Official Discussion - Street Fighter [SPOILERS]

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Street Fighter (2026)

Summary

Estranged street fighters Ryu and Ken Masters are thrown back into combat when the mysterious Chun-Li recruits them for the next World Warrior Tournament. As fighters from around the world clash, a deadly conspiracy forces Ryu and Ken to confront each other and the demons of their past.

Director

Kitao Sakurai

Writer

Kitao Sakurai, T.J. Fixman

Cast

• Noah Centineo as Ken Masters
• Andrew Koji as Ryu
• Jason Momoa as Blanka
• 50 Cent as Balrog
• Callina Liang as Chun-Li
• Roman Reigns as Akuma
• David Dastmalchian as M. Bison
• Cody Rhodes as Guile
• Andrew Schulz as Dan Hibiki
• Eric André as Don Sauvage
• Vidyut Jammwal as Dhalsim
• Orville Peck as Vega
• Olivier Richters as Zangief
• Hirooki Goto as E. Honda
• Melanie Jarnson as Cammy

Rotten Tomatoes: TBD

Metacritic: TBD

VOD / Release

October 16, 2026 (Theatrical)

Trailer

Official Trailer

[u/SpartanDetermination]

...Why did Cammy scream in that weird horror movie way when M Bison told her to ready her killer bees or whatever. Like wtf

[u/MysticSkies → u/SpartanDetermination]

Why is Cammy playing such a weird role? I haven't seen any of the previous movies or content outside of SF6 but has she always been a side character?

[u/Senayylmao → u/MysticSkies]

cammy wasn't in the first few versions of SF2, but she's more famous bc she's the "other"/2nd female character and has a notable design.

she's only recently more important in the lore/story, but her role here makes sense bc she was an assassin for bison (who later breaks free)

[u/Great_Praline_2713 → u/Senayylmao]

Yeah back then they created Chun-li for her legs and Cammy for her ass. Game devs weren't exactly subtle in the 90's.

[u/trashwebsite221 → u/MysticSkies]

from the games story, cammy and guile are from the same unit, cammy is under mind control from bison for the first bit, guile is literally only there to get her out of it.

im assuming its the same here, she is supposed to be a good guy, theres really not that many bad guys in the street fighter universe, most of the bad guys are just very fucking strong.

[u/pgherg1]

Is it just me or were there an insane amount of time skips/jumps in this.

Felt like a ton of scenes were left on the cutting room floor.

[u/Farthousejones → u/pgherg1]

Guile losing to Vega with absolutely no combat shown was mind blowingly weird.

[u/2Eyed → u/Farthousejones]

I was totally on-board with everything in this movie, until that part.

And then story and 'tournament' if you can call it, just rapidly fell apart.

[u/Farthousejones → u/2Eyed]

Yeah that kind of was the turning point now that I think about it. Second half was really directionless and messy. All those people just randomly dropping out. I mean I get it ... the tournament was just a ruse to get everyone there. But that's such a weird ass plot to have in Street Fighter.

[u/2Eyed → u/Farthousejones]

100%.

It's like... Bison has weapons capable of capturing Ryu, and was able to find him, so it's not like he needed to be drawn out with a tournament...

I could forgive it, if the movie didn’t fall apart, because I wasn't expecting uber tight plotting, but just deliver on the set up.

[u/UnsolvedParadox → u/pgherg1]

Biggest one was about 70% in, when Ken unmasks himself as infiltrating the jail to save Ryu.

How did the movie go from Chun-Li telling him about Bison’s plan to that, did I miss something?

[u/SnickySnacks → u/UnsolvedParadox]

The non-existent Guile/Vega fight was the oddest choice in my opinion. I would have liked to see that, since Guile barely got any fighting time.

[u/UnsolvedParadox → u/SnickySnacks]

It’s a travesty that we didn’t get a Sonic Boom.

[u/SpiritualAd9102 → u/UnsolvedParadox]

Should’ve known when one of the trailers had him ranting about how he couldn’t believe Ryu threw a fireball. 

[u/Steamedcarpet → u/SpiritualAd9102]

Which they must have cut cause in the movie I don’t recall Guile saying that.

[u/Enough_Sprinkles_113 → u/Steamedcarpet]

It was cut.

Or filmed solely for the trailer?

Bizarre.

[u/nvrthere285 → u/SnickySnacks]

They pretty much made him the comic relief, but he wasn’t used much there either

[u/thepobv → u/nvrthere285]

Tbf, everyone was a comic relief lmao

[u/stumper93 → u/UnsolvedParadox]

That was awful! I fully caught how bad the time skip was there, and it felt like something was cut out and forgot to put back in

[u/chrisychris- → u/UnsolvedParadox]

She told Ken to step up basically, he agreed eventually, and we were suppose to assume she told them about this grand plan to help him escape between that conversation and him showing up at the prison. Which is weird cause I barely had any impression Ryu couldn’t escape if he tried.

[u/AdSolid1577 → u/pgherg1]

that pacing was all over the place. i get they wanted to cover the tournament and the backstory but it felt like watching a highlight reel at some parts. shame cause the fights themselves were actually decent.

[u/chrisychris- → u/AdSolid1577]

I thought the back and forth was just for anime fight development but then the rest of the movie just kept getting more and more confusing. No fight with Bison was just the shitty cherry on top. Shame. I really enjoyed the 1st act for what it was. I have no idea why they didn’t just commit entirely to the tournament setup.

[u/matlockga → u/pgherg1]

I feel like I understand less about tournaments now than when I started watching. 

[u/ean6625 → u/pgherg1]

I thought the same. The second half felt rushed like if they trimmed at least 30 minutes just to keep the pace. It starts to get confusing as to the passage of time and how characters get from place to place, like one moment they’re fighting in the tournament and the next they’re advancing the story. Making some of the tournament fights occur offscreen was a baffling choice.

[u/SpartanDetermination → u/pgherg1]

Weirdest part was where Chun-Li looks distraught and defeated in one scene, and it instantly cuts to her walking confidently to her first meeting with M Bison. Was just so weirdly cut because the tone completely flipped.

To be honest the editing in this movie reminded me of the first Suicide Squad movie. Like if you notice how the movie was edited, then they did a bad job of it.

[u/Memphisrexjr → u/SpartanDetermination]

Just like Dan and her are standing when it's Ken vs Ryu then they are getting up from the floor as if they are helping Ryu up.

[u/2th → u/pgherg1]

The trailers straight up used different scenes than the movie too.

[u/emshaq → u/pgherg1]

Felt like a 2-3hr+ movie chopped down to 90mins.

The way Joe was walking around the crowd, loving the adulation and then suddenly coming out the gates again like it’s his first time.

But he didn’t fight right? Skipped all the way to the final?

[u/wraith21]

People seems to be split about the fight scenes. IMO Ken vs Dhalsim, onsen fight, ken vs ryu in the hotel were great.

Chun Li vs Vega and Juri could've used more lights and fewer cuts, ditto Ryu vs Ken alley fight.

Parts of the prison break fight were memorable. Blanka and Okuma fights were fine. Will say Ryu's double aerial kick to Blanka was cool though

But we missed out on Guile vs Vega??? Come on now. Also I think we could've used much, much less of Dan and none of Kyle Mooney.

I do like the 3 MC actors though.

[u/BornAmbassador01 → u/wraith21]

I was like “Wait, they completely skipped the Vega vs Guile fight?!?” WHY?!?

[u/wraith21 → u/BornAmbassador01]

My country has been notorious in the past with censorship that I initially was so sure that a whole fight got cut out (edit: i.e. by the censorship board) of the movie lol

[u/Enough_Sprinkles_113 → u/BornAmbassador01]

Cody on Smackdown: So what do you want to talk about?

The crowd: Why no Guile v Vega fight in Street Fighter?

[u/ItsCommonCourtesy → u/wraith21]

The Kyle Mooney stuff felt creepy but it was supposed to be funny. I think everybody watching this knows Chun-Li is hot, and the film knows that, but his character was just kind of gross.

[u/Minuettes_Disciple → u/ItsCommonCourtesy]

I especially hate how it contextualizes Chun-Li's outfit as being made by a creepy admirer, right after she called him disgusting. I don't even know if they said why she put it on right after ditching him.

[u/ItsCommonCourtesy → u/Minuettes_Disciple]

Other than it being more flexible (I think was the word he used) there's no reason. I just don't get why you make him a creep.

[u/SpookingtonZ]

Those flashback scenes were fucking incredible. Titmouse does it like nobody else.

[u/ProductivePerson → u/SpookingtonZ]

They really sold me on the idea that this should have been entirely animated. The live action scenes just barely worked

[u/MikeArrow → u/ProductivePerson]

The problem is it cut from serious anime footage to fucking goofy faced Noah Centineo tying to emote and I absolutely could not reconcile the two as the same character.

[u/nvrthere285 → u/MikeArrow]

I really tried to buy what he was trying to sell, but his acting/voice was all over the place

[u/Coolman_Rosso → u/ProductivePerson]

The fact that Capcom is completely disinterested in giving Street Fighter another anime series, OVA, or film is BAFFLING to me

[u/7tenths → u/ProductivePerson]

You don't like bad acting or dimly let frequently cut fight scenes so theres no flow to fights just occasional "hey thats from the video game!"

Weird. You'll never become a Hollywood executive. 

[u/Big_Coconut8630 → u/SpookingtonZ]

Why tf couldn't we have just gotten that as the entire movie? Prob the best SF has looked animated.

[u/Puppet_Reviews → u/Big_Coconut8630]

It's making not a lot of money now, it'd make less- See Transformers One for reference.

[u/Unicron_Gundam → u/Puppet_Reviews]

TFO also suffered from non-existent marketing and people losing lots of interest in the movie franchise (box office losses four movies in a row), I don't think the movie being animated is a problem

[u/UnsolvedParadox → u/SpookingtonZ]

Great animation studio, I’ll always think of them positively after Star Trek: Lower Decks.

[u/CincyGamer]

They really made it a point to ensure we knew it was the year 1993 at the start of this movie, only to feature a lot of music that came out well after 1993. They even referenced Taco Bell gorditas, which were introduced in 1998. And how were they singing karaoke to 4 Non Blondes in 1986? I realize this doesn't necessarily mean anything in terms of the movie/story being good, but I was so distracted by the 90's nostalgia inconsistencies lol

[u/thenatural134 → u/CincyGamer]

I find the fact that you know the release date of the Taco Bell gordita right off the top your head extremely hilarious.

[u/CincyGamer → u/thenatural134]

I remember exactly where I was, what grade I was in at the time etc lol 

[u/Kaldricus → u/CincyGamer]

Great grandparents: I remember where I was when I heard about Hitler's death

Grandparents: I remember where I was when I heard about JFK's assassination

Millenials: I remember where I was when I heard about the twin towers falling

u/CincyGamer with a tear rolling down their face: Gordita

In all seriousness, the Gordita slaps, so I get it

[u/Akahige- → u/CincyGamer]

I remember they wheeled a tv into class to show the ads.

[u/Underwater_Grilling → u/thenatural134]

Pivotal life moments here

[u/LetsBeFRTho → u/thenatural134]

That was an important time in history.

[u/SpartanDetermination → u/CincyGamer]

I actually threw my hands up in disbelief at the "Who Let the Dogs Out" track playing as Ken's entrance music. That version released in October 2000.

[u/wellgroomedmcpoyle → u/SpartanDetermination]

Worst use of trademarked music since the original Suicide Squad tbh

[u/nvrthere285 → u/CincyGamer]

Who let the dogs out? Many Men? The music was all over the place, which is crazy because it’s not like they don’t have a game soundtrack to pull from

[u/NaiadoftheSea → u/nvrthere285]

One of the things that frustrates me the most with adaptations of video games is how they seem to refuse to use the soundtracks from the games.

The animated Mario movie did the same thing, throwing in modern songs in the background instead of the iconic music from the games.

[u/Witters84 → u/NaiadoftheSea]

They did have the iconic Guile's Theme to introduce him, at least.

[u/Servebotfrank → u/Witters84]

There's also quite a few moments where Ryu's theme plays, and Ken's theme plays on the tv a few times. Otherwise it's mostly Guile and Ryu who have their motiffs intact.

[u/Dragons_Malk → u/NaiadoftheSea]

Funny enough, the Silent Hill movies using Akira Yamaoka's soundtracks is one of the only good things about those films.

[u/yompss00 → u/CincyGamer]

I thought it was so funny lmao

[u/ultgambit266]

Watching this tomorrow, but I only have 1 question, any mention or tease of Sagat?

[u/BallinTacklinGamin → u/ultgambit266]

I think you’ll be satisfied with the first 10 minutes or so!

[u/Enough_Sprinkles_113 → u/BallinTacklinGamin]

And stick around for the credits...

[u/Kanzentai → u/ultgambit266]

There's a little something in the credits as well.

[u/DarkestLore696]

Was Cammy’s actress trying to audition for Sindel, what was with that random angry scream when she was sitting with Bison?

[u/xjordyj → u/DarkestLore696]

Funny enough her actress had more action in Mortal Kombat 2021 as Nitara

[u/DarkJayBR → u/DarkestLore696]

And she's acting NOTHING like her videogame counterpart. I think the writers really, really, really wanted to have Juri Han on this movie. But they couldn't because this is Street Fighter 2 (she was introduced in 4 IIRC) and she also hates Bison, so it wouldn't make much of a sense for her to work with him.

So they made the worst possible choice and create a weird chimera of a character. She looks like Cammy White, but under the hood is Juri Han.

Cammy White giggling and walking like Harley Quinn torwards Chun Li. What the hell is this? Cammy White is even colder than Chun-Li in the games.

[u/Steamedcarpet → u/DarkJayBR]

Cammy is one of my favorite characters in the series and Movie Cammy was a mess. When she did the weird scream thing I was so confused.

Juli also confused me with how angry she was all the time. Plus the staff thing which I believe is a Falke thing from SF5.

[u/jobening]

Vega: 🕺

Guile: It’s not a beauty pageant Vega!!

…

Guile: …oh, but if it was…😋😋

[u/nvrthere285 → u/jobening]

I liked his character more than I thought I would, shame we didn’t get to see him fight

[u/SeasonalChatter → u/nvrthere285]

Cody Rhodes is super charismatic I find, they needed to use him more

[u/Sisiwakanamaru]

This is one of the horniest PG-13 movies in recent years, from Ryu vs Honda in the Sauna, Cammy flirted with Chun Li, Don Sauvage licked Cammy’s boots, a dweeb designed Chun Li’s outfit to the M. Bison sniffing Ryu’s feet in the prison, somehow, I cannot believe this is a PG-13 movie.

One more thing, I did not expect Maximillian Dood and people from FGC did cameos and got two lines in this movie.

[u/Fireboy759 → u/Sisiwakanamaru]

Don't forget the scene immediately before the Sauna fight, where Chun-Li is entering a steamy shower fully naked on-screen (without any naughty bits showing)...

...which then transitions to Honda's man boobs out on full display

[u/The_Magical_Amount → u/Fireboy759]

I assume that’s a reference to her shower scene in the animated movie. Did they show her butt in the shower or just her back?

[u/N8CCRG → u/Sisiwakanamaru]

All that and yet the hottest (pun not intended because he never actually breathes any fire) one is probably Dhalsim with his shoulder shimmy.

[u/nvrthere285 → u/Sisiwakanamaru]

So many shots of Chun Li’s 🍑, not that I was complaining

[u/Hokuboku → u/nvrthere285]

A guy behind me went "sheeesh" during the scene with the fireplace. Just echoed in the otherwise silent theatre 🤣

[u/Sisiwakanamaru → u/nvrthere285]

She worked so hard for this movie, it would be a crime if we did not see the results on the big screen.

[u/-DreamLight- → u/Sisiwakanamaru]

I was kinda shocked she didn't get the spiked cuffs. and that they added full pants to her costume

[u/Mindrust → u/nvrthere285]

One of the highlights for me, personally

[u/Dazzling_Basket819 → u/Sisiwakanamaru]

Yall forgetting all the homoerotic jokes too.

[u/Kapjak → u/Sisiwakanamaru]

Also M. Bison's personal guards who look like they're out of the shewolf of dachau

[u/Steamedcarpet → u/Kapjak]

The main not cammy one (not sure if that was Juli) was so angry and kept focusing on her gripping her staff.

[u/Sisiwakanamaru → u/Steamedcarpet]

It was Juli, portrayed by Rayna Vallandingham, some people may know her from Cobra Kai series.

[u/chrisychris- → u/Steamedcarpet]

She was sooo jealous

[u/neal1701 → u/Sisiwakanamaru]

Don Sauvage licked Cammy’s boots

Don Sauvage kissed and licked Cammy's boots*

[u/ToneBone12345 → u/Sisiwakanamaru]

True so many random horny scenes in the movie

[u/HankSteakfist → u/Sisiwakanamaru]

Was Cammy legitimately a bad guy, or was she brainwashed?

[u/Kpachecodark → u/HankSteakfist]

She's in her Killer Bee outfit from SFA3. At this point in time she was a Female clone of M. Bison that they were going to transfer him into. She is a bad guy. When she first appeared in SSF2 in her green outfit, that is Delta Red Cammy. That was after she was freed from M. Bison's control and joined Delta Red

[u/RespectibleCabbage → u/Kpachecodark]

This guy street fighters

[u/HeavenlyE → u/HankSteakfist]

If they get a sequel I imagine it'll be revealed she was brainwashed

[u/SpiritualAd9102 → u/HankSteakfist]

She’s barely in it but she seems more like a willing participant than her doll version. 

She’s more like early Harley Quinn here.

[u/elbenji → u/HankSteakfist]

Bad guy but she doesn't do much but flirt with Chun li

[u/Big_Coconut8630 → u/Sisiwakanamaru]

Wait... there's a Ryu x Bison moment? Ingrid would be so happy.

[u/DarkestLore696 → u/Big_Coconut8630]

Ryu wakes up in Bison’s jail and Bison is washing his feet.. it was, yeah.

[u/elbenji → u/Big_Coconut8630]

Yeah Bison flirts with him for like a solid ten minutes

[u/Reaper-Lord69 → u/Sisiwakanamaru]

Cammy flirted with Chun-Li?

[u/Sisiwakanamaru → u/Reaper-Lord69]

Yeah, it was still a tame moment though compared to other horny scenes in this movie.

[u/Great_Tyrant5392 → u/Sisiwakanamaru]

Cammy is unreal sexy in this movie. The actress nailed the look the character itself feels very different from what I expected.

[u/SeasonalChatter → u/Great_Tyrant5392]

She’s closer to Juri as a character, but has a fun presence on screen at least

[u/forever87 → u/Great_Tyrant5392]

her banter throughout the movie made me. i want Mel Jarnson to continue playing live action cammy

[u/_GeorgeBailey_]

NOW DRIVE!

pause

THE CAR!

[u/EnjoyMyDownvote → u/_GeorgeBailey_]

I was like what the fuck is that

[u/wraith21 → u/_GeorgeBailey_]

Lmao this stuck out with me as well. Can't believe they went with this take

[u/TacoMasters]

what the hell were they smoking in the editing room

[u/MimeMike]

The most egregious sequel bait cliffhanger ending I’ve seen in recent memory. It literally just… ends. It’s so bold I can’t help but be in awe of it. What a movie. A good one? Not really. But what a movie.

[u/2Eyed → u/MimeMike]

This movie was Street Fighter 1.5. Between the events of SF 1 and SF 2.

I would've loved this movie if the last half was as good as the first half. They set up a fighting tournament and then nearly all of it happens off screen or everyone forfeits. Off screen. In a movie based on videogame series about tournament fighting...

This cast deserved better. Except for Jason My mama name me Jimmy Mamoa.

[u/suss2it → u/2Eyed]

Can’t lie, I do think it was a funny bit to have that one guy win entirely due to forfeits.

[u/PANGIRA → u/MimeMike]

smh everyone knows Street Fighter II is the good one

[u/Vadermaulkylo → u/MimeMike]

This wasn’t a “good” movie but idk it felt so…. authentic? It didn’t feel like the type of safe 2010s-2020s blockbuster you’d expect it to be. The way they commit to the look of the games even if it’s impossible to make look good in live action, the effort put into the animated sequences, how unapologetically juvenile and politically incorrect its sense of humor is, the “Part 1” ending as if they know 100% they’ll get a sequel, the repeated oddly specific sex gags, the little weird shit the actors and extras do, etc etc.

I feel like many movies these days do feel like they’re something AI could easily copy someday(not saying that most movies feel AI, don’t take that wrong) but this shit just felt so specifically human made in a way not many other movies like this feel if that makes sense

[u/Witters84 → u/Vadermaulkylo]

"Authentic" is a good way to put it.

Felt like it had actual people understand the assignment on stuff fans wanted to see out of a fighting video game movie - even if fans themselves are not the best judges of filmmaking. I'd put it right up there with the original 90's Mortal Kombat movie. It's rough, it shows, and definitely not perfect, but in a very charming way.

[u/forever87 → u/Witters84]

i mentioned to my best friend last night, this movie answered just about all the questions I've always had about street fighter details i couldn't quickly find on YouTube/Google and in a messy way connected everything street fighter in a fun way

[u/toomeystarks]

Dhalism and Honda are the surprise mvp’s of this movie (honorable mention goes to Sagat as well). Their roles are played mostly straight but with enough humor to be the most charismatic of the entire cast. Imagine if the entire movie matched their characters’ tone, or at least a larger ratio of the cast.

To me, the most interesting part of this movie was the true origin of Ryu’s evil intent. That was something completely new that caught me off guard, as a longtime Street Fighter fan. That’s pretty much where the creativity begins and ends for the film.

The lighting during some key fight scenes was just bad. Chun/Vega/Juli fight just looked like a bunch of shadowy blobs. And the harsh blue cast on the Ryu/Akuma battle just pissed me off.

[u/KingOfAwesometonia → u/toomeystarks]

Totally agree about Dhalsim and Honda. I think it also might be because they seem like the nicest characters in the movie so they're easy to like.

Like maybe 10 percent more sincerity?

[u/ukriva13]

“For me, it was Tuesday…” Basically how I felt about this movie. Fun at times, with some nice easter eggs (i.e, the car, and the soundtrack). Story-wise rough, and the fights happening off screen were annoying. It’s enjoyable, but a movie I will probably forget about in about a month or so…

[u/In_My_Own_Image → u/ukriva13]

I agree that's a fair assessment. I had fun, the movie didn't take itself too seriously, the fights were cool but it's certainly not something I'll remember.

Kinda similar to the first Mortal Kombat reboot. Only without the OC character, thankfully.

[u/garfcarmpbll]

It was so disjointed and literally just ends. What the fuck was that.

[u/_citizenlame_]

You have one of the greatest video game soundtracks...and you're going to have Ken come out to "Who Let the Dogs Out?". Man, fuck this movie.

[u/stumper93 → u/_citizenlame_]

Which didn't come out until 2000 and the film took place in 1993

I mean... at least have SOME continuity!

[u/lamarcuswallace → u/stumper93]

And "Many Men" was playing when Ken and Balrog were fighting. lol

[u/SpiritualAd9102 → u/stumper93]

I mean them singing and bonding over What’s Up by 4 Non Blondes is a major plot point and that came out in 1993, the year the movie takes place. But they show them singing it in flashbacks from the 80s. Such a lazy fucking movie. He-Man has way more relevance with that song and even they had a little restraint and only used it for a short gag.

Less egregious since it wasn’t being played in universe, but playing Many Men when Balrog fought was so stupid and out of place. We know it’s 50 Cent, we didn’t need a giant neon sign pointing it out. 

Lends more to the idea that this relied on stunt casting.

[u/neal1701]

Street Fighter is a mess of a fun movie!

• Andrew Koji as Ryu and Noah Centineo as Ken Masters are a fun duo with sibling rivalry.
• I don't know why Andrew Schulz was given such a big supporting role. I feel like someone like Paul Walter Hauser or a good actor could have done a better job
• I loved the flashbacks told in animation. It felt like a really good creative choice and a homage to the games
• The movie had a a few comedic moments, especially Eric Andre and Kyle Mooney being freaks
• I don't know why they put the tournament in the movie and made it a huge part only to show like 2 fights. I can't help but compare it to Mortal Kombat I where they did a similar thing.
• The fights were okay but the highlight for me was the bathhouse fight
• The editing of the movie was very bad. Too much cutting back and forth with Chun-Li's scenes and Ryu's & Ken's scenes
• I watched this movie in IMAX and the Chun-Li's fight scenes were normal ratio while Ryu's whole prison subplot was in IMAX ratio. With both of them cutting back and forth, my eyes were getting a workout and it reminded me of Transformers: Last Knight

I think it is a one-time mindless fun watch

[u/UnsolvedParadox → u/neal1701]

I understand not showing 7 tournament fights in a full bracket, but 4 (considering 3 forfeits) should have been displayed in full.

[u/NaiadoftheSea → u/UnsolvedParadox]

But then we wouldn’t have had the time wasting scenes of Bison trying to rile up Ryu. And the scenes of Chun-Li running around while accomplishing nothing.

[u/UnsolvedParadox → u/NaiadoftheSea]

(chomps aggressively on snail shells)

[u/DiscoMonkey007 → u/neal1701]

The movie had a a few comedic moments,

I laughed way too hard on how absurd the interaction between Dan and Guile is in the hallway.

"You're lucky there's lots of oxygen between us."

*proceeds to suck in the oxygen while getting closer and stare menancingly

[u/Rhadjazthesecond → u/DiscoMonkey007]

My favourite part was:

Chun-Li: ...what's happening? Dan: He's singing him back to life, obviously! Male friendships are very complex.

[u/KingOfAwesometonia → u/neal1701]

Kyle Mooney

He would be the first character I would cut. He just tipped the freak scales.

Second would be Schulz. They come close to making Dan an interesting character ("peer" with Ryu and Ken but a loser) but he leans too hard on unfunny scumbag manager even apart from the casting imo

[u/N8CCRG → u/KingOfAwesometonia]

Yeah, Dan wasn't bad but he also didn't add anything to it, and he took up so much space in a movie where so many other characters are desperate for just a moment of screen time.

[u/DamonDD → u/neal1701]

Is the show main characters are Ryu and Ken or actually it is Chun Li as the MC and Ryu and Ken are just supporting casts?

[u/danccode → u/DamonDD]

Ryu and Ken are the main characters. Chun Li is the main supporting character.

[u/neal1701 → u/DamonDD]

I want to make a joke and say Dan Hibiki is the main character.

it kinda feels like Mortal Kombat II where Kitana is the main character when watching the movie but Johnny Cage has more screentime

[u/Various-Addendum-206 → u/DamonDD]

Ken and Ryu are the main characters but Ken have more screentime. The entire tournament is just 2 fights involving Ken,the other fights in that tournament happened offscreen.

[u/heyitsmejosh]

Setting up for a sequel instead of having a conclusive ending was an interesting choice.

[u/RevolutionaryGrape25 → u/heyitsmejosh]

STREET FIGHTER 2 TURBO

[u/HotOne9364]

If you don't want us to compare this Bison to the great Raul Julia's take, then don't have this one quote the "it was Tuesday" line.

[u/OkamiHaley → u/HotOne9364]

It was done so terribly in this too lol

[u/Don-Burgundy → u/HotOne9364]

Once he said that, i was like nah man, don't. His delivery was so dull compared to Raul's and it was a hail mary attempt to save his already horrible character portrayal.

[u/Vadermaulkylo]

I was surprised at how 2000s Michael Bay this felt in humor. I haven’t seen a big budget film get as politically incorrect as this did in years. Gay jokes, sexist jokes, race jokes, etc.

But then I can’t say it was a movie for right wing chuds either because it also got hella homoerotic and had a whole bit dedicated to making fun of gooners lmfao.

[u/KingOfAwesometonia → u/Vadermaulkylo]

The movie it reminded me most about was Michael Bay's TMNT. Which I actually didn't hate but the humor makes it close to a guilty pleasure rather than a recommendable guilty pleasure at times.

At least it clears Rise of the Fallen

[u/portable_turtle → u/Vadermaulkylo]

Right wing chuds are the most homerotic people I know

[u/asapsharkyfrfr → u/Vadermaulkylo]

I swear Cammy and Chun li where on the verge of making out.

[u/applecombinipimento → u/asapsharkyfrfr]

Yes but every male character was as well with every other male character

[u/Happystitcher89]

I know pretty much nothing about Street Fighter, but this was fun. It felt like a campy 90s movie that’s not taking itself seriously.

But the second half pacing was awful, it was both too long and felt like things had been badly edited out. I was thinking toward the end “there are tOo many bad guys, god we have another one still to go” and then it just…ended.

[u/Sonrio]

What the hell happened with Zangief? He’s completely gone after the bar fight.

Noah Centineo was a hard sell to me as Ken but the scene where his hair is down (no half up manbun) made him look extremely Ken so I was satisfied.

Waste of Cammy to not put her in any fights. Even Dan fucking Hibiki was in one, and he didn’t even actually fight!

[u/Great_Tyrant5392 → u/Sonrio]

He lost his fight off-screen but I saw him pumping weights when Chun-Li tried to speak to Ken about the fake tournament.

[u/Mr_Wh0ever]

It's a really messy movie, like a season worth of television put into a two hour movie. It really should've been a tv series. Editing is all over the place, tones clash regularly between serious and comedic. The fight choreography is good, you can really feel the hits. Everybody does a good job with their characters. But I'm a casual, not a fan. It does the same thing as the first Mortal Kombat movie and where it's a more of prelude to a bigger story. It's 6/10 for me, fun, campy, cheesy, very flawed.

[u/nvrthere285 → u/Mr_Wh0ever]

I wanted to like this as much as I liked the recent Mortal Kombat movies, but this was lacking.. something? I grew up playing these games so I had somewhat high hopes

[u/NaiadoftheSea → u/nvrthere285]

It lacked a cohesive plot. And an actual conclusion. Nothing was resolved.

[u/Steamedcarpet → u/NaiadoftheSea]

When Akuma showed up I was thinking “oh wow they really trying to adapt Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo. Akuma will kill off Bison and then it’s Ryu’s fight”. In that moment I was giving the film writers way too much credit.

[u/Kaimito1]

Maybe I'm just a generally happy guy but I really liked the movie. I dont over-analyse these things and I just sit back and enjoy it for what it is

I really liked how when they hit things the camera shakes, and on especially hard hits the sound in the cinema was so loud enough that you could feel the bass or whatever that sound wave is. Music is really good as well.

In parts of a fight where they do damage like when Ryu is getting his head slammed into the brick wall by Ken the camerawork is chaotic and really adds to the cool factor of the fights. Normally you'd think about "damn how is that realistic" but at this point you've seen them tank much harder hits and shrug it off so you just enjoy the show

Its generally unrealistic, but I walked in expecting that from a movie about a game where people can shoot energy waves and a villain that can literally fly. Its super cool and thats enough for me

If I had to complain, I was a bit disappointed a bit when it fully skipped the Guile vs Vega fight and guile just suddenly lost. I also almost missed that Vega dropped out of the tournament in the 2nd round since it was just casually mentioned. I imagine that fight would definitely happen in the sequel though along with Cammy vs Chun-li

Definitely a "sit back and dont think hard about it, just get hyped" movie. Ending sets up for a next one which is understandable because it is a business, and I liked the tonal shift of how they did that out. Classic "get in the car lets hit the road" style after a crazy fight

[u/moonorchid84 → u/Kaimito1]

Yeah this is me. I don’t expect much from this movie and what I want from it, I thought they did it really well.

[u/dukemetoo]

Wow, what an inconsistent movie. Visually it looked good, and the characters looked as accurate as you could hope for. Nice Easter Eggs.

The fighting choices were so weird. Guile and Zangief do one attack? The tournament essentially happens off screen. The fights they do show cut really fast, and often jump between multiple fights at once.

Plus I find it weird how the specials from the game are just clear and away better than the ones in a movie. The Hadoken is suppose to be this great attack in theol movie, closer to what the games view the shinku Hadoken. But the Shinku Hadoken in the game really emphasizes and sells it in a way the movie doesnt. If you are pulling from the games, I would think that would be an easy thing to copy.

The animation was spectacular, but jumping back into animation for a 10 second scene was disorienting.

[u/cgio0 → u/dukemetoo]

The anime parts were so cool

The editing was so weird, they would randomly just jump ahead like jailbreaking Ryu

Also a few of the Chun Li scenes just felt out of place

[u/LetsBeFRTho → u/cgio0]

The anime parts made me wish the entire movie was an anime and not a live action.

[u/MikeArrow → u/dukemetoo]

The fights they do show cut really fast, and often jump between multiple fights at once.

Yeah, I can forgive a lot, but that irritated the fuck out of me.

[u/Cenoflame]

Does the casting of  David Dastmalchian as M. Bison make any sense during the movie? 

[u/TekWWFan → u/Cenoflame]

They even include dialogue in his first scene of how he needs psycho power to grow to his true form.

[u/numbr87 → u/TekWWFan]

Can't wait for the sequel when he's played by Alan Ritchson

[u/DarkJayBR → u/Cenoflame]

The casting is easy to explain, at least for me. They clearly wanted to invoke Raul Julia, the actor who played Mr. Bison in that awful Van Damme Street Fighter movie back in the '90s. They saw how much people loved Raul Julia's performance and thought, "Let's do that again."

The problem is that the screenwriters are so completely detached from reality that they couldn't understand WHY people love Raul Julia's Bison.

Raul Julia was dying of stomach cancer and undergoing chemotherapy during filming. He knew this was going to be one of his final roles, and his son was a huge Street Fighter fan, so he decided to give the performance everything he had. That's why his Bison is so fucking entertaining despite being wildly inaccurate to the game character. The man committed to the bit with every ounce of energy he had left.

But these stupid fucks apparently thought you could just cast some random skinny guy, have him do whatever the fuck he wants, and people would magically love him because "Raul Julia did it."

That's not how it works.

[u/elbenji → u/DarkJayBR]

Also Raul Julia is one of the greatest actors ever and just adds gravitas to whatever he does. He was invoking Latin American strongmen like Noriega in his performance. That's why it's still sp iconic and the game adapted to HIS performance

You can't mimic that

[u/NaiadoftheSea]

My main complaint is that the fights had no consequences. It became a series of things happening without the plot progressing to the point of feeling tedious.

The movie failed to make me care about anyone, which is hard to do. I’m easily swayed by movies generally. So I also didn’t care what happened to anyone.

The plot was all over the place. They should have picked one main villain. Maybe save Dastmalchian as the main villain for the sequel. Make this movie about the tournament with Akuma as the main antagonist with Bison still funding and hosting the tournament and commenting on the fighters.

The stuff with Akuma felt so unimportant because Bison was the way stronger antagonistic presence in this movie, and it just felt so anticlimactic for the movie to end with him just driving away.

I did enjoy the animated scenes and the movie did get a few chuckles out of me here and there.

4/10

[u/Snelldor]

I feel like I would like this movie a lot better if Akuma showed up early just to perform the raging demon on Dan. That way, I would never have to suffer another minute with him.

Every scene is worse just by his mere existence.

[u/anakmager]

They nailed the tone and the visuals, but the forced and unfocused plot ruined the second half. It would've been much better with a simpler plot, a more straightforward tournament format movie

[u/chrisychris- → u/anakmager]

I don’t know why though. I guess they were really set on the prison fight/prison break sequence? Why overcomplicate it. Maybe they thought with both Ryu and Ken fighting there wouldn’t be much stakes? No clue

[u/BallinBrown23]

It’s pretty dumb but in a good way. I think Cody Rhodes stole the show.

Every character was played perfectly

[u/TroubleRecent7320 → u/BallinBrown23]

Just watched it and Cody was really fucking good. His comedy lines were delivered perfectly imo

[u/nameno10001]

idiocracy+ mortal kombat = street fighter. It was a very weird combo. I tried to like it and was just in awe of its choices. A lot of weird fetishes in this one.

[u/LetsBeFRTho → u/nameno10001]

smells your shoulder

[u/TheGodDavidLoPan]

This is not a good movie unfortunately and there wasn't enough Chun Li fan service to save it.

[u/Impressive-Potato]

Attrocious camera work, lighting and editing for the fight scenes. Hollywood has regressed. The humour sucked too.

[u/HosaJim666]

This movie was absolutely idiotic, and I CANNOT WAIT to see the sequel.

[u/sexyeh]

This is a movie that feels that needs the director's cut to make sense, the actors talked a lot about the fight sequences so there is a lot of them that they cut and we need to see it, maybe some streaming service get it.

[u/asapsharkyfrfr → u/sexyeh]

Yeah it just breezes past the fact guile and Vega had a fight completely offscreen

[u/DarkestLore696]

The animated bits just made me want a fully animated movie instead.

[u/Dulcolax]

Is it better than the 1994 live action movie?

Street Fighter 1994 was awful, but in a good way. One of the best bad movies I've ever seen.

Is it a good bad movie like the 1994 version or a bad bad movie like the Chun Li one?

By the way, is it true that the movie has no ending? That would be awful.

[u/TheFiveDees → u/Dulcolax]

They certainly set up a sequel that they are totally going to get 🙄

[u/Witters84 → u/Dulcolax]

The wider plot is unfinished as well as one of the character arcs set up in this movie, but there's two character arcs that get completed in a satisfying way, and were the much larger focus in this movie.

[u/3fa → u/Dulcolax]

"Change the channel!"

[u/emshaq]

Chun Li’s big fight should not have been in so much darkness. Ridiculous, as Callina Liang was brilliant.

I remember seeing Cody Rhodes in Arrow years ago as a Zombie Gangster and he stood out. So to see him do great work as Guile was amazing and hope he gets more recognition for it.

[u/Tacdeho → u/emshaq]

I’m a diehard Cody Rhodes fan. He’s the reason I came back to pro wrestling and his casting was an insane stroke of genius.

He stole every line and every scene he was in.

“I don’t fix em. I fly em, TITTY BOY” has me in a grip.

Also the fact he drops the classic Guile “Go home and be a family man” got a huge pop from me uce

[u/Creepy_Region1631]

I just came out of the movies and what the hell was that 😭

I’m sorry but it was really bad, at one point it felt like a paradory almost like making fun of it.

And I don’t know the general
Opinion but I hated Noah as Ken, I didn’t understand that casting choice

[u/grocktops]

The Tournament

It's so bizarre that the World Warrior Tournament is theoretically the backbone of the plot, but is actually largely inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. Let's just consider Ryu for a moment; at the start of the film, Ryu has sworn off fighting, to the point that he refuses to fight back against Chun Li and Ken. So, in theory, the moment that Ryu decides to become a fighter again is a major turning point. That point is his fight with E. Honda... a fight which ultimately means nothing. Ryu has no relationship with Honda, he just wants Honda's spot in the bracket, but Ryu also doesn't care about winning the tournament, he's just trying to stop Akuma. It's not even clear how this would help him do that - Akuma says that if someone else wins the tournament, he will appear to fight them. Does that mean that if Ryu won, then Akuma wouldn't show up? That doesn't make any sense, Akuma's whole goal is to fight Ryu. So it doesn't matter if Ryu joins the tournament because Akuma will show up and the two can fight regardless, a statement that I know to be true because that's exactly what happens! So this moment of Ryu becoming a fighter again is empty because he's fighting to join a tournament he doesn't want or need to join, and in fact never joins! I saw someone say it’s because he wants to protect Ken because he doesn’t want Ken to win… so why wouldn’t he just fight Ken for his slot in the bracket?

I have to imagine that there were some bizarre rewrites, because Ryu's relationship to the tournament is so strange. Bison starts the tournament just to lure Ryu in to defend his title (which Ryu also doesn't care about), but then he sets up a bracket without Ryu. Then Ryu forces his way into the bracket, only for Bison to capture him before the tournament starts and force him to drop out. It's so messy and makes both characters look kinda stupid - if Chun Li can just track Ryu down, and if Ryu can just be captured by tasing him unconscious, why does Bison need to bother with the tournament at all?

As I just touched on, Akuma doesn't care about the tournament either, he disregards Joe entirely because he actually wants to fight Ryu. Bison also doesn't care about the tournament because it's a ploy to capture Ryu. Chun Li sortof care about the tournament as an opportunity to get close to Bison, but that goes out the window because Bison doesn't even come to watch. Ken sticks with it the longest, but the movie makes it real clear that his hunt for glory is just a mask to hide his pain and his whole arc leads up to him dropping out, so he also doesn't really care about the tournament. So that's 3 protagonists and 2 antagonists, none of whom actually care about the tournament. Considering how insubstantial the tournament itself even is - 3/8 of the participants drop out - it would be shockingly easy to rewrite this whole plot to cut out the World Warrior Tournament altogether.

Worldbuilding

The Hadoken and Shoryuken being treated as these extremely limited and outlandish techniques is disappointing and also more than a little thoughtless. This is a world where Honda can do flying Sumo Headbutts and Zangief can leap a dozen feat in the air, but a big jumping uppercut is outlandish? I'm reminded of Dragon Ball Evolution; it's weird and disappointing to treat these extremely common features of the lore as things the characters need to earn and can only do sparingly. This isn't just an aesthetic complaint, it's the core issue with Chun Li's story. Her superiors want to extract her because they don't believe her claims about Psycho Power and Bison's plans. Then why did they even insert her to begin with!? Joe doesn't back down when a demon man manifests from a cloud of energy in front of him, but Interpol doesn't believe that the evil mad-science dictator they're investigating is doing evil mad science? It's a world where there's too much inconsistency between the bizarre and the mundane, so nobody seems to take things seriously; then why should I?

The Dark Hado

Ryu's whole story is about his struggle with the Dark Hado, but the movie does a terrible job of establishing why the Dark Hado is... bad. Like, I know why it's bad in the game lore, and I understand that a "Dark" energy that makes your eyes glow red is very simple shorthand for "thing that makes you evil." But what does the film actually do to show the audience why the Dark Hado is bad? Ryu uses it to defeat Sagat, which establishes that the Dark Hado makes you powerful and violent... but he's in a fighting tournament. It's a setting where those qualities are entirely acceptable - the fact that he is crowned the winner indicates that wounding Sagat didn't even violate the rules. The film reaches for some kind of profound moral conflict - Ryu says that refusing to give in to the Dark Hado means protecting his honor - but it's incomprehensibly muddled. It's one of the things that makes the stakes really unclear, Ryu is constantly struggling against a thing that only ever seems to help him - avoiding the Dark Hado means letting Gouken die and becoming a lame vagrant who sucks at cooking, giving in helps him defeat Sagat, Blanka, and Akuma. It really feels like the film just wants the cool parts of Evil Ryu but has no idea what to do with the inner turmoil that comes with it.

Zangief

I'm a Zangief main. I'm allowing myself this brief portion to let my bias show and say that I was profoundly disappointed with how little he's in this movie, especially considering how incredible Olivier Richters looks as him.

Chun Li

Chun Li's is the most coherent protagonist of the three but her story is so scattershot and overcomplicated. She wants backup for a vague operation to capture Bison for vague crimes. She brands herself with his mark (Which I'm fairly certain nobody else has), and successfully gets an invite to watch the tournament with him, but then he ditches her because he captured Ryu - except Ryu was captured before the branding, so wouldn't he already have changed his mind before the invite? It's probably just bad editing rearranging scenes, but the way it turns out, it makes it look like Bison already suspected her as a traitor and made her brand herself for no reason. In fact, everyone's so suspicious of her that it seems like her cover was always blown, which makes her seem less competent. She leaves to meet Interpol only to beat them up and go right back, after which her entire plan is basically kaput and I have no idea what she's trying to do. She latches onto Ken for some reason? I keep calling Chun a protagonist because major parts of the plot feel missing without her - she's the one fighting Bison and his inner circle, whereas Ken and Ryu barely interact with them at all, but she has no relationship with Ken and Ryu and her whole conflict basically gets sidelined by theirs after a certain point. Maybe it's more accurate to say she's a side character who got elevated way too far.

[u/apolloali → u/grocktops]

movies a mess of sure, but one thing: akuma promised to kill the champion, so ryu's scene with honda is about him deciding he'd rather die himself than let ken die. that to me is quite clear.

[u/Sisiwakanamaru]

First things first, I had fun with this movie. It reminds me a lot of Twisted Metal tv series, it is not necessarily for everybody but I felt like this movie really captured the spirit of the video game itself, especially during the 90’s, for better and worse. I like the energy of this movie and felt like the cast and crew enjoyed their time during the production, I also like how they used animated sequence for flashbacks, somewhat refreshing. The trailer and premise sold this movie as Ryu and Ken movie first and foremost, I felt like the writing and the characterizations of Ryu and Ken were pretty decent, Ken’s Hadouken during the climax felt earned. Chun Li characterization was not as deep as Ryu and Ken but Calina Liang had a great screen presence as Chun Li, every time she was on screen, the movie felt so captivating.

EDIT: I just wanna give a shout out to Dhalsim in this movie, he was also the highlight in this movie, I enjoyed his pressence, especially when he fought Ken in this movie, I hope he got bigger role in the sequel.

Since the movie set in the 90’s, the humour felt pretty erotic and juvenile but weirdly, I almost don’t have any problem with that. The editing felt kind of frantic in some scenes like during Chun Li vs Vega & Juli and Ryu and Ken prison escape, but most of the action and fighting scenes were good. This is kinda nitpicking, I know this is a Ryu and Ken movie but I understand if some people were upset when some characters were sidelined, Like Guile fight that happened off-screen. One more thing, Dan Hibiki. I enjoyed his characterization and how the character incorporated into Ryu and Ken story, I wished he was played by other actors.

All in all, I had a good time with the movie, one of the better video games to movie adaptations for me, 🤞 for the sequel

[u/PM_ME_THEM_BOOBIES]

This movie feels like it’s written and directed by a 12-year old on a sugar rush. Nothing is given a chance to breathe and the juvenile humor every 60 seconds just does not land. My theater was stoically silent for nearly all of this. It’s crazy how frenetic this movie is and yet they still end it in the middle of act 3 without any real conclusion.

That being said, I did enjoy the fights. The characters and sets looked good. I liked the anime sequences and most of the music choices. I felt like they got the action, style and tone mostly down but the rest of it just did not work for me.

[u/sketchbookhunt]

I see a lot of people online saying this movie is “for the fans not the critics”
Okay well I’m a fan. I love street fighter to the point of entering SF6 tournaments. This movie is an awful mess. The editing is just all over the place that it feels like it straight up skips scenes. Zangeif for example is hyped up for the tournament but once the tournament begins he’s just not in the movie anymore. Cody Rhodes as Guile felt so good near the beginning but he doesn’t have a single fight scene. His tournament fight is skipped. The plot is just trying to handle so many things at once and doesn’t even resolve most of it! This movie just suspects it’s going to get a sequel that will deal with it instead. 
The fight scenes are cool when it’s not CONSTANTLY cutting to Eric Andre and Andrew Schulz reacting to things in such an over the top way. Sure, quipping is fine. Improv is fine. But when every single person is doing it in every single scene… it just makes this whole thing feel like I’m just watching people trying to do stand up when this is supposed to be a Street Fighter movie.
It’s also a little distracting with the license music is playing in pretty much every single fight, whether it’s a goofy one or serious one. I really don’t need to hear Who Let the Dogs out or What’s Up being louder then the sound effects of the fights.
The anime scenes were cool tho. Wish the whole movie was like that instead. 

[u/georgesoo → u/sketchbookhunt]

I feel the SF 2 anime movie is currently and for the forseeable future be the best iteration of the video game ever

[u/maa112 → u/georgesoo]

I need to watch it tonight to make up for the trash I saw

[u/kb1117]

I thought it wasn’t like some crime against cinema, but it wasn’t particularly great. Ryu/Ken were really good. Some decent fights but nothing that topped MK2. M. Bison was all over the place, the actress that played Chun-Li wasn’t particularly good and the sheer number of needle drops in this movie were obnoxious.

[u/LetsBeFRTho → u/kb1117]

They skipped the beat like 4 times before playing the IP songs as if Pharrell Williams made the songs. Why? Who knows.

[u/J-RedFive]

I think the trailer was better. The one that came out 5 months ago, has Ken's scream timed to the 4 Non Blondes song, Chun Li says bitch please. It was definitely selling me a movie I wanted to see.

This movie was not that. I put a lot of it on the editing. Noah Centineo, Andrew Koji, Callina Liang, they all had the juice. It was there on the screen, but the pacing, the story, and the overall feel of the movie was way off.

I don't really care about Street Fighter but I was excited to see this movie. Now I really wish I hadn't.

[u/ReaddittiddeR]

Street Fighter II The Movie (‘94 anime) was right there to adapt into live action and hope someday it will. Still the best version of any SF movie. Hollywood went with the campy adaptation once again.

Personally, the Gouken flashback and animated scenes were the best parts of this movie.

[u/NaiadoftheSea]

Chun-Li: I’m dedicated to getting revenge on Bison

Brands her hand to stay close to Bison

Fights her own team to keep getting close to Bison

Fights Bison and gets knocked out for a bit

Wakes up to find Ken on the ground and somehow knows what on earth is going on with Ryu

Completely forgets about Bison during the fight with Ryu

Bison just gets away

Such a bad movie

You could have removed Chun-Li from that final fight and nothing would have changed.

[u/LetsBeFRTho → u/NaiadoftheSea]

Her saying "fuck it" and kick her commanders ass was so unearned and unnecessary and sudden. I laughed.

[u/bakakubi]

The animated scenes were amazing. Everything else? Not so much.

[u/NickNolastname]

As someone who doesn't know anything about Street Fighter lore and has only played SF6, I enjoyed the movie a good bit. The fights were impressive, it was way funnier than I thought it would be, and the cast had great chemistry... but I really wish the script was tighter with the story. The cutting back and forth between the tourney, Ryu as a captive, and Chun Li's spy plot made it feel jumbled. The biggest highlights of the movie were whenever all the characters were together. Would have definitely been a better movie if they focused on the tournament and let everyone play off each other.

I could see it working if Ryu stayed in the tournament and seriously tried to win it so he could fight Akuma and defeat him. Have him and Ken in the final bracket, Ken wins, and then they team up on Akuma together (with some help from other fighters) and have Ken unlock his Hadoken as the finishing blow. They can still keep the same ending with the sequel bait, saving Bison to be a villain in a 2nd movie (if this one performs well enough at the BO).

Overall, even though the story was messy, there was plenty to enjoy and I would show up for a sequel.

(Also, I saw this in 4DX and good lord, they may need to turn it down a tad 😅 I'm 6ft and 250+lbs and there were a couple moments where I would have been tossed out of my seat if I didn't hold myself down with the armrests)

[u/cesarnomad]

My only complaint about the movie is that it felt like it needed to be a half hour longer. It cut too much stuff to keep the time down, but I would have been all in to watch some more fights.

[u/Type_Rex__]

I swear I was going "Huh?" at least once per scene. The dialogue mixing is horrible in this movie.