Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (Two-Disc Theatrical + Unrated Edition)

I'm as Irish as the next guy from Ireland, and I think our accent is great.
So great you can actually develop it just by being born Irish, without ever going to ireland, or meeting an irish person....apparently.

Where is the name of god (or as Bison would say it "Where in the name of shamrocks and shenanigans"), did he get that accent????
He grew up in Thailand!!! His parents died when he was a baby!!!
Unless he was sent to Thailand in a spacecraft haunted by the ghost of his dad father he could hardly have heard an Irish accent in Thailand.
Much less learned to to mangle one so Offaly (get it).

Also, Inez Yan who played the young Chun li and Kristin Kreuk ARE NOT ALIKE!!!
One is chinese, the other is Kristin Kreuk.

PROS:
- About a minutes worth of scenes of bangkok are great, and show the character of the place.
- Some of the characters names are used, this can make you feel nostalgic if you pause the dvd and close your eyes and don't turn it back on.

CONS
- Chun Li was apparentlty placed in a race changing machine as a child in a scene we never saw.
- Bison is placed into an accent changing machine so he can have an accent no Irish person would equate with any particular Irish region.
Actually it would have been more realistic if he didn't know how to speak english at all.
- Bison punches an unborn fetus!!
- Chris Klein is awful in every scene he's in. He has power-ranger levels of awfulness mixed in with dialog so bad it could have been written by repeatedly kicking over a scrabble board.

This film will make you feel have you wasted a whole year of your life.
You'd have a more entertaining time swapping knock knock jokes with a draft from under the door.

For whatever reason, film adaptations of video games tend not to make good movies. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li follows this rule all to closely. The plot is pretty weak - basically Chun Li (Kristen Kreuk) fighting to save her father from Bison (Chris Klein), who oddly enough is an evil corporate gangster in a three-piece suit in the film - not the guy in the red military uniform from the game. Furthermore, Bison's alleged powers come from having transfered his conscience to his daughter so he would not be hindered in pursuing his dastardly plans. And just what are those great plans? To evict squatters in Bangkok so he can build luxury real estate projects. I kid you not. The evil antagonist of Street Fighter fame has been reduced to being a dirty landlord. While I'm not in favor of kicking people out to further elite business interests, it happens all the time and isn't particularly evil (just see what happened in the U.S. after the Supreme Court case of Kelo v. New London).

Ultimately, as so often happens, this movie is an attempt to make a movie throwing Street Fighter characters into the mix, not to make a good movie. I watched in on a long flight when I was bored, but wish I had just slept instead.

I've seen trash before, but my GOD! I was fortunate enough to borrow this crap from the library, and even if you borrow this movie you are overpaying. Not gonna lie, I really wanted to see this movie because at the time SF4 came out and the game was good and I wanted to get off on Kristen Kruek. Thought they would top it off with an incredible movie to go along with it. NOT AT ALL! Where to begin. Let's start with the casting. Taboo from the musical group "Black Eyed Peas" is playing Vega!!!! NUFF SAID! What's next, Rick Ross as Ryu in the next movie? Maybe! Can't remember what else happened; I think Chun li's mom got cancer when Balrog punched her or something; and the dumbest thing about this movie besides the story line(which I'll let you see for yourself)is Bison. He is no longer a ruthless dictator in this movie, but a real estate agent. YOU READ THAT CORRECTLY, REAL ESTATE AGENT! In the next SF movie, I take it Akuma will be a bus driver. I'm done with review. ARRGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!