Street Fighter “Review”

Can Street Fighter compete with Mortal Kombat? Let’s Discuss :D!

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By the end of the movie, I felt like it was nearer to MK2 than the first. Great Job building your foundation for the hopeful sequel! But there’s a lot to “fix” to make this the movie I had hoped for. But I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments.

First of all, Capcom or whoever was involved with the animated portions. Please make the animated movie of Street Fighter. I’d love to test it for a potential opportunity for Smash Brothers :D. Those animated scenes were incredible!

My fave characters were Dhalsim, played by Vidyut Jammwal & Vega, played by Orville Peck. Bonus fave: Cody Rhodes as Guile; his lines/scenes were hilarious.

Overall, a solid cast playing solid tier characters from Street Fighter. Which makes it disappointing that you hardly get to see some of them actually fighting. I was excited for the tournament, but I can’t get into that without spoilers, so I’ll leave that there. There’s a lot of Ken & Ryu in this first movie. An origin, if you will, of their characters/friendship. I’d have preferred that movie be told via the animated movie and then the live action kicks in for the tournament. You’ll see what I mean if you check the movie out :D.

Speaking of solid tier characters, shout-out to the three main ladies of this movie that had awesome performances. Chun-Li played by Callina Liang, Cammy played by Mel Jarnson & Juli played by Rayna Vallandingham, (Would have loved to see more of her in action).

Loved the movie when the characters were interacting with one another (the bar scene comes to mind), along with the movie having fun with itself, which is what I wanted from the very start :D. Before we get to the score, let’s talk about music. Because there’s a packed playlist of songs in this feature, get ready for an audible experience to go alongside your action/drama movie :P.

I gave MK2 a 6.5, a vast improvement from the first title. It had a lot of goodness in it. Same goes for Street Fighter. Though the Ken Ryu drama dragged it slightly below, giving this a Popped score of an okay 6/10. I’ll watch it again for sure for certain scenes in preparation for the sequel….which we’ll hopefully get….right?

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Thanks for coming by Popped for your movie “reviews”. Appreciate you waiting also on this one. I had intended to write this yesterday, but getting back from the movie and being up 3 hours later for work, I was beat haha.

Join us next week for my most anticipated best animated feature of the year – Wildwood 😀 Along with Clayface in a much darker style than the version I know from Harley Quinn :D.

Until then, Happy movie-going fellow movie-goers.