- Box Office Bomb: Budget, $12 million. Box office, $2,370,600.
- California Doubling: Vancouver once again doubles for several United States cities.
- Directed by Cast Member: Of a sort; David Leitch, who played CIA Agent Terry Bogard, also directed the film's fight sequences.
- Dueling Works: With Tekken (2010), another adaptation of a popular fighting game released in the same time frame. Notably, both were box office bombs and released direct to video in the USA.
- Fake Nationality: Most of the Japanese characters are played by non-Japanese actors; including Maggie Q (Vietnamese-American), Will Yun Lee (Korean-American), and Françoise Yip (Chinese-Canadian).
- Fake Mixed Race: Kyo Kusanagi is made half-Asian (Japanese) and half-Caucasian in this film (complete with showing a picture of his parents, showing that he has a Japanese father and an white American mother), but is played by Sean Faris, who is (very obviously) wholly Caucasian.
- Invisible Advertising: The only mention of the film was when it was announced, afterward, nothing. It came and went without much fanfare. Many didn't even realize the King of Fighters video game series has a film.
- Old Shame: Essentially for SNK, they've never mentioned this film in any way, shape or form, not even in a mocking capacity. Considering it has virtually nothing to do with the games outside of some scant plot details, you can't blame them.
- Star-Derailing Role: This seems to have happened to Sean Faris (Kyo Kusanagi). Before this film, he had supporting roles in films like Pearl Harbor and the 2005 remake of Yours, Mine, and Ours, culminating in him having the lead role in Never Back Down. However, after appearing in this critically and commercially disappointing film, his only acting roles have been in guest roles on TV series and on Hallmark television movies.note
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