Review of Tekken (2010) by Varun V — 05 Aug 2010

"Bad :/ But still the best movie based on a fighting video game so far. Jon Foo rocked".

Sorry, but the cheesy Mortal Kombat is out, the Street Fighters movie`s are blah and DOA is just a torture for your mind. Tekken is more serious and has better action scenes than the other fighting adaptations. Even the acting though still not that good is still at least better than the recent Street Fighter: The legend of Chun Li or Dragonball Evolution which is just laughable through out. your able to get a hang of it as the plot is simple though characters are not properly introduced. Still, Tekken makes up with its non-stop brutal and realistic fight scenes.

Anyway, without expecting a strict adherence to the Tekken game series, this movie actually manages to be a surprisingly entertaining, albeit a little clichéd, adaptation of NAMCO's best selling game series. Moving the action into a dark dystopian future controlled by eight mega-corporations, Tekken follows the story of Jin, a strong hot headed street urchin living in the slums outside "Tekken city", scavenging, stealing and fighting just to get by. This is no big problem for Jin since his mother had trained him from birth to be a gifted fighter. But one night, his mother is killed in a police raid ordered by Kazuya Mishima, the son of Tekken's head honcho, Heihachi Mishima. Among his dead mother's belongings, Jin finds a Tekken Fighter I.D, indicating that his mother had at one time participated in the popular fighting tournament "Iron Fist". Obsessed with revenge Jin joins the "Iron Fist" Tournament in hopes to one day meet Heihachi Mishima in person and exact his vengeance. THe young protagonist soon proves himself a capable combatant under the guidance of one Steve Fox, but unknown to everyone, even Heihachi himself, is a dark secret shared by Jin and Kazuya Mishima.

Overall: Tekken is actually your typical fighting/action movie but what it stands out is the hard-hitting fight scenes. I am sorry to say that I enjoy the movie for what its worth.