“Street Fighter Alpha” is yet another disaster based on the popular “Street Fighter” games. Not only is it probably the worst “Street Fighter” movie, I think it might also be the worst anime I’ve ever seen and even the worst film based on a videogame. This terrible O.V.A. is just so incredibly dull and unwatchable.

A dark power threatens to seize control of Ryu, a champion fighter. He is visited by a young boy, who claims to be Ryu’s long-lost brother. Beyond this, it just got so confusing with the different characters and a ton of different plot points. I just lost all interest as the film refused to decide what the main story really was.

The film contains many characters from the games so fans are likely to recognise many of them. They do at least look like their videogames counterparts but the animation on them is horrendous. They all look really faded and weird. Like the other “Street Fighter” movies (both animated and live-action), there are just too many characters for the film to juggle. There is Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, Akuma, Dan and just so many others that it becomes almost impossible to follow. It’s okay for a videogame to have a ton of characters to give you more choice when you play. However, it just doesn’t work for a movie. To say these characters are one-dimensional would be an insult to the first dimension.

“Street Fighter Alpha” might be even worse than “Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li”. It’s definitely worse than the live-action “Street Fighter” movie with Jean-Claude Van Damme. Japanese animation can look great but this movie has a rather amateurish visual style and that just makes the whole experience even worse. Other bad anime movies usually offer some good visuals but that just isn’t the case here. It’s hard to express just how mundane and unlikeable this movie is. I’d rather sit and have to play the “Street Fighter” games until my thumbs became numb than sit through this O.V.A. again.