• Thanks Foo for your more in depth why it sucked. Slow motion is the current hot shot. Like bullet time or that x-ray shot from the jet li's movies. This compared to the first Van Damme street fighter is better. Compared to the legend of chun li it is still better because of adaption to the game. The moves were straight from the arcade. They didn't wasted time with hit/block hit/block patterns. I wished the camera was more centered and backed out a little. Cause the mid shots cut off heads and elbows. I am personally a fan of the tight shot/to mid/to long. Sure it could use tweaks and you can tell the director is a fan of Asian cinema, but it is not an unremarkable fight like the last fight in Elektra which suffered from an flash cut edit as if it was from a TV drama. I always see movies that have a director who is keen on one thing like the acting or the fights or the special effects it is hard to find a director that has it all. That doesn't mean everything else sucks, but that it could always be better.

• ditto man

• I am a self-important douche. It's cool though, because I deserve to be. I'm not gonna try to convince you that the choreography was bad, that's something you can really only figure out by seeing things that are better. I will say that the integration of the special moves was bad, especially since with the exception of the hurricane kick, they were tacked on at the end and featured pretty decent CGI over really half-assed plates. The wire shot of Ken standing still while being hoisted into the air is a great argument for the need to make changes to an adaptation. I guess I can also come down there and explain the speed ramping and camerawork so you'll understand. Slow motion is used in film to emphasize an event, or to bring out detail in a quick action. Here, it's used every few seconds to force drama into otherwise entirely mundane shots and to extend the video's runtime. It's taking an effect that's, well, effective when used properly, and just putting a whole bunch of it all over the place without an actual reason. This is bad filmmaking. This is what you nerds hate about George Lucas and Michael Bay. Okay, camerawork. There's more to camerawork than hurf durf shakycam. Several important shots either framed the actors badly or shot them from the worst possible angle available. Look at the shot where Ryu charges his hadoken, for example. Pause the video there. There's too much negative space, the angle is too high, and the actor's feet are cut off. None of these single things would ruin the shot on their own, but combined they create an amateurish shot that makes the actor look like a child. Negative space is the main issue they have going on here; shot after shot shows the audience too much of all the wrong things. As an aside, it's one thing to say "waah don't make changes to my source material" and quite another to have to write a feature-length movie about vaguely racist cartoon characters hitting each other. The only thing this has over a backyard video is the visual effects, and the only thing it had over Chun-Li's movie is the game-accurate costumes. If that's all it takes to please you, you don't deserve to have opinions. Later

• I only barely care about Street Fighter (and only for nostalgic reasons) but that was a cool fucking video. Aces.

• Please stop pretending to know anything about choreography or camerawork k thx. Also? This was made over the course of a year, by professional stunt actors, with a fairly decent short-film budget.

• For Fuking Crom's sake! that was wonderfull! I always get sad when i remember sf was one of Raul Julia's last movies. This rocks

• Looking back, most of the live action street fighter movies have been pretty poor in concept and execution. Street Fighter is a tough game to adapt to the big screen because it is really just a fighting game with some minor side plots to allow for unique endings. But then this thought hit me like bolt out of the blue: Make a Street Fighter movie a fake documentary/mockumentary (fightumentary?). It could have interviews with the characters before and after the fights, examining their characters and motivations as they progress through the tournmanet. Maybe just follow a few of the characters through the tournament (Like Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li and Guile)to better concentrate on character motivations. I think this idea has a lot of potential. The movie would stay true to the game, flesh out characters in a way that will make the audience become emotionally invested in them but not in a way that crowds out the fighting scenes. We could also see interviews of the fighters after their defeats (and probably in a hospital) reflecting on their expereince in the tournmanet and what they will be doing once they recover. You know, bring a human interest aspect to the story and show the consequences of the fights to the fighters. I think the movie could be treated in a serious way in so far as a world with legally sanctioned street fighting and people who can shoot fireballs can. Maybe it takes place in a slightly altered reality from ours to explain the mystical powers. In either event the documentary-esque framing of the film would prevent the action from centering around just one character and keep the audience's and director's attention on the tournmanet as a whole.

• It just looked like a scene-for-scene recreation of an in-game fight, but with live actors and CGI effects. - It *looks* good, but it *does* nothing. - Anyway, Street Fighter's messsy story is lame compared to King of Fighters, Tekken, and Virtua Fighter. Tekken has the craziest story of them all. Virtua Fighter and King of Fighters just go with the standard "kumite" story. - If you want a Street Fighter, Virtua Fighter, or King of Fighters movie, then grab "Bloodsport" and be happy. I don't think you can improve on it, story-wise, at all. There's NOTHING to these games that's worthy of an ongoing plot. - Or hell... Just watch UFC or WWE.

• I've said this time and again about video game properties: say what you will about their shallow or sometimes cheesy pretenses, the story part of a game-to-movie translation has a good chuck of it already handed to the film producers on a digital platter. Even if it needs some fleshing out here and there, you've basically had a lot of storyboarding done for you by the people who created the mythos of the game ...especially when dealing with games that have been around long enough to spawn many sequels (like Street Fighter), to add more meat to that mythos over time. The problem is that pompous Hollywood execs take what's given to them and then unceremoniously toss it in the trash can and do whatever the hell they want with the property. ...The property whose elements, dispirate as some of them may be, have pleased the public for so many years on their own merits that a movie license is even being considered in the first place. ...Yeah, that property. Frankly, we all know a Street Fighter movie is going to be shallow. And it has, like, a billion characters to either keep track of or else ham-fistedly cameo into the movie. So no one is expecting DEEP story. They just want EPIC story. And Street Fighter can do that just by following the bits of backstory already laid down by the games and the [good] Japanese anime films, with an emphasis on the actual FIGHTING --done well with cool on again/off again slow-mo, close cuts, 300-style filtering effects, and lots and lots of ACCURATE-TO-CHARACTER'S-UNIQUE-POWER CGI. Obviously, hiring people like the Bourne crew ...or the dudes who did 300 ...or the guys who coreographed the epic fight scenes in Gladiator, etc would be a wise move. AND FOR GODSAKE, DON'T CHANGE SHIT NEEDLESSLY!!! ...With today's technology, literally nothing from the Street Fighter game franchise needs to be changed or removed to make a decent live action movie. All Hollywood needs to concentrate its own "imagination" on is translating characters and costumes in such a way as to strike a chord of balance between faithful rendering and non-retarded or overly-cheesy looking (think spandex comic art Spiderman = Sam Raimi Spiderman costume, and you're golden). And when done up right enough to ensure shallow-but-epic-and-fun summer blockbuster status, Street Fighter would have the backing to probably best be spawned across three progressive flicks that cover the first tournament, the second tournament, and the final showdown with whoever from the good guy cast is on board to take down Bison's Shadaloo base ...with some kickass conflict between Ryu and a randomly appearing Akuma who keeps plaguing him to go darkside, and whatnot, in-between). With what we've seen of non-game-franchise-based action movies over the years, there is no way that they couldn't make a decent (hell, straight EPIC) Street Fighter movie. Hollywood is just cheap, disrespectful of existing properties, and plain stupid.

• This is how you do it? Really? This is horrible!

• Clearly no one has seen the real Street Fighter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Psls1ngwM

• He did......spam it twice before he got SRK in the face, just like the game.

• Except for mine. My nerd interests supercede your nerd interests. My nerd interests are infallible. Your nerd interests are seriously flawed and you should consider giving up your particular interest. Please do not take an interest in my nerd interest though, clearly you would neither understand nor appreciate it.

• Fucking awesome

• i always think Ryu can be played by lyoto machida

• if this were accurate to the current game it would be hadouken spam.

• THIS!

• It's definitely not the greatest thing since sliced bread. However, if you don't understand why it's better than the Chun-Li movie, there's absolutely no point in attempting to explain it.

• I have no idea why people want a Street Fighter Movie. Games like these usually have a bunch of characters and side-plots that would work a lot better as TV mini-series. But this video is OK. Sure, the eyebrows make me chuckle and there were a few silly moments, but I don't regret watching it. Now if someone had a decent writer, a couple of stunt fighters and a few familiar faces from TV shows... Now, THAT would have been exciting.

• You state a bunch of baseless opinions and give no explanation of why. With a least of a rational explanation of why you find these things to be bad, obnoxious, or terrible people could at least see your point even if they disagree with it. As it is now, you just sound like a self-important douche who thinks he opinion is fact. Now while the fight choreography is not brilliant, it is certainly accurate to the fighting styles of the characters and very reminiscent of the fight scenes in the Street Fighter 2 anime film. As for the rest, there was no shakey cam, so you could at least see what was going on. And most importantly, they didn't make changes to the characters for inexplicable reasons. So all in all, much better than just about any Hollywood attempt at video game movies.

• I don't know from the other comments. Maybe it was because my expectations were a bit low, but I found this video insanely awesome. Anyone who didn't can suck it.

• Minimalist, low-budget, but still very awesome.

• True! Absolutely, he looks like Tom a lot. And yes, I was disturbed by Ryu´s eyebrows.

• this shouldn't be a movie. a series on sci-fi or g4 would be better. this clip is pretty good but obviously noone is going to go out and see another live action street fighter film despite what anybody says. they should just keep it simple but with the understanding that everything they do with the show is in line with the games. i think...

• Dear Hollywood, Give this man a budget, hire him a professional screen writing partner, and let him do his thing. xoxo, A true nerd and a true cinephile

• Another live action short was released this week as well: http://kotaku.com/5530930/another-high-quality-street-fighter-fan-film-awkward

• honestly, pretty silly. Don't see how this is any better than the Chun-li movie.

• I thnik it looks awesome. I'd have loved to be a part of the production team :D

• FUCK and YES! That was awesome!

• that's was like their "Rocky and Apollo at the end of Rocky III" moment. They just did jump kicks to frame up the logo

• The same reason they get boners for a guy in (insert outfit here) fighting a guy in (insert outfit here). Every Nerd's favorite thing can be trivialized just like that.

• You do realize this isn't an actual movie, right?

• Whuh? The choreography and camera work were fine. It's a 3-minute film made on the cheap by a couple of stuntmen, and it absolutely looks better than any other live-action attempt at a SF movie. It doesn't share a damn thing with those flicks. Bloody hell, get some perspective.

• you are shallow

• awesome but whats with the far ass jump kick at the end foot to foot?

• You are what I call a Genius, my dear Sir!

• YES!! My thoughts exactly. In my opinion, this was no better than a regular college student film (with the exception of the special effects). I just wasn't feeling the guy who was playing Ryu. He looks too old and wimpy to play such a bad ass character. He kind of looked like the poor man's John Cho. Its nothing to get all wet over.

• A little addendum to your "message" Rob: P.S. Learn how to frame and choreograph fight sequences like these guys, teach your damn actors how to properly fight or your damn stuntmen how to act, and/or fire the epileptic cameramen.

• That was one of my favorite parts. Very accurate to the game.

• Not bad, not bad at all. Better than that shit they put in theatres at the very least. I am just a little sad Joey Ansah wasn't in it though, because DAMN his fight scene in the Bourne movie rocked my pants right off.

• And will she have the thighs.

• Put Chris Klein in it playing every character and you got a deal.

• too bad the ones in holly wood who have the rights to street fighter do not just take the video and make the movie that way espically given how the actors look so close to ken and ryu its scary.

• Why is Ken fighting a Vulcan? I kid because I love :D

• Ken reminds me of a blonde Tom Cruise. Maybe his stunt double a few times?

• It looks good but was I the only one really, REALLY distracted by those eyebrows? Of all the things to copy from the game why that? Those things belong on that one aunt of yours who might actually be your uncle.

• I was a little disappointed. I thought it was going to be a full length movie for some reason. Not too bad for just being 3 minutes though.

• Silly.

• Sorry, this is horrible. The choreography is bad, the speed-ramping is obnoxious, the camerawork is terrible, the only good thing about it is the visual effects. This isn't "better than hollywood", it's literally the exact same problems that Hollywood movies have, and that we hate them for.

• Very accurate. Nice!

• lol the effects are better looking then the ones used in the legend of chun li...

• Man, if that's what you call sex I would hate to hear about your fucked-up relationships

• That should be the pre-credits scene on the next attempt at a Street Fighter movie. As long as they don't try to shoehorn everyone in and keep the plots basic, that would make a great movie.

• If it weren't for the hadouken block, I'd say this is perfect. That part kind of ruined it for me.

• this has now been posted for all to see on my facebook, so less nerdy friends can rejoice (you know, the ones that aren't quite nerdy but like street fighter?).

• You could tell as soon as those two guys met in the woods that this was going to be one really intense gay sex scene- and it was.

• Man, Ryu has the same eyebrows as Spock in that Swede video.

• That is not only insanely better than the live-action Street Fighter movies of the past, it was better than most action movies I've seen, period.

• Impressive

• These SF movies all depend on who plays Chun Li. The first one had good casting-- just a bad movie...

• Does this look a little 'straight to DVD' to everyone else?

• Better record than any of the other movies, though.

• Boring. I don't get why geeks get such big boners for a guy in white fighting a guy in red. Also, what was the point of their little toe-toucher at the end?

• Then this video fails at least 50%.

• Mainly, I think it should involve lots of fighting. In streets.

• meh. the bigger problem with Hollywood handling properties like this is not knowing what to do with the story. the guys who made this didn't need to worry about that.

• FUCK ME! I'm usually exaggerating when I say I stared at someting with my mouth hanging open. NOT THIS TIME! A person could literally die from so much concentrated awesomeness, and die happy!

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