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Despite remaining the subject of intense debate by fans of the Capcom video game on which it’s based, the Jean-Claude Van Damme punch-em-up Street Fighter returns to DVD with an array of supplemental features, many of which may seem very familiar to anyone who’s owned previous DVD releases of this title. The film itself, directed by screenwriter Steven (Die Hard) de Souza, remains an amusing camp exercise, buoyed largely by the presence of Raul Julia in his final film role as mad dictator General Bison, who holds a trio of soldiers for ransom. Coming to the rescue is a bleached-blond Van Damme and a team of fighters, including Chun-Li (Ming-Na), Sagat (Wes Studi), Cammy (Kylie Minogue) and other characters from the Street Fighter rogues’ gallery. De Souza’s decision to weave humor into the storyline hobbles the impact of the fight scenes, which are largely relegated to the final third of the film, and budgetary restraints render some characters--most notably Robert Mammone’s Blanka--as laughable caricatures. The result is probably appalling for Street Fighter die-hards, though most audiences seem to regard it as a camp hoot. That status may account for this Extreme Edition, although the tie-in factor with the 2009 theatrical release Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li should be taken into consideration as well. Those who own the 1999 Collector’s Edition DVD of this title will already have most of the extras featured here, including commentary by de Souza, a making-of featurette, outtakes, deleted scenes, storyboard and video game sequences (the latter featuring likenesses of Van Damme and Julia) and a barrage of promotional images. The only features that are new to the Extreme Edition are the sharp anamorphic transfer, which is a vast improvement over the previous release, and a trio of trailers for the Street Fighter IV game and Street Fighter IV feature-length anime. --Paul Gaita
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Get ready for action-packed excitement in the all-new Street Fighter Extreme Edition – on both DVD and Blu-ray! Based on one of the most popular video game franchises of alltime, this martial arts adventure stars international superstar Jean-Claude Van Damme as a commando who leads an elite team of street fighters against an evil general. Featuring a digitally remastered picture and loaded with bonus features including deleted scenes, featurettes, director commentary, outtakes, storyboards and much more, Street Fighter Extreme Edition is the ultimate way experience one of the hottest properties of both yesterday and today.
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46 of 51 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
Okay, I don't think anyone can reasonably argue that this movie is good; at least, not in any conventional sense. The acting, except for perhaps Raul Julia, is sub-par at best, the story is ridiculous, and even the fight scenes aren't very well-executed (pretty bad for a film with the title Street Fighter, huh).
So why am I giving this 5 stars? Well, for starters, I was all of 8 years old when the film came out, and deeply in love with video games, especially Street Fighter II, which this film is (loosely) based on. I also liked Jean-Claude Van Damme for some bizarre reason-Bloodsport, Hard Target, Timecop-to me, he could do no wrong. Which made this film a perfect storm of sorts. Being older and wiser, I can easily spot the many flaws in this film, but the over-the-top, cheesy dialogue, stunts, and story are what keep me loving this movie. I don't think it's good anymore, like when I did when I was eight, but now I realize it's in that rare so-terrible-it's-actually-highly-entertaining category. Just don't expect much and watch it more for laughs than a serious story (it's based on a video game for crying out loud) and you'll get a kick out of it.
I mean, how could you not love a movie that has one of the characters, watching a surveillance camera revealing a bomb-laden truck about to crash into the building he's in, exclaim, "Quick! Somebody change the channel!"
So why am I giving this 5 stars? Well, for starters, I was all of 8 years old when the film came out, and deeply in love with video games, especially Street Fighter II, which this film is (loosely) based on. I also liked Jean-Claude Van Damme for some bizarre reason-Bloodsport, Hard Target, Timecop-to me, he could do no wrong. Which made this film a perfect storm of sorts. Being older and wiser, I can easily spot the many flaws in this film, but the over-the-top, cheesy dialogue, stunts, and story are what keep me loving this movie. I don't think it's good anymore, like when I did when I was eight, but now I realize it's in that rare so-terrible-it's-actually-highly-entertaining category. Just don't expect much and watch it more for laughs than a serious story (it's based on a video game for crying out loud) and you'll get a kick out of it.
I mean, how could you not love a movie that has one of the characters, watching a surveillance camera revealing a bomb-laden truck about to crash into the building he's in, exclaim, "Quick! Somebody change the channel!"
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Definitely One Of The Better Made Early Video Game Movies...Though That Might Not Be Saying Much
January 16, 2012
By DarthJustice
Format:Blu-ray|Amazon Verified Purchase
Whenever I think of video game movies, I always think of only three movies: Super Mario Brothers, Street Fighter, and Double Dragon. Perhaps because these were the first three made or perhaps because I loved all three as a kid. Either way, of those three, it's Street Fighter I seem to always think of the most as far as these kind of movies go.
Street Fighter: The Movie came out in 1994, a year after the release of Super Mario Brothers. Let's just be upfront in saying it's no where near being an Oscar worthy movie. It's probably not even really "good", at that. It's a somewhat cheesy or campy movie (but not as much as SMB and no where near as much as Double Dragon). But I've always really enjoyed the movie.
So what is the plot of the movie? This is one place I think it hurt itself with a lot of Street Fighter fans. As was once said, for a movie called Street Fighter....there's a glaring lack of street fighting, much less a tournament. I could have easily seen the movie be your standard martial arts film in that sense had they made it a bit more like the games. However, in the movie, Bison is as he is in the games: a power mad dictator out for world domination. Opposing him is the Allied Nations with Guile commanding the army. And that's basically the plot. Bison has taken a large group of people hostage and has given the world 72 hours to hand him $20 billion in ransom while the main characters set out to stop him and rescue the hostages (though they don't all come together until towards the end of the movie).
Many of the major characters from the games out at the time are in the movie as well. Ryu and Ken are a couple of con artists who rip off criminals, Sagat and Vega, both former cage fighters, operate as arms dealers for Bison, Chun Li, out to avenge her father, Balrog, who is one of the more major departures from his game counterpart, and E. Honda work as reporters, and Guile, like his game counterpart, is after Bison partially to avenge his friend Charlie who is combined with Blanka from the game as in the movie, Charlie IS Blanka. Zangief, though not like in the game, works for Bison.
I bought the blu-ray "Extreme Edition" version of the movie. Admittedly I never owned the DVD so I can't compare. But I thought the image quality was nice. I have no complaints there. There's several special features but so far I've only watched the deleted scenes. There's unfortunately only two of them and both center around Chun Li.
The only "big name" people in the movie are Raul Julia as M. Bison and Jean Claude Van Damme who plays Colonel William F. Guile. Both give good performances (as good as it can be given the circumstances). Raul Julia definitely takes the cake though as my favorite performance of the movie. It was clear he was enjoying himself with the role. It's only sad because Raul Julia died not long after the movie came out. I remember always seeing the "For Raul. Vaya con dios" at the end but never realizing what it meant (both with RJ's death and I didn't know Spanish at the time--it means go with God). Now that I do, I felt a twinge of sadness as it appeared and the credits rolled.
Another thing I've heard people didn't like about the movie is they changed the central character. In the games, Ryu is the central/main character while in the movie, it's Guile. While Guile is my favorite character (in both the games and movie), I can understand.
All in all, can you really say Street Fighter is a "good" movie? Probably not. But something about it I can't quite put my finger on has always made me really enjoy the movie. Truth be told, it's probably my favorite video game movie.
Street Fighter: The Movie came out in 1994, a year after the release of Super Mario Brothers. Let's just be upfront in saying it's no where near being an Oscar worthy movie. It's probably not even really "good", at that. It's a somewhat cheesy or campy movie (but not as much as SMB and no where near as much as Double Dragon). But I've always really enjoyed the movie.
So what is the plot of the movie? This is one place I think it hurt itself with a lot of Street Fighter fans. As was once said, for a movie called Street Fighter....there's a glaring lack of street fighting, much less a tournament. I could have easily seen the movie be your standard martial arts film in that sense had they made it a bit more like the games. However, in the movie, Bison is as he is in the games: a power mad dictator out for world domination. Opposing him is the Allied Nations with Guile commanding the army. And that's basically the plot. Bison has taken a large group of people hostage and has given the world 72 hours to hand him $20 billion in ransom while the main characters set out to stop him and rescue the hostages (though they don't all come together until towards the end of the movie).
Many of the major characters from the games out at the time are in the movie as well. Ryu and Ken are a couple of con artists who rip off criminals, Sagat and Vega, both former cage fighters, operate as arms dealers for Bison, Chun Li, out to avenge her father, Balrog, who is one of the more major departures from his game counterpart, and E. Honda work as reporters, and Guile, like his game counterpart, is after Bison partially to avenge his friend Charlie who is combined with Blanka from the game as in the movie, Charlie IS Blanka. Zangief, though not like in the game, works for Bison.
I bought the blu-ray "Extreme Edition" version of the movie. Admittedly I never owned the DVD so I can't compare. But I thought the image quality was nice. I have no complaints there. There's several special features but so far I've only watched the deleted scenes. There's unfortunately only two of them and both center around Chun Li.
The only "big name" people in the movie are Raul Julia as M. Bison and Jean Claude Van Damme who plays Colonel William F. Guile. Both give good performances (as good as it can be given the circumstances). Raul Julia definitely takes the cake though as my favorite performance of the movie. It was clear he was enjoying himself with the role. It's only sad because Raul Julia died not long after the movie came out. I remember always seeing the "For Raul. Vaya con dios" at the end but never realizing what it meant (both with RJ's death and I didn't know Spanish at the time--it means go with God). Now that I do, I felt a twinge of sadness as it appeared and the credits rolled.
Another thing I've heard people didn't like about the movie is they changed the central character. In the games, Ryu is the central/main character while in the movie, it's Guile. While Guile is my favorite character (in both the games and movie), I can understand.
All in all, can you really say Street Fighter is a "good" movie? Probably not. But something about it I can't quite put my finger on has always made me really enjoy the movie. Truth be told, it's probably my favorite video game movie.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By Mike Sehorn
Format:DVD
The biggest distinction that "Street Fighter: the Movie" holds for me is that it's the first Van Damme picture I ever saw. On a global scale, it was the first video game-film adaptation to turn a buck, which should count for something despite the routine bashing it receives for how shoddily it portrayed the most popular fighting game of the time on the big screen. I was personally never a huge "Street Fighter" fan, but while I can certainly spot the plotline unfaithfulness, I can't help but notice just how fun the movie is. It's a poor adaptation and a questionable action movie, but nevertheless a decent teenaged adventure when taken at face value.
The story: when the mad warlord General M. Bison (Raul Julia, The Addams Family) is poised to overrun the earth in pursuit of his own personal empire, it will be up to a multi-faceted group of fighters - including Colonel William Guile (Van Damme, Timecop), reporter Chun-Li (Ming Na, Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within), and conmen Ryu Hoshi (Byron Mann, Crying Freeman) and Ken Masters (Damian Chapa) - to stop him.
This film is definitely over-cast, comparable to Mortal Kombat: Annihilation in terms of saturation. No less than fifteen characters from the original two games - more than half of their combined casts - are featured, resulting in a stifling deficit of character development, since next to none of them have the appropriate amount of screentime for it. The actual casting choices of these characters can also be taken to task, but I'm pleased that - through the admirably accurate costumes and cosmetics - most of the performers at least *look* like their animated counterparts (in some cases, like Robert "Blanka" Mammone, you almost wish they didn't). Personalities and backgrounds have been addled with as expected to accommodate the tournament-free premise, but none of them bother me as much as the case of M. Bison: he's the single goofiest part of this whole immature adventure, practically a forerunner to Dr. Evil, having been written so comically that it's impossible to consider him threatening even when he's snapping guys' necks or shooting electricity from his fists.
The movie never has a problem with pacing, rolling along fittingly enough at a video game's pace and always presenting you with some silly or bombastic event to watch; it's never boring. Sadly, there's not nearly enough fighting going on, and when it does happen it's not that great. It seems amazing that, considering what it's based on, the movie only has a 'round half-dozen fights, depending on your definition of a fight (i.e. I don't consider it a fight when Guile and his team ambush some soldiers and Kylie Minogue does a cool but unnecessary pro wrestling move), and even more amazing how very bland most of them are with Benny Urquidez (Spider-Man) supplying fight choreography. Some of the performers just aren't good, and some of them surprisingly so (is this the same Damian Chapa who rocked the house with Michael Worth in U.S. Seals 2? I hope not!), but other times they just feel stifled. For example, the showdown between Ryu and Vega (Jay Tavare, Pathfinder) was my favorite of the movie, and really felt like it could've gone somewhere were it not for the cramped locker room they were in.
Apparently, the critical lashing "Street Fighter" received moved Van Damme to choose his future roles more carefully, so in a pinch, I'll accredit every good movie he did subsequently to this minor disappointment. Seeing as this particular franchise hasn't done too well in live-action film regardless of who's involved, I can't be too hard on this first attempt and will continue to regard it neutrally and enjoy it by accident every few years. Fans of the games who somehow have yet to see the film should avoid it unless they're intentionally looking for something to heckle.
The story: when the mad warlord General M. Bison (Raul Julia, The Addams Family) is poised to overrun the earth in pursuit of his own personal empire, it will be up to a multi-faceted group of fighters - including Colonel William Guile (Van Damme, Timecop), reporter Chun-Li (Ming Na, Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within), and conmen Ryu Hoshi (Byron Mann, Crying Freeman) and Ken Masters (Damian Chapa) - to stop him.
This film is definitely over-cast, comparable to Mortal Kombat: Annihilation in terms of saturation. No less than fifteen characters from the original two games - more than half of their combined casts - are featured, resulting in a stifling deficit of character development, since next to none of them have the appropriate amount of screentime for it. The actual casting choices of these characters can also be taken to task, but I'm pleased that - through the admirably accurate costumes and cosmetics - most of the performers at least *look* like their animated counterparts (in some cases, like Robert "Blanka" Mammone, you almost wish they didn't). Personalities and backgrounds have been addled with as expected to accommodate the tournament-free premise, but none of them bother me as much as the case of M. Bison: he's the single goofiest part of this whole immature adventure, practically a forerunner to Dr. Evil, having been written so comically that it's impossible to consider him threatening even when he's snapping guys' necks or shooting electricity from his fists.
The movie never has a problem with pacing, rolling along fittingly enough at a video game's pace and always presenting you with some silly or bombastic event to watch; it's never boring. Sadly, there's not nearly enough fighting going on, and when it does happen it's not that great. It seems amazing that, considering what it's based on, the movie only has a 'round half-dozen fights, depending on your definition of a fight (i.e. I don't consider it a fight when Guile and his team ambush some soldiers and Kylie Minogue does a cool but unnecessary pro wrestling move), and even more amazing how very bland most of them are with Benny Urquidez (Spider-Man) supplying fight choreography. Some of the performers just aren't good, and some of them surprisingly so (is this the same Damian Chapa who rocked the house with Michael Worth in U.S. Seals 2? I hope not!), but other times they just feel stifled. For example, the showdown between Ryu and Vega (Jay Tavare, Pathfinder) was my favorite of the movie, and really felt like it could've gone somewhere were it not for the cramped locker room they were in.
Apparently, the critical lashing "Street Fighter" received moved Van Damme to choose his future roles more carefully, so in a pinch, I'll accredit every good movie he did subsequently to this minor disappointment. Seeing as this particular franchise hasn't done too well in live-action film regardless of who's involved, I can't be too hard on this first attempt and will continue to regard it neutrally and enjoy it by accident every few years. Fans of the games who somehow have yet to see the film should avoid it unless they're intentionally looking for something to heckle.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Buen producto
buen material, buena calidad, para colección de los amantes de street fighter y los videojuegos, porque la película es de las peores!!
Published 3 months ago by roberto gimenez
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Classic!
One of the great classics of action from my past, I still enyoy the fights between all the remembered warriors.
Published 3 months ago by Javier Rivera
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Its damaged
I Collect DVDs as you will see if you look at my order history. This is a first for Amazon(having damaged product) the two dvds were sliding around in the box an when I opened... Read more
Published 4 months ago by G man
4.0 out of 5 stars
Guilty Pleasure
As a 37 year old man (as of this writing) I grew up with SF and MC and all those other wonderful games turned HORRIBLE movies. This one is no different. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Dan Abildgaard
4.0 out of 5 stars
Pick up as set New
Ok for kids real cheap no longer made.
I think it was on TV at some point but I never seen it.
I think it was on TV at some point but I never seen it.
Published 6 months ago by Neal Null
5.0 out of 5 stars
Action movie
I liked it because it is science fiction with funny action scenes and its enjoyable film of 1990s classics.
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Published 6 months ago by Tyler Disney
5.0 out of 5 stars
Check your brain at the door
All the people on here have no clue what there talking about when they bash this movie. Its becouse when they watch this movie the exspect to see a movie like the green mile. Read more
Published 7 months ago by charles
4.0 out of 5 stars
Van Damme roundhouse kicks his way into the video game market
The 90's was a decade dominated by some of the most memorable video games ever created. Next to Madden 97 and NBA Live sat the arcade classic Street Fighter. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Sid the Elf
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good purchase
I received this item quickly and in new condition. It works perfectly and my grandson loves it and it was nice to see Raul Julia in his last performance.
Published 10 months ago by L. Walls
1.0 out of 5 stars
High definition? You're kidding!!!
I've bought several blu ray discs. When I bought "The Godfaher", I thought that was awful, because of the grainy vision. Read more
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