‘Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li’

'Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li' {2stars} (Orlando Sentinel) Anyone who remembers the godawful 1994 Jean Claude Van Damme/Raul Julia film based on the ancient video game "Street Fighter" will be shocked at how much better the new film built around the game's characters is. No, it's not particularly good. The villains are either ninja-clones or generic black-suited thugs. The story is a straight vengeance tale about a daughter seeking to punish the man who murdered her dad. But the casting works, the settings (Bangkok and Hong Kong) are exotic and the martial arts brawls professionally mounted. (PG-13 - 88 minutes) S, V.