Films like Street Fighter Alpha: Generations.

Street Fighter Alpha: Generations (2005) reads as Neutral, breathless, measured action / animation, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

The Dinosaur Project (2012) poster
1. The Dinosaur Project2012

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Green Lantern: First Flight (2009) poster
2. Green Lantern: First Flight2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Riddick: Blindsided (2013) poster
3. Riddick: Blindsided2013

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

A.I. Assault (2006) poster
4. A.I. Assault2006

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Vampires: The Turning (2005) poster
5. Vampires: The Turning2005

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Red: Werewolf Hunter (2010) poster
6. Red: Werewolf Hunter2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Far Cry (2008) poster
7. Far Cry2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.

Wyvern (2009) poster
8. Wyvern2009

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Wolves (2014) poster
9. Wolves2014

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Beyond Loch Ness (2008) poster
10. Beyond Loch Ness2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Sector 7 (2011) poster
11. Sector 72011

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Alone in the Dark 2 (2008) poster
12. Alone in the Dark 22008

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

These are Street Fighter Alpha: Generations’s neighbours — where are yours?

Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.

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