The King of Fighters

There are some movies that if you are fan of what is about to be told in that movie, you can say "errr.. It's a bad movie i know but what can i do? i love this cartoon/anime/video game etc." i have been playing KoF games more than 11 years but i have never imagined that a movie about this game would be so painful to me. It was total agony. All the characters obviously have been killed by the script writers. Cast is dead. There is a soundtrack in the movie but believe me, if the movie would be a movie without soundtrack no one would argue that. Everything was 'so' awful in this movie that i couldn't believe this movie took rating more than 2. Total mediocre. Pain. Agony. Disaster. Catastrophic. 0/10

I've been watching video game adaptations ever since I was little and pretty much have a realistic sense of what to expect in movies like these, i.e., they tend to be less than stellar and deviate severely from the source material. I saw King of Fighters after I saw Tekken, so the latter became my point of comparison and, therefore, wasn't expecting much from the KOF movie. However,KOF just epically sucked. Based on the credits, there seemed to be so many people involved in this movie and I can't understand how, with all these people, they couldn't come up with a decent movie. The movie had a pretty good A list cast that are all mostly well-experienced and well-respected in the action movie industry, but they all deliver their career worsts in this one movie. The story was idiotic and the script was pointless. The movie runs at a snail's pace and all the action scenes were bland, at best, because just when you think that it's going to be better, it just disappoints. I'm usually very forgiving of movies and understanding of their flaws, but this movie was an epic fail. Maggie Q, Will Yun Lee, Ray Park, and Sean Farris should all be ashamed. It looked like they just did this movie to pay the bills. This is a great example of what not to do in a movie, not just for video game adaptations. They'd have been better off making a porno.

If you are a Kof player, do not watch this. If you are into action/fighting movie, do not watch this. If you love watching good movie, Do Not Watch This. I really have no idea why they made such a movie? Was Dragonball no bad enough?? Have they no learn the mistake?? What is the director or the screen writer thinking?? Iori Yagami looks like a playboy?? Kyo is American Spanish?? (can't really tell what nationality he is, but he sure is not the Kyo we are expecting), maggie Q as Mai? And who is that guy using the 2 sticks? Rugal?? not Mr.Big??? No to mention the other characters, i am really speechless. This is not X-Men, or Spider Man, or one of those American superhero story, which was successfully turned into movie. This Is Kof. You simply just can not find a bunch of people, film some really bad fighting scenes, slap a movie together and call it Kof. Sorry about the complain, but I had to hold my anger for 1 and half hour, just so i can see it to the end, and be sure how hopeless this movie is before i made this post. I wanted to give this a 0 star rating, but the lowest is 1 so yeah. It's bad.

The King of Fighters tournament is one in which participating members are transported to an alternate dimension to engage in a fight. This is made possible due to three ancient artifacts that allow this dimension to exist. The members come under threat when Rugal (Ray Park), a previous member of the tournament, steals the artifacts and begins to manipulate the other dimension to his own liking so as to kill anyone who enters it. It is left to Mai (Maggie Q) and Iori (Will Yun Lee) must enlist the help of Kyo (Sean Farris) to defeat Rugal before too many lives are lost. The film adaptation of The King of Fighters loosely follows that of the original King of Fighters '94, with some elements from '95, in which Rugal starts the tournament so as to get some excitement into his life. The most notable difference in the adaptation is that the tournament is already established and also that the fighters need to be in an alternate dimension in order to fight in a way which resemble the original game. The science fiction-esquire twist on the narrative makes for an intriguing story but the films never really explores the concept. The story is fashioned in a linear manner, with the odd reference to past sequences to help explain certain information. Unfortunately, the plot is fairly thin: it presents opportunities for further development but these avenues are never fully explored. The acting quality is not exactly great but this is somewhat understandable considering the cast. That said, no actor ever falls prey to evidently poor acting and with more depth to the script a better acting prowess could have been shown. Actors generally take their roles seriously: Park seems to enjoy the eccentric nature of being a villain while the likes of Maggie Q, Lee and Faris portray the motives of their respective characters adequately enough. The overall filming quality suggests that the film-makers had a low budget to work with. The King of Fighters appears to be filmed more like a television show then an actual movie but that does not stop some fairly enjoyable action sequences, yet these only become common in the latter half. CG becomes present mainly towards the end and looks low-key but nonetheless workable. Beyond the makings of a possible girl-on-girl scene, there is no nudity or sexual content present. Language is tame and infrequent while violence is frequent throughout the film without ever being gory or bloody. There is no doubt that The King of Fighters is a missed opportunity. With some obvious reworking to the script and story, and a better budget, the film could easily have been a more commendable entry for video game-to-cinema adaptations. What really needed to happen was the fleshing out of the characters and the overall narrative to create a more cohesive product. That said the story, actors, and some decent action scenes, are adequate enough to carry The King of Fighters to its conclusion and miss a definitive K.O.

As a true KOF fan I thought this movie was more than I expected. From start to finish, the characters were great, my favorite was Rugal (played by Ray Park who is notable for his roles as Darth Maul, Snake eyes etc). Maggie Q who is one of my favorite actresses play Mai, and very well at that. Iori looked extremely elaborated, his costume was great and so was his fighting. Kyo Kusanagi did a great job, his acting, his costume, everything about him, and his fighting was great. Mr. Big from the Art of Fighting shows up in the beginning of the film, he faces Mai, great addition to the film, I couldn't believe they included him. The story is extremely well adapted to the game, The basic plot is that they have to retrieve the Kusanagi sword which Rugal stole, it was one of the three relics. Iori, like in the game holds the orochi, which contains infinite power, which is why he stopped fighting in order to prevent him from hurting anyone, like Kyo's father, Saisyu Kusanagi. Overall, Great Movie to a great game!

Hand on heart, then I am not a fan of movies based on fighting games, but this one topples all the rest. It pretty much sums up the definition of bad movies. "The King of Fighters" suffers horribly from an very weak and basically non-existent storyline. And whatever little was there just didn't work. Come on, putting in an ear piece and then press a button and you go to an alternate dimension to fight? Yeah, that was perhaps the most epic fail of the entire movie. Also, the movie suffered from a lack of acting talents. Surely there were some scenes that were alright, but in general the acting performances in this movie was painful to behold. And also the actors/actresses didn't really have much of a solid dialogue script to work with. And also the characters portrayed in the movie never grasped you, they were shallow and had no personalities, so it was hard to relate to any of them or get any kind of emotion for any of them. Now, what did work for the movie, was the CGI effects. They were actually adequate enough to look at. I especially liked the regular flame and blue flame effects, they looked cool. Some of the fighting scenes were good enough to look at, and had just the right amount of speed and action. But most of them actually were strenuous to the eyes and came off as half-hearted, forced attempts of making a fight scene. I wonder what made Maggie Q agree to participate in a movie like this. Usually her movies are somewhat further up the ladder compared to this movie. If for no other reason, at least her appearance is a treat for the eyes. There are way too many movie versions of fighting games out there, and 99% of them doesn't translate well to a movie screen. And "The King of Fighters" is one of them. I actually fell asleep and was out for 20 minutes during this movie, it was just that boring. I am sure that the director had the best of intentions at heart, but there is no need to make a movie out of a fighting game that has long gone out of date. If you are into action movies and movies based on fighting games, "The King of Fighters" should be avoided, you are better off watching something like "Mortal Kombat" instead. This movie is not really worth the effort. I wasted an hour and a half on this (well more like an hour, as I was out for 20 minutes or so), and this is definitely not a movie that I will be returning to ever again.

The King of Fighters is a recent adaptation based on a fighting video game. The previous one is Tekken. I believe this is only released in Singapore. I prefer Tekken to this. Actually, this isn't so bad, it is just...average? Again, I am not a video game fan but by seeing the comparison chart between the video game's characters and movie characters, this fails. And the thing is the acting isn't that good, even Maggie Q's is sort of sloppy. Still, the acting is better than Street Fighter: Legend of Chun Li but that is not saying much. The only thing good is the fighting scenes with some CGI added. The story: Nothing much actually...it is actually boring if not for the fight scenes. The story is straight forward, the good guys want to catch/kill the one and only bad guy. I can clearly see that this has a small budget and I think this will be released straight to DVD in other countries. The acting is disappointing. Maggie Q is also not doing her best acting. Ray Park, well, acts like a generic bad guy. Evil eyes and laughing evilly. The fight scenes are okay, the CGI is okay for a movie with a small budget. The music is over-the-top and generic. I feel that the music does not even match some scenes and is just there for the sake of being there. When they talk, there is techno music...just plain weird. Overall: It is just mediocre. It is nothing special. It is just disappointing too. I believe it can be improved in ways. Gordon Chan's directing is also disappointing. This is a movie that if you miss it in cinema, you won't miss much. Except for the cool fight scenes with CGI and Maggie Q, there is nothing much this movie can offer.

I've just watched recently & I must say The King Of Fighters movie is a pile of junk, it's not even the miscast problem but the whole thing in this movie is extremely mediocre. & this is the worst movie I've ever seen in 2010, thank God I didn't have any expectation at all on this because I knew it... OK, from my point of view why the whole thing is mediocre is from the story itself were inarticulate & slight over from the game(Sigh, video games adaptation), the setting isn't appealing & clearly out of the budget, special effects are way too flashy & completely stupid looking, little fight scenes & yet too short, & the most bugged me is the miscast of the characters. Here's my opinion: Mai Shiranui: Maggie Q ruined the character a lot. Nothing look alike from Mai which got a trademark sexy bouncing *, yet she didn't have any Japanese style at all. In here she's depicted to be carefree & serious, not funny like in the game. The fighting style were inartistic & she didn't feel like a good fighter. Mai as main character is fail, totally fail. Kyo Kusanagi: Sean Faris really destroyed the character with his inappropriate looks which is Caucasian ! Here his role is inarticulate, he didn't have his Kusanagi flame trademark, he's incredibly weak to be a fighter, & his fighting style is pathetic. Funny thing, his young version is Asian in here. Gordon Chan... This is a big mistake of what you've done to Kyo Kusanagi. Iori Yagami: Even though Will Yun Lee is Asian he's not suitable to be Iori Yagami, yet, stupid hair cut that he had. Here he act like a rich man & charismatic, his personality is serious & good. Unfortunately in the game he's a violent person. Actually, I kinda like his character if he's not Iori in here. The fighting style is pathetic like Kyo but skillful than Kyo, his special effects are way too flashy & why blue? The reason why I want to watch this movie, is because of my curiosity on Iori turning to Orochi Iori. & Honestly only this thing that cheered me when watching this flick, unfortunately I hate the story why he got the Orochi blood. Too bad, Iori is also my favorite character. Terry Bogard: Not again, one of my favorite character... Another failed attempt for him, especially making him as an CIA agent, again besides not resembles to Terry. David Leitch really annoyed me, & horrible acting that he played. Plain stupid & totally fail for him. Rugal Bernstein: Ray Park as Rugal? Thank you Gordon Chan for messing the KOF film & turned down the fans... Rugal here is just another big failure like other characters in here. his villain role in here is depicted to be a powerful fighter with crazy & merciless personality, not charismatic like in the game. In here it is shown that he treat the lady horribly even killing Chizuru & the statue that he had is super mediocre... Definitely not Rugal at all. Chizuru Kagura: Again & again... OK, I'll just say my opinion on her in here. My thought she's boring but since her role isn't big I kinda confused to judge her completely, yet Chizuru wasn't my favorite character so I don't know much about her. Vice & Mature: I think their character were too resembles like other video games adaptation, being a henchmen for the bad guy. So, they're completely boring IMO. Saisyu Kusanagi: Hahaha, he's nothing look alike with his son at all... & funny thing he looked like an comedian instead of fighter. The rest... Well, just like other video games adaptation about family relationship in martial arts. & that's boring once again IMO. That's all that I can say about the characters, & after u read this you'll be noticed that none of the characters in here were resembles like in the game, but that's just my opinion. Lastly if you loved the games so much(KOF fans), this is a big mistake for you to watch it. Even for action lovers this film had a few action scenes, yet it is short & stupid IMO... But that's up to you whether you want it or not, just judge them by yourself.

this movie is so bad, just like any other movie made by Hollywood based from best selling game, anime, etc it's sucks. it's humiliating the original king of fighter story and character. weak story, wrong placement for the character, ooh it's to much bad things to said about this movie. how can the director put old people to play the character, Mai Shiranui, Iori Yagami, their suppose to be in their 20's not their 35th. Kyo Kusanagi doesn't pronounced as Kiyo Kusanagi and he's the inherit of Kusanagi Klan, instead he looks like a member of power rangers, Rugal Bernstein seems to have an eating disorder he supposed to be has a body like Dolph Lundgren, not Rob Schneider. next time just let the Japanese handling this type of movie instead.. Hollywood this is not something you can handle with so get lost..

THE KING OF FIGHTERS – TRASH IT ( C ) What a joke it was? I actually knew that it's going to be a trash from the promos but I love Sean Faris, so I just wanted to see him. After Never Back Down, he hasn't got major breakthrough neither on Movies nor even on T.V. He is stunning and gorgeous as hell. The movie's story is immature and the graphics are worst than games. The fighting sequences were immaturely directed though the end fight was watchable. The movie's is budget is around $12 Millions, which is seriously hard to believe because there was no production value at all. Sean Faris and Maggie Q were the only good things in the movie. They made me go through all the whole movie with all the hideousness was going on in it. Will Yun Lee did a good job and all other supporting actors were okay. Overall trash it and don't waste any money on it, even if you love Sean Faris, just watch "Never Back Down" Again and if you love Maggie Q, tune in to "Nikita" every week on CW, its freaking Awesome.