"Urban Fighter" AKA "Arena of the Street Fighter" Poster Art
Martial arts fans are always keen to discover the next big onscreen fighting sensation. With some of our icons like Donnie Yen and Jet Li eyeing retirement and Tony Jaa’s future looking uncertain, there’s some manner of urgency as action buffs hope to find new talent to fill the void.
Well, as luck would have it, a martial artist out of Germany named Mike Möeller is earning praise from some respected figures in the industry – including Undisputed III: Redemption director Isaac Florentine and kickboxing legend Don ‘the Dragon’ Wilson.
Möeller has been in the stuntman business for years but he’s looking to make his breakout in 2013 with Arena of the Street Fighter, a film he not only stars in but wrote and directed.
Formerly titled Urban Fighter, the movie promises plenty of bone-crunching fisticuffs and flying kicks, if this impressive trailer is anything to go by. With any luck, Arena of the Street Fighter should hit DVD in North America sometime in June of 2013. Thanks to Film Combat Syndicate for the story.
Update: Film Combat Syndicate reports that Arena of the Street Fighter will have a limited theatrical release and will also be available via VOD on June 6, 2013 from Gorilla Pictures. For more details, visit the film’s official site.
This guy is good but the movie is unwatchable. Very low budget and very terrible acting and story. Moeller wears one of the worst wigs I have ever seen for the flashback scenes. It looks like one of those cheap mullet wigs you can find in stores around Halloween. The editing and the camera angles for the fight scenes are noticeably off. Hopefully this guy can get into a decent flick directed by Florentine or something.