STREET FIGHTER (1994) 35mm Presentation

Col. Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of Dictator M. Bison and his cohorts.

It was the early 1990s and every teenager in the world knew about Street Fighter. Originally released in the arcades and then on the SNES and Mega Drive consoles, the game featured a cast of weird, semi-magical combatants with names like Ryu, Chun-Li and Guile battling it out for victory in the World Fighting Championship. It was colourful, competitive and ridiculous. It sold 15 million copies... There was, in Hollywood business parlance, synergy.

The Movie is a charmingly camp and self-consciously silly action flick, offering a fast-cut, colourful and unmistakably early-90s take on video game culture. Much of that “unintelligible dialogue” has slipped into internet legend. Van Damme’s confrontation with Simon Callow’s ambassador (“Colonel, have you lost your mind?”, “No, you’ve lost your balls”). And, of course, every single Raul Julia scene.

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