Movie Review - Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

[snipergirl21]

After watching this movie, I rewatched the original 'Street Fighter' with a new sense of appreciation. And I realised, it was fantastic compared to this boring, poorly-made waste of celluloid. Sigh......

[1989gamemaster]

What the heck is this movie have to do with Street Fighter? I feel like I'm watching CSI: Chinatown.

[blubablubahumbug]

why the fuck did Chun Li know the Hadou Ken in this movie?

[dadiddlydooda]

The camera angles look bad. REALLY bad.

[janebtjh]

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[INDLIS]

Better luck next time Chris.

[mrsalento78]

Vega is caucasian from Spain, he is european not an latin american man from mexico or southamerica as Taboo or Jay Tavare of the fist movie.

[1989gamemaster]

When I first look at that cover, I was like "That is not Chun-Li, she looks like a joke." Even Nostalgia Critic would say "Oh my god, this movie's gonna blow."

[INDLIS]

I remember Neal McDonough from Desperate Housewives.

[boredstudent]

that movie is a disgrace to capcom. Nash sounded like 4kids

[BigAngryNerd]

@boredstudent Yeah... when he was talking about Bison being a shadow or something... and looking at the camera... fuck that gave me the chills. In a bad way.

[boredstudent]

@BigAngryNerd Chris Klein can act but his portrayal as Nash was horrendous. he was about as good as Yamcha in Dragonball Evolution which was another shitload of fuck that came out in the same year. Neal McDonough looks nothing like Bison which leads me to think that he's playing another bad guy but noooooo. he played Bison. Raul Julia (God rest his soul) did a way better job as Bison than that Neal guy could ever hope to accomplish. the fireball in the end looked like After Effects.

[themoviereviewer1000]

I saw this movie at my grandma's house when I watched it I was laughing at the scene when chun Li's Dad throws a orange Juice at Balrog and balrog catches it and smiles lol. But the movie still sucked though, M. Bison was ridiculious Chun Li was cute but still not good, Vega was useless. BTW why the hell does Taboo have to have a Deep Voice plus Vega doesn't even talk in the games and what cracks me up when he gets cut across the face and starts yelling haha freakin idiot. The movie still sucks.

[INDLIS]

They should've made it back in 2008 because during that time, none of the movies had enough action intensity.

[INDLIS]

The 1994 movie was better than the Legend of Chun Li.

[INDLIS]

I'm so glad I never saw this movie at all.

[BigAngryNerd]

Yeah. But if I'm going to shell out $10.00 for a movie I want it to be released JUST that week. So Avatar is going to have to wait til DVD release unfortunately...

[jka12002redux]

At least in the first film ,they looked the way they supposed to look.

[chbedok]

u r a bit wrong there, the fights were pure crap. where is the chinese kung fu? where is the psycho power? where is the izuna drop or flying barcelona?

and dun get me started on the spinning bird kick. crap.

[BigAngryNerd]

Gotta push those aside... ignoring those the fight scenes were actually decent. But yes... you needed those moves. And them not being present in the movie only further helped this movie to suck.

[SWAGshow]

I really enjoyed your review, save for the excess of swearing; you don't need it, you're good enough without it.

[BigAngryNerd]

I swear when the mood strikes me. But from now on I'm going to censor my swears, but I do have reviews that dont utter a single profanity. Thanks for the compliment as well. Glad you enjoyed.

[DAIBIJINCATCHER50]

I am so proud to say I havent wasted precious hours of my life watching this crap! When I saw who was playing Chu-Li I knew this movie was gonna be garbage! Am I the only person who thinks that chick is oogly? Getting shitfaced would't be enough to numb the pain of what they've done to my beloved ChunLiI watched DragonballE and I gotta say compared to this flamming terd, DBE wasnt THAT bad. I mean c'mon! They killed off Balrog! I plan to go the rest of my natural life w/o seeing this abomination

[BigAngryNerd]

It was RIGHT AFTER SFIV... And I bit the hook like a fish, not to mention the thought of someone actually fucking up as bad as the first SF movie was... Impossible to conceive. And I have still yet to see DBE... Though... I don't know if I'm ready.

[DAIBIJINCATCHER50]

I don't blame you. I love Chun-Li. I really wanted to see it...The only character I ever loved in the whole cannon of SF. But those moron movie makers said "hey, we're gonna piss off alot of Chun-Li fan boys, whaddaya think Capcom?"

(Capcom with dollar signs in thier eyes)

"Sure! We just made a killer SF game-do what you want w/ the movie and one of the most iconic heroines of all time"

[DAIBIJINCATCHER50]

I've been a GIANT DB fan-long B4 the days of Toonami. Ya know, back when you had to wait a whole week to watch the next episode. DBE wasn't that bad. Sure they F'ed up alot of things, but at the end of the movie-I didn't feel like I had been ripped off. You should rent it out Red Box for $1 and review it...at least they can fix the sequel. How can you fix SF when they killed off M.Bison and Balrog?!!

[wondiefive]

To me, Vega's mask was way too big & goofy. It was actually reminiscent of the Predator. He wasn't so into being angry about any scars to his face like I thought he would be. I rented this movie cause I damn sure wasn't about to waste gas & money to catch the theatrical release. Funniest part in the movie had to be the lesbo dance off in the club.

[lorvichai]

Word. I agree with every words u say

[hitokiriyetz]

if not for kristin kreuk this film will be a total asshole..

[mamma42]

i mean look all the cast they look like shit! and even bison he look like a old man and who the hell pick that actor?

[dxrkonwo9]

pura mierda

[greatgmasta]

What!? Liu Kang is in this movie?

[BigAngryNerd]

Oh boy... I can see it. Shadows of the Colossus with a 20 Million Dollar budget and a poor ass script... I keep that name in mind for the future. Justin Marks...

[ChristianSoldier23]

yo ma man They about to do another Street fighter "Legend of Ryu", yo if its a different Director I'll give this movie a chance but if its the same director "FORGET IT"

[theoldgamer]

well this movie was horrible just like i know dragonball evolution will suck

[BigAngryNerd]

Oho... God... I know... I may get totally shit faced before I go an watch it.

[Dropkick32X]

If I rated this movie, I'd give it 0/5 cause it's so forgetable!

[BigAngryNerd]

Heh. I couldn't do that. 0/5 = Me actually dieing while watching the movie.

[Dropkick32X]

I gave it a 0/5 cause it doesn't exist for me, I don't remeber it, sorry if I couldn't even laugh at, Iike I said, it's forgetable

[ChristianSoldier23]

I feel your pain yo but hey man lets hope that the legend of ryu goes we'll, mattter of fact i think this will be a great movie

who you think should direct street fighter legend of ryu?, me i would say micheal bay, tony scott( the guy who direct man on fire) or the guy that directed 300. wha u think

[533]

my opinion is why kristin kreuk is become chunli. she dont know martials shes not look like chinese i think zhan ziyi must be as chunli character . zhan ziyi can fight can act and she knows martial arts

[dmrc2001]

i think before they would of thrown the script out they should have just thrown the casting director out. Who's going to play sagat in the next, danny davito. I can't wait. Van Dam will come back and play the role of E. Honda. Great casting. This movie is shit.

[BigAngryNerd]

15 more years, then we will see.

[ChristianSoldier23]

Like Said Before I'd rather have Micheal Bay Direct the film Or Tony Scott r the director from 3000 do Street Fighter Will be good wha u guys think of that yall?

[BigAngryNerd]

Hm. 3000... 10X better than 300! J/K. Hmm... Maybe Zack Snyder from 300. But given how Watchmen was, I wonder if he could keep his focus.

[ChristianSoldier23]

right i agree, but about Micheal Bay and Tony Scott

if you don't know who tony scott is he is the guy that directed the movie called "Man On Fire" wha u think

[BigAngryNerd]

Never seen it, though I'm familiar with the name.

[kokirihin]

4/10 thats generous

[BigAngryNerd]

Well, in my ratings (especially games) it's rare for me to give out a 1-2 or 9-10. I feel people are too quick to either praise something as the single greatest thing to ever exist, or the worse thing to ever exist. And I didn't feel that way with TLOCL. It was still fucking horrible, but it could have been much worse.

[112d12d]

hahha yeah the scene that the building exploded was fuckign trash sooo ugly and old schoolish when you see that you know what i mean

[112d12d]

hahhaa your so right this movie was completly garbage just ohh my god i dont even want to start i mean 1 vega was beaten so so easy 2 bison dont even acts or looks like bison 3 why did they play hip hop ace hood shit in the scene in the night club

[252Dazz252]

Maya, Nash's partner in the film, i think is meant to be C.Viper (Crimson Viper) in the anime that came with Street Fighter IV C.viper is also known as Maya. Plus in the Legend of Chun LI, Maya in 1 scene has her hair like C.viper.

Nice review, i agree.

[120world]

is it me or am I the only one who thought M bison Looked NOTHING like he does in Any of the games or Animated movies!! That pissed me off from the door!!

[dumbestname]

R.I.P. Raul Julia

[jrflashkidd]

the people that made 300 should make the next street fighter movie then it would be great. Doesnt Dr. Manhattan look like seth lol. im gonna watch watchmen and pretend its streetfighter.

[Spearl007]

chris klien is a terrible actor and a fag

[BigAngryNerd]

Na... Did you ever see "Say It Isn't So"? That was a pretty good and funny movie. Even if it made Oregonians look like inbred hicks. I just watched "My Name Is Bruce" too. And it was just as bad to Oregonians. Then Coraline, which made them insane.

Why does the rest of America think Oregon is inbred central? Oh well. It's funny in it's own way. But yeah. Chris blew ass in this movie.

[RODNEY383]

and the funny thing is that in both live action movies they pronounce it wrong and even GEN in the new movie said rayu and this dude is asian.he should know better. its ryu not rayu

[sharpsh00ter24]

Annoyances...my son's second name is Ryu and I have to correct quite a few people.

[kryptondragon1973]

why capcom, why you gave the rights to hollywood to make this?why?

[BigAngryNerd]

FOR MONEY!!! WAHAHAHA!

[kryptondragon1973]

agreed,damn you capcom,thanks for street fighter 4 anyway,ha ha.

[shinRyu123]

Raul Julia was soooo bad ass in that movie! He should have won some awards for that role!

[BigAngryNerd]

Agreed. If Raul Julia was still alive, Antonio would be #2. While women find him sexy, they found Raul as suave and charismatic. If I had a choice, I would rather be charming than sexy. And we can't forget Raul as Adam Gomez. Awesome in The Adams Family too.

[mememe2323]

Raul Julia was bad ass... but not as M. Bison.

Both movies fucking blow ass and there is nothing good about either of them.

[Yadamean410]

Your a ass if u think friday the 13th sucked

[BigAngryNerd]

I thought it was better than this. Sorry. But I didn't like Friday the 13th and I think it's another lame ass remake of something that shouldn't be remade.

[XTooSee]

Balrog - "GIVE ME THE RPG"

Dude - " OUR SOLDIER IS IN THERE"

Balrog - "Ill do it myself"

[BigAngryNerd]

At least he didn't kick someone. Thank god he didn't kick. If Balrog kicked I would have gone on a killing spree in the theater.

[shengboog]

a message to all hollywood shitty writers and producers...NEVER EVER DO A STREETFIGHTER MOVIE WITHOUT RYU AS THE MAIN CHARACTER! PLAY THE GAME AND TAKE A NOTE FROM THE ANIMATION MOVIES! LEARN SOMETHING YOU DUMB HOLLYWOOD DOUCHBAGS! NO WONDER U WERE ALL OUT OF A JOB! CUZ U BITCHES RUIN A GREAT GAME FRANCHISE AND DONT KNOW HOW TO WRITE. YALL DONT DESERVE MONEY! I COULD WRITE A BETTER SCRIPT!

[h1tm0nl33]

looks like im still waiting for mk devistation

[BigAngryNerd]

Ok. 1,000+ views. That's a new record for one of my movie reviews. But I guess SF:TLOCL is a curiosity and everyone is checking it.

[studi0205]

I knew this movie would suck. I never wasted my time. Tekken better be way better than this, or I'll be just as pissed off as big angry nerd. That's my game. Over-all my favorite game-movie (mostly all sucked even resident evil) is death race. I just pretended it was twisted metal, without sweet tooth. That's as best as we can get. Hopefully all sucky game-movie director might get it right.

[studi0205]

This commentator sounds like a pissed off Kip from Napolean Dynamite

[BigAngryNerd]

That's a new one. But it's pretty hard to tell exactly how I sound because I tend to have the mic too close or too far from me when I narrate over the video. Hopefully I can afford a better mic soon.

[kaneoheGrown]

Klein and Moongood were horrible. Kristin Kreuk and the guy who played her dad were ok.

[shadow759]

the guy who did gen was Super bad.. and his story was all wrong from both games and comics.

[BigAngryNerd]

Hm. I don't think Robin Shou was THAT bad. But I agree that Gen was pretty far off from being on character.

[arsenal4evr1988]

i didnt think it was tht bad i mean comon they aint gonna have everyone character init again. plus its called the legend of chun li so its not gonna be about ken or ryu lol also it set before she even meets them and the rest of the sreet fighter cast, i think if they do make the legend of ryu movie it will be good if they follow the lines of bloodsport

[OrochiShiki]

I just wanted to point this out, by the way. For those of you who are fans of the SF: VI that just came out, while this is probably just speculation at best....does anyone else find it interesting that C.Viper's real name is Maya....?

...You go on and look back into that imagery of Maya and Nash making out. Don't worry, I'll wait...

.....Hahahaha.

[BigAngryNerd]

It sure as hell didn't hit me when I made the review. But I do find it interesting. Moon could play C. Viper with a few changes. But I don't think this Maya is the Maya in SFIV.

[OrochiShiki]

Changes? What changes? Hahah, no, no, but seriously on what you're saying though?

I absolutely agree for sure, for sure. If you are to look at Wikipedia, though...the link to the character takes you directly to C.Viper's profile. I believe this was just speculation that started out on the forums somewhere, but I won't accept a thing until capcom or some other comes out and admits that the character *is* indeed who they used. If they've already said that it's an "original" character, then....

[oldskooheadbanger]

they should make a movie for Dan next lol

[Neyo1783]

wow 60 million to make this movie

and it only made 4.6 million

[BigAngryNerd]

Owch. They have a looooong way to go. But who knows. The apologetically bad movie could be something everyone has to see.

[lahserCharch]

this movie didn't even have Ryu! that's like making an F-zero movie without captian falcon..

[BigAngryNerd]

Yeah... at least in Street Fighter the movie they had every character. Even if they didn't have the space in story, they made it. Like T. Hawk.

[ChristianSoldier23]

yo I rater Have Micheal Bay Direct Stree Fighter and believe he'll make the movie good wha u guys think of that?

[DoozyJr]

Yeah, he might make it full of special effects and badass fighting scenes. honestly, the street fighter should be all about over the top action and less storyline

[ChristianSoldier23]

but the thing is its to make street fighter movies with every single characters because their not a group, their have individual ways that will be better

the eason why x-men was good because its a group super hero

[dano13cx]

I tried to understand what you were trying to say here, but I couldn't. Try again.

[ChristianSoldier23]

i'm sorry what i'm trying to say is its better to make a street fighter single character so they can have their story, but the first street fighter they made asn't good at all because it was too much characters, they made the chracters like its the name of the group, take X-Men for example X-men was a great movie because its a group super hero movie, but street fighter is not a group character, because every character has their own individual purpose, and Thats I think ts better to me wha u thik

[ChristianSoldier23]

i guess your right

[ChristianSoldier23]

but hey I think it would be a nice story line if they make Street Fighter Legend Of Guile cause he'll have a good story line getting revenge to fight bison wha u think..

but right now their working on Legend of Ryu

[BigAngryNerd]

Yeah, Guile would make for another interesting character. Chun-Li could have worked, but nobody is going to try and redeem that.

[lahserCharch]

nah, there would be an explosion everytime someone punched someone.

[NarutocapriRequest]

lol are you going to do a dragonball evaluation review ?

[BigAngryNerd]

Sure am.

[DEATHSPACE2]

i agree about the action.its like you have a pet snake. you dotn feed it gets pissed. it gets out of its cage and kills you.

[DEATHSPACE2]

but honestly you should review the city of heroes mmorpg. its a decent game.

[BigAngryNerd]

My PC is pretty crappy. But if I were to ever get a good modern PC and COH came out with a new expansion, I would probably play and review it. It's like MGS4 and MGO. Old, but with the SCENE expansion around the corner I may review it and MGO in general.

[DEATHSPACE2]

ah yeah.i hope they make a new expansion for it. they got issue 14 coming out and you can make your own missions

[rydendm]

4 out of 10. that's pretty generous score. lol.

[BigAngryNerd]

People are too quick to give out amazingly high rating and amazingly low ratings. Probably because nobody takes them seriously or they're serious enough where it doesn't matter. If I give any movie less than a 7, it's a bad film. 5 usually makes you feel like you wasted your time, and 4 makes you want to leave and get your money back usually. 3 and lower..? God. Anything bellow a 2 should never exist outside of Direct to Video.

[BigAngryNerd]

Dont think 4 out of 10 is a generous review. It's bad. But I have pretty high standards with my reviews.

[ChristianSoldier23]

yo lets hope the Legend of Ryu Goes We'll though man

I agree with you

but the only characters was great is M. Bison

[BigAngryNerd]

If I had a promise that "The Legend of Ryu" was going to be decent. I would hope for it too. But after seeing this movie..? No. Too risky IMO.

[shinra358]

Nobody was even at the theater to see it. And it didnt even come to local theaters. I had to travel further away just to see it. Mya looked more like C. Viper. Kristen was waaaaaaay too boney. And so was Robin Shou. What the heck happened to him. I think he been smokin' some herb cuz he was incredibly skinny. They modified Taboo's voice with a recording lol. Criss Klein really looked like charlie. All he needed was glasses and blonde hair. YOU FORGOT ABOUT ROSE bison's daughter in this movielol)

[BigAngryNerd]

Didn't want to spoil it. But I hinted to it in the Alpha mention.

[Xbuster231]

jurrasic park was better fucking t rex would own these mother fuckers

[spaceusagi]

The First Street fighter is great If you watch it from the right perspective. The clips you showed demonstrate that the movie didn't take itself seriously and was intentionally trying to be campy and fun.

[BigAngryNerd]

Yeah, and amazingly they have become priceless moments.

[coldfusion34]

The family guy fight Peter vs the chicken was better fighting then this. Chris wow omfg his acting was so bad and not at all believable it makes you funking LOL I was anyway. I only saw half of this movie a left and got my money back. I haven't done that since House of the dead movie.

[BigAngryNerd]

I rented Day of the Dead. And yeah. That was a truly god awful movie.

[rickylafountain]

Its a shame, i almost went and saw this today... and I saw the original Van Damme live action and couldn't keep a straight face through it. Guess she shoulda stuck with smallville...

[BigAngryNerd]

However well she did, staring in this movie is like staring in a porno. It get's you some money, but you regret it in the future.

[RODNEY383]

charlie is the only other that can do sonic boom and mya is c-vipers name on the street fighter 4 game but probably not the same person tho

[BigAngryNerd]

Hmm... I should of noticed that...

[thejokeriscool]

Everyone should take there money and go buy the Van Damme version you would enjoy it more. And is there any review on DBZ movie or should i not bother to ask and avoid that one too lol

[BigAngryNerd]

Boy... I dunno. This movie MAY have raised the bar for me when I watch the DBZ movie. It's not out yet, but I guarantee you, that it will be a movie I am going to review. The Van Damme version is now the best (Wow. We can actually call it good now.) Raul Julia plays the best Bison, and his play of Bison as a megalo maniac is priceless.

[BigAngryNerd]

Well. For me. A 10 out of 10 makes you orgasm while watching the movie. And a 1 out of 10 makes you die of go into a coma.

[legendaryhero90]

only character that bothered me was Bison...

no dictator costume or anything resembling it makes him feel like a different character.

[BigAngryNerd]

Yeah... I would have bitched about that. But I threw every standard out the window when I went to see the movie. I didn't expect any costume continuity at all.

[SmashkingX]

You could buy alternate costumes in Street Fighter IV for the price of a ticket for this, and it'd STILL be a better buy.

[BigAngryNerd]

By far.

[ElThemeParker]

4/10? For a movie described as being bad, but still having a few plus points to it, I'd say that's a good score. :D

[saiyaniam]

also, first 50 seconds were the best. Good editing man.

[BigAngryNerd]

I wanted a little more. But when it comes to movie reviews I have to sacrifice time for freshness. I just need to plan further ahead, there was quite alot of pre-planning I could of done for the review.

[halo2994]

This is actually a pretty good review, it felt like a really honest description of the movie.

[saiyaniam]

Glad I did not watch it.

[BigAngryNerd]

Your lucky. I waited, waited, waited, and waited for it to get better. But it kept getting worse.