Street Fighter: Should be remade

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Before there was a Mortal Kombat, there was a Street Fighter. The popular video game, released in 1987, predates Mortal Kombat by 4 years. So it would be fitting for the Street Fighter motion picture adaptation to precede Mortal kombat's. Released in 1994, Street Fighter starred such actors as Jean-Claude Van Damme and the late Raul Julia. The plot of the movie is pretty original from the game, considering the came consists of fighters traveling around the world to fight others in tournament fashion.

The Allied Nations, which is a multi-nation military corp, launches a mission in the fictional land of Shadaloo to fight off the forces of known drug lord M. Bison. One of the A.N soldiers, Carlos "Charlie" Blanka, gets kidnapped by Bison's men and taken to a lab to be genetically altered. Guile (played by Van Damme) goe in to find Charlie since they are good friends. The plot has it so each main character (Chun-Li, Ryu, Ken, Balrog, Honda) has a reason for going after Bison and they each meet each other in separate ways. Such characters as Cammy, A.J Vega and Sagat are present in the movie as well. In the end, Guile takes out Bison and the enemy's hideout is destroyed. Bison, survives in the end, in a way that hinted that there was going to be a sequel.

There are alot of Hollywood-ized differences in the movie that separate it from the game. First, Shadaloo was not a nation, it is the name of Bison's crime syndicate. M. Bison was never mentioned to be a drug lord in the game, but a crime boss who was hell bent on world domination and developed something called "Psycho energy" that greatly enhanced his fighting ability and gave him powers. Ryu and Ken are portrayed to be con artists, which they are not nor ever have been. They are martial artists and to be honest, the main antagonists of the Street Fighter world and not Guile. They obviously did that to give Jean-Claude an image boost. Balrog never fought alongside Chun-Li, instead he was really Bison's enforcer. Dr. Dhalsim was never doctor and he wasn't the one who transformed Charlie into the monster Blanka. I have to give credit for some consistency such as Chun-Li's quest for revenge on Bison for killing her father and Guile's quest to recover his long lost friend Charlie.

The special effects were horrible. Like Mortal Kombat, each character had some sort of enhanced special moves or projectile power in the game. Mortal Kombat picked which character should have those same powers in the movie and which needed to be powerless. In Street Fighter, no one had powers except for Ryu, who when he actually did his power, the Hadoken blast, looked like the cheesiest and cheapest thing I have ever seen in any movie.

I am indeed a Street Fighter fan, and this film gave no justice to the franchise at all. A reboot is way overdo to set order and balance right for this franchise. I am sure that fans would love to see a correct representation of their favorite characters and the correct telling of the story. I'm not going to touch on the 2nd Street Fighter movie "Legend of Chun-Li" for obvious reasons (coughs) *It sucked*. The only good thing about that film was Kristen Kreuk (sigh).