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Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Week 2: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. Tomatometer score is 6%Here is the second week of this particular challenge and we have a doozy this week. The original live action Street Fighter with Jean Claude Van Damme was a fun albeit silly movie that at least tried to make the characters seem like the video game. It was a poorly done action film with terrible fighting scenes but it was fun. This on the other hand makes that movie look like an Oscar contender for best picture. This is nothing like the video game in any way whatsoever. Sure it has a person who calls themselves M. Bison but he's not that guy. He doesn't resemble that guy. Raul Julia even though he was battling cancer at the time still nailed that character in many different aspects. The actors are stiff and wooden in the worst way possible. The dialogue is cringe inducing. A robot clearly wrote this movie. They plugged this plot into an action script o matic 5000 and out popped this monstrosity. While the previous week's movie was bland and flat, this movie was actively trying to ruin any positive memories of Street Fighter. Stick with the animated movie. That's the only good one. Let's forget this nonsense ever happened. I give this movie an F.

Let's take a moment to consider what a lousy actor Chris Klein is. Merely adequate in American Pie (in a role that demanded little more from him than to sing, play lacrosse and look pretty), the guy has gone on to further show that he has the talent and emotional range of a brick, with some truly lousy performances that make me wonder why he isn't currently waiting on tables. I thought it couldn't get much worse than Rollerball and Say It Isn't So, but in Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, Klein goes the extra mile, putting in a turn (as tough cop Nash) that is inexplicably bad in every way, each line delivered in a raspy macho manner whether it suits or not, and with a range of bizarre facial expressions that are hard not to find funny.To be fair, it must be said that it's not all Klein's fault that The Legend of Chun-Li is as terrible as it is—almost everyone in this clunker is dreadful, from Kristin Kreuk as the titular heroine, who never once convinces that she is capable of unleashing major whoop-ass, to Michael Clarke Duncan as musclebound henchman Balrog, who hams it up a treat, to Neal McDonough as head villain Bison, who gives Duncan a run for his money in the overacting stakes. Maybe something got lost in translation between the cast and Polish director Andrzej Bartkowiak, but then again, maybe it's just that everyone involved stinks.Admittedly, Bartkowiak handles some of the fight scenes well enough, but he also throws in quite a few real howlers as well, worst of all being Chun-Li's nightclub seduction of lesbian henchwoman Cantana (Josie Ho), who she lures to the ladies washroom for a smackdown, a majorly mishandled moment that makes one wonder how anyone could have considered it a good idea.

Honestly this movie goes down the same path as DragonBall Evolution while being a street fighter movie, it follows its own stupid story, M.Bison wasn't a leader of a drug ring or whatever they said he was and to be honest, i don't like the actor portraying Bison, also what the heck was wrong with Vega? everything was wrong with Vega.... and not to mention... NO RYU? yeah there is no Ryu, no Ken, heck there isn't even a Dan... Im not even going to mention the fact that Chun Li looks white, also where is Akuma, Blanka, or even any of the other Street Fighter characters? in conclusion, stop...just stop it and don't make another bad movie based off a video game... Im looking at you Hit-man:Agent 47

Made 15 years after Jean Claude Van Damme donned a blue beret to star in the first live-action adaptation of the popular Capcom video game, I wonder if it'll be another 15 before they try again after this second failure.A melting pot of recycled ideas, not many of which have been taken from the Street Fighter universe, this may as well have been called Chun-Li Begins. The Legend of Chun-Li takes cues from Christopher Nolan's hit Batman reboot and the similarly back-to-basics Superman series Smallville, with Kristin Kreuk (a half-Chinese Canadian) taking the lead as Chun-Li.Ming-Na played the role in the 1994 Streetfighter (directed by Steven E. de Souza) and this version sees her taking centre stage. But that isn't the only thing that distinguishes the two films. Gone are the primary colours and theatrics and instead we have a "real world" story with a handful of fantasy elements. Shadaloo is no longer a place but the name of a criminal organisation, pronounced Shadal-ow. M. Bison isn't the elaborately dressed cartoon dictator fans are familiar with, instead he's smartly dressed gangster with an Irish accent. As befits a martial arts movie, this is a revenge tale but there's a lot of other stuff going on too. Whole sub-plots that serve no purpose. The Legend of Chun-Li doesn't remind you of the Street Fighter game but it does remind you of a lot of other movies. Not only the aforementioned superhero adventures either. Every scene or plot point gives you a feeling of deja-vu. Director Andrzej Bartkowiak even rips off a memorable scene from one of his own movies (Romeo Must Die, 2000). Several moments (especially the ending) imitate Batman Begins but the results are similar to Catwoman (Pitof, 2004).Tipping its hat to video game predecessors by featuring Robin Shou, this is a curious failure, the whole thing feels more like a TV pilot or a B-movie than the major motion picture it's supposed to be.