Street Fighter review – nostalgia only goes so far in junky fighting game movie

There are brief, simple pleasures in the inevitable new big screen take on the classic game but like the recent Mortal Kombat movies, it’s a largely incoherent mess

We just had Resident Evil, Zach Cregger’s giddy, nasty, devilishly fun spin on Capcom’s popular zombie franchise. It gave us renewed hope (after Sonic the Hedgehog, The Last of Us and Fallout) that video game adaptations could be good, actually.

But now here comes Street Fighter, a garish and incoherent mess that amuses in fits-and-starts but barely improves on the Mortal Kombat movies before it, crushing those hopes in its atomic suplex.