Despite its commercial success, STREET FIGHTER was lambasted by critics across the board, but remains one of the most confident video game adaptations of all time while poking fun at action movie tropes and embracing its inherently silly qualities. M. Bison has a John Wayne Gacy portrait of himself on display in his lair! Zangief and E. Honda fight in slow motion with Godzilla sound effects dubbed in! Van Damme calls Bison a dickhead. What more could you ask for here?
The plot, as it were: Civil war has erupted in the country of Shadaloo, ruled by the merciless M. Bison (Raul Julia in his final role) as he works to create an army of genetically modified super soldiers to aid his goal of world domination. Colonel William F. Guile (Jean-Claude Van Damme) leads the Allied Nations to fight back against Bison's tyranny and rescue the prisoners of war he has taken hostage. Guile recruits and assembles a team of ragtag fighters to expose Bison's crimes against humanity once and for all.