Based on the popular video game Street Fighter II, Street Fighter stars
Jean-Claude Van Damme as Col. Guile, the cocky but brave leader of an Allied Nations fighting force. When the evil General Bison (
Raul Julia), the power-mad leader of Shadaloo, kidnaps a bus full of Allied Nations relief workers and holds them for a multi-billion dollar ransom, Guile and his team are sent in to do battle with Bison; aiding Guile is intrepid TV journalist Chun-Li (
Ming-Na Wen), while a pair of con men (
Damian Chapa and Byron Mann) try to play both sides against the middle for their own purposes.
Raul Julia died of cancer shortly before the film was released. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide