by Mark Deming
synopsis
Based on the popular video game Street Fighter II, Street Fighter stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as Col. Guile, the cocky but brave leader of an Allied Nations fighting force. When the evil General Bison (Raul Julia), the power-mad leader of Shadaloo, kidnaps a bus full of Allied Nations relief workers and holds them for a multi-billion dollar ransom, Guile and his team are sent in to do battle with Bison; aiding Guile is intrepid TV journalist Chun-Li (Ming-Na Wen), while a pair of con men (Damian Chapa and Byron Mann) try to play both sides against the middle for their own purposes. Raul Julia died of cancer shortly before the film was released.
characteristics
- Daring Rescues
- Heroic Mission
- Psychopath
- Lunatic
- Psychotic
- Ransom
- Tyrant
- Tyranny
- Hostage
- Guerrilla
- Commander
- Commandant
- Good-guy
- Good-vs-evil
- Guerilla
