Street Fighter Alpha: The Movie (2001)
Increasingly disturbed by the dark energies building within him, Ryu is confronted by Shun, a boy claiming to be the brother he never knew. But before Ryu can consider whether Shun's timely appearance might be more than coincidental, Shun is kidnapped by Shadowlaw. To recover Shun, Ryu must undertake the ultimate journey of self-discovery and learn to control the power threatening to consume him.
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Memorable, crazy movie
While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
The movie really just wants to entertain people.
Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
call yourself a fan of SF but u don't even know how to spell Dark Hadou.do you know what's art all about?SF alpha used different art direction comparing to SF2 and it used clean finishing on their characters.it was smoother not as rough as the previous drawings and they did a very good job on the face expressions which gave a good sense of humour especially Ken and Sakura.bear in mind that the animation was from a director who also masterminded the classic animation,Dragonball.the background art used in this movie went very well with the characters and i must say it is much better than SF2.to be honest,Ryu's look in SF alpha makes sense as he was a young martial art artist as told in the original story,not uncle ryu in his mid 30's that was how SF2 ryu portrayed.
by now, you've probably heard that Street Fighter Alpha movie is not as good as Street Fighter II: The Movie. However, Street Fighetr Alpha is still amazingly good. Take the example of Matrix Reloaded. On it's own, it would have been a major success and everyone would have loved it. However, before that came The Matrix. The Matrix was so unbelievably good, so perfect in every way that Reloaded didn't really stand a chance. And it is the same here. Street Fighter II movie was so good, exactly what fans of the game wanted to see that anything after that would pale into comparison, which is exactly what happened to Street Fighter Alpha. The truth of the matter is, Street Fighter Aplha is an amazingly good movie. Sure, it has it's faults, but so did Street Fighter II. Still, Street Fighter Alpha is very entertaining and sticks well with the whole street fighter universe, and it is perfect for those who have played the ASlpha games, introducing new characters in the movie. The whole movie is more dark and mysterious and incredibly fascinating. You will not be disappointed, although Akuma could have done so much more in the movie, it was a waste of a good character.
I have this on video (the english version) the voice acting is sound and the characters look detailed. However sometimes it goes a little too far.For example Professor Sadler isnt in any Street Fighter title so you can't really take to him as a villain. this film does show many of the SFzero fighters but they dont play big roles. the only ones who do are Ryu,Ken,& Chun-Li. Akuma has a tiny role and as I have never found a sequel to this it leaves SFzero film very unfufilling.7/10
I think this film is even better than Street Fighter II The Animated Movie. The fighters are well drawn and animate smoothly. The fight scenes are cool too, and the new characters would be cool to see in the game. I give it a 10.