New Street Fighter Movie Savaged by Critics as Live-Action Curse Continues

The new live-action Street Fighter movie has landed in theaters to a bruising critical reception, with reviewers largely agreeing that the long-awaited adaptation fails to do the beloved franchise justice. Critics have described the film as an "incoherent mess," and its Rotten Tomatoes score is drawing uncomfortable comparisons to the dark days of early video game movie adaptations. The general consensus, as PC Gamer summarizes, is that the film "isn't a disaster, but it definitely misses a lot more than it hits."

Not everyone is ready to throw in the towel, however. A minority of critics have taken a more generous view, with some calling the film the "natural zenith of an arcade player's imagination," suggesting it may find a warmer audience among die-hard fans of the games. Still, as GameSpot notes, Street Fighter has always been more than just a fighting game, making the ongoing inability to translate it into a compelling film all the more frustrating. For now, the so-called live-action Street Fighter movie curse appears very much intact.

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