‘Street Fighter’ Review: Video Game Fighter Film Knocks Itself Unconscious
You could set your watch to the moment Kitao Sakurai’s “Street Fighter” stops working.
Variety reports: 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. From that point on, this martial arts video.
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