I’ve been reading the train wreck of reviews about Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li. It has a score of 17% on MetaCritic! I like how some reviews reached the same conclusion as me:
The problems with Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li began with the casting of dead-eyed, sleepy-voiced, charisma-impaired automaton Kristin Kreuk as the titular piano-playing/fighting machine, and they continue with every other miserable facet of the production. Kreuk delivers her lines like a first-grade Sunday-school teacher addressing her students, and she boasts the energy and magnetism of a department-store mannequin.
Although, it’s not really a fault of Kreuk’s. You see, she became an actress because of her looks, and that’s really the only thing she has going for her.
She had plans to study psychology, environmental science, or forensic science at Simon Fraser University when a casting director for the CBC TV series Edgemont contacted her secondary school, looking for an exotic-looking girl to play the part of a Chinese Canadian, Laurel Yeung on the Vancouver-shot show. Kreuk’s drama teacher convinced Kreuk, who had no previous acting experience other than in musicals at her high school, to audition for the role. To her surprise, she won the part.
I don’t think she won the part due to her acting skills.
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