Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009)

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.

Director:

Andrzej Bartkowiak

Writer:

Justin Marks (screenplay)

Stars:

Kristin Kreuk, Neal McDonough, Michael Clarke Duncan

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
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

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.

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Plot Keywords:

gangster | chun li | mobster | crime fighter | rescue | 

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Taglines:

Some fight for power. Some fight for us.

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for sequences of violence and martial arts action, and some sensuality

Details

Official Sites:

Official Movie Blog Official site

Country:

Canada India USA Japan

Language:

English Hindi Japanese

Release Date:

27 February 2009 (USA)

Also Known As:

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

Filming Locations:

Bangkok, Thailand

Box Office

Budget:

$18,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$4,721,110 (USA) (27 February 2009)

Gross:

$8,742,261 (USA) (8 May 2009)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Hyde Park Entertainment, Capcom Company, Adlabs Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

M. Bison's alternate name for Shadaloo was the Shadow Empire, like in the video games.

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Goofs

When Chun-Li is playing the piano at the recital, the hammers are not moving to strike the strings and create the sound of a piano playing.

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Quotes

Chun-Li: [fighting with Cantana] Tell me about the White Rose.
Cantana: You must be Daddy's little girl.
Chun-Li: [Chun-Li breaks Cantana's arm. They fight until Chun-Li has Cantana's other arm trapped, ready to break it] Tell me!
Cantana: It's a shipment. Arrives at the end of the month, the last Friday.
Chun-Li: Where?
Cantana: Central shipyards. Berth 21.
Chun-Li: [Cantana's bodyguards are about to break in] I want you to send Bison a message. Tell him the schoolgirl's grown up.

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Connections

Version of Street Fighter: The Movie (1995)

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Soundtracks

Concerto For Piano No. 1 In E Minor op. 11: Allegro Maestoso
Written by Frédéric Chopin
Arranged by Jim Long
Courtesy of Crucial Music Corporation

User Reviews

The god-awful, the bad, and the ugly

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.