Let's see. This one fails the Filmmaker's Exam at 6, 31, 36, 39, and 57, and possibly 32 as well, if you equate anime with comics. Well, 66 too, of course.

For anyone who never played the arcade game, the basic plot is as follows: a bunch of people with super powers dress up in silly costumes and beat the snot out of each other. And then they kill some guy in a red suit. This movie has the same plot, except that the funnily dressed people are mostly on the same side and therefore tend not to beat the snot out of each other. And none of them have super powers.

Raul Julia is that guy in a red suit (M. Bison). It's too bad that this was his last major film -- he deserved better.

There's only one thing that really cheeses me off about this movie, aside from the stupid dialogue, lack of plot, bad special effects, and horrible acting. There are a great number of stupid movies made, and a good number of them have Jean-Claude Van Damme in them. However, most of these also have a lot of fighting scenes in which people beat each other until they are bleeding. This movie does not have any of those. People wave their hands at each other in a vaguely threatening manner and sometimes get tossed through walls, but even when both sides are firing machine guns, nobody seems to really get hurt (except Bison, of course). To add insult to lack of injury, almost all of the martial arts manuevers are executed very, VERY slowly (I can only assume the intended audience are geriatric professional wrestlers). Additionally, only two or three of the characters in the movie look anything like their video game counterparts (T-Bird, for instance, went from a seven-foot tall heavily muscled dude to some sort of skinny army guy).

So, in summation, it's not a good movie on its own merits, and it's not a good brain-dulling action movie. What's left? Er....

Rating: two turkeys. It gets an extra half turkey just for the best line (below).

Scene to watch for: Raul Julia suddenly becomes Peter Pan.

Best line: "For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. For me, it was Tuesday."

Things that make you go "Huh?": "It's only superconducting electromagnetism."

Response From RinkWorks:

You forgot Filmmaker's Exam question 3.