People are voting emotionally.

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

There's a good chance the film will make you laugh out loud, but if it doesn't, there's an even better chance it will make you openly sob.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

I stumbled upon this Anime on Wikipedia's list of Anime based on video games page by chance and thought that it would be as good as the original Streetfighter Anime from 1994. Sadly however, Streetfighter IV: The Tide That Bides is no where as amazing as its previous effort as this one is disappointing. The plot takes place before the Streetfighter 4 game so it's a prequel to it. Characters in Guy, Dhalsim, Fei Long, Blanka, E. Honda and Dee Jay to Streetfighter 4 newcomers El Fuerte, Rufus, Juri, Hakan are all absent and are nowhere to be seen. However, it makes one wonder why is this actually called Streetfighter 4, when in which one say one third of the characters from the game are in it? It makes no sense. Much of the movie involves the characters spending a large chunk of the film having a conversation- and less on the fighting and action sequences. The main storyline involves Ken, Ryu and Crimson Viper with Chun Li and Guile playing second fiddle to the trio and although it was the writers attempt to make this watchable, it became overdrawn and turned out to be a snooze fest. It got to me that the writers or whoever it was decided to make Crimson so annoying, arrogant and obnoxious. Because when I played Super Streetfighter 4, as she is a CIA agent, I assumed she would be a tough character with a heart. Viper in the games is a cool chick, but here she could've been easily mistaken as one of the villains. The animation is OK at best, although the colours look muted and drab. The character designs I thought are somewhat good - Anime standard that is, but they're not great. I still dislike the live- action Streetfighter flick of 1994 with Van Damme more and would rank this below that and the recent legend of Chun Li movie in third place. If they put more time and effort into it, it would've been a terrific Anime; but alas, this was a waste of an opportunity & a waste of the Streetfighter 4 franchise.In all, a huge disappointment and inferior to the Streetfighter 2 Anime, which is still class 17 years on.

Every Street Fighter anime that has come out after Street Fighter 2: the Movie has been such a disappointment to me that I sincerely hope they just don't keep making them anymore. It has been remarked that the animation itself was obviously rushed to coincide with the game's release, as was the story, but what I find most disappointing about it is *SPOILER WARNING* that this is a Street Fighter anime with no actual fights in it. Yes, you read that right: there are no fights here. What there is, is two beatings. First the new character, Crimson Viper, gives Cammy a horrible beating. Then the villain, Seth, gives Ryu a horrible beating until Ryu throws *one* Hadouken at him, and defeats him. That's it. Unless you count Sakura and Chun Li kicking some random thugs, that's all the action this anime has. Also, of the new characters, only Viper appears in the anime, unless you count the two seconds where Abel shows up at the end. Rufus and El Fuerte are nowhere to be seen. This thing might as well be called "The Crimson Viper Show", and I find her extremely unlikeable, to boot. Don't waste your time and look for an anime with some actual action, instead.

they actually ended it. In simple words, it was as if they quickly assembled an anime to coincide with the video game and didn't bother developing it properly or ending it properly. it has some good elements in it though, e.g when ryu is able to finally control the dark hado (it's called something else in the film) that was quite a moment. ken storyline was good, and some of the minor action scenes were watchable. the story wasn't brilliant, but wasn't bad either. they just needed to spend more time on developing it properly and finishing it off. if your following the film in regards to continuity, then it takes place a while after street fighter II. overall, OK movie, but a disappointing way to end it, if that is where it ends.

This movie was 105 min of my Life I"ll never get back. The Over compensating Story Line takes a way from a Movie with the title called "Street Fighter". I thought this movie lacked good fighting scenes, Failed on implementing special Moves for the characters and try to make a world in Peril out of special Fighting skills... this movie dragged and Just Just.... JUST DISAPPOINTED ! ! ! !Compared to the Street Fighter 2 (Sutorîto Faitâ II gekijô-ban(1995) ) movie which I Loved, the animation in this Movie was a step down. It had a Horrible Cute Cartoon network type anime Look which took Away from the gritty fighting scenes that they did manage to slip into the Movie. SPOILER*** Kinda****....Surprisingly KEN MASTERS goes the Entire movie without throwing his signature Upcut ? Guile goes Through the Movie throwing one sonic boom and no Flash Kick ? Chung Li throws a punch and kick here and there ? Cammy ...ummmm gets owned ? I mean with the Slew of characters And signature moves you'd think a Street Fighter movie would be enjoyable to the fans and game go'ers... apparently I was mistaken ! Just to Give fellow movie Watchers a heads up Cause I know whether I trash this Movie or not street Fighter fans will Watch it regaurdless lol....Its an 105 min long.... The Movie didn't have Action or at least a decent fight scene till 55 min into the Movie....BORING to say the Least !