Let's be honest here! I'm a KoF fan and I hated this adaptation. But just because I hated it doesn't mean that it was a bad movie.Gordon Chan's team came up with what they called "a new concept" for the movie, and I tried my best to understand it. It really was a challenge not to turn this into a crummy Dead-or-Alive flop, with fighters simply entering a tournament out of the blue. Well, here they really made an effort to fit the video-game concept into our technological society.However, that effort was deemed to fail, for the KoF storyline is really enough; there was no need to rewrite the whole story like they did.Well, it may not be the best adaptation, but it isn't the worst video-game based movie I've ever seen. I mean, Street-Fighter : Legend of ChunLi, DragonBall : Evolution, Dead or Alive etc are way worst than this movie. And I'm pretty sure that the non-KoF fans had some fun watching what is actually simply an action movie with a video-game background.I'm kind of disappointed at some fans' comments here. Of course, it's an adaptation and it isn't supposed to follow everything in the original story, but it isn't the worst movie ever made; stop making it sound like SF Legend of ChunLi was better, because you know it isn't true.I recommend watching this movie without thinking about the source material; it really deserves 5/10, but I give 7/10, just because all the comments of blinded fans really set me off.

(Credit IMDb) Live-action feature based on the video game "King of Fighters". The King of Fighters was shredded of all it's dignity as soon as it entered post-production in my opinion. It was doomed to fail from the start. Despite what you may think, it features some promising talent, but it's certainly not displayed here in any way. The fight scenes feel cartoonish, the production values feel cheap, and I felt like I was watching a boring video-game that had no pride in itself. It doesn't help that most of the characters are corny and unlikable. Maggie Q is the only thing watchable about this movie. What hurts this movie the most though, is the cheesy storyline. I didn't find it to be believable what-so-ever, nor did it provide any entertainment value. Performances. Maggie Q is decent as the lead, and manages to come out of this crap alive somehow. She is much better then the film deserves, and it shows. Sean Farris has promise as an actor, but here his arrogance is his downfall. Unlike Forever Strong where he balanced it with charisma, that is nowhere to be seen here. Will Yun Lee has intensity but that's about it. Ray Park is much too comical and OTT to be effective. He basically threw it away to ham it up like a buffoon as the villain. David Leitch is OK as the agent but nothing more. Francoise Yip is pretty bland in her role, spurting some atrocious dialogue.Bottom line. This deserves its bad reputation. You are wasting 90 minutes of your life that you could easily be doing something with, much more worthwhile. People call Street Fighter bad? At least it knew it was, and managed to make the movie fun. This has none of that. Avoid in every way possible.2/10

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.

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