She takes the scroll to someone who can read it, who tells her she needs to find Gen (Robin Shou), except that Gen will actually find her, when she's ready. Chun-Li is apparently uninterested until she grows up to be Kristin Kreuk, her mom dies, and a scroll shows up in the mail, at which point she abandons everything to go find out about her missing father. Unfortunately, Dad's been making poor friends, and although Xiang can perform martial arts with his hands on fire, he still ends up dragged away by a vengeful M. We first meet Chun-Li as a little girl, learning piano and kung fu from her father, Xiang (Edmund Chen). The last adaptation of Street Fighter for the big screen took things a little too literally, and this one backs off a great deal, but the whole thing - kung fu training, secret organizations, summoning balls of energy to blast opponents - still looks incredibly silly in live-action.įirst-time screenwriter Justin Marks has one small concept that works: instead of trying to squish the stories of all the Street Fighter characters into one movie, this time only Chun-Li's story is the focus, giving the film a clear hero and trimming the film of excess character and story. It's just the right level of serious-but-not- too-serious that's critical for a great turkey.
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As someone who enjoys bad movies, however, I also want to tell you how funny this movie is. As a movie critic, I probably have the responsibility of telling you that this is a nonsensical, badly-acted mangling of the popular video game. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li is one of those times when I'm terribly torn.