I guess it’s the film version of the original throwing Kazuya off the cliff scene from the games (though that was later retconned into being because he carried the devil gene, but hey-ho) So at the very end Kazuya meets Heihachi, who then snogs and kills his love interest Laura (Paige Lindquist) and then … leaves. So the way they’ve worked Tekken into what I’m still convinced was another film is that the amnesiac fighter who becomes an assassin for the weird cult is a young Kazuya (Kane Kosugi) who had his memory wiped by his father Heihachi (still Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) in order to teach him to become tougher, apparently. It’s my favourite Tekken character: Jake Roberts! Again, ignoring the title and the last 10 minutes and it would be perfectly good time waster if you’re into this genre…
It’s riddled with clichés like a lead with no memory who can instinctively fight, a crazy religious cult leader to take down, a love interest and a bad ass heroine to go alongside her. Hell, even the plot isn’t bad, until it gets to the end anyway.
It’s a perfectly serviceable low-tier movie, apart from the fact it’s called “Tekken 2: Kazuya’s Revenge” … The fighting is good, well choreographed and quite brutal in places without going too gory with it. A few are okay, but most are… well, suited for such a low-budget movie, let’s put it that way) and you can shut your brain off for an hour and a half and it will pass the time quite harmlessly.
Go in with those low expectations (because trust me, nobody is acting well here. Ignoring the frankly damn near lying marketing for this film and looking at it as a low-budget martial arts action film then it’s perfectly fine. He is brought to a crazy religious cult led by someone only known as “The Minister”, who gives him the letter “K” as his codename and has an explosive surgically implanted in his chest that should he fail his mission or attempt to leave the organization he would detonate…Īll things being fair, some of the fighting is perfectly….
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Is there any point in mentioning the game series in this post? I felt stupid reviewing Tekken 7 alongside this… Well, ignoring all that, is this clearly stand-alone non-Tekken film worth watching anyway? Let’s see…Ī man with no recollection of his past wakes up in an apartment in a district outside Tekken City before he is chased by armed men and nabbed by a female assassin. Hell, Kazuya doesn’t even get his revenge in the film, mostly because it’s a prequel rather than a sequel! Even in the confines of what happens to him in this film his revenge goes unfulfilled. Beyond three character names and two returning actors it’s clearly another script they just slapped “Tekken 2” on top of. Keep in mind that this isn't supposed to be a 100% accurate adaptation of the game, and it'll probably entertain you.So… What on Earth is this? Tekken 2 is no more a Tekken film than I’m a chicken. The story is simple and straight-forward, and I think that's a good thing. Tekken is basically just another fighting tournament movie, placed in a video game setting. Ian Anthony Dale is appropriately villainous as Kazuya, and everyone else is at least acceptable. Kelly Overton doesn't have a lot to do other than look hot in her greatly revised role as Christie, but she's infinitely qualified in that particular area. The main actors are adequate, with John Foo as Jin being a capable fighter and believable enough as an earnest and ultimately good-hearted guy. I have to mention that Tekken looks pretty good, with some impressive sets and a slick, high-budget veneer.
The overuse of flashbacks gets a little old, but that's a much more minor issue than I was expecting Tekken to have. It helps that it makes at least an effort to keep some of the story and characters from the games, while offering frequent decent, if not great, fight scenes. Tekken can't help but look good in comparison to that. It probably helped that the bar is so low for video game adaptations, and that the last such movie I saw was King of Fighters, which was awful to an absurd degree. I'm as surprised to be saying that as you probably are to be reading it. "You will fight, the world will watch, and my legacy will be written with your blood." Tekken actually wasn't half-bad.
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