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

★ 4.3 1h 37m 485 votes IMDb
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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.

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

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Cast

Kristin Kreuk
Kristin Kreuk as Chun-Li Age 43 · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Kristin Kreuk (born 30 December 1982) is a Canadian actress known for role on Smallville. She was also a regular cast member of Edgemont, and has starred in movies such as Eurotrip and Street Fighter...
Chris Klein
Chris Klein as Charlie Nash Age 47 · Hinsdale, Illinois, USA Frederick Christopher "Chris" Klein (born March 14, 1979) is an American movie actor. He is perhaps best known for playing Chris "Oz" Ostreicher in the 1999 film American Pie and its sequel American P...
Neal McDonough
Neal McDonough as Bison Age 60 · Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA Neal McDonough was trained at the London Academy of Dramatic Arts and Sciences. His theatre credits include 'Cheap Talk', 'Foreigner', 'As You Like It', 'Rivals', 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', 'Bald So...
Michael Clarke Duncan
Michael Clarke Duncan as Balrog Died 2012 · Chicago, Illinois, USA Michael Clarke Duncan (December 12, 1957 - September 3, 2012) was an American film and television actor, best known for his breakout role as John Coffey in the feature film The Green Mile, which nette...
Moon Bloodgood
Moon Bloodgood as Det. Maya Sunee Age 50 · Anaheim, California, USA Moon Bloodgood (born September 20, 1975) is an American actress and model. She starred as "Lt. Blair Williams" in the film Terminator Salvation alongside Christian Bale and Sam Worthington.
Robin Shou
Robin Shou as Gen Age 65 · Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China] Shou Wan Por  (born July 17, 1960), known professionally as Robin Shou, is a Hong Kong martial artist and actor. Frequently appearing in numerous martial arts films, Shou was most successful for playi...

Audience Reviews

Dan_Tebasco 6/10 Jan 10, 2018
**_I'd rather watch this than any of the Iron Man films__**

No, it's not amazing and no the story is not an emotional journey that makes you both laugh and cry... but.

It's a video-game adaption, and you really can't go in to them thinking they are gonna blow your socks off because really, most of them aren't that great.

The 1994 Jean Claude Van Damme adaption was genuinely awful and that was pretty true to the (no) plot of the video-game so of course they had to do something different here, which I am glad they did, not just fighting all the time but an actual story.

Now of course the story does have a bunch of plot holes (but honestly what video-game adaption that doesn't?) and Chris Klein's acting in particular is pretty dodgy, he plays a tough guy cop which he tried to do again in CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE (2012) but he fails every time.

I like him fine usually but yeah he's not at all believable as a 'bad ass'.

Better is Kristin Kreuk in the lead and Michael Clarke Duncan and Neal McDonough are pretty cool as the bad guys.

And most of the fight-scenes are pretty well orchestrated (except perhaps the dance-club scene) and the cinematography is good and keeps at a good pace plus a pretty good soundtrack as well.

All in all, not a 'great film' but perfectly watchable if you leave your thinking cap on the shelves and just take it for what it is, if you enjoyed ELEKTRA (2005) you should be able to enjoy this... If you didn't (which granted many didn't) then tread carefully I suppose.
The Movie Mob 4/10 Jan 16, 2023
**It's impressive how this terrible movie makes the outrageous cheese of the 1994 Van Damme film look like a masterpiece.**

Two stars might be generous for this one, but I had a fun theater experience laughing with my friends at how unabashedly awful this movie was. Movies like this are why video game adaptations have such a bad reputation. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li tried to make a gritty, more realistic version of the games while simultaneously using every cheesy cliche they could imagine. I can go down the list from there on how bad the acting, stunts, fighting, and costumes were. This movie felt like a bad straight-to-TV movie directed by the B-team at the CW. The crazy thing is that Capcom was heavily involved in this film and still let this disaster see the light of day. Hopefully, it's been long enough for a Street Fighter reboot to make its way to the silver screen once again.

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