Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li 2009

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: Daddies and daughters lend a wistful emotional core to Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, an otherwise generic martial-arts movie with video-game credentials. Read more

Nathan Rabin, AV Club: Chun-Li understandably wasn't screened for critics. It shouldn't be screened for audiences, either. Even Uwe Boll could have done better; at least he makes terrible videogame adaptations with a little personality. Read more

Michael Hardy, Boston Globe: This is a movie for the overcaffeinated, undereducated teenager in all of us. Read more

Sam Adams, Los Angeles Times: A long slog with little payoff. Read more

Adam Markovitz, Entertainment Weekly: The fight scenes are saggy, the actors are stiff, and the sleepiness of it all is enough to make you nostalgic for the simple smackdown charms of the movie's namesake videogame. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: I'd say this is roughly 20 times better than the first Street Fighter movie. It's still a waste of time, but unlike the game, it's over in 95 minutes. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Watching the movie, you can't help wishing you had some buttons to press. Read more

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. Read more

Rob Nelson, Variety: Neither the best nor the worst of movies derived from videogames, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li at least gives action fans plenty to ogle besides the titular heroine (Kristin Kreuk). Read more

Jim Ridley, Village Voice: Proving that there's no statute of limitations on lousy ideas, director Andrzej Bartkowiak's attempted franchise expansion returns to the Capcom motherlode that produced the worst movie in the entire Jean-Claude Van Damme filmography. Read more