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The Story So Far
In 1987, the martial arts world was stunned when world champion muay thai master Sagat was defeated by a young up-and-coming martial artist named Ryu at the first ever World Warrior tournament. Despite Ryu's victory marking him as the greatest fighter in the world, he soon vanished into obscurity. Now, in 1993, a talent scout named Chun Li is seeking out participants for a fresh World Warrior tournament, thrown by the eccentric dictator M.
Chief among Chun Li's recruits? Ryu's estranged best friend Ken, a world-class talent losing himself in dubious novelty fights and advertising deals. Ken has no love left for Ryu.
Ryu, whose victory in the first tournament came with terrible consequences, fears the fallout if he ever fights again. Chun Li has ulterior motives for helping Bison. And Bison himself wants far more and far worse than a good fight.
Thus, the stage is set for the fight of Ryu, Ken, and company's lives. In 1987, the martial arts world was stunned when world champion muay thai master Sagat was defeated by a young up-and-coming martial artist named Ryu at the first ever World Warrior tournament. Despite Ryu's victory marking him as the greatest fighter in the world, he soon vanished into obscurity.
Now, in 1993, a talent scout named Chun Li is seeking out participants for a fresh World Warrior tournament, thrown by the eccentric dictator M. Chief among Chun Li's recruits? Ryu's estranged best friend Ken, a world-class talent losing himself in dubious novelty fights and advertising deals.
Ken has no love left for Ryu. Ryu, whose victory in the first tournament came with terrible consequences, fears the fallout if he ever fights again. Chun Li has ulterior motives for helping Bison.
And Bison himself wants far more and far worse than a good fight. Thus, the stage is set for the fight of Ryu, Ken, and company's lives. Two things are true about Kitao Sakurai's Street Fighter.
The first is that it has some genuinely strong points and worthy craft. The second is that it is a frequently bizarre, off-putting, at times downright baffling movie. At its best, it's a neat showcase for the ways that medium-hopping can serve as a storytelling tool, a worthy stage for the great martial artist and performer Andrew Koji, and a reminder that HEALTH are a superb band.
At its most flummoxing, it jumps between tones with little rhyme or reason, refuses to give its stories the space they need to be explained, and makes creative decisions to which the only appropriate response is βbwuh?β Broadly speaking, Street Fighter uses the martial arts tournament at its core as a narrative engine.
Bison (David Dastmalchian, a good performer doing perfectly fine work that simply cannot measure up to the late RaΓΊl JuliΓ‘'s 1994 take on the villain) wants to gather powerful fighters so that he can harvest the mystic embodiment of their might for himself. The fighters who answer his call each have their own reasons for competing, be they venal, noble, or just plain persβ¦
Whether this marks the beginning of something bigger or a standalone moment remains to be seen. What is clear is that the entertainment world is watching closely β and so are we. Follow TeraMovies for complete coverage.
