Review of Tekken

Tekken (2010)
5/10
My Review
5 August 2010
Warning: Spoilers
After watching the movie there was lots of things that were really distracting.

1 - the Entire movie does not go with the game storyline, which is kinda pointless of making. The only thing that was similar to the game was the character looks, and they did not even get that done well.

2 - there is no background to the characters being shown, for example the whole world is fallen in to corruption, but how? Jin is suddenly the son of Kazuya, but when did it happen? Jun Kazama fought in Iron Fist, when? Steve Fox knew Jun Kazama, how? lots of things they could have added to the movie to make it better, even though it was not related to the game storyline as many Tekken game players here would have realised very easily.

3 - Character moves was a major issue personally as lots of people that have played the games would have realised that the characters have some pretty nice moves when fighting, the point of the movie is to make people want to play the game but the movie just showed some moves that more or less anyone would be able to do.

4 - The movie does not even state when the story is taking place, but with Dragunov appearing i would suggest it is during Tekken 6 probably, or Tekken 5. But the stage suggests it to be Tekken 4. Jin entering the tournament now suggests it to be Tekken 3, but then Kazuya appearing with a scar now suggests it to be Tekken 4! Wow this is getting really confusing!

5 - The companies that are involved hugely are Mishima Zaibatsu, G Corp. Mishima Zaibatsu lead by Heihachi(Jin takes over when Heihachi was announced Dead in Tekken 5) and G Corp lead by Kazuya.

The game has a very impacting story with the character relationships, the entire Mishima family more or less hate everyone. Kazuya hates Jin and Heihachi, Heihachi hates Jin and Kazuya, Jin hates Kazuya and Heihachi. and then Anna and Nina both hate each other. Heihachi is the rapist not Kazuya, although Kazuya is evil deep down he does have a soft side, from which Jin was born. Heihachi has 3 sons, 2 of which are biological and 1 being an adopted son. The movie although it was slightly impacting the story did not really meet the standards of the game, but it was better than the Street Fighter 2009 movie, but the best Fighting game adaptation in my opinion would be Dead or Alive and Street Fighter(Van Damme) as they had good fighting as well as story, but i do not know much of Dead or alive as i have not played the game.

So overall i would say watch it and make your own judgement on it, as most people that have played the game would not find the movie enjoying. But if you would rather see a better storyline than the movie then i would suggest in playing the Tekken 6.
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