Street Fighter Tops the Box Office With $51 Million Opening Weekend Amid Lackluster Reviews

Capcom's Street Fighter movie spun up $51.1 million in its opening weekend, securing its place atop the global box office despite some not-so-great reviews.

Ryu (Andrew Koji), Ken (Noah Centineo), and the rest of the film's massive cast grappled with an estimated $31 million domestically and $20.1 million internationally in its theatrical debut. That's a figure that landed it a comfortable first place worldwide, even if it's not a perfect victory across the board.

As audiences turned up for performances – including Callina Liang's Chun-Li, David Dastmalchian's M. Bison, and Jason Momoa's Blanka – not everyone was so happy with how director Kitao Sakurai brought Capcom's classic fighting game franchise to the big screen. In its first few days in the public's gaze, Street Fighter has amassed a critics' score of 44 on IMDb and 41% on Rotten Tomatoes. IGN gave it a 6/10.

That's serviceable as far as gaming adaptations go and sub-par in the grand scheme. …