10 Real Reasons Behind Annoying Movie Moments
5. Guile & Bison's Clunky Fight - Street Fighter
From one video game movie finale to another now, we have 1994's original live-action Street Fighter, which gets a lot of crap for most every aspect of its production - save for the late, great Raul Julia's riotous performance as M. Bison, of course.
One of the film's many oft-cited criticisms is the poor quality of the action sequences - especially the visual cluster headache of a final battle between Bison and Guile (Jean-Claude Van Damme).
The final fight in Bison's base is infuriatingly chaotic and largely consists of the pair stiffly kicking and punching one another, while edited into a choppy, scarcely comprehensible mess in a feckless attempt to make it seem more exciting.
There's a weirdly robotic, mechanical feel to most of the fight, but that isn't down purely to bad fight choreography and limp technical filmmaking.
A big part of the problem, tragically, is that Raul Julia was suffering from terminal stomach cancer throughout production, severely limiting his physicality while shooting fight scenes, and in turn forcing director Steven E. de Souza to awkwardly cut around the cardboard-stiff fighting.
All in all it's a sad situation and far from the worst thing about Street Fighter, but at least lends crucial context to why that climactic fight looks so excessively rough.