How does one play as Chun Li(as HERSELF???) I am just saying. It is hard for an actress to play as a character playing as herself. That will somehow tear a giant rift in the time space continuum as we know it. In doing so, the universe will collapse, and then in a feat of miraculousness, explode. After exploding, the pieces will re-merge and then implode from the massive change in gravitation forces. Turning everything back into Chun Li as CHUN LI...not herself. Otherwise we would just go through the whole process, all over again. And nobody likes that. Not even Hugh Hefner. And he likes everything. We think that perhaps if you want Chun Li in your movie, you should just get her to play herself, as opposed to someone playing her, playing someone else. The actor-line for Chun Li shows the actresses name...playing Chun Li(as the actresses name).
7 Reviews
In its defense...
tweiss198120 January 2002
As a Street Fighter fan I decided to try and defend the video game based on an underrated movie. I enjoyed the live-action movie back in 1994 and it carries my general perspective of Street Fighter.
Many people complain about the movie straying from the game's plot, and all the characters were changed. This isn't necessarily true, the game's plot isn't that deep: you, as one of the Street Fighter characters, try to bust a drug lord and his minions. It's a little deeper than the Super Mario Bros. movie's plot (two plumbers trying to save the day), but try making a 90-minute movie out of it.
Same for the movie's views of the characters. Most of them are close enough to the game's characters. The movie did portray Guile, Bison, Chun-Li, Sagat, Ken, Ryu, Cammy, Zangief and Vega correctly (Guile and Chun-Li both still have personal vendettas against Bison, Ken and Ryu have their rivalries with Sagat and Vega, etc). I had no problems with E. Honda, and Blanka and Dhalsim only briefly appear (I personally prefer the 'Charlie mutated into Blanka' story). The only characterization problem the movie had was that a few characters just weren't shown right. Steven E. DeSouza should've just re-cast the actor playing T. Hawk. Plus, Balrog and DeeJay swapped alignments, but that's all. Most of the World Warriors and Grand Master characters ARE correctly depicted, just the New Challengers (exception being Cammy) just needed better casting.
The arcade game, Street Fighter: the Movie, was released around the same time Mortal Kombat 3 was. (I never got to play the arcade game, but I'm willing to bet SF:TM was the better game) It also contained Come Back moves, red Super moves, juggle-me-til-I-die combos, all that good stuff. Playing as Balrog, Bison, Cammy, Chun-Li, Guile, Honda, Ken, Ryu, Sagat, Vega or Zangief, you play to determine the fate of the AN relief worker hostages and the free world. Also included were Capt. Sawada, Akuma and Bison soldier Blade. Hidden characters were palette swapped Bison troopers, like Arkane, F7 and Khyber (I think Blanka was hidden in somewhere, too).
I like the home version of Street Fighter: the Movie, it played like Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo with movie graphics. However, Blade was gone, and Akuma was now a hidden character again. At least you now got Blanka and DeeJay back. (Wish they spent a little more time on Blanka's design, though.) One thing I did like was the music, the power of the good or bad guy win music gets me pumped.
All I'm saying is, it might not be the best game ever, but you could do a lot worse. (N64 Superman, anyone?) If Capcom ever does a complication Street Fighter game for a future system, they should release the arcade game for it, to give it a bit more publicity.
Many people complain about the movie straying from the game's plot, and all the characters were changed. This isn't necessarily true, the game's plot isn't that deep: you, as one of the Street Fighter characters, try to bust a drug lord and his minions. It's a little deeper than the Super Mario Bros. movie's plot (two plumbers trying to save the day), but try making a 90-minute movie out of it.
Same for the movie's views of the characters. Most of them are close enough to the game's characters. The movie did portray Guile, Bison, Chun-Li, Sagat, Ken, Ryu, Cammy, Zangief and Vega correctly (Guile and Chun-Li both still have personal vendettas against Bison, Ken and Ryu have their rivalries with Sagat and Vega, etc). I had no problems with E. Honda, and Blanka and Dhalsim only briefly appear (I personally prefer the 'Charlie mutated into Blanka' story). The only characterization problem the movie had was that a few characters just weren't shown right. Steven E. DeSouza should've just re-cast the actor playing T. Hawk. Plus, Balrog and DeeJay swapped alignments, but that's all. Most of the World Warriors and Grand Master characters ARE correctly depicted, just the New Challengers (exception being Cammy) just needed better casting.
The arcade game, Street Fighter: the Movie, was released around the same time Mortal Kombat 3 was. (I never got to play the arcade game, but I'm willing to bet SF:TM was the better game) It also contained Come Back moves, red Super moves, juggle-me-til-I-die combos, all that good stuff. Playing as Balrog, Bison, Cammy, Chun-Li, Guile, Honda, Ken, Ryu, Sagat, Vega or Zangief, you play to determine the fate of the AN relief worker hostages and the free world. Also included were Capt. Sawada, Akuma and Bison soldier Blade. Hidden characters were palette swapped Bison troopers, like Arkane, F7 and Khyber (I think Blanka was hidden in somewhere, too).
I like the home version of Street Fighter: the Movie, it played like Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo with movie graphics. However, Blade was gone, and Akuma was now a hidden character again. At least you now got Blanka and DeeJay back. (Wish they spent a little more time on Blanka's design, though.) One thing I did like was the music, the power of the good or bad guy win music gets me pumped.
All I'm saying is, it might not be the best game ever, but you could do a lot worse. (N64 Superman, anyone?) If Capcom ever does a complication Street Fighter game for a future system, they should release the arcade game for it, to give it a bit more publicity.
Real Street Fighter
krainov-artiom15 April 2015
Video game based on the film, which is in turn based on the game. I couldn't believe it, but it in reality! The game is based on one of my favorite movies, where I can to manage the actors from this movie! I became twice happier!
In addition, in the arcade version of the game there is another fighter who is not shown in the film, it's Akuma, and also one of the soldiers of General Bison named Blade.
In the arcade version excellent graphics, backgrounds, sound effects and music. All the characters look like in real life(or like in the movie). However, the version of the game for Sega Saturn and Playstation, is also very decent - there are simplified music and movement fighters, but if you do not compare it with an arcade, you'll be very pleased. Control and techniques is almost the same like in the original "Street Fighter 2" game.
All performers of the main roles, was filmed for this video game - Jean-Claude Van Damme, Damian Chapa, Kylie Minogue, Ming-Na Wen, Byron Mann, Andrew Bryniarski and Raul Julia. In the game shown excerpts from the film in the excellent quality of images, sounds Graeme Revell music. Background is also taken from the movie - it's great!
One of the best game of 1990s! 10 out of 10.
In addition, in the arcade version of the game there is another fighter who is not shown in the film, it's Akuma, and also one of the soldiers of General Bison named Blade.
In the arcade version excellent graphics, backgrounds, sound effects and music. All the characters look like in real life(or like in the movie). However, the version of the game for Sega Saturn and Playstation, is also very decent - there are simplified music and movement fighters, but if you do not compare it with an arcade, you'll be very pleased. Control and techniques is almost the same like in the original "Street Fighter 2" game.
All performers of the main roles, was filmed for this video game - Jean-Claude Van Damme, Damian Chapa, Kylie Minogue, Ming-Na Wen, Byron Mann, Andrew Bryniarski and Raul Julia. In the game shown excerpts from the film in the excellent quality of images, sounds Graeme Revell music. Background is also taken from the movie - it's great!
One of the best game of 1990s! 10 out of 10.
A beat'em-up with good screenplay but...
gbman25 February 2001
This is NOT the worst game ever created. I've played in arcades much more worse that SFTM...
Graphics: quite good Animation: a little crappy Sound: very bad Playability: good but not as good as other beat'em-ups
It's not the best, neither the worst. Just another one game...
Graphics: quite good Animation: a little crappy Sound: very bad Playability: good but not as good as other beat'em-ups
It's not the best, neither the worst. Just another one game...
Street Fighter The Movie: The Game, A Review By Av
aviran_naor9 November 2004
A game (by Acclaim & Capcom) that is based on a movie which has been based on a video game, and the result of it, a pitiful game that perform the Street Fighter series in a bad appearance and got a lot of bad observation. I' will focus on specific things in this game; I'll only focus on general issues.
Lot of people may say that this game was the worst Street Fighter game that ever been created and they might be right. This game got lot of bad thing in it. For start it was based on a really bad movie that was not successful, even in a minimum way.
But the creators of this game thought that maybe the game will be better and will successes more than the movie. And in a short time they been proved that they were wrong and this game will be inferior more than the movie itself.
Now, the game play wasn't really good, in fact, it had 'poor controls' same goes for the animation and the sound rather 'surface' in some perception. Despite that, it kind of reminded me of Mortal Combat 2 in terms of game style, don't know why this is just me opinion that I'm sure of.
The casting include: Guile, Chun-Li, M.Bison, Cammy, Ryu, ken, Sagat, Vega, Zangief, Balrog, Honda, Blade, C. Sawada, and Akuma that didn't shown in the movie but is attended in the game as a hidden character.
In conclusion this game has created lot of bad opinions about Street Fighter Movie: The game for some peoples mind. I would say, not to get this game, because you will hate it for sure, but if someone is a really collector of Street Fighter games so he must get it, if not so then don't, it'll be waste of your money.
Lot of people may say that this game was the worst Street Fighter game that ever been created and they might be right. This game got lot of bad thing in it. For start it was based on a really bad movie that was not successful, even in a minimum way.
But the creators of this game thought that maybe the game will be better and will successes more than the movie. And in a short time they been proved that they were wrong and this game will be inferior more than the movie itself.
Now, the game play wasn't really good, in fact, it had 'poor controls' same goes for the animation and the sound rather 'surface' in some perception. Despite that, it kind of reminded me of Mortal Combat 2 in terms of game style, don't know why this is just me opinion that I'm sure of.
The casting include: Guile, Chun-Li, M.Bison, Cammy, Ryu, ken, Sagat, Vega, Zangief, Balrog, Honda, Blade, C. Sawada, and Akuma that didn't shown in the movie but is attended in the game as a hidden character.
In conclusion this game has created lot of bad opinions about Street Fighter Movie: The game for some peoples mind. I would say, not to get this game, because you will hate it for sure, but if someone is a really collector of Street Fighter games so he must get it, if not so then don't, it'll be waste of your money.
Van Damme the ULTIMATE 80's / B-movie actor
rowanpearce12 April 2006
Anyone who grew up with Streetfighter when it first came out in the arcade will like this film - if not merely because it is Streetfighter. The whole concept is preposterous, outrageous, ludicrious i say, yet somehow plausible while you are watching it. I cannot think of any other actor who resembles Guile more than Van Damme. Guiles fighting technique in the arcade is very similar to JCVD's as well (roundhouses, flying roundhouses etc). I was a bit disappointed that the movie did not have all the characters, or if it did, they did not use the same fighting moves as in the arcade (i.e. Dhalsim, Ehonda). Streetfighter also heralds one of the pop worlds beauties - Kylie Minogue. She looks pretty cute, but probably should have shown more skin. If she did i probably would have rated this film higher. Other than that it was a bloody good movie.
Worse than the movie
Pat-8815 February 1999
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