Street Fighter Legacy is the best three minutes of Street Fighter film ever

by JC Fletcher on May 7th 2010 1:27AM

As promised, the full version of the Street Fighter Legacy short film has been released. You can watch it after the break or click here to see it in resolutions up to 1080p.

We're happy to report that Joey Ansah, Owen Trevor and Streetlight Films have figured out the secret formula for making a good Street Fighter movie: make it really short. There's no time for terrible dialogue, shoehorned character cameos or questionable characterization in this three-minute film. There's just time for one beautifully shot fight sequence between Ryu and Ken ... which makes sense for a movie based on a fighting game.

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Tags: fan-film, fighting, joey-ansah, street-fighter, Street-Fighter-4, street-fighter-iv, street-fighter-legacy, streetlight-films

Reader Comments (58)

looks stupid

I agree, this looks comical- their appearance. At first I thought it was a comic parody of sort. What the hell's with the shaved-in-the-middle-eyebrows?

The fighting is good but I have to say. Would look so much better without them brows.

"The fighting is good but I have to say. Would look so much better without them brows."

Incorrect

"The fighting is good but I have to say it would look so much better without them brows."

Correct

"Hey, guys! Did you know that I've not only never played Street Fighter, but also like to share that information as ignorantly as possible via the internet?!"

I've been working on my impression of you. I think I'm getting pretty good.

ken is spot on but ryu... not so much...

is it just me or at a glance he looks like Tom Cruise?

Yeah, we all have that one Asian friend that we use for all our Asian needs. He probably couldn't find anyone that really looks like Ryu.

to be fair Ryu has had many different looks over the years. MvC, street fighter 2, and in street fighter IV the ryu's all look different. Or maybe it is just me?

Yeah that is a perfect Ken.

PERFECT

Kamehameha > Hadoken

If the worst thing you can say about someone is that they look like Tom Cruise, I'm sure they'll generally take that as a compliment.

@SirCut
It's Kamehameha Wave, and No.

I enjoyed that three minutes of fan film more than the entirety of the Legend of Chun Li. The cinematography was good, the fighting was decent, and the characters were...close enough. The need for star power is killing video game movies anyway, get a bunch of no-names that understand the source material, then maybe we might get something decent. It is the best chance at least.

I'm sure there will be a lot of haters, but that's almost scientifically as close as you can get to making an accurate live action Street Fighter look anything even within the ballpark of "cool".

Agreed. The fight sequences looked infinitely better, imho, than either Street Fighter movie.

Then again, I just re-watched "Mortal Kombat," and I still kinda like that one. :-)

Not too bad...although I still find the original Street Fighter movie amazingly awesome to watch with the right amount of friends and alcohol.

Heh, With alcohol even a walrus will be mistaken for a mermaid. ;)

So that time I hadded sex with that mermaid... awww crap.

Millions of dollars and a year or so, and the movie still couldn't come a quarter of what this is. This is how you do a Street Fighter movie.

i....just....NERDGASM!

Street Fighter Beginning's End is better. Look it up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K-F4eCDyUU

for people who don't want to "look it up"...jerk :p

Legacy has better quality. Both need to stop using Hadouken. Unless you have a real budget, it doesnt look right. Props to Legacy for shooting on a RED.

A hybrid of Both would be cool.
The Feel and Dialogue of Legacy was great, Ken was spot on, whilst I preferred the Fighting speed of Beginnings End.

That and a few million dollars and they've really got a winner.

I actually like the fight sequence in Beginnings End. I like how they mixed in the fireballs without such a big pause and slo mo sequence...however, the dudes are not a match, look wise, for Ryu or Ken. At least Ken looks spot on in Legacy, with NATURAL hair not a wig. Lol.

Still 1000% better than "Street Fighter" and "Legend of Chun-Li". And "The Animated Movie" for that matter....

ok i'll give u the legend of Chun-Li but "The animated movie" is the best street fighter movie ever even better then "Alpha Generations"

Street Fighter the animated movie is one of the main building blocks of Street Fighter today. Hell, there wouldn't be an Alpha series if that movie didn't inspire them to make it.

Its briiliance in making hadokens and dragon punches into comedy is second to none.

They just need to make a Street Fighter movie like this but with better actors and a higher budget. I mean, how hard is it? It'd just be your typical summer action flick.

Hansel, he's so hot right now.

As someone who gets extremely uncomfortable watching anything remotely cheesy (that doesn't have joking audio commentary), I will say that this is as far from cheesy as a live-action rendition of a video game can get.

How dare you take a dig at the awesome Street Fighter movie.
Raul Julia would be turning over in his grave. (if you make him turn over quick enough it's like he's doing a psycho crusher).

It'd be better if Ryu didn't look like a 40 year old and they actually tried voicing the japanese instead having a really obvious dub-over.

Someone call a doctor cause my head just exploded!

Ryu doesn't look Japanese enough : /

its the same guy from Tekken playing Jin Kazama, hee looks way cooler there than this. blame the eyebrow

really? ew.

That was great.

Looks pretty good to me, although the way Ken takes the first hadoken looked pretty cheesy. But otherwise it was a pretty cool fight scene.

I actually thought that the hadouken looked cool, it was the block from ryu that made me cringe. But then again it WAS pretty realistic (in game terms), so you can't have it both ways.

Other than my tiny little bitch I thought that was a fv$cking cool video, and I hope they make a few more cool match ups :)

I think you are confusing Ken with Ryu, because I was talking about the block. Ryu does the Hadoken.

It's good, but it's no DOA: Dead or Alive

That's Jon Foo as Ryu, the guy who played as Jin in Tekken movie. too bad the eyebrow destroy the coolness.

I liked it, but they could've done without the very last part...why

Beginnings End was just as cool, abit better too, but it got me thinking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K-F4eCDyUU - Beginnings End : SF Alpha (Kens hair/ponytail, Ryus white head band)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2ZXSzaUIBQ&feature=player_embedded - SF Legacy: SF 2 and 4

Different actors in both parts, but by appearence gives a interesting touch that Legacy depicted them as being alittle old over the years

MAN

I wish a studio would give this guy some decent funding. We could actually have the first GOOD GOOD street fighter movie.

Not "so bad it's good" like the first one, and not "so bad you wish you were dead" like the second one.

This really looks good.

Hey Hollywood! Take notes!!

Very well done.

The only complaint I'd have is that the Ryu actor is way too small, and that last shot could have been flimed a bit better so it looked like they were actually about to jump kick each other (instead of both just fall to the ground short of each other).

Other than that though, very cool to watch.

100% agree. Everything was awesome...except the end was kind of like...um...you're not going to hit anyone jumping 4 feet away from the guy.

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