Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

As the Street Fighter saga celebrates its 20th anniversary, fight fans are invited to follow along with fearsome fighter Chun-Li (Smallville's Kristin Kreuk) as she faces off against a series of formidable opponents in this feature adaptation of the popular video-game franchise directed by Exit ...more

Hollywood has a penchant for adapting video games, with studios counting on avid fans to follow their favorite characters from the confines of their living room to the multiplex. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li is one of those B-grade adaptations that's so incredibly bad that it's almost good, in a laughable kind of way. One might call it the Showgirls of violent video game movies, but Chun-Li lacks the campy appeal of that now-cult classic Razzie winner. An expertly choreographed martial ...more

There's something special about this underwhelming mess of a Street Fighter reboot that many cinematic cheese-lovers will find very appetizing. The fact is that The Legend of Chun-Li is not at all a good flick, but it's filled with so much cornball ineptitude that one would think some rather broken mad movie genius was behind it. Broken, because for all the movie's unintentional laughs, there are plenty more dull moments and barely inspired fight scenes to yawn at in between chuckling at poor ...more