If there’s a lesson learned from my completion of the Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, and Super Mario Bros. live-action flicks, it’s that a) I can tolerate the trashiest films ever made and b) I should never hold hope that a fighter will translate into a decent, watchable flick. So when I got word that SNK Playmore’s King of Fighters series, one of the premier 2D fighting franchises around, was making the leap to live action, I expected crap – - and that looks to be what I was given.
Our bud Devindra Hardawar of the wonderfully delightful Slashfilm movie blog crafted a post about the recently released King of Fighters trailer, and, well, I leave it to that good sir to analyze what’s on the screen. Needless to say, it seems to lack a significant level of awesome, but I’ll try my best to reserve judgment until the movie is released. I’ll try.
