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Street Fighter Film Criticized for Lack of Substance
Variety reviewed the film 'Street Fighter,' finding it fails to deliver on its promise, stopping at the tournament stage with only one and a half fights shown. The movie's pacing and content are criticized for being underwhelming.
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Variety
You could set your watch to the moment Kitao Sakurai’s “Street Fighter” stops working. It’s almost exactly at the halfway mark, when its streamlined, delightfully cartoonish saga actually reaches its central tournament, an elimination series of seven fights, of which we see maybe one and a half. Fro
2026-10-15 16:00 UTC