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Street Fighter Extreme Edition [Blu-ray] Review

Obviously this movie has its faults but its quite campy and fun to watch than the Legend of Chun Li flick.

Street Fighter Extreme Edition [Blu-ray] Overview

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 all-time, 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.

Street Fighter Extreme Edition [Blu-ray] Specifications

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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MK vs SF – Tam Do –
I never liked this movie,because their special moves are pathetic.Van Damme is alright for Guile,but he doesn’t look like Guile.This is one of the horribly movie based on a video game.The Street Fighter Legend of Chun-li was worse than this one.Mortal Kombat beats Street Fighter,because all you see in the MK videogame is what you see in the movie.

This is NOT the Street Fighter live action movie – Madmallard – Atlanta, GA

Amazon is wrong on the description.

I tried to update the description of this particular item, but Amazon refused without a reference link. Nevermind I bought the darn thing thru this site, you’d think they’d give me a little more levity. But no. Also, the publisher ADV is now defunct so you can’t find an online reference for this title.

As it is, this is a pretty obscure box set anyways. This is the Street Fighter CARTOON, and Jean Claude Van Damme is NOT involved in any way.

Now I know what you’re thinking. Its from ADV, and its Street Fighter, so it much be another anime about good old SF, but its not anime at all (in the sense of it produced for/from Japan). This is a cartoon created to broadcast on American television, mostly the USA network, and the cartoon is loosely based on the live action movie (where Ryu and Ken and Sagat are all arms dealers, Chun Li is a reporter, Blanka is Guile’s old friend Charlie and a brilliant scientist, etc etc.)

This box set contains a bunch of the early episodes. The action is mediocre at best, the video production quality is acceptable as is the dvd mastering. The characterizations are very shallow, typical fare for most US produced animation that gets into syndication. Its highly episodic with no larger theme tying things together. It was released under the ADV Kids label, and a younger crowd might find this mildly entertaining.

If you’re a big/ hard core SF fan… only pick this up as a curiosity. otherwise, stay away~.

Not as Terrible as everyone says, but not oscar-worthy, either – M. Sjogren – USA
This movie isn’t the crap fest that everyone makes it out to be. If you like street fighter, this is probably the best you’re gonna get out of live-action. Van Damme is so Damme terrible an actor, and his accent’s hard to understand most of the time. However, Raul Julia more than makes up for it. He’s so charismatic, and I’ll never think of another actor as possibly being able to play M. Bison. It’s kind of like how fans feel about Yule Brenner with The King and I, except on a lower quality scale due to the entire movie not having Julia in every single scene. “Quick, change da channel!” is one of the funniest scenes I’ve ever seen in a movie, believe it or not. The fight scenes are actually not too bad, and the casting and story are kind of hit-and-miss. Julia as Bison, as well as the actors who played Zangief, Vega, Sagat, Honda, Balrog, and Ryu weren’t too bad, and Van Damme looks and acts the part of Guile, even if he doesn’t sound it. I didn’t like the casting for Chun-Li and Ken very much, to be honest. The story, having Guile and Cammy being the main good guys, and Bison and his henchmen as the bad guys were both fairly interesting. I hated the parts involving Chun-Li’s news crew, most of the parts with Ken, and the Dhalsim-Blanca ordeal. I think the actor did a fine job as Dhalsim, but the movie character didn’t seem at all like the game character, except for the fact that they both seemed like pacifists from India. Most of the other characters seemed to fit fairly well with their game counterparts.

All in all, while the movie’s not really great, and Van Damme lowers it a star with his acting, Raul Julia is a magnificent enough presence to raise it two stars in my opinion, giving Street Fighter a three star rating.

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