The primary Avenue Fighter film was a pure wrestle, and based mostly on the casting information for the brand new movie based mostly on Capcom’s common preventing recreation franchise, it already appears to be like prefer it gained’t be any higher.

1994’s Avenue Fighter, a live-action film starring an allegedly coked-up Jean-Claude Van Damme, set the bar very low for any film studio to insert one other coin and hit proceed in hopes of delivering one thing price our time, that includes our favourite world warriors.

Exterior of the anime movies, now we have seen some spinoffs, equivalent to Avenue Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, which additionally flopped arduous. Nevertheless, director Kitao Sakurai goals to ship a correct Avenue Fighter movie that followers of the preventing recreation franchise may be pleased with.

With the bar being in hell, Sakurai doesn’t need to do a lot to drop an honest movie based mostly on the favored online game IP. Nonetheless, followers are starting to fret that this film is already doomed earlier than the cameras begin rolling based mostly on among the casting choices.

This Film’s Solid Is Fairly Questionable

Now, not all the alternatives are full headscratchers, like Andrew Koji (Warrior, Snake Eyes, and Bullet Prepare) because the legendary wandering warrior Ryu, Jason Momoa (Aquaman, Justice League) as Blanka, or Callina Liang as Chun-Li.

However then issues begin to go off the rails, with 50 Cent as Balrog, Andrew Schulz as Dan, Roman Reigns as Akuma, Cody Rhodes as Guile, Noah Centino as Ken, nation music star Orville Peck as Vega, and David Dastmalchian (The Suicide Squad, The Darkish Knight) as M. Bison.

The response to the casting bulletins, as anticipated, is on the nervous facet, with followers already calling the movie trash, simply purely based mostly on the casting bulletins.

Welp.

We’re simply gonna need to hope this film isn’t as unhealthy as the primary one. You may see extra reactions beneath.