Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Organnall Too much about the plot just didn't add up, the writing was bad, some of the scenes were cringey and awkward,

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

joefindlay I'll give it its credit first. They did a reasonably good job making this movie something that one would recognize as the video game. The characters were fairly easily identified. The issue is how they decided to get them all in the same place. It reminded me of the times when the cast of saved by the bell were all involved with the basketball team, or the debate team, or working at the beach club, or in a band together. So much of the character has to change to shoe horn them into the movie. Ryu and Ken as Arms dealers? Chun Li, E. Honda and Balrog as a news crew? Come on.The even larger issue, however, is the lazy writing by the guy who wrote Die Hard, 48 Hours, Commando and so many other fun movies. This effort seems that of a first timer who had seen a couple of 80's action films and figured "how hard can it be?"I honestly enjoyed Raul Julia's over-the-top portrayal of M. Bison, the only issue being that it deprived us of a real fight scene at the end of the movie (Same issue that Attack of the Clones had in an Annakin vs. Dooku showdown). Julia was in no position to provide anything but cartoon action. The choice of JCVD as Guile is... fine. He was the hot action commodity at the time. I get it. He isn't American. Stop putting him in movies and telling us he is American. Make something up! He was in the A.N. He could be from France, Belgium or wherever and you can just accept the detail change. I feel like Ming Na's performance was encouraged to be a little stereotypical, which is unfortunate. Sure, Bison can get her in the outfit in the end, but just some of the actions and tells were a little too much like an old Bruce Lee Movie, without the benefit of Bruce Lee. The bottom line... you can have fun watching this movie if you know what it is, but in no way shape or form is it a good movie. Poorly conceived. Poorly executed. If you see it on TV and think it could be good. Follow Zangief's advice and "Change the Channel!"

capricornius First a short review: In the asian nation of Shadaloo City, civil war has erupted between the forces of drug lord-turned Bison and the Allied Nations led by Guile. Bison has captured several A.N. relief workers, and via a live two-way radio broadcast, demands Guile secure a US$20 billion ransom in three days. Guile refuses and vows to track Bison down, but his assistant, Sergeant Cammy, is only partially able to pinpoint Bison's location to the river-delta region outside the city. One hostage is Guile's friend Sergeant Carlos "Charlie" Blanka, who Bison orders taken to his lab for his captive doctor and scientist, Dhalsim, to turn into the first of his supersoldiers. Though Charlie is severely disfigured by the procedure, Dhalsim secretly alters his cerebral programming to maintain Charlie's humanity. - Don't believe the people who says this is a bad movie. Sure, it's not the best movie ever made, but it's still watchable.Fun fact: In 'Street Fighter' Raul Julia plays a dictator, while in 'Moon over Parador' he's the right-hand man of the paradorian dictator, Alphonse Simms.

Eric Stevenson Well, here we start with Video Game Month and it's very sad for me to watch this movie at all. At least I got to look back at some of the Nostalgia Critic's reviews. As an early video game movie, it's as awful as ever. The main problem is that it focuses on Guile instead of Ryu and/or Ken. Even worse, I would have at least given this film some credit if it had included the Hadouken or Sonic Boom, but we get absolutely none of that at all! Seriously, I was waiting for that at least at the end. The plot is stupid and really has little to do with the games at all. It's mostly just M. Bison trying to take over the world (of course!).The pacing in this film is terrible. I keep thinking there were deleted scenes that I missed. One scene we have Chun-Li talking about how she's going to get revenge on M. Bison and then later we just see them together. There's a good line or two, especially M. Bison's, "For me it was Tuesday". This was Raul Julia's last film and it's pretty easy to say that this was the worst last film of a noteworthy actor. It's a pity I knew little about him. It was dedicated to him which is pretty insulting. The sets in this film look terrible. The props are all bad looking.We just random talking scene after random fighting scene. There's no rhyme or reason for what's going on. I think this might have worked as a short film because it certainly feels like one stretched out to the length of a feature film. The scenes are redundant, especially with Bison just flying over and over. It mostly just suffers from being dreadfully boring. Even the stupid fight scenes have at least something going on. My pain has begun, my friends. *

A Lazy Bear I am a huge SF fan and read most of the backstory comics and watched this with a friend who doesn't know anything but the looks and names of a few characters. Neither of us liked it.As a fan its confusing, even baffling why they changed so many characters backstory (Charlie doesn't die, instead he becomes Blanka?!), looks and even ethnicity (Honda is Hawaiian), it gets to a point where it takes you ages to recognize certain characters, although they are some of the most iconic things in pop-culture. Why didn't they just take one of the countless stories from the universe and made it into a movie, there even is a fully fleshed out SF II story, which they claim the movie is based on. There are also VERY few SF moves, none of them have famous quotes from the games and bisons moves are artificially made with machines. I could go on for ages about this part, so lets just skip to the "not-fan-perspective"...Apart from the fact that this feels like a terrible secret agent plot there are much more severe things wrong. There are too many characters crammed into the movie, yet we don't get any motivation for the majority for them, it just feels like they are there, because they had to be in the movie, also we don't care about them. The action scenes weren't good, but not terrible either. Thats about the only positive thing I can say, because this movie isn't even the kind of terrible I can laugh at.