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Pretty Good

Let's be realistic.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Anime based on popular fighting games have the problem of trying to string a series of fights into a coherent plot. Gisaburo Sugii, the director of gloriously beautiful, yet extremely slow-moving features like Night On The Galactic Railroad (1985), might not seem the obvious choice for the anime of CAPCOM's hit game, but his trademark has always been his ability to get inside his material and get the best out of it, whatever the genre. Setting up his scenario and characters without wasting a second, he plays to their strengths in a string of stunningly tense and atmospheric fights choreographed by live-action fight master Shinichi Shoji, exploiting to the full the fact that his actors would bruise and bleed only when necessary for the script. The fight between fan favourite Chun Li and dangerous pretty-boy Balrog is a masterpiece of high-tension editing worthy of Alfred Hitchcock, so well cut that only when it's over do you realize how little actual violence you saw. A TV series, live action film, and another video release followed, but none of them matched up to Sugii's object lesson in how to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

With the release of SSFIV, Street Fighter sure has been on my mind a lot! So I noticed there was a Street Fighter Zero anime movie on netflix instant queue... and it was complete and utter garbage that I had to watch this Street Fighter II movie again to calm down.Now, I can't speak to whether or not non-Street Fighter fans will enjoy this movie, but I think this is pretty much the best video game movie I've ever seen. It does what I wish more video game movies did: stick to the source material, which means, include the characters people already care a lot about, rather than introducing half-baked new ones. SFII: The Animated Movie did a wonderful job of doing just that. The entire SFII cast is in here, and in a more or less meaningful way -- which isn't to say, for example, we find out why Blanka is the way he is, but rather that he does get worked in to the story naturally and we get to see him fight.And boy, are there fights! This movie is action packed, and in particular Chun Li's battle against a particular Shadaloo villain is epic. Don't miss it!

If you ever played Street Fighter II, then you know the basic premise of the movie, M. Bison's Organisation 'Shadowlaw' (or Shadaloo in some versions,) is taking over the world, and only our street fighter protagonists can save it.Every single playable character was on the movie, so whoever your favourite is, whether Chun-Li to Zangief, they are there. Although a few characters have very small parts, they appear in a way which shows them off, mostly in making them spar with each other, every character fights and shows their special moves at least once. (Go Spinning Bird Kick!)The animation is fantastic, to say the least. Not only very smooth, the timing with the dub is exceptionally well, and the fight scenes, which the movie is full of, puts you on the edge of your seat.The music is a very defining part of the movie. In the original Japanese version, the music score is powerful, it compliments the action happening on scene, and gives the move an extra tug to the heart. In the Western version, they scrapped the whole score and added different songs. There are instrumentals which sets the scene very well and particularly in the fight scene of Chun-Li vs Vega, KMFDM's 'Ultra' gives it the extra boost. The film's characters grows on you, you fall for the protagonists when they rise and fall, and you despise the antagonist's ways. or you the other way because you're just that person that wants the bad guys to win.The film is a great film to watch with friends, although afterwards, some people might insist in reenacting some of the fight scenes, which I don't recommend. A great film for a great game, with some great scenes.I recommend it, and watch a little of the credits. Something might be coming to Ryu's way. What are you waiting for? Watch it!

"Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie" is an anime that packs everything you could ever wish for in a Street Fighter-anime, and it is everything that the movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme should have been. I think of myself as a fan of the glorious Street Fighter videogames, and especially the original Street Fighter II videogame. This movie brings you brilliant martial-art-sequences and it really captures the atmosphere of the videogame. Pretty much all of SFII`s characters appear in this movie, and although Ryu and Ken are the main characters, every character from the game that is present here gets to fight. An excellent musical score is also worth noticing. This is in my opinion the finest pure martial-art-anime available today. This movie`s intro, where Ryu fights Sagat, is probably the best intro ever for an anime, and it really makes you expect an extraordinary film, and this movie more than delivers. Everyone with an interest in action-anime will love this, and it is completely perfect for the fans of the videogame-series. So, if you fancy watching an anime where you get to see old favorites such as Ryu, Ken, and Chun-Li go head-to-head in explosive battles against villains such as Balrog, Vega and Bison, then this is your movie.10/10