February 20th, 2009 -- Written by Rodney
I have previously been a strong advocate in giving Kristen Kreuk a chance at action and I was looking forward to the Streetfighter: Legend of Chun-Li film. Well in a daring move of anticipation halting glory, eight clips showing off the film have been released to the net.
Of the eight available I chose the one that at least has Kreuk in an outfit and hair that pays tribute to her in game appearance.
This is utterly embarrassing. I was eager to see what they were going to do with this and I really do like Kriesten Kreuk, but her role in this is sadly miscast (has nothing to do with her only being half-Asian) but I also think that EVERYONE in this movie was miscast. The only person that comes close to embodying their character is Michael Duncan Clark. I was even hoping Vega would be cool, but that was a sad disappointment as well.
I honestly thought with the right direction and choreography that this could have been an incredible film but after seeing this clips I cringe at the thought. The dialogue is painful, the action is mediocre and for some reason every movie is associated with some hokey swooshy sounds like they were trying to mimic classic Kung-Fu cinema. I have officially given up any hope that this movie will be good. Up until now, everything looked decent.
Somewhere, VanDamme is nodding in approval knowing that from this day forward, he will no longer be teased for that lame Streetfighter movie he did.
MovieWeb has 8 clips for you to abuse your senses with and it basically spells out the whole plot, so you can now skip the film knowing you have seen the best it has to offer.
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ya ill probably skip this or catch it on TV in about 2 years because this movie looks horrible. i love the games but the movies sucks
One would think they would have learned from their first mistake with the original. This is just pitiful looking, why do they continue to ruin the franchise with this nonsense. They always seem to cast these type of movies with actors who obviously have no martial arts background so the fighting then looks horrid. Sad, sad, sad…
this crap reminds me of the mortal kombat movies
Mortal Kombat is the king of fighting games. The movies, well, just fun to see.
I always concentrate on the story, how solid it is and how it develops. Special effects are good and amazing figthing scenes are always welocome, but I do not rate the quality of a movie because of that. Good writting is the key to a succesfull movie.
Kreuk is terrible, she should’ve ended her career in Smallville (damn, they should cancel that show already).
wow i guess your gonna hate the fact that its rumored to get another season.
smallville is my favorite tv series. I hope it goes on forever
She was ok at the start of Smallville but now in season 8, she’s been dragging the show down. It could very well have happened in a season prior to 8, but I just recently picked up where I left off (s08).
I don’t really know the direction they’re going with the show, but every time Lana appears it’s some lovey dovey drama fest that does nothing for it save annoy many people.
Needs more Van Damme.
Absolutley!
lmao!
damn Kristen Kreuk is soo fine!!!, but i have my doubts about this film.
You can tell the fighting is more forced looking than fluid.
WOW.i too was highly anticipating the legend of chun-li especially when i heard it was too be played by kristen kruek.but upon seeing the very 1st trailer i was dissapointed. it looks like another idea where the director decided to show you the fun thrills of what streetfighter has and leave out a totally exiting storyline.i just hope kristen can bounce back after this.
after just seeing the clip. i’m shocked they didn’t have a cliche tough chick line.like i didn’t even break a nail.or u wrecked my news heels.i think i even saw a wire when chun jump 7 feet in the air.
Does anyone else notice this movie isn’t getting any advertising at all, and it’s opening next week? If it weren’t for movie blogs like this, I wouldn’t have even known it exists.
Any studio can polish a turd in the previews and get some hype rolling, but it’s like Fox is intentionally trying to avoid any profit from this film at all. Internet exclusive clips, internet exclusive photos… why are they so desperate to win the internet’s approval? It’s a demographic hellbent on spreading negative hype.
But if the internet bandwagons on how good it will be, that will give more steam than any commercial on TV and a lot cheaper. Its a gamble.
I just think that they would have been safe the way it was until they brought out this closer look.
These clips sent me 180degrees on this movie.
well ive seen one trailer for on tv, but thats it.
i cant say im surprised at all….WOW, that was very tv movie like…sigh
are people really surprised that is looks bad? i mean its a video game flick am i wrong?
just like movies as video games suck
lol sounds more like they are trying to fuck rather than fight.
Worst fight scene i’ve ever seen. Did Uwe Boll direct this?
no its still a step ahead uwe boll but not too far ahead
looks like we have an early razzie contender!
Shitty directing. Check.
Shitty casting. Check.
Shitty dialogue. Check.
Shitty acting. Check.
Hot Female lead. Check
lol This movie looks like its a joke.
Regardless of these clips, I still think this movie will do huge business in the box office. People love these kung fu action movies. Teen boys will flock to this, like white on rice.
Just by looking at the lighting set up on the Bison flashback clip (not the flashback itself) you can tell this is gonna be a terrible film. I had the same feeling during the beginning of the first Resident Evil film. The part where the underground workers in office get-up are suffocating, you could tell you’re in for a flop.
Wow… Clip looks, ok at best, but I think I’ll be skipping this one. I grew up with the games and love them, but so far I haven’t seen anything that’s made me really wanna see this movie. All the posters suck, the ads on TV suck, the trailers suck, all of it sucks.
Plus there just now showing ads on TV for it and it’s sup post to be coming out really soon? To me doesn’t say much for even the film makers faith in this lame ass movie.
If you close your eyes, it says like a pr0n. That is all I can picture when I hear her make fighting noises.
Good Lord, what a terrible, terrible joke. The acting is better on the video game.
Good one! “Spinning Bird Kick!”
when they realized what a crap this movie turned out they should have redone all the scenes with kristin kreuk wearing a miniskirt without underwear…
That SUCKED SO BADLY
Slow paced…boring..roughly no music behind the fight scenes..horrible camera movement.. looks like I’ll be skipping this
Im not worried about how people are saying this film looks shit, im still going to see it anyway. It looks like it will be a fun film to watch. Im not expecting anything Huge or Epic, just a fun watch.
It’s for kids, little blokes, not for us…
Looks Like a total time waste…can play the game for hours but can tolerate a movie like this for 5 min..
I like how they made Vega look like a neantherthal
I’m a bit disappointed with the bits of the Street Fighter film so I think the producers could remake it again with better actors,but I don’t know what the hell is going on with that film but I wish Hollywood would make a good fighting movie World Heroes with a scifi spin off with a time travel and dimensions and fighters from the past and present.
World Heroes could be a good idea if Mr 3000 director Charles Stone could make the movie in the future and as for the Darkstalkers series Capcom should team up with Threshold Entertainment
on the Darkstalkers project.
Thank You.
BRUCE ACOSTA
AUSTRALIA.
It’s like making remaking Alice in Wonderland and deciding ” meh, no one wants to see the characters they know” and making the movie about here growing up instead and at the end we see the tree she falls asleep under.
The main thing that makes this movie so bad is the fact that the underlying story is pretty much already there and they decided not to use 90% of it. If you have a fighting game based on a tournament there should be a tournament in it, and being mentioned at the end on a paper that looks like a street team did it up is not the same thing.
I know it’s Chun Li’s story. I get that…. but really?
kristen kreuk has come so far and even though the movie hasn’t gotten the reviews they hoped for, I think people should applaud her for her hard work to learn martial arts and execute it.