Game On: Street Fighter(Dir Steven E. de Souza, 1h42m, 1994)
Much like the summer blockbuster, the video game (and by extension, the video game adaption) is no stranger to the classically trained actor playing alien warlord, supervillain, criminal mastermind, and beyond. Members of the RSC have appeared in franchises as far apart as Fallout , the tough-as-nails Dark Souls franchise, and the history-hopping Assassin's Creed. In some cases, the classically trained actor appearing in a videogame movie is on their way to a pay check and little more: we have already met Dennis Hopper on this journey, and he joins Ray Liotta in Uwe Boll's cinematic catastrophe (beginning with its ludicrously long title), In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, Oscar-winning Ben Kingsley in Boll's somehow even worse adaption of tits-swords-and-fangs vampire game Bloodrayne , and basically the entire cast of 2017's Assassin's Creed (reviewed here...) There are some performances, though, where ...
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