Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li UNRATED
	Rating
	Type	Video On Demand
	Audience Rating	PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
	Release Date	2009-06-30
	Actor	Kristin Kreuk; Chris Klein; Neal McDonough; Robin Shou; Moon Bloodgood;
	Director	Andrzej Bartkowiak;
	Length	98 minutes
	Price	Item currently not available
Categories
Action & Adventure  Thrillers  Science Fiction & Fantasy  20th Century Fox  Special Deals
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Description
Brace yourself for extra hard-hitting action and high-flying excitement in this exclusive unrated cut of Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li! Based on the wildly popular Street Fighter video strategy series, this great martial arts adventure explores the origins of the Street Fighter universe throughout Chun-Li (Kristen Kreuk), who avenges her father's death at the hands of Bison (Neil McDonough) and his evil Shadaloo Empire. Now the stage is set, the challenge is clear, the legend will be forged...but who will prevail?
Customer Reviews
Good movie   2010-08-25
By Larry Kosis (Australia)
Good movie, well presented, no gaps and smooth easy to follow storyline. Acting and personality interactions were all believable (allowing for the fact that this is a movie). Could easily be shown to kids from 10 to 90 yrs of age.
Remember the Street Fighter movie with JCVD? Bad, right? Well this one is worse.   2010-08-10
By Jason (Backwater, Alabama)
A burgeoning concert pianist, Chun Li (Kristen Kreuk) adores her father, the man who taught her martial arts. When Bison (Neal McDonough) and some henchmen - Balrog (Michael Clarke Duncan) among them - abduct her father, and Chun Li's mother eventually dies, there is nearly nothing left for which to live. When she receives a mysterious Chinese scroll providing guidance, her path eventually leads towards a criminal element and the training of Gen (Robin Shou). Meanwhile, Interpol agent Charlie Nash (Chris Klein) descends upon Bangkok and meets up with a local detective name Maya (Moon Bloodgood) to investigate the recent mass murder of all the crime syndicate bosses. The only criminal mastermind left is Bison, who's been busy buying shore-front property in the slums, sending in his secretary Cantana to participate in the least seductive girl-on-girl dance scene in cinema history, and hiring a killer named Vega (Taboo from Black Eyed Peas) who gets it started, gets some boom, boom, pow, and takes a few lovely lady lumps from Chun Li's feet. Bison's biggest plan, however, involves the shipment of the mysterious White Rose. Let's get one thing straight: this movie is ridiculous. Aside from titular actress Kristen Kreuk's cuteness, and goods of Moon Bloodgood (which nearly fall out of her shirt in most scenes), the only real highlight of this film is the cinematography from Geoff Boyle. His gritty renditions of Bangkok almost made the storyline of a 105lb. girl with the face of a model who survives on the street believable. Almost. Nothing, unfortunately, could save the sub-moronic script. None of the actors really stand out from the crowd in a good way. Chris Klein, however, manages to brood so horribly in his "supposed to be edgy"-role that every line uttered is a punch-line; and every scowl evokes snickers. The only way it could have been worse would have been if his role was animated by Pixar. If the intent was to hire him as a distraction for the script written in crayon and the scatter-plot directing, then it only partially worked. Only the combined beauty of Kristin Kreuk and Moon Bloodgood stopped Hollywood from getting a restraining order against Chris Klein. And don't even get me started on the Neal McDonough as Bison miscast. RIP Raul Julia. The special effects are limited and well done - which I appreciate - but the remaining wire-fu is nearly intolerable. If I see one more scene of Kristin Kreuk running through a maze of machine gun fire without taking a hit. Shoulda been Moon Bloodgood. Shoulda been slo-mo. You're telling me John Woo couldn't have brought in his doves for this one scene? I know you won't believe this, but since I've logged literally hundreds of hours playing the original Street Fighter game, and I'm the undebateable master of Jean Claude Van Damme movies, I can honestly tell you that the JCVD movie adaptation was better than this one...and that should be enough to avoid this affront to film stock.
I was so bored & fell asleep   2010-07-02
By L. LeSueur
I watched this last night with my wife. The previous night I had gotten a full night's sleep, but that didn't matter. 20 minutes into this yawn-fest, I was nodding off. Even the sparse action scenes weren't enough to respark my interest. I've been playing SF games since I was a kid. Chun-Li is one of my favorite characters, and not just for obvious reasons. Her moves kick serious butt! I love her in the new SSF4 and she is awesome in 3rd Strike. I've played as her in every SF and versus game that has come out, and my image that I have of her is completely different from how she was portrayed in this movie. Don't get me wrong; I'm not hatin' on Kreuk- she is a fine actress and a very attractive woman- but she is NOT Chun-Li. And it's not just that she doesn't have Chun-Li's legs or hips nor is she even Chinese- her mannerisms and dialogue pretty much have nothing to do with the video game character. But even the movie as a stand-alone is nothing but boredom due to bad script writing and uninspired action sequences. And it's not that I had high expectations for this film either. I wasn't expecting a Street Fighter dramatic masterpiece. I have seen the Van Dam release and even the anime movie. They weren't great or even really that good, but they were at least fun to watch. I guess that's what I was hoping from this movie; and hour and a half of action-packed, mindless, dumb fun. Instead, I got 90 minutes of drifting in and out of catnaps and trying not to drool on myself. My wife at least was able to stay awake. She liked it a little more than I did. She says it was 'okay,' but she would never watch it again. She gives it 3/5 stars.
Absolutely love this movie   2010-06-26
By Christina Enness (Lansing, MI USA)
Street fighter the legend of chun li is based off as all the other street fighter movies on a video game or games. This movie is packed with action from chun li being a you girl learning the arts from her father and him being cruelly taken away from her when a daughter needs her father the most. Byson kidnaps her father to use his influence to take over other corporations for an evil purpose. in the end she conquers all after byson kills her father in front of her. as the movie ends there is room for another movie to be made
Chun Li is Caucasian, Rose is a teenager and Vega is a boyband boy!   2010-06-14
By Anja Rebekka Schultze (Norway)
I just finished watching this Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li with my hubby and I can not say that the movie was good. I sat down to see the movie with few expectations and while I was entertained for one and a half hour, so the movie was not all bad, I am not really impressed. The movie have a few really serious flaws. 1. Street Figther: The Legend of Chun Li is supposed to be a Martial Arts movie. I usually love Martial Arts films, however when you have a lead actress, and most of the bad guys who can not perform Martial Arts so all you have is creative movie editing and special effects to make it look like they can, then the whole point sort of vanishes. 2. Why is Chun Li Caucasian? I mean seriously there is allot of skilled Chinese actresses why not hire one of them. I had a hard time getting into the movie when the man character who is supposed to be Chinese is a Caucasian. It reminds me of old movies where Asian and Indian and so on characters always was played by white stars in make up as the movie companies did not think a non white person in a lead role would sell tickets to the movie. But seriously are we not past that time by now. 3. The lead actress is horrible. In Smallville Kristin Kreuk only need to smile and show off how pretty she is. She is superposed to be the homecoming queen, pretty teenager is about the whole of her character as Lana Lang. However when she now is supposed to play a character who is a little bit more Kreuk fall flat on her butt. Her lines sounds like they are read directly from a script. Even the scene where a major character dies have no emotional impact. Kreuk do not manage to carry this movie at all. 4. There are two police detectives in the film, and they really do nothing, it is just a little side plot which just feels added in there to make the movie a little longer. Why not bring in some more Street Fighter characters than to try to make this into a cop movie, which it is not. 5. There are to few Street Fighter characters in the movie. There is some nudges to the fans, like Chun Li having her hair in buns on the side of her head and wearing blue in one scene and that she at one point kicks Vega's mask of his face, little things like that and that give the movie a big plus in my book, however there is to little of it. When I watch a movie named Street Fighter I want to see character's and things that remind me of the games, there is to little of that here. All in all this movie is not horrible. The story is generic and cliché but it is ok. While some hate Bison in this movie I kind of like what they have done with the character, he might not have the look of the original Bison but he definitely get the personality right. Ballrog was spot on. The movie get two and a half stars from me, it is a slightly bellow average action movie. There are many and better movies of the same type out there. But if you are a Street Fighter fan and you can get the movie cheap then you might like it for all the little references to the games that you will find.