Street Fighter
Col. Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of Dictator M. Bison and his cohorts.
- Director:Steven E. de Souza
- Genre:Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
- Runtime:101 minutes
Cast
Jean-Claude Van Damme : Colonel William F. Guile
Raul Julia : General M. Bison
Ming-Na : Chun-Li Zang (as Ming-Na Wen)
Damian Chapa : Ken Masters
Kylie Minogue : Lieutenant Cammy
There are several major players in the plot of the film: Guile, Chun-Li, Ken and Ryu, Dhalsim, Cammy, Charlie (Blanka) and Bison. The plot described below follows primarily Guile.
The film takes place in the fictional nation of Shadaloo in South East Asia (the film was shot in Thailand, and maps at the beginning of the film show Shadaloo occupying a segment of modern-day Burma). After months of fighting, a multinational military force of the Allied Nations has managed to enter the city of “Shadaloo City”. The Allied Nations is fighting against the armed forces of drug lord turned General M. Bison who has recently captured a couple of dozen AN workers. Bison makes his demands in a live two-way TV broadcast with William F. Guile, the regional commander of the AN forces. If he is not paid $20 billion in three days he will kill the hostages and the world will hold Guile and the AN accountable. One of the hostages, Carlos “Charlie” Blanka, an AN trooper and Guile’s best friend, is used as a test subject for Bison’s supersoldier experiment, conducted by a reluctant Dr. Dhalsim. Guile’s assistant, Cammy, is only able to partially trace Bison’s signal. From that it can be determined that Bison’s hideout is somewhere in the river-delta region outside Shadaloo City.
Meanwhile, in an underground fighting arena, two con artists, Ryu and Ken, attempt to sell fake arms to Victor Sagat, the head of the Shadaloo Tong crime syndicate. Sagat discovers their plan and decides to kill them both by having them fight his fighting champion, Vega. Before the fight can begin, however, Guile’s tank smashes into the arena and he places everyone under arrest for violating a curfew. After one of Sagat’s thugs attempts to assassinate Guile, which Guile himself quickly foils, he figures out that Sagat is the arms-supplier for Bison.
Guile later sees Ryu and Ken fighting Sagat’s men in the prison camp. Knowing that they might be Sagat’s enemies, Guile attempts to infiltrate them into Sagat’s gang. He decides to stage a prison-break and his own death in order to find out the location of Bison’s hideout via a homing device carried by Ryu and Ken. Guile’s plan hits a snag when a GNT News Reporter Chun-Li Xiang (spelled “Zang” in the film; played by Ming-Na), who is out for Bison’s blood, finds out that Guile is alive and with the help of her partners, Sumo wrestler E. Honda and professional boxer Balrog, each of whom hold a grudge against Sagat for ruining their reputations, attempts to kill Bison and Sagat, with a truck bomb while they are engaged in arms trade at a thieves’ camp. The explosion destroys much of Bison’s arms cache but fails to kill the dictator. The plan thus fails (in part because Bison and Sagat are tipped off by Ryu and Ken), and Chun-Li and her friends are captured.
Ryu and Ken are welcomed as Bison troopers. Once in the fortress, they free Balrog and Honda, and the four of them go to “save” Chun-Li, who is fighting a surprised Bison in his private quarters. Unfortunately, the arrival of the others interrupts Chun-Li long enough for Bison to escape and trap the five of them in the room and turn on the gas system, which sedates them all. Read more
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