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Summary: When young Jin Kazama (John Foo) discovers an opportunity to avenge the death of his mother, he enters a martial arts tournament sponsored by the futuristic Tekken Corp. to gain access to the man he wants to punish. But as Kazama closes in on his goal, he uncovers dark secrets regarding his own past and the true nature of Tekken.
The main character's bizarre Elmer Fudd-esque accent makes him impossible to take seriously, and the storyline is idiotic, but at least everyone resembles their character in the video game, which is more then you can say for the King of Fighters movie.
This is basically Bloodsport without the excuse of being from the 80s. Everything is smothered in huge clichés and the fight scenes are not very impressive. The only good thing is the amazing looking women with their skanky outfits which probably belong more in soft core porn.
For the uninitiated it's the definition of mediocre martial arts/action film. For the fan again it doesn't hit the right spot, too much nonsense, too few fights and although not bad, generic fights at that. Lastly it should be renamed Jin-the movie.
It actually started off pretty promising I thought. I thought, "Hey, why does everyone hate this? This isn't so bad." Then the movie proved me wrong. The plot became stupid, fights became dull, acting was always kinda bad anyway. Just a shit movie.
Tekken's in my all-time top 10 favourite pastimes, so I was looking forward to seeing a ridiculous movie adaptation of it; figured it couldn't be worse than the second Street Fighter movie. Fortunately, it isn't, but it's still an objectively bad movie that doesn't draw anywhere near enough from its source material. Enough of that GGS; Tekken has an absurd amount of moves for every character--why not use them in the film? And where're Xiaoyu and Panda at, hm?
Profoundly dull film version of the game. The fights are dull, the action is dull, the story is dull. The only thing that isn't dull is the lighting which reminded me of video games back when coloured lighting was a new feature and everything was bathed in greens and purples for no reason. If you really liked the games then maybe the familiarity with the characters will be enough to delude you into thinking this is a good film, but you'd be wrong.