'Street Fighter' Film Stops Working at Halfway — SkimNews
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- Kitao Sakurai's 'Street Fighter' stops working at almost exactly the halfway mark of the film, according to the review
- The first half of the film is characterized as a 'streamlined, delightfully cartoonish saga' before reaching the central tournament
- The central tournament is structured as an elimination series of seven fights, of which the review says viewers see maybe one and a half
Why it matters: While Deadline and IndieWire frame the 'Street Fighter' reboot as cheesy fun with cult potential, this review identifies a structural collapse precisely where the film needs to deliver: its tournament climax shows only one and a half of seven scheduled fights, hollowing out the entire first-half setup the movie is built on.
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