The storyline was just a mess, and there was no real coherency in it, and I must admit that I dozed off more than once throughout this movie, and ended up getting up and leaving, not finishing the movie. But this 2014 really is the icing on the cake. I can't claim to have had any expectations to this, given the previous movies. "Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist" was allegedly supposed to be THE movie for the "Street Fighter" franchise. Recommended and I would love to see a real Street Fighter movie soon including more than only two crucial characters. The whole thing came out exactly a year ago today and that is why I decided giving it a look, but also because I really loved the video game as a kid. If they had actually picked a fighter game, this would have been a truly odd situation. Occasionally, I felt in the second half that they may not have enough quality material to make this worth watching for 150 minutes, but every time I began thinking like that, the level rose once again quickly after, for example in entertaining moments when Ken cuts of his ponytail or when the two protagonists play video games themselves. And as Ken says at that point, the adventure had only just begun. Still the two do belong together and also get a great ending where they go off into the world with their trainer staying behind. I have to say this mini-series here is maybe at its weakest when it only focuses on Ryu and that happens a couple times as he is probably even more lead character than Ken. Ansah made a short film back in 2010 together with him already, but still with a different actor for Ryu. The actor who plays Ken here helped Ansah with the script. Now about this one here, it runs for 13 episodes (including a very short prologue) and has a total runtime of roughly 2.5 hours, so you can really watch it in one go.
I read that he next plans a similar miniseries starring Guile and Chun Li and I'd certainly love to watch that. This mini-series is written and directed by Joey Ansah, who also plays a character in here as he is a trained martial artist himself. Ryu is the calmer one, Asian, with an advantage in mental strength and he does not fear any challenge no matter how hard it is to achieve or how long it will take him. However, he is also probably sometimes too boastful for his own good. Ken is the more extroverted of the two, Caucasian and truly talented, who really looks more like a surfer than like as fighter.
We follow the two young men I mentioned in the title of this review on their road to becoming supreme martial artists. But it also worth a watch for everybody who didn't. This is a really good watch for everybody who played the famous Street Fighter video game when they were younger.
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