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This was by far the second best Street fighter I have ever seen. I can not really explain it, you have to see it to really understand. (Edit: not even I am this evil, run from this movie, do not stop)
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Okay, now I have to explain myself. I said second best Street Fighter movie because there were two, and this one was completely horrible. I will never feel justified seeing that movie unless everyone I know also sees it and understands how bad it was. There was so much wrong with it, i have trouble starting. It physically hurt when Charlie Nash was on screen(don't know actors name.) When I asked my friend what he could have done with those lines to make him a good character, he said quit. And I agreed.
lastly, givin that Bison was raised in Bangcock, WHY DID HE HAVE AN IRISH ACCENT?!
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Okay, I'm going to be pelted by jujubees for this, but... I saw it.
And... It's not as bad as I expected.
Now, to be clear, this is not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination. The cops are shoehorned into the movie and have very little function in it, other than making sure a couple more characters from the video games are featured. The fights between the principal characters are some of the least exciting in the movie. The plot, while vaguely coherent (in the sense of moving from A to B to C) doesn't really make a whole lot of sense it terms of most characters' motivations for anything. The narration is annoying, flat, and unnecessary.
Basically, just about anything you read in an unflattering review of this movie is likely to be pretty accurate.
But, and I realize this is damning with faint praise, just about everything that's lackluster in this movie, I've seen done far worse.
Some of the fight scenes are well done, and none of them are poorly done- it's always clear what's going on, it's always clearly lit and framed, and it doesn't have the gnat-attention-span cutting that some pictures are afflicted with. And most of the people who fight kind of look like they might actually be able to fight. It is perhaps unfortunate that the best fight is the one that happens in the first ten minutes, which actually does a couple of things I hadn't seen before in a martial arts movie.
None of the leads are incompetent. Okay, whatshisname who plays Nash isn't going to win any awards, but he doesn't get a whole lot to do, so he plays his part as "overly well-lubricated rogue who doesn't get a whole lot to do." At least he doesn't seem flat or outside of the picture.
And while the cops are, as mentioned, shoehorned in, at least they didn't force as many game characters into it as JCVD's go. Remember Thunder Hawk? No, you don't. Because unless you studied the credits very carefully, you'd probably never know he was in the thing. While the focus is on a plot that's trite where it isn't being nonsensical, at least there is focus.
I'm not gonna suggest that anyone spend good money on Legend of Chun-Li. But I've sat through Batman and Robin and Mortal Kombat: Armageddon. And if you forced me to sit through one of those movies again, I'd sooner sit through Chun-Li, which at least didn't leave me howling in pain.
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Well, given the generic complaint of "she's not asian" I'd say it makes it at least half better.
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quote:This was by far the second best Street fighter I have ever seen.
Wait... are you saying this was BETTER than the one with Jean Claude Van Damme and Raul Julia?
Yes. And while I guess the fight scenes were alright in this movie, you can also find better ones in the older video.
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quote:This was by far the second best Street fighter I have ever seen.
Wait... are you saying this was BETTER than the one with Jean Claude Van Damme and Raul Julia?
When I heard that Chun Li was CANADIAN, I kind of lost interest in it.
Ummmmmm, there are lots of ethnic Chinese Canadian citizens. In fact Chinese Canadians form the second largest visible minority group behind South Asians (which are classified all together for some reason) and are actually ahead of blacks. http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/analysis/ethnicorigin/south.cfm
The assumption that a Chinese person can't be Canadian is rather dated and a tad of a throwback to a rather unpleasant period of history.
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