Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

This movie has always been compared unfavorably to the original Street Fighter film from 1994. For the longest time, I looked at them as completely separate films, which makes sense, since this film was set to be a different take on the world of Street Fighter, so essentially a reboot of the previous film. Rewatching it this time, though, has opened my eyes.

Now while this film was nowhere near as terrible as In the Name of the King, this film did have a similarity with that other film I want to point out: Both of them had super confusing plots. Unlike In the Name of the King, though, I had no idea what the purpose of this film was supposed to be. I get it was to be a darker and more realistic take on the Street Fighter series, but for some reason, none of the characters resemble their game counterparts in the slightest, and really, campy charm makes more sense for a fighting game adaptation than...whatever this was.

This film did have good actors like Robin Shou, Neal McDonough, and Michael Clarke Duncan, but the script was just kind of random action sequences tied together with 'story elements'. Now, the action sequences were mostly pretty good, and, in my personal opinion, it's hard to mess up an action sequence, but maybe I'm wrong. Other than that, there is nothing more I can say about this movie. It was made, critics and audiences alike hated it, and I think that makes sense. You can only go so far on action alone.

Next time is a film that Disney was positioning to be their next big adventure franchise a la Pirates of the Caribbean, with six installments planned, however, it stopped after one. What happened? Find out next time when I review Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.

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