2009 Directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak
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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Legendarily bad.
Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun Li is a flat and forgettable movie adaptation of a beloved video game character. The only possible explanation why almost everything is so insipid is director Andrzej Bartkowiak being a non-fan of Capcom’s game. From the first draft-ish story, non-cohesive storytelling, irrelevant plot points and messy cinematography, The Legend of Chun-Li is overall uninspired.
Given, Neal McDonough, Michael Clark Duncan, Kristen Kreuk gave performances ranging from ok to nice while Moon Bloodgood was obviously just hired as the film’s seductress but it was Chris Klein’s slick and agile portrayal of a suave police that steals the spotlight. The fight choreography isn’t wooden too.
Still, The Legend of Chun-Li is an upsetting, putrid adaptation we can basically label epic fail.
This movie is a shitstorm, but Chris Klein is amazing. His performance walks through the raindrops as he sneers, leers, and just overall mega-acts his way through the movie.
My girl Chun-Li's sultry seduction face looks like if you gave her the wrong prescription of contact lenses.
This is laughably bad. Bad writing, bad fight choreography, bad everything. BUT.
My personal highlight was when a woman stalked our protagonist into a bathroom to fight--and both clearly knew it was coming--neither of them took off their heels.
Listen, I don't know how y'all even manage to walk in those things in the first place, and while the brawl was bad (though better than most of the fights), can we give some credit to the actresses for pulling it off? These women must have ankles of adamantium.
Chun-Li then makes a daring escape--one involving jumping from rooftops--again never removing her heels. I really admire the commitment to the bit.
Kline has aging-action-star hair in this, and it's incredible.
Me: Feels like I’ve been watching for two hours, how much have I watched?
Looks at time code: 37 minutes!!!
Much like X-Men, Street Fighter tried to do a slate of origin films and failed mightily. It still features some classic characters but the film has no idea what to do with them. I pray that one day someone is able to do this property justice on film because it still remains my favorite fighting video game franchise.
TIGER UPPERCUT!
If I had a nickel, for every time Fox released an abysmal live-action adaptation of a beloved Japanese property in 2009 that bombed, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
Less Street Fighter, more generic Hollywood bullshit, with Kreuk being horribly miscast as the titular role, Klein being an over-the-top embarrassment, and Bloodgood being flat as ever. Only Duncan, Shou, and McDonough put in any kind of effort.
The fight scenes are nothing to write home about, and to add to the generic statement, very much applies to the awful script. People that may not care about Sonic or The Super Mario Bros. Movie, just a swift reminder that we HAD it really bad in regards to video game adaptations for years!
Oh man, hätte ich doch vorher auf LB nachgeschaut bevor ich diesen wirklich schlechten Film konsumiert habe.
Da habe ich mich wohl von der guten Besetzung (Michael Clark Duncan, Neal McDonough & Chris Klein) sowie meinem alten Teenager-Faible für STREET FIGHTER verleiten lassen.
Leider hat der Film nichts mit der Spielreihe zu tun, außer das eben ein paar Charaktere des Spiels eingebaut werden.
Der größte Fail isr aber Kristin Kreuk und dafür kann sie nicht einmal viel, es ist nur bescheuert das Kind von 2 Chinesen mit einer 100% weisen Frau zu besetzen!
Auch die Kämpfe konnten hier nichts mehr retten, da sie allenfalls mittelmäßig sind und die Schauspieler kaum etwas selbst machen.
Alles in allem ein Film den man nicht braucht.
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Chris Klein innocent.
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li is a spectacularly awful adaptation of Capcom's beloved fighting game franchise, with poor acting, an idiotic script that butchers and makes a complete mockery of the source material, terribly edited and choreographed action scenes, horribly dodgy visuals and spcial effects, lifeless direction from Andrzej Bartkowiak, underdeveloped characters, and terrible dialogue.
