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Tekken: Review By MovieWiz001

Don't worry, it was a Red Box rental... which was still not worth it. When this movie was coming to production, I was excited to see the outcome. "Tekken" is considered to be one of the best fighting games ever created. My brother and I always play these games throughout our childhood. As the trailer to the movie released, my hopes went down just a tad bit. So, it took us a year to realize that the film was not coming to our area and that's when we looked upon its DVD release. Hey, we're not stupid, we rent it. The movie was going good at the start, because they ere not so lazy on the settings and the action sequences. For example: recent fighting game adaptation, "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Lee" was an extremely odd and lazily created film project. The graphics in the film were very unnecessary and off the wall, like how that guy busted into a pregnant woman and pulled out the baby, alive. Even that obvious photo shopped explosion at one scene. When it comes to "Tekken" they actually blew up stuff and had a wide set. Although, as the film went further, it started to lose me and I just wanted to force that "power" button. The year is 2039. World wars have destroyed everything and territories are run by corporations, the mightiest -- and cruelest -- of which is Tekken. Jin Kazama (John Foo) witnesses the death of his mother Jun (Tomita) by Tekken in the slums known as Anvil. Vowing vengeance, and armed only with his street smarts and raw fighting skills, he enters a dangerous and potentially deadly combat tournament, where he must defeat the world's most elite fighters to become the "King of the Iron Fi-zzzzzzzzzZZZ It's so unbelievable that this is the director of "Free Willy 2" and "Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid", because Dwight H. Little tries as hard as he can in his films, usually, but his latest video game adaptation doesn't carry his name.

TEKKEN

THE PLOT THUS FAR

Jin Kazama witnesses the death of his mother Jun by Tekken in the slums known as Anvil. After finding a Tekken ID he decides to seek out vengeance for his mother’s death.

 

W HAT WE THOUGHT

“Tekken” is about a handsome and rebellious Jin Kazama (Jon Foo) who gets reluctantly drawn into the Iron Fist tournament organised by the mighty Tekken Corp. Jin learnt to fight from his mother Jun (Tamlyn Tomita) who also warns him to stay away from Tekken and the Iron Fist tourney! Of course, one thing leads to another and Jin finds himself in the highly-publicised tournament where he must fight contestants twice his size and having triple his experience. These are heavies like the ‘bionic’ Bryan Fury (Gary Daniels) and Russian contender Sergei Dragonov (Anton Kasabov). No prizes for guessing if Jin would tip the odds.

With fast-paced action, brief dialogues and some dazzling fight sequences, one can easily get taken away by the Tekken action, even if they are ludicrous and downright incredulous. The plot is predictable, even with its twist involving Jin and chief villain Kazuya Mishima (Ian Anthony Dale) and his father Heihachi (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa). Indeed, the narrative barely helps to sustain the action sequences – and the fighting scenes get repetitive and stale in the second half of the film.

The fights were pretty entertaining, though I wish they would have shown the actual fighting styles that match with the actual styles stated. In the movie, it states Raven does Ninjitsu and Dragunov does Sambo, Heihachi’s fighting action was way too limited (interrupting Jin’s fight with Yoshimitsu to save Jin and that’s it), and Anna didn’t fight at all in the tournament, she does attack Jin in the darkness with her sister Nina, but it’s very short and hard to see cause they fight in the dark. Also,final fight between Jin and Kazuya was very disappointing – I was very let down by how short and how weak they made Kazuya.

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