Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009)
Directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak
When a teenager, Chun-Li witnesses the kidnapping of her father by wealthy crime lord M. Bison. When she grows up, she goes on a quest for vengeance and becomes the famous crime-fighter of the Street Fighter universe.
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We’re past the Double Dragon days, but 2005’s Doom, 2008’s Max Payne, 2009’s Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, and the efforts of Uwe Boll have kept big-screen adaptations disreputable, even while Paul W. S. Anderson’s Resident Evil series has continued to chug along as a reliable moneymaker.
It isn’t needlessly overcomplicated like “Super Mario Bros.” or “Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li,” but it still adds superfluous layers to make itself seem grander.
With so much to look at, Favreau and writer Justin Marks ("Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li"!) are wise to keep the story simple, almost mythic.
Incluso, un gran mérito del guión de Justin Marks (Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, 2009) es que el tigre no ve al humano como un peligro contra su supremacía, sino como una amenaza contra todos los animales de la selva.
Adapting the Rudyard Kipling book while maintaining some of the lighter aspects of Disney's 1967 animation, screenwriter Justin Marks ("Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li") gives us a grand adventure with real consequences built around the theme of finding one's own true nature.
The new “Jungle Book,” directed by Jon Favreau (“Elf,” “Iron Man”) and written by Justin Marks (“Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li”), adds a few characters (including some from the Kipling stories), fleshes out some story elements, and fills almost every frame of its 105-minute runtime with lush, realistic-looking flora and fauna, nearly all of it computer-generated.
With Rudyard Kipling‘s book as a guide, Screenwriter Justin Marks (showing vast improvement from his Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li days) wisely didn’t feel the need to reinvent a classic.
A grand adventure featuring anthropomorphic animals and a lot of heart, the book was a personal work for the authorone which director Jon Favreau (2014's " Chef ") and screenwriter Justin Marks (a long way from 2009's " Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li ") have lovingly conceived for the screen.