Street Fighter : Legend of Chun Li – Worst Film of 2009

Posted on January 14, 2010

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Rotten Tomatoes, one of the internet’s premier film review sites have awarded their Annual Golden Tomato Awards, honouring the best and worst films of 2009.

Wouldn’t you just know it, but a video game adaptation has pipped the nod as the worst film of the year – and I’m not surprised that it’s Street Fighter : the Legend of Chun Li.

If you haven’t seen it, save your time – you’re better off spending that hour and a half picking out gunk from your toenails or scratching around your bellybutton for lint. It almost made my brain bleed, and I’m pretty certain I was multitudes of orders dumber afterwards.

By comparison, it makes the first Street Fighter film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme (â€œI’m going to keeck that sonofabeesh Bison’s ass so HORD… that the next Bison wanna-be isssgonna feel itâ€) seem like something that should be playing at the Cinema Nouveau. That was at least a bit of campy fun, as opposed to pure drivel. Not even Kristin Kreuk’s prettiness could make her wooden delivery – eclipsing even the most mahogany performance Keanu Reeves has managed – in any way bearable.

But enough of my ranting, here’s what Rotten tomatoes had to say :

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

I think they were far too kind. For reference, the top movies to have gotten wide cinematic releases were Disney Pixar’s UP! and Star Trek.

Source : Rotten Tomatoes

Last Updated: January 14, 2010

7 Comments

dislekcia

January 14, 2010 at 13:52

Man, don’t discount Chalres Blonson. That dude was awesome. Pointless, but awesome.

MST3K’d the whole movie, loved every second of it 🙂

Reaver

January 14, 2010 at 16:40

You know what’s less painful than this movie? Eating lightbulbs. Seriously.

Bonk

January 14, 2010 at 16:46

The only thing worth seeing in this film is Kristen Kruek. But seriously, the screenplay for The Shadow of Collosuss film is also being written by the same guy.

Nick de Bruyne

January 14, 2010 at 20:29

A bunch of us (The 3 podcast crew members) and Our reviewer Lady Ramkin went to go watch it on cheap night at Numetro. We were the only ones in the entire theatre. Was the greatest fun I have ever had. We spent most of the movie singing the SFIV theme song and throwing pop corn at the screen whilst simultaneously mocking Nash, the worst character in the history of film.

That made it soo much fun. But seriously, as a real movie, I say this with nothing but a straight face… I think it’s the worst movie I have ever seen, really.

Fatbob

January 15, 2010 at 09:02

I dunno Wolly, in all fairness as bad as this movie is, I think you’ve forgotten just how bad the original street fighter was. Plus lets not forget the only eye candy in the first street fighter was a 4’0 Kylie Mininoque.