Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

As the movie started I thought to myself this will be a good movie. I was wrong.

“Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li” starts off with a good story line of Chun-li’s (Kristin Kruek) childhood. Explaining family situations and how her father taught her to ultimately become a wushu master. Sadly, after the first few moments the story started to become pointless and long-winded.

As a child Chun Li saw her father kidnapped by Bison (Neal McDonough) and his henchman Balrog (Michael Clarke Duncan). She grows up to become a pianist which had no relevance to the movie other then the fact that the music made the movie a little better. After a concert, Chun Li receives an ancient scroll which latter reveals to her that she is to leave her life as she knows it and move to Bangkok and live on the streets and become one with the city, while she pursues a man named Gen. Saying goodbye to her mother’s grave (which the tombstone changed last names in the movie—first, it read “Xiang then Huang”), as she died of cancer, Chung Li left all she knew to become one with Bangkok. From here she meets Gen, and he teaches her to lose her anger, and how to become one with herself to defeat Bison.

In the midst of this we meet Charlie Nash (Chris Klein) and Det. Maya Sunee (Moon Bloodgood) who are police working on the details surrounding all the events. To me, they were rather pointless in the movie, other then you got to see different events from their angles.

The movie starts off pretty clean, but ends up giving to many pointless suggestions and offenses throughout. There were 2 D*** words, 1 BS, 1 B**** and 2 S****. Charlie Nash and Det. Sunee uncover severed heads which were planted by Bison. We see Chung Li in a club with drinking and close ups of women’s bodies dancing. Chung Li proceeds to seduce another woman on the dance floor, which just was confusing to me. Later, you see Bison punching this woman’s dead body like a punching bag. You see several women’s undergarments while poll dancing in the club, and you see Det. Maya Sunee in her bra after taking a shower. You will also see a neck snapped twice, and a baby ripped out of a mother’s abdomen (ridiculous part of the story). Lastly, you will see several “henchmen” and police killed in battles—which are not depicted too much.

The fight scenes in the movie are definitely the highlight of the film. They are done remarkably well, considering how mediocre the rest of the movie is. Sadly, the most anticipated fight scene with Vega (Taboo) was a joke.

Chung Li throughout the movie keeps a moral standard when it comes to helping those around her. You see her giving money and coming to the aid of those in need around her. Jesus said, whatever you do for the least of these you do for me. This quality you can see in her.

I personally wanted to like this film walking into the theater. I really think Kristin Kruek is a great actress from “Smallville,” however, the lack of story is what ended up killing the movie in the end. The last words suggest a sequel, and I pray it is better then this movie, if made.

Violence: Moderate / Profanity: Mild / Sex/Nudity: Moderate

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• Young people