Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

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Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

PG-13

2009

1h 36m

Action

Adventure

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In Bangkok, Bison (Neal McDonough), a crime boss, and his henchmen (Michael Clarke Duncan, Josie Ho, Taboo) begin a bid for power in the city's slum, crushing everyone who gets in their way. As the violence escalates, a team of heroes emerges to bring Bison to justice. Fighting on the side of good are Chun-Li (Kristin Kreuk), martial-arts master Gen (Robin Shou), Interpol agent Charlie Nash (Chris Klein) and his partner, Maya Sunee (Moon Bloodgood).

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Critics Consensus

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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Drew Toal

Time Out

11/17/2011

1/5

This painful background tale of the schoolgirl master of the really slow fireball attack almost makes one yearn for the days of Jean-Claude Van Damme.

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Perri Nemiroff

CinemaBlend

08/14/2010

1/5

Trades in vital game info to squeeze in as much acrobatics and fighting sequences as possible. Bartkowiak shouldn't have taken the first part of the title so literally.

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Marc Savlov

Austin Chronicle

03/05/2009

0/4

The Legend of Chun-Li is as vapid and dull as it is.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

12/02/2023

0/4

The strange part of this movie is, there isn’t much street fighting. Most of the characters use firearms, and they fight in the street only on occasion. [...] Perhaps the producers forgot the title of the movie.

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David Hogan

hoganreviews.co.uk

07/08/2020

1/5

Wooden acting, poor special effects and zero fight choreography, plus this film is SOMEHOW an even worse adaptation of its source material than the first film. Avoid!

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Scott Beggs

Film School Rejects

04/16/2019

Can I please stop thinking about this movie now?

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Lars N

@RT48306760 May 14

Real trash and i love it. If you like the Street Fighter Series, bad acting and trash in general, you will enjoy this movie. Otherwise its just forgettable, but will not hurt anybody.

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Alexander S

@RT61935749 Oct 20

Hot garbage with OK action sequences here and there. Grading: D-

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Stephen C

@bob25009 06/16/2025

Successful action-packed movie in 1 hour and 36 minutes.

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Ashley R

@RT82983924 05/30/2025

This movie should have never been made

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Ryan C

@RT82157002 01/29/2025

I'm being generous with this review and rating cause I like street fighter and bad action movies but this movie stinks in many ways. Its very boring for a movie with so much action I proffered the mortal Kombat movies much more.

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Jonathan O

@RT41230270 08/08/2024

This is a shameful movie really terrible casting, really bad writing and directing and really god awful vfx.

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Synopsis

In Bangkok, Bison (Neal McDonough), a crime boss, and his henchmen (Michael Clarke Duncan, Josie Ho, Taboo) begin a bid for power in the city's slum, crushing everyone who gets in their way. As the violence escalates, a team of heroes emerges to bring Bison to justice. Fighting on the side of good are Chun-Li (Kristin Kreuk), martial-arts master Gen (Robin Shou), Interpol agent Charlie Nash (Chris Klein) and his partner, Maya Sunee (Moon Bloodgood).

Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Producer: Ashok Amritraj, Patrick Aiello
Screenwriter: Justin Marks
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: Capcom, Adlabs Films
Rating: PG-13 (Sequences of Violence|Martial Arts Action|Some Sensuality)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 27, 2009, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $8.7M
Runtime: 1h 36m