REWATCH: Street Fighter [1994]

[Cross-posted on the Bad Movie Night Facebook page.]

So we watched "Street Fighter" once in 2013 on Kay's birthday, and we never rated it so we were long overdue for a rewatch. Adam has compiled every movie we've watched into a spreadsheet with ratings with the somewhat ultimate goal of creating a list of 52 movies that all rank in the "rewatchable" score range to provide as a year of solid bad movies. 

Unfortunately, "Street Fighter" just missed the cut. We decided to give it a Spoon Rating of 6 because while there are a lot of funny moments, some of them feel intentional. There are a few moments we specifically know were intentional ("change the channel" and "you get paid?" being the two that come to mind) but a lot of the comedy comes specifically from the over-the-top performance of Raul Julia as M. Bison. Was this meant to be more menacing than scary? Who's to say? But it's hilarious. Otherwise there is a bit of comedy to be had from Jean-Claude Van Damme as Colonel Guile and some comedy to be had just from the strange nature of the script and how each of the one hundred characters is shoved into the movie with some kind of two sentence backstory and a plot device to get them into their video game costume.

So you should definitely watch it, but you don't really need to see it again. Just watch one of the many compilation videos of M. Bison's best lines.