Tekken Movie
This was quite a surprise for me when I saw the title Tekken in the dvdrip section of my favorite download site. Based on the long running and highly successful Namco video game franchise of the same name, Tekken is set in the year 2039, where the greatest fighters from around the world come to compete in the last and greatest sporting event of all time, the Fist Tournament.
World Wars destroy much of civilization and 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.
The movie revolves around Jin Kazama, who 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.
The movie is just okay in my opinion because Tekken characters do not have supernatural powers that would have made the movie more exciting (same as Jean Claud Van Damme’s Street Fighter). Still, for Tekken fans, this is a good movie to watch.
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