This is one of the worst martial art movie ever made. It's a mix of wire fu, no sense story, bad fights and soap opera lines that make you cringe. All of the 'fighters' are to thin to last one min. in a tournament and they move so blind, with clumsy techniques, even a train will pass through their so called defense. Dimensions/alternate dimensions is the holly place of bad movies, because you don't need a logical explanation, just some hocus pocus 'magic' hints. Add technology aka computers and phones to this magic world and voila! the other planes are open for fun ! To make matters worse there is no semi/full contact bouts, just the usual shaky camera and telephoned moves even a kid could see from miles away. The worse point, who made me fast forward the rest of the movie, was the introduction of the white 'fighter' aka Sean Faris. Kyo Kusanagi is Japanese, not caucasian and the funny part lurk around the corner. He is Japanese as a kid in flashbacks, but turn full American later one !? In the end it doesn't really matter for the producers, who cast Korean and Chinese in Japanese roles, because they forget the cardinal rules of MA movies. If you don't have a story, make the bouts realistic. If the fighters are bad, make the story interesting. If both the story and fighters are bad, hire a couple of good stunt men.
Review of The King of Fighters
