted me on TV, I'm on TV now. Leave it!"

Quotes:

Colonel William F. Guile: Troopers! I have just received new orders. Our superiors say the war is cancelled, and we can all go home. Bison is getting paid off for his crimes, and our friends will have died here... will have died for nothing. But... we can all go home. Meanwhile, ideals like these - freedom, and justice - they get packed up. But...

Movie Connections:

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A weird, horrible movie

I have always been a huge fan of the Street Fighter series in video games. So when this movie came out I was really excited, of course I was way too young to appreciate a movie, but I can tell that back then I thought it was horrible.

A few years ago it was aired on TV and (I don't why) I saw it again. And I found it kind of funny. The story is all twisted if it gets compared with the video games story; I mean, in the video game, Ryu is the most important character and in the movie it is hardly seen. Cammy is a creation of Bison (in the video game), so she is part of the bad guys, while in the movie she is friend of Guile. A lot of intentional mistakes were made in order to transform what could be a good story into a useless-action-movie.

I hoped to see hadoukens and spinning kicks when I first saw the movie, but there is nothing of that. In other words, the movie sucks.

PS: Kylie Minogue, who played Cammy in the movie, declared later that she was completely sorry of shooting such a bad movie.