Awesome over the top fight scenes, characters, choreography... it's all extremely entertaining and well done. Between Chiba's facial expressions and everything else going on, this just oozes 70s martial arts. About the only negative I can think of is the movie ends too soon!
Review by Lars SievalVIP EP 7BlockedParent2021-08-21T05:19:15Z
"Listen my son, TRUST NO ONE! You can count on no one but YOURSELF. Improve your skills, son, harden your body, become a NUMBER ONE MAN! Do not ever let ANYONE beat you!"
How come I never saw the Street Fighter? It is such an damn entertaining film. No nonsense action with such an intense Sonny Chiba. The way he cracks that skull in an epic scene, the way the rips out someone's adams apple, he even kills someone by ripping off his private parts and the best thing? He holds it up like a trophy.
You don't watch The Street Fighter for the story, no you watch it for Sonny Chiba's presence and the non-stop brutal action and I wanted to watch another film this weekend but this one ends telling me to see the rest of the story in Return of the Street Fighter which I might do.
Anyway if you want to be entertained this weekend the Street Fighter is the way to go. The film is in the public domain so I bet it'll be on Youtube.
Sonny Chiba, keep kicking ass up in heaven, you gave us many hours of entertainment and unlucky for us, your plans to make a film with Bruce Lee never came to be.