Product Description

Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 06/30/2009 Run time: 172 minutes Rating: Pg13

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22014 in DVD
• Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
• Released on: 2009-06-30
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 3
• Running time: 96 minutes

Features

• Brace yourself for the hard-hitting action and high-flying excitement of Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. including an all new unrated cut! Based on the wildly popular Street Fighter video game series, this powerful martial arts adventure explores the origins of the Street Fighter universe through Chun-Li (Kristen Kreuk), who avenges her father s death at the hands of Bison (Neil McDonough)

Amazon.com
The origin story of the characters from Capcom’s popular Street Fighter video game is detailed in The Legend of Chun-Li, a live-action martial arts thriller from Doom helmer Andrzej Bartkowiak. Smallville’s Kristin Kreuk gives a spirited turn in the title role, a concert pianist turned global crime fighter who cracks her share of heads while in pursuit of the mobsters who have kidnapped her father. Neal McDonough and Michael Clarke Duncan glower effectively as Bison, the nefarious mastermind behind the abduction, and his henchman, Balrog, respectively. The film’s offbeat cast, which includes Chris Klein and Moon Bloodgood as detectives, Black Eyed Peas singer Taboo as the claw-wielding Vega, and Hong Kong stars Pei-pei Cheng, Josie Ho and Edmund Chen in supporting roles, is the most inspired element of the film, which relies too often on well-worn action and kung fu movie clichés to fill out moments between fight sequences; the film’s target audience--fans of the game--may find this less engaging than younger, less discerning moviegoers with a yen for any flavor of punch-up. --Paul Gaita

Stills from Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li (Click for larger image)

Customer Reviews

Some good, a lot of bad. Chris Klein is terrible
I wish people wouldn't write this movie off completely because it is worth watching...at least once. What you heard about Chris Klein is true. He gives the worst performance of the decade. And I'm not kidding. One reviewer said he couldn't even walk convincingly and they weren't exaggerating. It wasn't that the script was bad. The guy was hamming it up even when he wasn't speaking at all. There wasn't a second in this film where he showed any acting skills.

Take Chris Klein out of the film, and Moon Bloodgood for that matter, and the movie is actually pretty good. Kristin Kreuk does a great job as Chun Li. Her action scenes look good and her acting skills are pretty good as well. This could have been a great movie for her and launched her movie career if only everybody else around her wasn't doing such a poor job.

There's one scene (and character) that should have been taken out of the movie completely. It's where Chun Li goes to a nightclub to hunt down one of Bison's goons who just turns out to be a lesbian. In order for Chun Li to get the lesbian alone, she seduces her on the dance floor. The scene is painful to watch and adds nothing to the story.

There is some poor acting by pretty much all the other actors in this movie but Klein is BY FAR the worse. The action is, at times, very good. The storyline could have been better. The only thing to watch for is Kristin Kreuk. If there was an option on the DVD to take out Chris Klein's scenes, the movie would be far more enjoyable.

Chick-Fu Action BD Reference Quality
A film people love to hate. Game films have no friends. Previous fans are let down and film buffs are insulted. And the cool guys want the real thing; but this worth a look. As a bottom feeder I'm impressed! The picture and sound are the best I've seen in a year. And the DTS Loseless is the most powerful I've ever heard. Go ahead and think you're better than this film. I'll enjoy it for myself.
The film is attractive, cheesy wire-fu fun and great location photography. I was entertained like I was with Heroic Trio even though it's processed. Full disc, Anime film included.

Could anything less happen in this movie???
Alright, so let me offer a disclaimer. I didn't go into "SF:TLOCL" with high hopes. The reviews had already come in as horribly bad (5% on RottenTomatoes and dropping). So, I wanted to be entertained, much like I was when I went to see "In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Seige Tale" or "Babylon A.D."

My main complaint with this movie is that nothing really happened in it. I was extremely bored for an hour and a half. The director took one of the stories from the original "Street Fighter" movie (Chun-Li wants to get revenge for what M. Bison did to her family) tried to make a serious movie, only based on that one story. There just isn't a lot there. So, to pass the time, we see Chun-Li mourning her mom's death, a woman who had a total of two lines in the whole movie! Also, we have Chun-Li crying as she leaves her house to go to Bangkok, saying goodbye to each of her house servants, who are also people that we care nothing about. Then we see Chun-Li living in Bangkok, walking around, looking around, sleeping. I mean, what the hell? You might think I'm exaggerating, but trust me...nothing happens. The fights are short, poorly choreographed, and few and far between. The movies should have been called "Street Cryer" or "Street Walker" or "Chun-Li tries being Homeless." The fighting takes a back seat to the artificial drama that the film is trying to create. There's also a supernatural aspect to the film which is poorly developed and felt like it was tacked on. I will say this, though, that Kristin Kreuk does the best acting job by far in the movie, which is a much better performance than the movie deserved.

Some final comments should be made about Chris "American Pie" Klein's performance as Charlie Nash. In a word, it's legendary. I mean, his delivery goes beyond over-acting. He must have thought that he was in the previous Street Fighter movie with how campy his performance was. And as my friend noted, why do they have an American portraying an Interpol agent, and one that seems to take on a southern accent at times! I yearned for more scenes with Mr. Klein, if only to break up the boredom. If you like watching awesomely bad acting, then you owe it to yourself to see his portrayal.