That looks nothing like Street Fighter. I think I saw Vega's mask...that's about all I recognized.
Unless it's not supposed to be based on the video game. Then it just looks like a horrible action movie.
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Goldberg74
12-30-08, 12:02 PM
Found it...
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2-27-09) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0891592/)
Kristin Kruek (Chun Li) + Chris Kline (Nash) + Neal McDonough (M. Bison) + Michael Clark Duncan (Balrog) = rotflrotflrotfl
Jam Master Jay
12-30-08, 12:41 PM
:lol: Good to see Chris Klein is still getting work these days. hmmm from the director of Doom, Cradle 2 the Grave, Exit Wounds & Romeo Must Die
Zen Peckinpah
12-30-08, 12:44 PM
I do not remember people with guns and rocket launchers in Street Fighter II.
I also remember when the characters had ridiculous costumes.
I'm pretty sure that with this coming out, a Street Fighter movie will never be made again, and I'm factoring in the time after the human race becomes extinct.
Superboy
12-30-08, 12:56 PM
I do not remember people with guns and rocket launchers in Street Fighter II.
I also remember when the characters had ridiculous costumes.
I'm pretty sure that with this coming out, a Street Fighter movie will never be made again, and I'm factoring in the time after the human race becomes extinct.
You could have sworn that would have happened the first time a Street Fighter movie was made.
stingermck
12-30-08, 01:16 PM
Neal McDonough? Nice!
tofu
12-30-08, 01:20 PM
Interesting. The guy playing Vega is from the Black Eyed Peas. At least, the acrobatic moves might look good.
Sonic
12-30-08, 01:55 PM
Van Damme's flick is a more faithful adaption to the game. This looks like Street Fighter 3010
RocShemp
12-30-08, 02:41 PM
Van Damme's flick is a more faithful adaption to the game. This looks like Street Fighter 3010
So true! :lol:
You know, I have no problem with them trying to re-imagine the franchise but it should still feel like Street Fighter. That doesn't. They should have used Street Fighter II V as a general model to follow if they were gonna update the whole thing. That series both changed a lot of the look and backstory of the game but still felt faithful to it at the same time.
BullGooseLoony
12-30-08, 02:48 PM
My opinion is this: a movie is bad when you turn it off halfway through.
A movie is AWFUL when you turn off the trailer halfway though.
Why does Neal McDonough look like he's David Hasslhoff's brother in that poster?
dx23
01-06-09, 09:48 AM
No Ryu and Ken = No Sale!
They should have done a reboot and started with the original Street Fighter characters, including the Ninja guy that disappeared.
kilcher
01-06-09, 03:16 PM
Looks like the trailer above has been removed. :-/
Rammsteinfan
01-06-09, 07:18 PM
A version can be found here: http://streetfighter-movie.gyao.jp/
fumanstan
01-06-09, 07:40 PM
No Ryu and Ken = No Sale!
They should have done a reboot and started with the original Street Fighter characters, including the Ninja guy that disappeared.
Yeah, it's still weird to me how the two times they've tried to make a Street Fighter movie they've decided to focus around Guile and then Chun-Li. And even judging by the trailer, they managed to screw up a hot chick running around doing martial arts.
Why they haven't built a story around the two most popular characters, Ken and Ryu, is odd.
mmconhea
01-21-09, 11:05 AM
wait... they have a white woman playing Chun-Li?
And a blond guy playing M. Bison?
What an insult to fans.
fumanstan
01-21-09, 11:41 AM
wait... they have a white woman playing Chun-Li?
And a blond guy playing M. Bison?
What an insult to fans.
Nah, she's half Chinese I believe.
RocShemp
01-21-09, 02:14 PM
Nah, she's half Chinese I believe.
Correct. She's still miscast but at least they sorta got the ethnicity right. Besides, I don't recall much mention of Chun Li's mother. Who's to say she wasn't American (or in this case, Canadian)?
And, yes, Boomtown Bison is a bit of a question mark. I get trying to adapt the characters to the real world but... why hire a guy that looks better suited to portray Charlie?
And if Chun Li beats Bison at the end of this film (the fight clips all seemed one-sided in Chun Li's favor), is there any reason to even bring in Ryu? He's the guy to beat Bison. The only other contender being Akuma/Gouken. It diminshes such an iconic villain as Bison to be defeated by a supporting character (albeit an important supporting character).
DJariya
03-02-09, 03:19 PM
Did anyone actually see this?
Just wondering if it's really that bad. The promotion for this movie has been downright terrible. I wonder why FOX didn't just release this DTV if they weren't going to bother promoting it. Also, the release of the new Street Fighter IV video game would have been another good avenue to promote this movie.
I'm still interested in this mainly for Kristin Kreuk, but should I just save my money and wait for the DVD release?
Just wondering if it's really that bad. The promotion for this movie has been downright terrible. I wonder why FOX didn't just release this DTV if they weren't going to bother promoting it. Also, the release of the new Street Fighter IV video game would have been another good avenue to promote this movie.
I'm still interested in this mainly for Kristin Kreuk, but should I just save my money and wait for the DVD release?
How about you just don't give a damn about the film cuz we all know it sucks.
DJariya
03-03-09, 12:32 AM
How about you just don't give a damn about the film cuz we all know it sucks.
Okay thanks for not answering my question.
I guess the consensus among all of you is to ignore it and let it go away.
mcfly
03-03-09, 03:06 AM
Okay thanks for not answering my question.
I guess the consensus among all of you is to ignore it and let it go away.It's absolutely awful. I had nothing to do tonight and caught it since I've pretty much seen everything else worthwhile that's currently playing.. and it had "Direct-to-DVD" written all over it.
Some of THE worst acting I have ever seen.. if you want a good laugh, I'd so go and have fun MST3King it. But eh, if you want a good movie, yeah. Not gonna happen.
I just had a lot of problems with most of the characters since I'm a pretty big fan of the game series. The fact that M. Bison was some Irish guy in a business suit threw me off, and Chris Kline is seriously one of the worst "actors" I have ever seen (his entire plot line could be thrown out the window - it seriously serves no purpose whatsoever). Script is cliched, and every cheesy joke you can see from a mile away.
The only thing that got me was seeing the guy who played Liu Kang in Mortal Kombat in it as "Gen". I started laughing hysterically.
But, on the bright side, the girl who plays Chun Li is incredibly hot.. and there's a brief scene with a lesbian overtone.
I'd wait for Netflix.
harrydoyle
03-03-09, 03:09 PM
Some of THE worst acting I have ever seen.. if you want a good laugh, I'd so go and have fun MST3King it. But eh, if you want a good movie, yeah. Not gonna happen.
Yeah, I heard this in just about every review of the movie that's out there. The IGN guy went as far as saying that Chris Klein delivers probably the "worst acting performance of the decade."
mcfly
03-03-09, 03:37 PM
Yeah, I heard this in just about every review of the movie that's out there. The IGN guy went as far as saying that Chris Klein delivers probably the "worst acting performance of the decade."I'd agree with that. It was beyond awful. I never cared for him to begin with as it is.
Has he even done anything since American Pie 2?
ChefWinduAZ
03-03-09, 03:39 PM
I'd agree with that. It was beyond awful. I never cared for him to begin with as it is.
Has he even done anything since American Pie 2?
Katie Holmes....but he must not have been too good at that either because she dumped his ass for Tom Cruise.
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