Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li | Rotten Tomatoes (2025)

Table of Contents

Where to Watch Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li What to Know Critics Reviews Audience Reviews My Rating Cast & Crew More Like This Related Movie News Photos Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

Tomatometer

61 Reviews

18%

Popcornmeter

100,000+ Ratings

In Bangkok, Bison (Neal McDonough), a crime boss, and his henchmen (Michael Clarke Duncan, Josie Ho, Taboo) begin a bid for power in the city's slum, crushing everyone who gets in their way. As the violence escalates, a team of heroes emerges to bring Bison to justice. Fighting on the side of good are Chun-Li (Kristin Kreuk), martial-arts master Gen (Robin Shou), Interpol agent Charlie Nash (Chris Klein) and his partner, Maya Sunee (Moon Bloodgood).

Watch on Fandango at Home

Buy Now

Where to Watch

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

What to Know

Critics Consensus

The combination of a shallow plot and miscast performers renders Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li a perfectly forgettable video game adaptation.

Read Critics Reviews

Critics Reviews

View All (61) Critics Reviews

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li | Rotten Tomatoes (1)

Drew Toal

Time Out

This painful background tale of the schoolgirl master of the really slow fireball attack almost makes one yearn for the days of Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Rated: 1/5

Nov 17, 2011

Full Review

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li | Rotten Tomatoes (2)

Perri Nemiroff

CinemaBlend

Trades in vital game info to squeeze in as much acrobatics and fighting sequences as possible. Bartkowiak shouldn't have taken the first part of the title so literally.

Rated: 1/5

Aug 14, 2010

Full Review

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li | Rotten Tomatoes (3)

Marc Savlov

Austin Chronicle

The Legend of Chun-Li is as vapid and dull as it is.

Rated: 0/4

Mar 5, 2009

Full Review

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li | Rotten Tomatoes (4)

Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

The strange part of this movie is, there isn’t much street fighting. Most of the characters use firearms, and they fight in the street only on occasion. [...] Perhaps the producers forgot the title of the movie.

Rated: 0/4

Dec 2, 2023

Full Review

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li | Rotten Tomatoes (5)

David Hogan

hoganreviews.co.uk

Wooden acting, poor special effects and zero fight choreography, plus this film is SOMEHOW an even worse adaptation of its source material than the first film. Avoid!

Rated: 1/5

Jul 8, 2020

Full Review

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li | Rotten Tomatoes (6)

Scott Beggs

Film School Rejects

Can I please stop thinking about this movie now?

Apr 16, 2019

Full Review

Read all reviews

Audience Reviews

View All (1000+) audience reviews

Jonathan O This is a shameful movie really terrible casting, really bad writing and directing and really god awful vfx. Rated 1/5 Stars • Rated 1 out of 5 stars 08/08/24 Full Review Cees T Late '90s style action fantasy nostalgia comfort food. 6.8/10 - Low budget but solid. Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 05/07/24 Full Review Monsol E This made me appreciate what a MASTERPIECE the JC-VD movie was. Rated 1/5 Stars • Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Christopher S It absouletly sucked I hope the director never makes a movie looks like this. Shame on you, how could you wake up and decide to make a movie like this, just wow. Shame, Shame, Shame. I expected way more from a street fighter movie MORE ACTION, EXPLOSIONS, AND ACTION. Rated 0.5/5 Stars • Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review derek l Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li is another example of a poorly adapted take on the iconic video game franchise and its characters. The acting ranged from poor to mediocre especially with Chris Klein's Nash and Neal McDonough's M. Bison, the martial arts was not well choreographed, the story and script were bland and uninteresting.I've played the Street Fighter series for a long time and I have a general idea of the game's setting along with the characters' backstories and yet whoever wrote the film did not acknowledge and relate back to the source material. Rated 0.5/5 Stars • Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review J M Wow, actually cringe worthy... Were the actors actually instructed to do the worst most always job possible? In fact if they just make this movie derivative and directly copy another successful movie but with SF characters they would have done ten times better... And WTF is this soundtrack??? The crew needs to pay us for our time wasted hating a beloved iconic franchise Rated 1/5 Stars • Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/06/23 Full Review Read all reviews

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

My Rating

Read More Read Less POST RATING WRITE A REVIEW EDIT REVIEW

Cast & Crew

Andrzej Bartkowiak Director Kristin Kreuk Chun-Li Chris Klein Nash Neal McDonough Bison Michael Clarke Duncan Balrog Robin Shou Gen

Show Less Cast & Crew

Show More Cast & Crew

More Like This

View All Best Movies to Stream at Home

The Green Hornet 45% 43% The Green Hornet Watchlist TRAILER for The Green Hornet Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 77% 53% Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Watchlist TRAILER for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra 33% 50% G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Watchlist The Losers 47% 54% The Losers Watchlist TRAILER for The Losers G.I. Joe: Retaliation 29% 48% G.I. Joe: Retaliation Watchlist Discover more movies and TV shows. View More

Related Movie News

View All Related Movie News

RT on DVD: Street Fighter, Transmorphers 2, and Uwe Boll’s Tunnel Rats! Box Office Guru Wrapup: Madea Schools Jonas Bros., Chun Li Critics Consensus: Jonas Brothers Fizzles

Photos

View All Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li photos

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

Kristin Kreuk as Chun-Li in "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li."

(L-R) Robin Shou as Gen and Kristin Kreuk as Chun-Li in "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li."

Director Andrzej Bartkowiak and Kristin Kreuk on the set of "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li."

Chris Klein as Charlie Nash in "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li."

Kristin Kreuk as Chun-Li in "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li."

Michael Clarke Duncan as Balrog in "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li."

Josie Ho as Cantana in "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li."

A scene from the film "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li."

(Left) Kristin Kreuk as Chun-Li in "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li."

Neal McDonough as Bison in "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li."

View more photos

Synopsis In Bangkok, Bison (Neal McDonough), a crime boss, and his henchmen (Michael Clarke Duncan, Josie Ho, Taboo) begin a bid for power in the city's slum, crushing everyone who gets in their way. As the violence escalates, a team of heroes emerges to bring Bison to justice. Fighting on the side of good are Chun-Li (Kristin Kreuk), martial-arts master Gen (Robin Shou), Interpol agent Charlie Nash (Chris Klein) and his partner, Maya Sunee (Moon Bloodgood).

Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Producer: Ashok Amritraj, Patrick Aiello
Screenwriter: Justin Marks
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: Capcom, Adlabs Films
Rating: PG-13 (Sequences of Violence|Martial Arts Action|Some Sensuality)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 27, 2009, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $8.7M
Runtime: 1h 36m