Reviewstravaganza: Street Fighter, Legend of Chun Li

From the Globe and Mail:

“...there's not much else here that's likely to please even the most fixated action fan. Director Andrzej Bartkowiak's fight scenes are choppy and sloppy, and the acting is even more chaotic. In her Lara Croft-lite role, Kreuk (Smallville) is low-key to a fault. In contrast, co-stars Chris Klein and McDonough, cut loose from the basic demands of realism, chew scenery in a way that's more painful than any of the movie's kicks and punches.”

From Reuters:

“Yet another video game crashes and burns upon its translation to the big screen with this cinematic rendition of the venerable franchise... Kreuk never quite manages to convince as the kick-ass Chun-Li. Even worse is the weathered-looking Klein, straining so hard for macho effect that one begins to imagine him giggling uncontrollably between takes.”

From Entertainment Weekly:

“Don't be fooled by the low grade: This sequel-in-spirit to Jean-Claude Van Damme's 1994 dud doesn't even succeed in being memorably bad. Instead, it's an anonymous soup of pan-Asian action clichés slopped into the story of a fast-kicking hottie (Kristin Kreuk) out to avenge her kidnapped father.”

From Filmcritic.com:

"Kreuk looks like a gawky, stiff ostrich when she attempts to bust out kung-fu moves. She's narrating the majority of the time, and her intellectually bankrupt sentences accompanied by her soulless dictation should spur the legalization of guns in movie theaters so you can shoot yourself with them."