Comments on: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li Review

By: jennifer

jennifer — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:23:37 +0000

Personally, I liked it. I know it got crappy reviews, but it was so funny to watch the fight scene with Vega (Balrog in Japan) and how he sounded like the Dark Knight. Just like every other movie this one has its ups and downs. As much as I like the movie, however, Capcom should listen to the fans when it comes to character selection. The best actor in the movie was Micheal Clarke Duncan, who played Balrog (M. Bison in Japan).

By: alex chen

alex chen — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 13:26:53 +0000

i am very disappointed with this movie, In Street Fighter’s animation. Chun Li’s Fateher was a Hong Kong Policeman, Not a busness man.

Vega is a spanish handsome man, not a black eyed peas member which looks like an old folks.

chun li will never have chance to defeat Bison, Bison was the strongest enemy and Bison is very tall and big, not a skinny man

By: M. Ali

M. Ali — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:45:28 +0000

reality check for the poster above me. not stick to the story eh look at teh boxoffice rating; see how it turned out? oh i hope they dont make a second movie in the mold of the first one! poor style and cinematography

By: Dezired86

Dezired86 — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:31:04 +0000

jeez people…can Kristen get some credit? if you all atleast watch Smallville she has some very good fighting techniques. and she’s a new face. arent u all tired of the same actresses or actors getting the lead roles??? and she wasnt forgettable. basically the story was about her…and how she came to be. of course its not gonna stick to the darn video game. what movie ever does? if they stuck to the video game it would have been too predicatable and typical. as im concerned i loved the movie. for her first majoy movie, Kristen did a hell of a job than a lot of newbies. and now we’re wating for Ryu’s story..cant wait for u guys to critize that.

ttfn

By: BlackScorpion

BlackScorpion — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:47:23 +0000

I was quite disappointed with the action sequences; since when did Bison ever die at the hands of Chun-Li;Bison like all other top level bosses took great skill and time to defeat; if Ken, Ryu, Zangief,Sagat, & Guile had to develope great skill,time, and strength to face him only for the great Bison to be defeated by young little Chun-Li doesn’t say too much about the rest of the characters of Street Fighter; although I thought that Robin Shou did a kick@#$ job of portraying Chun-Li’s Master’Gen’…..Ah yeah Chun-Li’s thighs were alot sexier and bigger on the game and in the first Street Fighter movie than this chick.

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:35:33 +0000

To ’swarez’:

You’ve clearly not played much Street Fighter. While the plot is often hokey and cliche, the characters have developed a proper backstory and Bison’s multiple attempts at world destruction/domination have been presented in a certain way.
It’s not that they slightly deviated from the plot or backstories, it’s almost as if they didn’t check them out at all beyond Street Fighter II. The original Street Fighter movie was more faithful than this. Hell, Chun-Li doesn’t even look as Asian as I believe she should. Where’s Ryu? They worked together before. And if they’re linked with Interpol, they’re probably going to be seeing some of Cammy and Guile, too.
I’m not defending stupid fanboys, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not as simple as you’re putting it.

By: Wintle

Wintle — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:28:01 +0000

I can see why they would try to appeal to more than just Street Fighter fans. it’s certainly worked for superhero movies.

And they only used a few of Chun Li’s moves in the movie, as I recall, and they were almost all entirely lame beyond belief.

By: RichPea

RichPea — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:28:18 +0000

yup yup yup yup…. spinning star kick!!!

can I look forward to seeing these two moves in the movie??? =b

hah… Lana Lane as Chung Li… what in the HEEEEEELL.

She’s hot and gorgeous and needs to have my hands all over her, but come on… this movie made me shake my head and feel sorry for Street Fighter fans that the only type of movie that could do this franchise justice are the animated ones. nudity and all.

By: Christian

Christian — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:49:32 +0000

What irritates me is that the actors never look anything like the characters, it’s like they don’t even make an effort to get it right. You’d think they’d care as surely the only people who want to see a Street Fighter film are fans of Street Fighter.

By: Wintle

Wintle — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:01:36 +0000

CHARLIE NASH! INTERPOL!

By: doug nagy

doug nagy — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:48:41 +0000

Not bringing the mic will be the regret I have carved in my tombstone!

NASH OUT!

By: Wintle

Wintle — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:16:11 +0000

Reed: I noticed I had neglected Kreuk when I gave the review a read-over, but when I tried to sneak her in, I realized she had been so forgettable in her own movie that it wasn’t worth the effort.

I tucked Doom in there because it was another video game adaptation by the same director, not necessarily because it was of the same quality.

It’s entirely possible that I’m more forgiving of the faults of movies from outside of Hollywood, but I like to think I’m just willing to forgive movies of shaky quality that nevertheless give me the goods.

Donnie Yen is awesome.

Henrik and Drew: I asked Nagy to bring his microphone that night to podcast about Chun Li, but he declined. I think he regretted it almost immediately after we left the theatre. It would have been a podcast to shake the foundations of Olympus itself.

swarez: Not sure if you’re including my review in that group or not. I love the Street Fighter games, but I was down with any changes they wanted to make, provided it was a decent action movie. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case.