Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009)

User Rating:

3.9/10   

Director:

Andrzej Bartkowiak

Writer:

Justin Marks (adaptation)

Release Date:

27 February 2009 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Tagline:

Some fight for power. Some fight for us.

Plot:

Based on the popular video game franchise, female fighter Chun Li embarks on a quest for justice. |

Plot Keywords:

Chun Li | Helicopter | Banana | Based On Video Game | Baseball Bat

Cast

Kristin Kreuk	...	Chun-Li
Chris Klein	...	Charlie Nash
Neal McDonough	...	Bison / Vega (Japan)
Robin Shou	...	Gen
Moon Bloodgood	...	Det. Maya Sunee
Josie Ho	...	Cantana
Taboo	...	Vega / Balrog (Japan)
Michael Clarke Duncan	...	Balrog / Bison (Japan)
Pei-pei Cheng	...	Zhilan
Edmund Chen	...	Xiang
Inez Yan	...	Chun-Li (5 yrs)
Elizaveta Kiryukhina	...	Rose
Emilze Junqueira	...	Jeanne Xiang
Katherine Pemberton	...	Chun-Li (10 yrs)
Siri Sirijane	...	Liu

Also Known As:

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (Japan: English title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sequences of violence and martial arts action, and some sensuality.

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

Canada | India | USA | Japan

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

USA:PG-13 (certificate #44978) | Philippines:PG-13 (MTRCB) | Singapore:PG | Portugal:M/12 | Netherlands:12 | Mexico:B15 | Argentina:13

Filming Locations:

Bangkok, Thailand

Company:

Hyde Park Entertainment

Trivia:

Rick Yune was originally cast as Gen, but he was replaced by Robin Shou, who played Liu Kang in Mortal Kombat (1995) and Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997).

Goofs:

Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the crowd is evicted from their slums a guard shoots in the air. Although a gunshot is heard, there is no flash from the gun to be seen.

Quotes:

Vega: [Chun-Li has cut Vega's face and has her foot pressed against his head] You think this is over?
Chun-Li: No. I'm just getting started.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The Rotten Tomatoes Show: Miss March/Race to Witch Mountain/Sunshine Cleaning (#1.3)" (2009)

I am a coffee mug filled with the Sanka of Hate! Full to the brim, baby!

This thing is not worth downloading.

This movie urinates all over the canon of the Street Fighter series of games. Makes no sense. Contains one massive idiot plot (that actually involves the director RIPPING OFF HIS OWN FILMS, Romeo Must Die! No one even comes close to looking like they should. And if your movie title contains the words "Street" and "Fighter" in them, it behooves you to have them... at some point... Fighting. Preferably, in a Street. Not running around dockside with machineguns like in a Lethal Weapon flick.

Kristen Kreuk managed to turn in the least sexy fighting heroine ever. She managed to make possibly the lamest all-girl dance scene ever committed to film. And I'm counting 1938's Sex Madness in the list. She manages to dance whiter than Jimmy Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life. I'd have appreciated someone falling into a pool at some point in this flick.

Raul Julia actually brought an enjoyable panache to the role of M. Bison. And he had black hair. And was a snappy dresser. And killed Chun Li's father on a Tuesday. OF COURSE!!

They managed to take a cool video game, and in the process of making the movie, extract every single thing that made it cool. Vega should not wear a shirt, Gen should be a deceptively frail old martial arts master, Cammy should be... somewhere in there.