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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cijrdspfceU

I guess we needed something to make the Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, and DOA movies look competent. 

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This looks more like a campy Saturday afternoon Action show than a movie.  I've not really played the KOF games-but I'm pretty sure that's not the story line.

Why does it seem like video game movies are getting worse?  Granted, none have been great-but there are few that are good, and some  that are still enjoyable for camp value.   But it does seem nobody is really trying to respect them anymore.

I don't remember who said it, but someone said that video games still haven't had their "Dark Knight."  They still need someone to come along and try to make a movie, as a devoted fan, that is as true to the source material as one can get.  Personally, I liked the Silent Hill movie.  A lot of people didn't, and it wasn't 100% to the source material, but it still actually felt like a Silent Hill movie.  Hell, I'd say it felt so more than other video game movies did.

I sense a disturbance in the movie universe and it's called The King of Fighters.

I heard that there is anime verison of this game series.  There are only 4 episodes and there 10 minutes each... I hear by declare we all watch those and ignore this movie like the crap it is.  I can't believe I found an video game movie worse than Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat 2!

Prince of Persia looks like it might be an X-Men for video game movies...  Something that treats the material with some degree of respect, even if it is flawed. 

That said, this looks like garbage. 

In particular I think Maggie Q was a bit odd for Mai.  Obviously no real woman can look like her and still do action scenes much...

(http://www.mugenation.com/images/chars/King%20of%20Fighters%20XI/J_mai.gif)

But Maggie Q is basically the opposite of busty.  Heh. 

Another big worry is the co-production status.  It's Canadian, Taiwanese, and Japanese with some Hong Kong talent on board.  My experience is productions with so many people from so many different backgrounds often leads to a listless movie..  It's as if producers with too many different ideas weigh down the film somehow.

But, beyond this film looking like garbage...  There are a few interesting choices.

Take the director.  Gordon Chan is one of the best action directors still working in Hong Kong.  Many here probably don't know too many of his films, but he did a couple of decent Jackie Chan films, the hugely popular (but overrated) Fist of Legend, the entertaining 2000 AD, and one of the best action/dramas HK has produced, Beast Cops.  He hasn't done a whole lot worth noting recently though, I might add.  Painted Skin, which has received pretty mixed reviews.

Beyond this factor though, the film is edited by Chan Ki-hop, who is quite good.  He did the recent Beast Stalker (good film), as well as editing 2000 AD and Beast Cops.  Most perplexing to me is, when you have an HK director and an HK editor, why not also use some HK fight choreographers?  They're usually the best in the biz. 

Still though, the two fight choreographers (one of whom also plays Terry, who is more-or-less the main character of the video games) are quite experienced, with films like Ninja Assassin, 300, Next, V for Vendetta, and numerous others under their belt.  Together with Gordon Chan as director, I'd expect at least some decent action scenes.  That's a hell of a lot more than I got out of Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li. 

If nothing else, at least the film only cost $12 million to make, as opposed to $50 million for Chun Li.  So it's far less of a waste of money.

 :hatred: NOOOOOO! This sucks so bad. I love KOF and this looks like it will butcher it.

look on the bright side...
(if there is one)
at least they have Vin Diesel slotted to play Kratos in the God of War movie...
(unless things change before filming)