Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

K.O.! This movie loses! Imperfect!

Genre:	Martial Arts Action Adventure
Directed By:	Andrzej Bartkowiak
Produced By:	Patrick Aiello Ashok Amritraj
Written By:	Justin Marks
Starring:	Kristin Kreuk Chris Klein Neal McDonough Robin Shou Moon Bloodgood Josie Ho Taboo Michael Clarke Duncan
Cinematography:	Geoff Boyle
Distributed By:	20th Century Fox
Release Date:	February 27, 2009
Runtime:	96 Minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	English
Budget:	$18 million
Box Office:	$12.8 million

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li is a 2009 American martial arts action adventure film based on the video game series Street Fighter. It was directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak (who had previously directed the 2005 live-action film adaptation of Doom), and stars Kristin Kreuk, Chris Klein, Neal McDonough, Robin Shou, Moon Bloodgood, Michael Clarke Duncan and Taboo.

Plot

Chun-Li embarks on a quest to rescue her father from M. Bison.

Why It Sucks

Chun-Li is an American pianist instead of a Chinese schoolgirl who becomes an Interpol agent.
The actors are horribly miscast in their roles, save for Robin Shou as Gen and Michael Clarke Duncan as Balrog.
Takes itself way too seriously. Even the 1994 Street Fighter film and its follow-up animated series, while not perfect, were at least fun in a cheesy sort of way.
Neal McDonough looks absolutely nothing like M. Bison does in the games. In fact, he looks more like Geese Howard from the Fatal Fury series.
- The same can also be said for Chris Klein as Charlie Nash.
Terrible special effects, especially for the energy blasts.
The fight scenes are awful.

The Only Redeeming Quality

Michael Clarke Duncan hams it up as Balrog.

Trivia

Maya is based on Crimson Viper from Street Fighter IV.
According to an online interview with MTV, Jean-Claude Van Damme was offered the chance of reprising his role as Guile from the 1994 film, but turned it down due to the difficulties of his own productions.