Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

    Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
    2009

    Synopsis

    When a teenager, Chun-Li witnesses the kidnapping of her father by wealthy crime lord M. Bison. When she grows up, she goes on a quest for vengeance and becomes the famous crime-fighter of the Street Fighter universe.

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    Cast

    • Kristin KreukChun-Li
    • Chris KleinCharlie Nash
    • Neal McDonoughBison
    • Michael Clarke DuncanBalrog
    • Moon BloodgoodDet. Maya Sunee
    • Robin ShouGen
    • Josie HoCantana
    • TabooVega
    • Cheng Pei-peiZhilan
    • Edmund ChenXiang

    Recommendations

    • 60

      Variety

      Neither the best nor the worst of movies derived from videogames, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li at least gives action fans plenty to ogle besides the titular heroine (Kristin Kreuk), whose original incarnation, legend has it, was among the first distaff figures controllable by joystick.
    • 60

      The New York Times

      Reveling in the vivid Bangkok locations, Geoff Boyle’s photography is crisp and bright, and Dion Lam’s action choreography unusually witty.
    • 30

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Director Andrzej Bartkowiak ("Romeo Must Die") works hard to supply the appropriate grittiness, but other than a few reasonably well-staged fight sequences, the proceedings are dull and visually uninspired. Justin Marks' solemn screenplay lacks any trace of wit.
    • 25

      TV Guide Magazine

      There's something special about this underwhelming mess of a Street Fighter reboot that many cinematic cheese-lovers will find very appetizing. The fact is that The Legend of Chun-Li is not at all a good flick, but it's filled with so much cornball ineptitude that one would think some rather broken mad movie genius was behind it.
    • 25

      Boston Globe

      This is a movie for the overcaffeinated, undereducated teenager in all of us.
    • 20

      L.A. Weekly

      Idiot plotting and dialogue are what you'd expect from a genre that typically rewards narrative development with a skip function. But the rote fight scenes are a disappointment.
    • 20

      Los Angeles Times

      Even with the low expectations The Legend of Chun Li engenders, it still somehow manages to be a letdown.
    • 16

      Entertainment Weekly

      Don't be fooled by the low grade: This sequel-in-spirit to Jean-Claude Van Damme's 1994 dud doesn't even succeed in being memorably bad.