I saw Street Fighter on an old video tape (only 74 min. long) which was reformatted for TV, and terribly dubbed (hard to understand the voices). The reformatting might have been the worst thing, because many scenes were ridiculously close-up and in-your-face, which made it impossible to see where or if people were being hit, and whether their constipated expressions were due to injury, hara kiri, or supposed to be some bad imitation of Bruce Lee's coolness (I'm banking on the latter).
Despite this I was pretty excited about the first half of the movie, which was half-way effective entertainment. From then on, however, I got more and more bored, esp. with the "miserable crawling cockroach" of a sentimental relief sidekick which I thought didn't work at all.
The fight scenes were relatively few, and most of them were cut terribly. Often, a scene would skip a few seconds, so it wasn't apparent what had actually been done, martial arts-wise. I wasn't very impressed at all, and these flaws were particularly evident in the climactic scene, where I practically just went "huh?".
Possibly, if I saw this in the 90 min. letterbox (DVD?) version, I'd have a higher opinion of it, but as it is, I thought it was pretty crappy. Still, I'll be generous and award it a 5 rating out of 10.
Despite this I was pretty excited about the first half of the movie, which was half-way effective entertainment. From then on, however, I got more and more bored, esp. with the "miserable crawling cockroach" of a sentimental relief sidekick which I thought didn't work at all.
The fight scenes were relatively few, and most of them were cut terribly. Often, a scene would skip a few seconds, so it wasn't apparent what had actually been done, martial arts-wise. I wasn't very impressed at all, and these flaws were particularly evident in the climactic scene, where I practically just went "huh?".
Possibly, if I saw this in the 90 min. letterbox (DVD?) version, I'd have a higher opinion of it, but as it is, I thought it was pretty crappy. Still, I'll be generous and award it a 5 rating out of 10.