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Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
Overwhelming dislike
Based on 11 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 60 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Action | Adventure | Sci-fi | Suspense/Thriller
Written by: Justin Marks
Directed by: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Release Date:
Theatrical: February 27, 2009
DVD: June 30, 2009
Running Time: 96 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for sequences of violence and martial arts action, and some sensuality
Starring Kristin Kreuk, Michael Clarke Duncan, Neal McDonough, Taboo, Chris Klein, Moon Bloodgood, Edmund Chenei, and Cheng Pei Pei
Powerful forces are converging on the streets of Bangkok. They are warriors, some of whom possess extraordinary abilities, all of whom are determined to see their side prevail. Some fight for us; the others for unlimited power. Now, they are preparing for the ultimate battle - of terror versus beauty, light versus darkness, and good versus evil. (20th Century Fox)
Also On Metacritic
GAMES: Street Fighter IV
Also On The Web: Internet Movie Database Official Studio Site
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Variety Rob Nelson
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.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis
Reveling in the vivid Bangkok locations, Geoff Boyle’s photography is crisp and bright, and Dion Lam’s action choreography unusually witty.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck
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.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Felix Vasques Jr.
A wholly inept action experience that works at boring us to tears.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Michael Hardy
This is a movie for the overcaffeinated, undereducated teenager in all of us.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Jeremy Wheeler
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.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Jim Ridley
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.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Sam Adams
Even with the low expectations The Legend of Chun Li engenders, it still somehow manages to be a letdown.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Adam Markovitz
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.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
The problems with Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li began with the casting of dead-eyed, sleepy-voiced, charisma-impaired automaton Kristin Kreuk.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
It boggles the mind that The Legend of Chun-Li is as vapid and dull as it is.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 2.7 (out of 10) based on 60 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Zachrid W. gave it a1:
It works with lots of beer and if you want to "riff-trax" with your friends on it. Or in other words: I know Uwe Boll-movies that do a better performance than this piece of.
frag off gave it a0:
I am pretty sure Uwe Boll would have done it better. Even if we avoid the fact it has close to no relation to the spirit of street fighter, the movie is bad by holywood standard of 'no brainer action movies'.
Alexx P gave it a0:
Absolutely disgraceful. Street fighter fans will be absolutely dissapointed, like me, and will even destroy minds of people who are planning on getting street fighter (the game, not the crappy movie) and may convince them that street fighter is a crappy franchise, Capcom have made a failure to their company in signing up to this movie. Oh, and M.Bison, he SUCKS so bad! Street Fighter IV's release was almost perfect, avoid this film at your own safety, place a restraining order on it for christs' sake!
user user gave it a1:
Boring story line / Ms Kreuk can't speak chinese and cantonese properly considering the character was able to speak chinese fluently when still young / Bison equals lame /Charlie, who? / Balrog was decent looking in this movie/ Vega, one of my favourite characters in SF, also the reason I wanted to watch this movie, really flew out of the window.. with the mask bigger than the head and two minutes fame before squashed by Chun Li, I was out of words.. that's where I've stopped watching it.
Shawn P gave it a7:
I thought it was pretty good and people are being harsh.
Wolfgang S. gave it a0:
Easily one of the worst movies I've ever seen. How could anyone at Capcom let this happen? How could ANYONE in the entire team responsible for this let this happen? How could everyone throw away their dignity like this? Thanks to the overwhelmingly negative reviews I saved the money and downloaded this piece of crap. Even without being tricked into paying money for this, I couldn't stand watching it all the way. My god, even Uwe Boll does it better, and that says a lot about how bad Chun-Li is.
Jorge M. gave it a0:
Total rubbish.
