Street Fighter finishes its run in theaters and opens a second one on Dec. 1, when the reboot reaches video on demand through Prime Video and Apple TV, available to rent or buy. A Paramount+ debut is projected for mid-January 2027, ninety days out from the Oct. 16 theatrical opening under the studio’s standard window, though Paramount hasn’t put a date on it yet. Six picks follow: the rental itself, and five places to go depending on which part of the movie actually worked.

The gap worth knowing before renting

The numbers do most of the arguing here.

  • Opening weekend: $30,775,377, first place for the weekend.
  • Domestic finish: $58,292,804), with 52.8% of it banked in weekend one and a 72% drop in weekend two.
  • Worldwide: $99,992,804 against an $82 million budget.
  • Scores: 42% from critics and 78% from audiences.

A 36-point gap between critics and the Popcornmeter is not a typo, it’s a description of who bought the ticket. Deadline’s box office analysis put it directly: “It was essentially the older fans who showed up and nobody else.” That crowd is also the one rating it 78%, and the 72% second-weekend collapse says the general audience never showed up to argue the other way. For context, the 1994 Van Damme version opened to $6.8 million domestic and finished at $33.4 million domestic, $99.4 million worldwide, unadjusted. Thirty-two years and one Capcom license later, the reboot has already beaten that domestic number ($58.3 million) while landing within a rounding error of the same worldwide total.

For the night you wanted the cartoon, not the tournament

Street Fighter (2026)

This is for the viewer who came for attitude, not plot mechanics, and is fine admitting it. Director Kitao Sakurai, who co-wrote with T.J. Fixman, spends the film’s best ideas on tone rather than structure, and Variety’s review singles out the 2D flashbacks from studio Titmouse as “the movie’s masterstroke.” Andrew Koji plays Ryu, Noah Centineo plays Ken, Callina Liang plays Chun-Li, Cody Rhodes plays Guile, Jason Momoa plays Blanka and David Dastmalchian plays M. Bison, a cast with enough wrestling background to explain why the fights move the way they do. The same review flags the cost: the tournament runs “an elimination series of seven fights, of which we see maybe one and a half.” Sakurai told the Hollywood Reporter his pitch for the whole thing: “Sometimes things don’t necessarily need to make sense for you to lean in and love them.”

Best for: game players, teenagers, and anyone who liked the Mortal Kombat movies more for their mood than their math. Rent or buy Dec. 1 on Prime Video and Apple TV, PG-13 for violence and bloody images, strong language, sexual references, partial nudity and brief smoking, 119 minutes. Availability checked Nov. 13, 2026.

For the hand-drawn original it keeps quoting

Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (1994)

For the house that wants the version this one is paying tribute to. Gisaburō Sugii’s film runs 102 minutes and still moves the way the arcade cabinet did, which is the thing the reboot’s flashbacks were built to echo.

Best for: anyone who owned an arcade stick, and kids old enough for a PG-13. Included with Prime Video, also on Crunchyroll, free with ads on The CW, or rent for $5.99 on Amazon and Fandango at Home. Availability checked Nov. 13, 2026.

Street Fighter (1994)

For the camp vote, which is its own valid vote. This is the Van Damme version that opened to $6.8 million domestic and finished at $33.4 million domestic, $99.4 million worldwide, the global number the new film is now matching three decades on.

Best for: a group, a drinking game, and a very specific sense of humor about Raul Julia line readings. Free with ads on Pluto TV, or rent for $3.99 on Amazon, Apple TV and Fandango at Home. Availability checked Nov. 13, 2026.

For when one and a half fights isn’t enough

Mortal Kombat II (2026)

For the household that wanted the whole bracket, not a tease of it. Simon McQuoid’s sequel is the other 2026 bet on a fighting game, R-rated and gorier, and it opened to $63 million worldwide before finishing at $129.5 million global, a figure Paramount’s film will get measured against for a while.

Best for: anyone who wants fatalities with dinner and doesn’t need a PG-13. Streaming on HBO Max since July 24, 2026. Availability checked Nov. 13, 2026.

Bullet Train (2022)

For the viewer who clocked Andrew Koji and wanted to see him with more room to work. He plays Kimura in David Leitch’s train-bound action comedy, which runs on the same fuel as Sakurai’s film: style first, plot as a delivery mechanism.

Best for: a loud Friday with the phone in another room. Streaming on Hulu, or rent for $3.99 on Amazon, Apple TV and Fandango at Home. Availability checked Nov. 13, 2026.

For the Bison fix

Late Night with the Devil (2024)

For anyone who saw Dastmalchian under the white suit and wanted more of his face doing the work. He plays Jack Delroy, a 1970s talk show host whose Halloween broadcast goes wrong, in the Cairnes brothers’ found-footage horror film, and he is in nearly every frame of it.

Best for: a late start, the lights on, and a taste for something genuinely unsettling after a cartoon. Free with ads on Tubi, also on Shudder and AMC+, or rent for $2.99 on Amazon, Apple TV and Fandango at Home. Availability checked Nov. 13, 2026.

Start with the rental on Dec. 1. It is the cheapest way to find out which side of that 36-point gap a given living room lands on, and it comes with the lowest stakes of any pick on this list: two hours, no dress code, no commitment to a brand. Sakurai told IGN that a follow-up is already being written, with the team “writing currently” but no promises, pending “how people react to this one.” December is where that reaction actually gets counted, at $3.99 a pop instead of a ticket price.