STEPPING BACK IN TIME
MICHAEL LEE ARGUES THIS TOURNAMENT DESERVES FAR GREATER RECOGNITION THAN IT USUALLY RECEIVES...
STREET Fighter, for all its box offi ce success, remains one of the most critically panned fi lms of all time.
There were many reasons for this - unfaithfulness to its source material, the predictable, uneven storyline and the over- reliance on camp one-liners.
This consensus was best summarised by American fi lm historian Leonard Matlin who declared that ‘even Jean-Claude Van Damme fans couldn’t rationalize this bomb’.
However, it remains one of life&rs...
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