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 | Gang | Police | Spin Off From Video Game | Street Fighter

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 - Poslední boj (Czech Republic) [cs]
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:

South Korea:12 | Iceland:16 | Netherlands:12 | Peru:14 | Finland:K-16 | 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:

Despite negative reviews the movie did make a profit. It grossed 33 million domestically and 66 million worldwide, earning almost triple its production budget of 35 million.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Honda slaps Zangief's face, Zangief is wearing a tank top, though he previously wasn't wearing a top. In the very next scene, when Honda and Zangief resume fighting, Zangief is again not wearing the tank top.

Quotes:

Balrog: [Balrog and Honda are throttling Ken and Ryu with their chains] Well well, if it isn't our little buddies who double-crossed us.
[Ken tries to speak]
Balrog: What did he say?
E. Honda: Hail to M. Bison. These guys are fanatics
Ken: [Disgruntled] We're on the same side!
Balrog: I think he said he can lead us outside.
[Balrog and Honda release them]
Ken: What I said was "we're on the same side!"

Movie Connections:

Featured in The Unbeatable Bruce Lee (2001) (V)

Soundtrack:

Pandemonium

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.