Compare & Contrast: Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Dead or Alive

Movie adaptations of video games have a hard won reputation for being entirely dreadful, as evidenced by, well, all of them. Puzzlingly, one of the most popular genres for plundering is the one on one fighting game, where any plot is relegated to an unread blurb in the manual. Not, you'd think, prime candidates for making movies from, but we're here to talk about them regardless as we cover Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, and DOA: Dead or Alive.