as soon as I heard that ken and ryu weren't in it I assumed the movie was fail. And so far the trailer isn't convinving me otherwise. It could be that I'm blind but in the trailer I didn't see Chun-li wear the classic outfit with the bao-baos and the gold and blue shirt etc. So far the movie just seems like a random action movie with supposed street fighter characters. I hope it doesn't fail as bad as the dbz movie will.

Whenever I think of a street fighter movie the first thing that comes to mind is something like

Street Fighter: The rise of akuma

Something like that would be so badass IMO. Street fighter isn't really street fighter without ryu and ken.

Needs more Guile.

Yeah, this is probably going to suck.

Hollywood shouldn't make movies about games; the producers of the games should make the movies. Or at least make sure the director doesn't f*** up.

Way to ruin street fighter

I almost cried when I saw this trailer on TV...

And they weren't tears of joy...

it will probably be as bad the db movie since there both made by f*** fox

and I hate how some ppl think it's awesome that the guy from the black-eyed peas is playing Vega. Vega is suppose to be handsome not ugly as hell and that mask makes him look like Jason X

Worst casting evr!

I hate based on movies...This will seriously kill the Street Fighter series, like the old Street Fighter. I wonder why Ryu or Ken is in the movie...That sucks...

I think Dragon Ball has a competitor for worst movie ever!

I love s*** movies. In fact I'm gonna go see this today.

I suppose it isn't a bad movie if you've never played the Street Fighter games. Like...well, my girlfriend thinks it actually looks good - but that's because she's never played the games.

So yeah I'll tell you all how bad it is after I see it.

I don't think it'll be too bad if like
you pretend they're the SF character designs roflroflrofl
I've read a synopsis and it doesn't sound too unusual - the only thing is that Kristen Krueller or whoever looks nothing like Chun Li nor does she wear the getup anytime during the movie.



i swear if i don't see a single spinning bird kick i will be PISSED

You all over exaggerate about movies based off games, you shouldn't really judge until you see the actual movie.

Movie sucks.

Like bad. Its honestly one of the worst movies of this decade.

and trust me, you will be severely dissapointed, even angered, with the fight scenes.



If they were to make a good SF movie, it should be cheesy and campy like the older one, but executed better.

So there's no Balrog wind-up punch in this one? No win-pose scene at the end?


No hilarious Frankensteiners delivered by Cammy? D:

nope, only bad wireing stunts, and bison fighting with sticks.

I've seen worse, trust me.

Killer Instinct anyone?

So I saw it, and it wasn't too bad. It was decent. There, I said it.

It wasn't the best movie ever, and definitely not the worst (Dead or Alive takes that honor) - if anything, it was moreso a generic action flick with some karate moves.
The one thing about this movie is that it takes place BEFORE the first Street Fighter tournament - even before Alpha - so it really doesn't interfere with Street Fighter canon.
Well, yes it does.

-If it takes place where it should, it would be in the 70's (as Alpha takes place around the early 80's)...but everything seems to be taking place in a modern-age Bangkok. what
-Bison doesn't have the psycho power. Instead he's just got mad skills.
-There IS a spinning bird kick, the lightning leg, and the Kaioken - unfortunately none of them resemble their SF2 counterparts but that's OK. This is BEFORE Chun-Li entered the SF tournaments (which is also the reason she doesn't wear a quipao at all during the movie. This all takes place BEFORE joining Interpol)
~Most of these moves you won't pick up unless you're a fan of the StreetFighter games.
-Charlie is in the movie...He's an Interpol agent, not yet in the special forces.

SPOILERS LOL DON'T READ THIS UNTIL AFTER YOU SEE THE MOVIE
-Rose is rewritten to be Bison's daughter...and uh, in the story, Rose is supposedly the lovechild of Bison and his wife. However, Bison takes his wife to some magical cave and using the magic of pressure points, EXPUNGES Rose from the fetus while at the same time investing all of his goodwill and "purity" into her (???) I had no problem with this.
-Vega's...not really killed off but "roughed up", Balrog's face is melted off by Gen, and Chun-Li snaps Bison's neck with her feet [supposedly a parallel to him killing Chun-Li's father in front of her eyes while both are tied up] If this actually happened, the SF2 tournament would have never happened....and Sagat doesn't appear...but...
-Gen has this habit of...not dying. Twice. At the end of the movie he shows her an ad for a tournament being held by Shadaloo, the STREET FIGHTER tournament. And there's clamor of this Japanese fighter, a "Ryu....something" who's making all the commotion. This actually is a way of teasing the idea of a movie based on SF1 done right - which is why Sagat didn't show up in this movie at all.

Final thoughts:
I'm glad she didn't wear her quipao or do her hovering Spinning Bird Kick. That would have made the movie really, really campy and incredibly dumb.
This movie takes place like WAY before the games, so it doesn't really tie in to any of them. It's nice because it explains Chun-Li's past; however it retcons the entire Alpha series though
Fight scenes are intense as f***. Don't expect any trademark Chun-Li moves or else you'll be dissapointed.

If you think of the movie as an action film based on the game characters with similar backstories or something, you'll come to enjoy the movie a lot more.


If they made an SF film based on Cammy's history, there is no way they could possibly screw it up, because all the wire-stunts would look sexy as hell.