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.

Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li was intended to be a reboot in place of a sequel. It was intended to be more faithful to the games unlike the previous movie, but derailed. The only connections to the game are that Balrog and Vega work for Bison, and that Bison is in charge of Shadaloo. But other than that, you can barely recognize these characters from the game as they do not sport their counterparts' costumes. In fact, we only see a small handful instead of a large ensemble of the characters from the game, leaving this movie flat and dull. I guess the writers could not accommodate them into the script without any real motivation. The worst part of this movie is Chun-Li's monologue, with a non-Asian (Oriental) actress playing her. A Chinese young girl grows up into a Latina woman and yet does not even don her counterpart's costume. (I think they took her video game counterpart's resemblance to a Caucasian too seriously.) This 'reboot' is a colossal letdown, and it hurts to watch every minute of it. If you remember Bison from the game, you will not recognize him in this reboot: he sports a business attire instead of a dictator general's attire from the game. Even the 1994 movie stays true, with the villain donning the suit throughout the flick. I have seen fight scenes in this reboot which are so unrealistic that it would be insulting to think that they would cause any real injury. Even on an algebraically larger budget (inflation not taken into consideration), this reboot fails largely on sticking to the game. However if inflation is taken into account, the 1994 movie is more expensive than the 2008 movie; thus no expenses were spared in the former. Street Fighter In 1994: Budget: $35 million Box office intake: >$99 millionIn 2014: rate of inflation = 8% Budget: $163,133,500 Box office intake: $461,434,757. 24Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li In 2008: Budget: $50 million Box office intake: >$12 millionIn 2014: Budget: $79,343,716 Box office intake: $19,042,491.88So where did they go wrong? How could they botch it up? The first movie was campy but more faithful to the game at the time, but this reboot was a dreadful hit-and-miss. I would not criticize the first movie, featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Raul Julia, any more than this crud, as watching it proves my point. I bet the first movie will be treated as a superior live-action adaptation of a video game to the second one (although Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie remains the overall best adaptation of the video game). I can see why Street Fighter is regarded as Citizen Kane compared with Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.

Hilariously bad video game movie that doesn't miss a single cliché. Petite, whispery-voiced Kristin Kreuk is the title character, a concert pianist who undergoes martial arts training to get revenge on her father's killer (Neal McDonough). This is the kind of movie that is just awful if you watch it alone but, if you watch it with friends, you can have a great time making fun of it. The direction is terrible, the script is moronic, the action lackluster, and the performances range from mediocre to pathetically bad. Chris Klein -- oh my god Chris Klein -- you have to see this turd just for his performance. It is the worst! I couldn't believe what I was watching. Was this guy for real or was he deliberately being bad because he hated the script? I mean, he's Chris Klein so nobody expects much from him to begin with but his performance here was one of the all-time stinkers. Every line delivery, every facial expression, every single scene he has is a lesson in bad acting.Street Fighter was pretty big in the '90s, which is when they made the last Street Fighter movie. Why in the world they thought Street Fighter was still popular enough to warrant a movie in 2009 is beyond me. I guess it was either this or Q-Bert. It's manure but it's worth seeing if you enjoy laughing at bad movies with your buddies.

Plot Summary: Kristen Kreuk lends tired clichés to a montage depicting her childhood relationship with her father. Suddenly Balrog (Michael Clarke Duncan) bursts through the kitchen window, catches a can of frozen OJ that has been kicked at him, laughs maniacally and starts a fight with Chun-Li's (Kreuk's) father. Kung-fu ensues, and Bison reveals that he moves so quickly gusts of wind herald his arrival. Bison and Balrog kidnap Chun-Li's father. Fast forward: wealthy Juliard grad and concert pianist Chun-Li decides that some old lady's translation of a vague ancient scroll she received in the mail is a convincing argument for her to abscond to Bangkok to live on the street while she searches for some guy named Gen. Eventually Gen becomes her master, we discover her father is still alive and the financial backbone of Bison's criminal organization, the most unlikely interpol agent you ever could cast (Klein) is bumping rap music while maintaining a healthy sexual interest in a Thai detective (Bloodgood) and doing no useful police work, Chun-Li lures a lesbian to a bathroom to beat information out of her, Vega appears briefly, and the diabolical plot of Bison to tear down the slums of Bangkok and develop townhouses is revealed. Two Hadouken-like energy blobs are fired off in total.Good: Kreuk surprisingly, hearing her say "these streets" in a wistful tone particularly satisfying in a bad>good way. Some decent kung-fu, hilariously awful four man gun-circle around Kreuk which she dispatches handily by break dancing, Klein being a total weirdo, Klein noticing the most obviously placed bomb/wireless-router with an L.E.D glued onto the front ever and jumping out of the buildings as it explodes. Lots of heartless death. Kreuk/Lesbian hench-woman share strange courting ritual that resembles bad dancing.Bad: It's all bad in some respect.Ugly: Use of screen-time, involvement of police, bad guy's endgame, casting in general (not Kreuk), lack of commitment to either realism or "powers" of street fighters: instead movie treads awkward middle ground, Bison's backstory, Vega's character, the Hadouken-like energy ball thingy, cops losing a tail due to imposed make-out/cover-up of surveillance by Klein, Bison manipulates well-connected businessmen and crime bosses like they are twelve and openly confronts police forces with armed security forces bearing the logo of his company. In short the plot.Strangely watchable if you can remain un-phased by all the terrible things that make this a terrible movie in order to appreciate kreuk kicking ass and Klein sucking it in their respective roles.