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      Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

      PG-13 Released Feb 27, 2009 1 hr. 36 min. Action Adventure List
      3% 62 Reviews Tomatometer 18% 100,000+ Ratings Audience Score 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). Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Feb 20 Buy Now

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      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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      Monsol E This made me appreciate what a MASTERPIECE the JC-VD movie was. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review red t Better than the 94' version but still Not Good. Chris Klein & Neal McDonough are terribly miscast. Chun-Li is just ok and doesn't really have any chemistry with anyone. Everyone is honestly ok outside of the miscasting's but the miscasting's drag down the performances to subpar. The cinematography is ok and the fight scenes are generic and forgettable. So is the musical score as well. The editing and pacing are not good in this. This movie can't decide if it wants to be a Police thriller or Kung-Fu movie and really never makes the two work together. While there definitely is more focused a plot here than in 94' it still loses focus sometimes and it drags and never really keeps tension. I can definitely understand why hardcore Street Fighter fans hate this. But anyone else its just a subpar Action Movie. Skip This. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review odinus o Una total c8g8d8...no pensé q iban a hacer algo peor que la version de Van Dame y se esmeraron en hacerlo Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Kristin Kreuk as Chun-Li in "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li." Neal McDonough as Bison in "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li." (L-R) Robin Shou as Gen and Kristin Kreuk as Chun-Li in "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li." Director Andrzej Bartkowiak and Kristin Kreuk on the set of "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li." Chris Klein as Charlie Nash in "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li." (Left) Kristin Kreuk as Chun-Li in "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li." A scene from the film "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li." Kristin Kreuk as Chun-Li in "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li." Josie Ho as Cantana in "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li." Michael Clarke Duncan as Balrog in "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li." View more photos

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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 Full Review 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 Full Review Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle The Legend of Chun-Li is as vapid and dull as it is. Rated: 0/4 Mar 5, 2009 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Scott Beggs Film School Rejects Can I please stop thinking about this movie now? Apr 16, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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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
      Executive Producer
      Haruhiro Tsujimoto, Keiji Inafune, Toshihiro Tokumaru
      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
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