Not screening Street Fighter The Legend of Chun-Li for critics did not protect the film against failure at the box office this past weekend. The film eventually took in just $4.6 million. Sam Adams, who eventually reviewed the videogame-based film for the Los Angeles Times after it opened, concluded "Even with the low expectations The Legend of Chun L i engenders, it still somehow manages to be a letdown." Liam Lacey in the Toronto Globe and Mail , observed that the movie was timed to coincide with the release of Street Fighter IV for the Xbox and PlayStation 3 platforms. "Watching the movie, you can't help wishing you had some buttons to press," he said. And Roger Moore in the Orlando Sentinel summed up "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. Nobody will accuse you of wasting your life." Many newspapers did not bother reviewing it at all.

02/03/2009