robin shou is in the film, but he doesn’t save it. he’s not old enough to play a old man. you can tell that he’s in a wig, and he just looks awful. in the mortal kombat films, at least he looked sharp. here, since none of the characters were really developed, i feel like robin was just playing gen the way he wanted, the same goes to everyone.

balrog was talking like a comic book tough guy. the way he delivered his lines were laughable. i don’t remember seeing him with any boxing gloves, or even throwing a single punch. i do remember him shooting a gun.

vega’s mask looked as ugly as his face, and even chun li said so in her own words. in the game and anime, the idea is that vega wears a mask because he’s goodlooking or whatever, and he doesn’t want his face ruined.

charlie nash doesn’t even fight, and from those screen shots of that american pie guy in the film. he makes that same anger face through out the whole movie, maybe because he’s piss he didn’t play nash right. charlie kisses that maya girl, and i believe its the only kiss in the movie, which they didn’t need. he kissed her so bison’s men won’t see them, and how they shot it was terrible. i just felt that bison’s people didnt know who nash was, so he didnt had to hide his face. they really didn’t need that made-up character maya either, whose not even in the game.

for chun li, i don’t know what to say, she’s too skinny. there were little shots that got good angles of her face, and during those scenes, it felt like chun li. one part in the film, she does tie her hair like chun li, and if you ask me, it looks bad. she does do the whirlwind kick, but the way they pulled it off on camera, again, looks bad. they made it looked like such a difficult move to do. if u wanna see it done right, watch city hunter or future cops, the way jackie did it, a piece of cake. in some fight scenes, kristin does take hits, but from looking at it, take a real female martial artist, and let her hit kristin, she would be knocked out in total pain.

the guy who plays bison was ok, i guess, of course the look is wrong. he’s blonde with blue eyes, where bison isn’t at all. some of the crap they added in the film, is that bison has a daughter, which is added, in the game, he has no daughter.

other shit i hated about this film, is the concept of “the web”…. and the way everyone says shadowloo. in van damme’s SF, at least they say shadowloo right. here, they make it sound like this “shadow-laao”.

there is training sequences, yeah, and they weren’t all that great. expect a lot of tai chi, which is g@y. like we haven’t seen enough tai chi in films. the special effects ok, and wire work sucked. the street fighting or fight scenes isn’t epic, you’ll probably forget most of it. chun li does do her blast, its call kikoken in the game, and it looks alright, nothing mind blowing. she doesn’t say anything though when she shoots it, just like ryu in the first SF movie. if any of u remember, ryu fights vega at the end, and he shoots like the crappiest hadoken with like poor effects, but he doesn’t say hadoken.

the whole movie, bad. what they had good, …just little parts here and there. i liked the idea of chun li on the streets of bangkok, basically a fish out of water, surviving on the streets, helping the poor, as she’s searching for her father. one scene i liked, was very similar to spider man 2, where these bullies are beating on a innocent person and peter parker, u know, see it. same scene with chun li, and i liked how kristin reacted. she would pass by a poor person, and help. another little scene i liked was when she went by the thai food market and see a lady selling eggrolls, chun li’s hungry, and the lady let her take one, and as li was about to pull out little money she has, the lady lets her have it for free. these are the only scenes i liked, everything else is pretty bad.

i wasn’t feeling the whole relationship between chun li and her dad, which was key, because the movie is all about her. if the filmmakers couldn’t even got us, the audience, to care about chun li’s story, we won’t care when her father dies, and that’s exactly what happened.

ryu and ken aren’t in the movie, including sagat and a tone of others. what piss me off is that, they’re in thailand, sagat is from there, so we should of saw him. at the end they do mention a street fighter tournament, and ryu… but its not enough for a finale, and it doesn’t save the movie from sucking.

Regarding your other comment, I had put out the offer as a joke but if you seriously want to subject yourself to the torture of correcting KFC articles as a volunteer copy editor then fire me an e-mail at mpollard@kungfucinema[dot]com and we’ll talk. I can use all the help I can get.

In an unrelated note, are there any of those copy editor positions still open?

First correction: Jaleel White is the correct spelling for the actor that played Steve Urkel.

I heard mixed reviews for the SF movie. I even watch what the community thought of it on youtube… haha. All I got to say is, the non-martial art movie fans, and the kiddies, some what think it’s average. The hardcore Street Fighter fans, are flaming it like a b!tch. For the people who thought it was ok, I mean come on, …haven’t guys like Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Donnie Yen, and Tony Jaa made their points already in martial art action films? Hollywood is ignoring the real talents, and I hope they don’t make their 50 million dollars back, for being such douches. I haven’t seen the film yet, and I don’t want to lol, but I’ll check it out once, when I’m able to rent it haha.