Release and Reception
The King of Fighters was released direct-to-DVD in the United States on September 7, 2010 through Vivendi Home Entertainment. It was re-released in the U.S. by Well Go USA Entertainment.
Beyond Hollywood gave the film a negative review, saying that it "wastes a lot of unnecessary time trying to convince itself that the audience needs to know everything there is to know about its history (we don’t, by the way), when it should have just accepted that it’s a movie based on a 2D fighting game, spend 10 minutes tops on the explanations, and get to the fighting already." Felix Vasquez, Jr. of Cinema Crazed gave the film one-and-a-half out of four stars, commenting that "yet another semi-classic video game from the nineties is butchered in to yet another half assed lazily made film."
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