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Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009) -- Interpol agent Chun-Li (Kreuk) enters an underground fighting tournament, with her eyes set on M. Bison (McDonough), the contest's founder and leader of a crime syndicate who may have been responsible for the death of Chun-Li's father.
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009) -- Discover the production challenge of choreographing and executing a critical fight scene demonstrating Chun-Li's skills and determination.
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009) -- IGN gives The Legend of Chun-Li a serious beat-down.
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009) -- Action packed trailer for the movie based on the popular video game series
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Overview

User Rating:
3.9/10   8,084 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Justin Marks (screenplay)
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Release Date:
27 February 2009 (USA) more
Tagline:
Some fight for power. Some fight for us.
Plot:
Based on the popular video game franchise, female fighter Chun Li embarks on a quest for justice. | full synopsis
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The god-awful, the bad, and the ugly more (149 total)

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (Japan: English title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for sequences of violence and martial arts action, and some sensuality.
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96 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Rick Yune was originally cast as Gen, but he was replaced by Robin Shou, who played Liu Kang in Mortal Kombat (1995) and Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997). more
Goofs:
Factual errors: Bison is the child of Irish missionaries. The actors portraying him as a teenager and adult are appropriate, but when he is gravely ill in the orphanage, the camera zooms on an apparently Asian baby. more
Quotes:
Chun-Li: [to Vega] No wonder you wear a mask. more

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96 out of 136 people found the following comment useful.
The god-awful, the bad, and the ugly, 2 March 2009
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Author: kels-errific from Canada

So this movie has been on my radar for quite a while. I was smooth talked by Justin Mark's assurance that his treatment of the movie was respectful and to be prepared for a new era of gaming films. I was pumped and on board, and then... I saw the film. THE GOD-AWFUL The script from this movie was a joke. When Bison utters something about milk and expiry dates, I laughed. It was a nervous laugh, but it was laughter. This movie makes no sense to me at all. The pitch was it was a Chun Li story about looking beyond revenge. In the end, she gets her revenge and the moral is? Revenge is the answer. THE BAD The costumes in this movie can also suck it. I felt terrible for Kristin in the night club scene, wearing a ridiculous dress and using her feminine wiles ( primo top dollar dancing to the unaware) to lure Cantana, a lesbian associate of Bison, into a bathroom. The pacing of this movie was dreadful, and we are hand-held for every scene, if Chun Li is walking on the screen she will undoubtedly inform us "I was walking.." ... REALLY? Really. THE UGLY The truth is this movie insults movie goers, gamers, and people, in general. Am I supposed to feel for Chun Li, even though she had a privileged life, and a loving mother? How is she a victim of circumstance? Am I supposed to feel Vega's threatening persona through five minutes of him getting the crap kicked out of him? Am I supposed to believe Bison is all evil when he continues to nurture his daughter? I think this movie was seriously edited so terribly, whatever good there was to salvage was lost on the cutting room floor. Whoever edited this needs to be bird kicked in the throat. It just makes no sense to me how the editor could do his job, watch the movie and allow this to enter the theaters. The best parts of the movie involved subtitles, and a sunset. That is it. So there you go, street fighter 2? Most assuredly, not.

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