Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

Plot

When a teenager, Chun-Li witnesses the kidnapping of her father by wealthy crime lord M. Bison. When she grows up, she goes into a quest for vengeance and becomes the famous crime-fighter of the Street Fighter universe.

Release Year: 2009

Rating: 3.7/10 (13,325 voted)

Critic's Score: 17/100

Director:
Andrzej Bartkowiak

Stars: Kristin Kreuk, Neal McDonough, Michael Clarke Duncan

Storyline
Chun-Li lives a calm life with her father, when one day, the local mobster Bison kidnaps her father. After her mother's death, she embarks into a quest to rescue her kidnapped father from the clutches of powerful criminal lord Bison.

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

(as Pei pei Cheng)

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

Taglines:
Some fight for power. Some fight for us.

Details

Official Website:
Official Movie Blog |
Official site |

Release Date: 27 February 2009

Filming Locations: Bangkok, Thailand

Box Office Details

Budget: $50,000,000

(estimated)

Opening Weekend: $4,721,110
(USA)
(1 March 2009)
(1136 Screens)

Gross: $8,742,261
(USA)
(10 May 2009)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Did You Know?

Trivia:

Robin Shou, who plays Gen, is the only actor in the cast who has previously featured in other movies based on a video game: he played Liu Kang in
Mortal Kombat and its sequel
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, as well as having a cameo role in
DOA: Dead or Alive.

Goofs:

Continuity:
After Charlie spots the bomb, everybody evacuates the building. Charlie is in the doorway just as the bomb blows. Yet in a bigger shot of the explosion when the good guys are getting knocked down by the blast, no one is in the doorway. In the next shot Charlie is shown being blasted out of the doorway.

Quotes:

Charlie Nash:
[In a rather unusual voice, calling out to local police]
Charlie Nash! Interpol!

User Review

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

Rating: 1/10

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.