Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

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Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

PG-13

Released Feb 27, 2009

1h 36m

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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

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.

Rated: 1/5

Nov 17, 2011

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Perri Nemiroff

CinemaBlend

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.

Rated: 1/5

Aug 14, 2010

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Marc Savlov

Austin Chronicle

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

Rated: 0/4

Mar 5, 2009

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

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.

Rated: 0/4

Dec 2, 2023

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David Hogan

hoganreviews.co.uk

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!

Rated: 1/5

Jul 8, 2020

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Scott Beggs

Film School Rejects

Can I please stop thinking about this movie now?

Apr 16, 2019

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Jonathan O

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

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

08/08/24

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Cees T

Late '90s style action fantasy nostalgia comfort food. 6.8/10 - Low budget but solid.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

05/07/24

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Monsol E

This made me appreciate what a MASTERPIECE the JC-VD movie was.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Christopher S

It absouletly sucked I hope the director never makes a movie looks like this. Shame on you, how could you wake up and decide to make a movie like this, just wow. Shame, Shame, Shame. I expected way more from a street fighter movie MORE ACTION, EXPLOSIONS, AND ACTION.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/02/23

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derek l

Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li is another example of a poorly adapted take on the iconic video game franchise and its characters. The acting ranged from poor to mediocre especially with Chris Klein's Nash and Neal McDonough's M. Bison, the martial arts was not well choreographed, the story and script were bland and uninteresting. I've played the Street Fighter series for a long time and I have a general idea of the game's setting along with the characters' backstories and yet whoever wrote the film did not acknowledge and relate back to the source material.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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J M

Wow, actually cringe worthy... Were the actors actually instructed to do the worst most always job possible? In fact if they just make this movie derivative and directly copy another successful movie but with SF characters they would have done ten times better... And WTF is this soundtrack??? The crew needs to pay us for our time wasted hating a beloved iconic franchise

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/06/23

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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

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