Product Details

• Actors: Kristin Kreuk, Chris Klein, Neal McDonough, Robin Shou, Moon Bloodgood
• Directors: Andrzej Bartkowiak
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
• DVD Release Date: June 30, 2009
• Run Time: 96 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (72 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00260HH30
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #43,100 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

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The origin story of the characters from Capcom’s popular Street Fighter video game is detailed in The Legend of Chun-Li, a live-action martial arts thriller from Doom helmer Andrzej Bartkowiak. Smallville’s Kristin Kreuk gives a spirited turn in the title role, a concert pianist turned global crime fighter who cracks her share of heads while in pursuit of the mobsters who have kidnapped her father. Neal McDonough and Michael Clarke Duncan glower effectively as Bison, the nefarious mastermind behind the abduction, and his henchman, Balrog, respectively. The film’s offbeat cast, which includes Chris Klein and Moon Bloodgood as detectives, Black Eyed Peas singer Taboo as the claw-wielding Vega, and Hong Kong stars Pei-pei Cheng, Josie Ho and Edmund Chen in supporting roles, is the most inspired element of the film, which relies too often on well-worn action and kung fu movie clichés to fill out moments between fight sequences; the film’s target audience--fans of the game--may find this less engaging than younger, less discerning moviegoers with a yen for any flavor of punch-up. --Paul Gaita

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Product Description

Genre: Action/Adventure
Rating: UN
Release Date: 30-JUN-2009
Media Type: DVD

Customer Reviews

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Race-changing pianist assaults leprachaun. Begorrah!!!, October 11, 2010

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majorlynch (Cork, Ireland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li (DVD)

I'm as Irish as the next guy from Ireland, and I think our accent is great.
So great you can actually develop it just by being born Irish, without ever going to ireland, or meeting an irish person....apparently.

Where is the name of god (or as Bison would say it "Where in the name of shamrocks and shenanigans"), did he get that accent????
He grew up in Thailand!!! His parents died when he was a baby!!!
Unless he was sent to Thailand in a spacecraft haunted by the ghost of his dad father he could hardly have heard an Irish accent in Thailand.
Much less learned to to mangle one so Offaly (get it).

Also, Inez Yan who played the young Chun li and Kristin Kreuk ARE NOT ALIKE!!!
One is chinese, the other is Kristin Kreuk.

PROS:
- About a minutes worth of scenes of bangkok are great, and show the character of the place.
- Some of the characters names are used, this can make you feel nostalgic if you pause the dvd and close your eyes and don't turn it back on.

CONS
- Chun Li was apparentlty placed in a race changing machine as a child in a scene we never saw.
- Bison is placed into an accent changing machine so he can have an accent no Irish person would equate with any particular Irish region.
Actually it would have been more realistic if he didn't know how to speak english at all.
- Bison punches an unborn fetus!!
- Chris Klein is awful in every scene he's in. He has power-ranger levels of awfulness mixed in with dialog so bad it could have been written by repeatedly kicking over a scrabble board.

This film will make you feel have you wasted a whole year of your life.
You'd have a more entertaining time swapping knock knock jokes with a draft from under the door.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Chun Li: What an actress, March 7, 2011

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Brian Ammon - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li (DVD)

Though there wasn't as many famous actors as in the original Street Fighter, The Legend of Chun Li was as action packed as its predecessor. Kristen Kreuk gives an amazing performance as always in her sorrow scenes as well as her fighting scenes.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Sad excuse for a movie, August 29, 2009

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Enjolras (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li (DVD)

For whatever reason, film adaptations of video games tend not to make good movies. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li follows this rule all to closely. The plot is pretty weak - basically Chun Li (Kristen Kreuk) fighting to save her father from Bison (Chris Klein), who oddly enough is an evil corporate gangster in a three-piece suit in the film - not the guy in the red military uniform from the game. Furthermore, Bison's alleged powers come from having transfered his conscience to his daughter so he would not be hindered in pursuing his dastardly plans. And just what are those great plans? To evict squatters in Bangkok so he can build luxury real estate projects. I kid you not. The evil antagonist of Street Fighter fame has been reduced to being a dirty landlord. While I'm not in favor of kicking people out to further elite business interests, it happens all the time and isn't particularly evil (just see what happened in the U.S. after the Supreme Court case of Kelo v. New London).

Ultimately, as so often happens, this movie is an attempt to make a movie throwing Street Fighter characters into the mix, not to make a good movie. I watched in on a long flight when I was bored, but wish I had just slept instead.