The biggest problem with new video game adaptation “Street Fighter” is that it’s bad on purpose. Not “delightfully over the top” or “destined to become a cult classic,” just bad. As if having a degree of self-awareness about its unapologetic badness somehow justifies wasting two hours of its audience’s time.
The story follows a pair of former best friends — Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken (Noah Centineo) — as they reunite after a six-year estrangement for a martial arts tournament hosted by military dictator M. Bison (David Dastmalchian), who is secretly planning to drain all the energy from the winner for evil purposes. The two are recruited by Chun-Li (Callina Liang), purportedly an employee of Bison, but who is secretly working to bring him down. Ryu suspects something is wrong with the tournament, but he needs to enter to know for sure. Ken just wants to win the tournament so he can out-perform Ryu, in a grudge that started when their shared master Gouken (Don Lee) was killed by his brother Akuma (Roman Reigns). Akuma, by the way, is also planning to steal all the energy from the winner of the tournament, in a plan that is totally different…
