The original Street Fighter movie from 1994 was ... not great. The characters were not especially faithful to the classic fighting game series and the story was reworked to make it a low-grade Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle. (JCVD played Guile.) The film, the great Raul Julia’s last before his death (giving it his all as M. Bison), did okay at the box office but it has not exactly aged into a ’90s classic.

The new Street Fighter film almost looks like an attempt to correct that. It’s set in 1993, with a story (and character design) that could have been ripped straight out of the old Capcom arcade games. Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken (Noah Centineo) are brought in to a new fighting tournament where they will meet all the classic characters from the Street Fighter franchise, including

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