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Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li is the second movie based on the Street Fighter video game, starring Kristin Kreuk as Chun Li.

SPOILER WARNING: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Chun Li (played by Kristin Kreuk) is kicking ass in "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li "

The movie starts with Chun Li as a young girl learning wushu from her father. Chun Li is another typical young girl whom her parents have groomed into a concert pianist. As a teenager, Chun Li saw her father kidnapped by Bison (Neal McDonough) and his crony, although she was left unharmed. When she grows up, she seeks revenge for what Bison has done to her father.

After one of her typical concerts, she receives a strange scroll with ancient Chinese written all over it. She gets the help of a woman in a store who seems to understand ancient Chinese and tells her to go to Bangkok as her destiny awaits her there to meet a stranger called Gen (Robin Shou). Together with the help of Gen whom mysteriously turns up out of nowhere, Chun Li finds Bison as she knows her father is still alive.

Along the way, Chun Li faces Cantana (Josie Ho), Vega (Taboo of Black Eyed Peas) and Balrog (Michael Clarke Duncan) and Charlie Nash (Chris Klein), the Interpol who wants to nab Bison for the crime he did.

The only signature move you’ll see in the movie is Chun Li’s Spinning Bird Kick. Chun Li can even do a Hadouken after trained by Gen. Otherwise, the fighting scenes in the movie are quite ordinary and boring.

The movie is generally disappointing with very shallow storyline. The characters do not have enough depth, sometimes, the actors playing these characters seem to have just enrolled into an acting school. Kristin Kreuk is best to stay in Television while Michael Clarke Duncan should remain as a Lycan in Underworld series. The special effects are quite pathetic as well, with the sound mixing going the wrong direction.

Overall, the movie is a lousy B-grade movie that wastes time and money. I would say any Paris Hilton’s film, Uwe Boll’s movies and any of the parody movies (i.e. Epic Movie, Disaster Movie) even surpass the film of this caliber.

My ratings: 3 out of 10.

Popularity: 2%

Taboo of Black Eyed Peas marries Jaymie Dizon (Credit: Faded Youth Blog)

Taboo (Jaime Gomez) of Black Eyed Peas marries Jaymie Dizon on Saturday according to People.

The couple were married at St. Andrews Catholic Church in Pasadena, California, two days before the rapper’s 33rd birthday.

The guests included Black Eyed Peas members will.i.am, Apl de ap as groomsmen and Fergie and her fiancé Josh Duhamel.

Taboo will have a solo album to be released later this year and a role in the film Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.

Congratulations to Jaime and Jaymie Gomez!

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Many celebrities are getting hitched in the year 2008. The followings are some of them:

Scarlett Johansson & Ryan Reynolds

Scarlett Johansson & Ryan Reynolds

Taboo & Jaymie Dizon

Taboo & Jaymie Dizon

Portia De Rossi & Ellen DeGeneres

Portia De Rossi & Ellen DeGeneres

Nick Cannon & Mariah Carey

Nick Cannon & Mariah Carey

Jessica Alba & Cash Warren

Jessica Alba & Cash Warren

Ashley Simpson & Pete Wentz

Ashley Simpson & Pete Wentz

Beyoncé & JAY-Z

Beyoncé & JAY-Z

Carla Bruni & Nicolas Sarkozy

Carla Bruni & Nicolas Sarkozy

Do you find any celebrities missing from this list?

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After revealing Kristin Kreuk as Chun Li, Capcom has confirmed other cast members including Neal McDonough as M. Bison, Michael Clarke Duncan as Balrog and Taboo of the Black Eyed Peas as Vega. The movie is one of numerous projects Capcom has in the works to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the famed arcade classic. Street Fighter IV, the latest addition to the franchise, will be released in Japanese arcades this summer.

Neal McDonough as M. Bison

Michael Clarke Duncan as Balrog

Taboo of Black Eyed Peas as Vega

Kristin Kreuk as Chun Li

While Chris Klein and Rick Yune will play Nash and mystical Gen respectively. Other casts include: Moon Bloodgood, Edmund Chen, Cheng Pei Pei.

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