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.

"Girl power!" should have been used as the name of the movie. However, to attract a bigger audience they have used the Street Fighter name and some (too few!) of its game characters, which so many fans payed a ticket to see portrayed 'in real life'. If it had any other name, it would be an average movie only worth watching when there is nothing better to do. As it is inspired in what is for me one of the best games ever (and this was the main reason why I chose to view it) it gives us Street Fighter fans a real sense of disappointment.3 out of 10.

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.

Here we have yet another movie that uses the Street Fighter name, yet has no idea who the individual characters are. Every one, with the exception of Barlog and Vega, were completely out of their " Street Fighter " character .This movie would have done much better if they dropped the Street Fighter name, and come up with something original.On it's own, it's an alright martial arts / revenge flick / action genre, nothing spectacular, but still an average B action movie ( better than most of Steven Seagal's movies ). The good points: Camera work was pretty good. Fight choreography was OK. Set design was good.The not so good points: The actors were trying, but their deliveries were awkward at times. There are a few plot holes that are never explained. The music at the club scene - WHY did they choose something that BAD? Decisions made by Chun-Li, no real life human would ever do. A lot of padding was used that slows the movie down to a snails pace. Overuse of wire " acrobatics " during combat ( along with pseudo Matrix sound effects thrown in ).If your in the mood for a generic action movie, and have nothing better to watch, this movie would be perfect for you.