NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

GazerRise Fantastic!

Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

gerumghl This made me laugh. This whole thing was useless. If you like long spanned stories with weird business stuff in it, this is for you. Nothing inspired from the games.

Seth_Rogue_One 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.

megoobee With the title "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li", you know in advance that this is not going to be an Oscar contender. However, regardless of Academy Award potential (in this case none), a movie needs a good story, good acting, decent effects, etc., nothing of which was present in this horrible feature. The story lacked cohesiveness and jumped around without direction. The actors' performances were extremely wooden; most of the time, they seemed to just shuffle from one scene to another. Cinematically, instead of having a big screen feel, the framing appeared more like the film was shot for TV. Fight scenes were badly staged and choreographed - in this day and age of special effects, actors don't need to know how to fight to look like they know how to fight.In summary, I cannot think of anything redeeming about this movie. If you really want to see a "Street Fighter" movie, watch the 1994 "Street Fighter" movie. That one is pretty bad as well but at least you'll have a few laughs while you suffer though it.

Richard Hawes 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.