Casting Kristen Kreuk in the lead role fits into a boneheaded pattern only the coked out minds in Hollywood could cook up. Not only is she not Chinese, but she had no martial arts experience. So instead of finding a Chinese actress with great fighting ability and marginal acting ability to fill the roll in a movie called (say it with me now: Street FIGHTER) they hired an actress who doesn’t look like the character she’s supposed to be, can’t fight, and still possesses only marginal acting ability at best. She's cute and all...but she's not Chinese!

2. THE MOVIE LOOKS LIKE A SPIN OFF OF EXIT WOUNDS

Needless to say, hiring the same director usually means continuity in style. If so, why’d they hire this jerk off? His “oeuvre” includes Romeo Must Die, Cradle 2 The Grave, Exit Wounds, and the god-awful Doom. Yes, I repeat they rewarded the guy who couldn’t make a successful franchise out of Doom with another franchise.  Brilliant, right? Most of the film is filmed at night with murky photography (and yes Andrzej Bartkowiak used to be an in demand DP, so that’s just damn inexcusable) and there’s not an ounce of style or artistry in one frame in this film. 

 3. THEY THINK WE CARE ABOUT THE HALF ASSED PLOT

I watched the movie and immediately after managed to forget what little of a plot there was, but they filmed it like the film had something important to say about vengeance and redemption and crime and chi balls. Or something. This movie spends a lot of time forcing us to watch bad acting and not nearly enough time showing people get their asses kicked in outlandish and badass ways. Marks’ screenplay is all over the place and includes a completely ludicrous and throw babies-at-the-screen bad twist about Bison and his daughter. Oh, and the dialogue, this little bit should tell you everything you need to know:

Det. Maya Sunee: So... where do we start? 

Charlie Nash: You don't want a ticket to this dance, Detective. 

Det. Maya Sunee: You've never even seen me dance.

BTW,  just look at the other videos in this article and realize that there is no dialog in the trailers... Know why? there is no dialog in the movie either.

4. CHRIS KLEIN

If you have seen any of the clips online of Klein’s “gritty” portrayal of Nash you’ll know that he just officially blew out all competition for this year’s Razzie. Good job young man. 

5. THEY CHANGED THE CHARACTERS WITH A STORY THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE GAME AND OH YEAH...THE FIGHTING SUCKS.

And when I say sucks I mean blows a fat one. It’s wire fu time like it’s 1999! How exciting! Ugh. You’d think this guy after 10 years would have learned how to competently film and edit a fight scene but alas, it is not to be. Most of the scenes are shot as to hide how poor the actors are at their moves. There are a few signature moves but it’s also poorly executed (and the special FX are BAD) that it will do little to make you want to stop your exit from your theater (or, judging from its box office, changing the channel). Also the story had nothing to do with the game and they based Bison on Richard Branson? What next? E. Honda will be based on Rupert Murdoch or Bill Gates?

6. THEY USE GUNS

Nash uses a gun and doesn’t fight in a movie called (once again say it with me: Street FIGHTER). Nuff said. 

7. THEY DIDN’T LEARN ANYTHING FROM THE LAST FIASCO

JVCD’s Street Fighter was a huge flaming turd and blight upon cinema. Still, they tried. This movie doesn’t. At all. The writing is lazy, the direction is uninspired, the music is forgettable, the acting is mostly B-movie quality, and the editing is piss poor. And there’s a narration. Really? Who asked to have Chun Li narrate this shit? She does and I still don’t know or care what happened. Except it involves a fiendish plot about acquiring real estate. Big fuckin’ whoop. The other movie had the good sense to at least put people in their costumes for a bit and have them do some moves. This movie does everything the first movie does wrong and more. Everybody is still horribly miscast. The plot is still stupid. They still don’t fight nearly enough, and they still insist on making a movie about somebody other than RYU, THE MAIN CHARACTER IN THE DAMN GAME! But at least this did significantly worse than the last movie so this will probably be the death knell in this franchise’s coffin. And please let this franchise stay dead.