Saturday, February 28, 2009

Street Fighter The legend of Chun Li

Starring Kristin Kreuk,Michael Clarke Duncan,Chris Klein.

Ive done it!!!!Ive found the single worst performance by an actor in the last 25 years.His name is Chris Klein.Folks, ive seen roughly 2000 movies in my life and there have been some whoppers along the way in terms of lousy performances, but this is by far and away the most ridiculous thing that I have ever seen.Klein is soo bad here,that its almost hard to pick a starting point to try to explain to you in words just how truly awful he was.I can start by telling you that this "movie" was actually released in part to promote a video game and not the other way around as is usually the case, so it is more or less a 90 min commercial for the game.That being said...Good grief.I know for a fact that the video game is going to deliver better acting than its live action counter part.
I laughed every time Chris Klein appeared on screen and uttered any lines and was simply left with my jaw agape after every scene as he managed to out awful himself.In a guilty and somewhat evil spirited way, I hope that you all go and see this movie (sneaking in, being the best way) and endure what I did, so that we may have a round table discussion about this fantastic piece of garbage.
To give Chris Klein a break for a bit, I will move on to other horrific details like how in one of the main characters close ups, you can see the glue from his dollar store wig showing.Then we also have some of the cheesiest special effects this side of student films,with pyro footage seemingly stolen from a Great White concert, producing equally disastrous results.
This movie changed the way I think about production values and actors as a whole.You can seldom cut corners with certain aspects of a big budget production, but when when you start cutting corners in multiple facets, then my friends,you've got Street Fighter.
From the hokey inner dialogue that opens the story and continues through out, to the rampant lack of talent on screen, this movie deserves a special wing of its own for the Razzies next year.I am hard pressed to come up with anything nice to say here about this one, but I will try.Ummmm...o.k, here it is,Kristin Kreuk's stunt double (despite being 25lbs heavier)did a fine job.
Rating: 1 and 1/2 acting lessons refunded out of 5.

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