Street Fighter Legacy is what every Street Fighter film should have been

Bobby Miller 7 May, 2010 at 1:47pm ET Article published in Gaming

Hollywood has had its chance with Street Fighter films on more than one occasion, and every single time they’ve missed the mark. Despite huge budgets and an unlimited pool of acting and directing talent, these movies just can’t help but suck. 1994’s craptastic Street Fighter film, and 2009’s Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li managed to use the likenesses from the legendary games, but also managed to be terribly boring and awfully acted works of cinema. This trend ends today however, as the impressive Street Fighter Legacy short film has been released, and it has cleansed the palate of garbage SF films.

Street Fighter Legacy is a work of art. It does more to properly portray live action Street Fighter in three minutes than the other films did in two hours. Legacy is written, directed, and choreographed by Joey Ansah. Joey works in Hollywood as a choreographer, and even played the assassin Desh Bouksani in The Bourne Ultimatum. Joey actually gained the blessing from Capcom to make this short film after he approached them and pointed out that all of Hollywood’s efforts were garbage.

The short film has everything fans ever wanted out of a Street Fighter film. Accurate character portrayals, music from the classic games, special moves, and tons of excellently choreographed fighting. No romance or cockamamie world domination plans. Just Ken, Ryu, and a battle.

The fight choreography is top notch in Street Fighter Legacy. It doesn’t feel hokey or fake, but rather carries the expectations of Hollywood standards. The cinematography is also outstanding, with the rain shots near the end being particularly impressive. The visual effects are quite convincing, and certainly not of the low quality I expected out of a small production team like Joey’s. There really isn’t much to complain about in Legacy, every one of the three minutes deliver.

Gaze upon what Hollywood has failed to do for over a decade and enjoy Street Fighter Legacy.

Comments

7 May 2010 ~ 2:20pm kryyst While the live action ones were beyond rubbish. I have no problem admitting I enjoyed the 1994 Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie. If nothing else it was the first time I'd heard Korn's Blind (during the ending creds) and got hooked on that band.
7 May 2010 ~ 2:38pm WhiteGoblin pwn sauce.
7 May 2010 ~ 2:55pm Cliff_Forster These guys should get the green light now. Throw them money and let them make a feature. They can't do any worse than the people who have attempted.
7 May 2010 ~ 2:55pm lmorchard If they film more of this, the fight really needs to degrade down to a fireball standoff or Ken trapping Ryu up against a tree and kicking the crap out of his shins.
8 May 2010 ~ 8:03am UPSLynx haha perfect.

An epic buildown for a massive confrontation which leads immediately to HADOUKEN HADOUKEN HADOUKEN HADOUKEN HADOUKEN HADOUKEN HADOUKEN HADOUKEN HADOUKEN HADOUKEN
9 May 2010 ~ 9:51am twofaze Saw this posted on another forum, loved it....
9 May 2010 ~ 1:30pm Koreish Don't know what you're talking about. GREATEST FIGHT SCENE EVER!!!
9 May 2010 ~ 2:07pm Winfrey I don't know how the academy could have overlooked this work...
9 May 2010 ~ 3:07pm UPSLynx I forgot that existed. jackie Chan as Chun-Li is something I wish to never ever see again.
9 May 2010 ~ 6:54pm Winfrey

UPSLynx wrote:

I forgot that existed. jackie Chan as Chun-Li is HOT

FTFY
9 May 2010 ~ 9:57pm CharnelLord666 Looks pretty damn good, they should let the fans make the damn movies, just give them the money. I thought the actors looked a little young though.
10 May 2010 ~ 1:36am UPSLynx

Winfrey wrote:

UPSLynx wrote:

Chun-Li is HOT

FTFY

FTFYFTFY

I agree that the actors seemed a bit on the young side. For action that good though? I'm totally OK with it.
10 May 2010 ~ 7:17pm jpparker88 I don't know....I doubt it will be the same without jean claude trying to play an american. but as an avid SF fan...this looks interesting as a feature. If i had the cash i'd green light it in a second.