The trailer for the live action movie TEKKEN is finally online, via teaser-trailer.com and I gotta say.. Ya know ho Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li last year gave us migraine?! The movie was so bad, the audience felt suicidal after viewing?! Well, TEKKEN might just be this year’s Chun-Li. From bad acting, to bad plot, to bad characters who knows. The list could go on and on and on. I’m just hoping the fight choreography would be decent enough to make this movie bearable. Brought to you by the director of Anacondas: The Hunt For The Blood Orchid, that should tell you much. Starring Jon Foo as Jin Kazama and on the bottom are small shots of the other characters, Eddy Gordo (Lateef Crowder), Anna Williams (Marian Zapico), Nina Williams (Candice Hillebrand), Kazuya (Ian Anthony Dale), Heihachi (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa), Christie (Kelly Overton), Raven (Darren Dewitt Henson), and Bryan (Gary Daniels). Watch the trailer and read the synopsis after the jump…
Based on the long running and highly successful Namco video game franchise of the same name, TEKKEN is a high-octane, action packed thriller written for the screen by Alan McElroy (Spawn, The Marine) and to be directed by Dwight Little (Anacondas, Murder at 1600) with fight choreography tentatively by Dion Lam (Spider-Man 2, Doom, Red Cliff).
Set in 2039, the film promises non-stop high flying action as the greatest fighters from around the world come to compete in the last and greatest sporting event of all time, the Fist Tournament. After World Wars destroy much of civilization as we know it, the remaining territories are no longer run by governments, but by corporations the mightiest of which is Tekken. In order to keep the masses down, Tekken sponsors the Iron Fist Tournament in which fighters compete to the death for ultimate glory and receive a lifetime of stardom and wealth.
We are introduced to this violent world through the eyes of Jin Kazama, a street fighter that enters the tournament in order to avenge the death of his mother that he blames upon Tekken’s powerful and controlling Chairman, Heihachi Mishima. He knows that the only way to get close enough to Mishima to kill him is to win the tournament. With the help of Lucas, an ageing Iron Fist Champion and fight trainer, Jin makes his way through the tournament, but in doing so, he begins to uncover his own past and inner demons as well as exposing a dark underbelly to Tekken that threatens the very existence of humanity. With futuristic and imaginative sets, a compelling story, and fight sequences combining fighting styles from all over the world. TEKKEN is in line to become one of the greatest action films of all time.
The sound editing was atrocious. It seemed they were more worried about the song being loud enough than what was actually happening in the scenes.
I wouldn’t expect anything more
No Rama Tekken WILL be this year’s chun li or even better this year’s DOA.