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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Radheyan Simonpillai

Street Fighter review – nostalgia only goes so far in junky fighting game movie

Andrew Koji and Noah Centineo in Street Fighter
Andrew Koji and Noah Centineo in Street Fighter. Photograph: Mark Rogers/Paramount Pictures, Capcom and Legendary

We just had Resident Evil, Zach Cregger’s giddy, nasty, devilishly fun spin on Capcom’s popular zombie franchise. It gave us renewed hope (after Sonic the Hedgehog, The Last of Us and Fallout) that video game adaptations could be good, actually.

But now here comes Street Fighter, a garish and incoherent mess that amuses in fits and starts but barely improves on the Mortal Kombat movies before it, crushing those hopes in its atomic suplex.

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