GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

tieniemajig Street Fighter is a video game series that's very near and dear to my heart. It is a series that's not exactly known for its deep and profound story, but the characters are iconic, from Ryu's dusty old white martial arts uniform and red headband, Ken's bushy eyebrows, to Chun Li's buns and thunder thighs.Where this movie went very wrong, I think, was that they chose to create new characters rather than try to incorporate the rest of the Street Fighter cast in any meaningful fashion. I feel that this is a great disservice to the fan base. Even putting aside the lack of characters from the game (but where was Cammy?!), it was very hard (for me at least) to care about any of the new characters or the overall plot. And it didn't have to be that way. I don't think we have ever seen in the Street Fighter games or movies any hint as to Ryu's past: we take him for what he is now, a stoic world warrior whose greatest struggle is within. This could have been an interesting fresh look at this character, but in its execution it just fell flat.If you haven't already, I would strongly recommend Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (listed on IMDb as "Sutorîto Faitâ II gekijô-ban"), which does a much better job of putting together a coherent story and weaving in all of the characters.

mechg2994 Street Fighter Alpha: The Movie was cool when I first watched it. I was all like FINALLY Akuma appears fully in a animated movie. You see him have cameos and all that. I was kinda disappointed that Bison was replaced by a guy named Dr. Sadler. I think it might be a prequel to the SFA series. You get to see Ryu in his Evil form. And he has a little brother? that's odd.Parts I liked:The most funniest fight scene was Dan vs. Birdie that ended real quick.A guard split Chun Li's legs that had to hurt as hell. I think that's the origin of how she does her spinning bird kick. I don't know Capcom knows the whole storyline.Liked the ending Akuma vs. Ryu a classic match reminds me of play SFA2.It was all cool but not the best as Street Fighter II: the animated movie was.Still rated: 7/10

hiji Ok. Being an semi-anime fan for a few years, I once fell upon street fighter 2, as an animated movie it was pretty good. The drawing was top notch, and the plot made sense. Not to mention most of the fights were pretty well done. In this, street fighter zero(alpha?) I found it sucked. The drawing was nowhere near as good as SF2. The plot was crap, I mean, the kid shows up and this amazing hardcore die hard fighter dude just believes he's his little brother? What's with that? The whole dark ha-do(sorry, don't know how to spell) thing is kinda cool, but if this had been pursued as more of a sequal to SF2 using some continuity between them, not to mention better drawing in general, I would be more pleased. I can't say the movie didn't entertain me at all, I still like whatching people get beat up, but I think it lacks some of the more apealing features of most plain old let's kick some tail movies.

anne-25 Overall, I think that this film is much better than the previous Street Fighter anime. Despite the fact that the fight scenes are not as entertaining, I think this does a much better job in terms of character development, storyline and musical score. The story seems to have more in common with Street Fighter 1 than 2, even though it is set between the two games. It has characters from the original, like Birdie and Adon, as well as references to the Muay Thai Emperor, Sagat (who I think is the best villain in a fighting game ever). The relationship between Ryu and Ken seems a lot more convincing in this film as opposed to the Street Fighter 2 animation, where all the character seem a little stiff. Also, it was a much better idea to make Akuma the lead villain instead of Bison, who is annoying and not intimidating at all. Also, the dubbing in this film is extremely good. The only complaint I have about this film is that some of the dialogue involving Shun seems to be poorly written. Still, I give it a 10.