History Film / StreetFighterTheLegendOfChunLi

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* DarkerAndEdgier: Written that way in comparison to the 1994 Street Fighter film, both to differentiate itself from the critically panned film and hoping to jump on the darker and gritter adaptation bandwagon.

* FauxFluency: It's exceedingly clear to anyone with an even moderate understanding of Cantonese that it's not Kristin Kreuk's first language.

** Chun-Li even speaks Cantonese with a strong American accent.

* InNameOnly: This movie uses characters named Chun-Li, Gen, Charlie, Vega, Balrog, and Bison and ''that's literally the only thing'' tying it to Street Fighter.

* AdaptationalBadass: This is the only continuity where Chun-Li kills Bison.

* TheCameo: Veteral old-school martial arts star Creator/ChengPeiPei shows up as an advisor in the market scene.

* MoodWhiplash: Many reviewers noted that the movie bills itself as an [[DarkerAndEdgier edgy]] and more "realistic" take on Street Fighter, despite stuff like Chun-Li using KiMAnipulation and Bison transferring part of his soul into his unborn daughter.

The film also has a subplot about Interpol agent Charlie Nash (Chris Klein) and Bangkok detective Maya Sunee (Moon Bloodgood), but they don't really matter until the end (and even then, they only serve as backup for Chun-Li).

* StuntCasting: Creator/KristinKreuk being cast as Chun-Li probably had more to do with her high-profile status due to prominent role in ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' than any real resemblance to the character.

* FauxFluency: It's exceedingly clear to anyone with an even moderate understanding of Cantonese that it's not Kristin Kreuk's first language.

* AdaptationalUgliness: Vega (Claw), a very handsome Spanish ninja who values beauty in the video games, is portrayed by [[Music/TheBlackEyedPeas Taboo]] in this incarnation. Chun-Li even comments that he wears a mask because of his face.

''Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li'' -- the second live-action film based on Creator/{{Capcom}}'s long-running ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' video game series, but not a direct sequel to [[{{Film/Street Fighter}} the first]] -- tells the story of Chun-Li Xiang (Creator/KristinKreuk), a ten-year-old piano/Wushu prodigy who has her young world shattered after the crimelord [[BigBad Bison]] (Creator/NealMcDonough) (with the help of his [[ScaryBlackMan Scary Black]] [[TheDragon Dragon]], Balrog (Creator/MichaelClarkeDuncan)) kidnaps her father and whisks him off to parts unknown. After the death of her mother seventeen years later, Chun-Li -- now a concert pianist -- receives a mysterious scroll that tells her to go to UsefulNotes/{{Bangkok}}. Once there, she meets Gen, [[TheAtoner a former partner of Bison]] and leader of the mysterious Order Of The Web; Gen offers to train Chun-Li in preparation for her inevitable showdown with Bison.

%%* OutrunTheFireball
%%* PsychoForHire: Vega

%%* ScaryBlackMan: Balrog

%%* SmugSnake: Bison

%%* [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter The Corrupt Corporate Executive's Beautiful Daughter]]: Rose

* MoodWhiplash: Many reviewers noted that the movie bills itself as an [[DarkerAndEdgier edgy]] and more "realistic" take on Street Fighter, despite stuff like Chun-Li using KiAttacks and Bison transferring part of his soul into his unborn daughter.

The film also has a subplot about Interpol agent Charlie Nash and Bangkok detective Maya Sunee, but they don't really matter until the end (and even then, they only serve as backup for Chun-Li).

''Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li'' -- the second live-action film based on Creator/{{Capcom}}'s long-running ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' video game series, but not a direct sequel to [[{{Film/Street Fighter}} the first]] -- tells the story of Chun-Li Xiang (Creator/KristinKreuk), a ten-year-old piano/Wushu prodigy who has her young world shattered after the crimelord [[BigBad Bison]] (Creator/NealMcDonough) (with the help of his [[ScaryBlackMan Scary Black]] [[TheDragon Dragon]], Balrog) kidnaps her father and whisks him off to parts unknown. After the death of her mother seventeen years later, Chun-Li -- now a concert pianist -- receives a mysterious scroll that tells her to go to UsefulNotes/{{Bangkok}}. Once there, she meets Gen, [[TheAtoner a former partner of Bison]] and leader of the mysterious Order Of The Web; Gen offers to train Chun-Li in preparation for her inevitable showdown with Bison.

''Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li'' -- the second live-action film based on Creator/{{Capcom}}'s long-running ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' video game series, but not a direct sequel to [[{{Film/Street Fighter}} the first]] -- tells the story of Chun-Li Xiang (Creator/KristinKreuk), a ten-year-old piano/Wushu prodigy who has her young world shattered after the crimelord [[BigBad Bison]] (with the help of his [[ScaryBlackMan Scary Black]] [[TheDragon Dragon]], Balrog) kidnaps her father and whisks him off to parts unknown. After the death of her mother seventeen years later, Chun-Li -- now a concert pianist -- receives a mysterious scroll that tells her to go to UsefulNotes/{{Bangkok}}. Once there, she meets Gen, [[TheAtoner a former partner of Bison]] and leader of the mysterious Order Of The Web; Gen offers to train Chun-Li in preparation for her inevitable showdown with Bison.

[[caption-width-right:220:[[VideoGameMoviesSuck It's a video game movie]], [[GenreBlindness how bad could it be?]][[note]]''Very''.[[/note]]]]
->''"They spend the entire movie building up to Chun-Li's ability to throw fireballs. Protip: don't spend an entire Street Fighter movie preparing the characters for ''being Street Fighters.''"''
-->--'''''{{Website/Cracked}}''''', [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18605_7-baffling-moments-from-worst-video-game-movie-ever_p2.html#ixzz33YZJ3lB7 "7 Baffling Moments From the Worst Video Game Movies Ever"]]

Continuing the truth that VideoGameMoviesSuck, the film was panned remorselessly and was a commercial failure, even more of an embarrassment than [[Film/StreetFighter the original Street Fighter movie]]. At least that one [[SoBadItsGood didn't take itself too seriously]]. This film does the exact opposite and suffers greatly for it.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Written that way in comparison to the 1994 Street Fighter film, both to differentiate itself from the critically panned film and hoping to jump on the darker and gritter adaptation bandwagon. The critics and general audience were even less impressed compared to the goofier 1994 film.

* AdaptationalNationality: Chun-Li is originally from San Francisco, but moves to Hong Kong as a child.

* InNameOnly: The movie used only the names and basic plot.

* KamehameHadoken: Chun-Li uses one to take Bison down.

* NamedByTheAdaptation: Chun-Li is given the surname "Huang".

** A little less common is Bison's "Shadow''lau''", right after the caption reading "Shadow''loo'' Headquarters". And even then, both are wrong.

''Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li'' -- the second live-action film based on Creator/{{Capcom}}'s long-running ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' video game series, but not a direct sequel to [[{{Film/Street Fighter}} the first]] -- tells the story of Chun-Li Xiang (Kristin Kreuk), a ten-year-old piano/Wushu prodigy who has her young world shattered after the crimelord [[BigBad Bison]] (with the help of his [[ScaryBlackMan Scary Black]] [[TheDragon Dragon]], Balrog) kidnaps her father and whisks him off to parts unknown. After the death of her mother seventeen years later, Chun-Li -- now a concert pianist -- receives a mysterious scroll that tells her to go to UsefulNotes/{{Bangkok}}. Once there, she meets Gen, [[TheAtoner a former partner of Bison]] and leader of the mysterious Order Of The Web; Gen offers to train Chun-Li in preparation for her inevitable showdown with Bison.

* AdaptationalUgliness: Vega (Claw), a very handsome spanish ninja who values beauty in the video games, is portrayed by [[Music/TheBlackEyedPeas Taboo]] in this incarnation. Chun-Li even comments that he wears a mask because of his face.

* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler: Cantana is beaten to death by Bison after being seduced by Chun-Li]].

* DragonLady: Cantana
* TheDragon: Balrog

* KamehameHadoken : Chun-Li uses one to take Bison down.
* LipstickLesbian: Cantana

* MoodWhiplash / IndecisiveDeconstruction: Many reviewers noted that the movie bills itself as an [[DarkerAndEdgier edgy]] and more "realistic" take on Street Fighter, despite stuff like Chun-Li using KiAttacks and Bison transferring part of his soul into his unborn daughter.

* NotWearingTights / MovieSuperheroesWearBlack: Nobody wears their colorful outfits from the game. The closest is when Chun-Li [[MythologyGag briefly dons a blue dress as part of a disguise]].

* OutrunTheFireball
* PsychoForHire: Vega

* ScaryBlackMan: Balrog

* SmugSnake: Bison

* [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter The Corrupt Corporate Executive's Beautiful Daughter]]: Rose

'''''Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li''''' -- the second live-action film based on Creator/{{Capcom}}'s long-running ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' video game series, but not a direct sequel to [[{{Film/Street Fighter}} the first]] -- tells the story of Chun-Li Xiang (Kristin Kreuk), a ten-year-old piano/Wushu prodigy who has her young world shattered after the crimelord [[BigBad Bison]] (with the help of his [[ScaryBlackMan Scary Black]] [[TheDragon Dragon]], Balrog) kidnaps her father and whisks him off to parts unknown. After the death of her mother seventeen years later, Chun-Li -- now a concert pianist -- receives a mysterious scroll that tells her to go to UsefulNotes/{{Bangkok}}. Once there, she meets Gen, [[TheAtoner a former partner of Bison]] and leader of the mysterious Order Of The Web; Gen offers to train Chun-Li in preparation for her inevitable showdown with Bison.

* ButNotTooForeign: Chun-Li and Maya being half-white, for a start.

* CanonForeigner: Cantana, Maya, Fen, and others.
** On Maya's case, it can be argued that she may or may not be Crimson Viper (since Maya is also Viper's real given name).

* {{Expy}}: Maya Sunee is almost certainly a stand in for [[VideoGame/StreetFighterIV Crimson Viper]]. They are law enforcement agents that share a first name.

* NeckSnap: [[spoiler:Bison does this to Chun-Li's father]], right in front of her.

** Chun-Li even speaks [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPYCybm2s7Y Cantonese with an American accent]].

** Gen: a guy in his fourties (at least they got the Asian part right)

* {{Irony}}: Bison looking and acting similar to Geese Howard from the ''Fatal Fury'' series. Geese had once killed Terry's father and in turn was unintentionally killed by him, who then raises the boy Geese had abandoned. [[spoiler:At the end of this movie Bison falls out of a building much like Geese, but only dies from Chun Li breaking his neck as his daughter watches. Chun Li then asks Nash to take care of her.]]

* TheObiWan: Gen