Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009)
Average Rating: 3.4/10
Reviews Counted: 65
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 53
The combination of a shallow plot and miscast performers renders Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li a perfectly forgettable video game adaptation.
Average Rating: 4.8/10
Critic Reviews: 15
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 9
The combination of a shallow plot and miscast performers renders Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li a perfectly forgettable video game adaptation.
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As the Street Fighter saga celebrates its 20th anniversary, fight fans are invited to follow along with fearsome fighter Chun-Li (Smallville's Kristin Kreuk) as she faces off against a series of formidable opponents in this feature adaptation of the popular video-game franchise directed by Exit Wounds' Andrzej Bartkowiak. Previously adapted for the screen in the 1994 Jean-Claude Van Damme film, the series continues to thrive as eager gamers across the globe go toe-to-toe to determine who is the
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Cast
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Kristin Kreuk
Chun-Li -
Chris Klein
Nash -
Neal McDonough
Bison -
Robin Shou
Gen -
Moon Bloodgood
Maya Sunee -
Josie Ho
Cantana -
Taboo
Vega -
Michael Clarke Duncan
Balrog -
Edmund Chen
Xiang -
Pei-pei Cheng
Zhilan
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Proving that there's no statute of limitations on lousy ideas, director Andrzej Bartkowiak's attempted franchise expansion returns to the Capcom motherlode that produced the worst movie in the entire Jean-Claude Van Damme filmography.
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Disappointing movie but not too bad either. On the whole, the movie doesn't quite work. It has some good ideas and an interesting story, but it really doesn't handle them properly. For every strong moment the film has, there is a weak one to bring things down again, and of course there's an open ending, though if they actually make a sequel to this I'll be amazed. I likely won't be the first in line to see it, though. I probably won't see the movie again, either... well, not in the theater, anyway. If you like solid electronic dances tunes, the soundtrack may be worth your while. The movie, on the other hand, won't really entertain general audiences, and I imagine fans of the games will be pretty divided on it.
Chun-Li lives a calm life with her father, when one day, the local mobster Bison kidnaps her father. After her mother's death, she embarks into a quest to rescue her kidnapped father from the clutches of powerful criminal lord Bison.
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- Bison: One thing I learned in the slums, when the people are hungry, they'll do anything.
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Foreign Titles
- Street Fighter (1994) (DE)
- Street Fighter: The Movie (UK)
