Movie Review

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009)

Reviewed by Adam Markovitz | Feb 27, 2009

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EW's GRADE

D-

Details Release Date: Feb 27, 2009; Genres: Action/Adventure, Sci-fi; With: Michael Clarke Duncan and Kristin Kreuk

Image credit: Patrick Brown

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li Kristin Kreuk out to avenge...yawn...her kidnapped father

Don't be fooled by the low grade: This sequel-in-spirit to Jean-Claude Van Damme's 1994 dud doesn't even succeed in being memorably bad. Instead, it's an anonymous soup of pan-Asian action clichés slopped into the story of a fast-kicking hottie (Kristin Kreuk) out to avenge her kidnapped father. The fight scenes are saggy, the actors — especially Chris Klein as a greasy cop — are stiff, and the sleepiness of it all is enough to make you nostalgic for the simple smackdown charms of the movie's namesake videogame. D–

Originally posted Feb 27, 2009

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