Tekken - The Movie

In case you're not an avid, or even casual gamer and don't know what Tekken is, it's possibly the last huge fighting franchise to get well-earned attention and a movie. The series involves six main games that continue a main story arc, plus four Spin-Offs, and three others (remakes/supplements, as wiki calls them). The series revolves around The King Of The Iron Fist tournament, and the winner of who is showered with wealth and fame, so naturally it's a fighting game/movie like Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter. The main character is Jin Kazama who may or may not depending on how the film wanted to run with it, have dark, supernatural abilities that give him an edge in the fights, but moral qualms outside.

Some might complain about the selection of video games that get officially turned into movies despite a lot of dancing around and empty-promises. I've heard a main complaint being that games with a fully developed story like Halo and and BioShock get snubbed, but really, what's the point in making those into movies? Sure it would be interesting to see who gets cast, but if you're just going to do a shot-by-shot live-action version of what happened in the games then how talented of a director, producer etc. do you need? Personally, I'm excited about this movie, though the weapons turn me a small bit away. It's a primarily marital arts game series, so I'm not sure where the weapons come in, but hopefully it isn't too early in the movie to desensitize us.

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