Starring Jon Foo, Kelly Overton, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Ian Anthony Dale, Tamlyn Tomita, Candice, Hillebrand, Luke Goss, Gary Daniels, Mircea Monroe
Directed by Dwight H. Little
Produced by Steven Paul, Benedict Carver, Iddo Lampton Enochs
Screenplay by Michael Colleary, Alan B. McElroy, Mike Werb
Story by Namco
Narrated by Jon Foo, Kelly Overton
Music by John Hunter
Studio Crystal Sky Pictures
Though Tekken is the first live action film in the franchise, we somehow got the feeling that they just thrust us into the action in the middle of the movie. There is a voice over – quite similar to the voice overs of the 80s and 90s videogames that we played, which tells us about the Earth has fallen and is now ruled by some eight to ten companies – ho hum –and how America is now ruled by Tekken, a company that hosts an annual Iron Fist tournament.
The Iron Fist tournament is something like a state level or national level blood sport, the winner of which will go to the international tournaments and according the movie, will achieve something. Though what a fighter will achieve by just beating up ten to twenty people with their bare fists when the whole world is down in dystopia is unknown to us.
Jin, someone who carries Anti Tekken contraband for the rebels to buy coffee and oranges for his fighter mother and for chocolate for his kind of girlfriend is against everything Tekken, but still does not take up the fight against them. He only joins the tournament when the rebel base is found out, and the authorities kill his mother, as they search for him. At the tournament, he meets other fighters, and unravels some secrets that are as relevant to him as they are to the world.
Most of the happenings in Tekken place in the night, and therefore there is never an actual occasion for the director to show his directorial skills. And then, the entire world is either a run down, dystopian world or a world that is full of glass buildings, so there is not much props that the director can use too. The screenplay of Tekken is quite old school, and it has nothing new to offer on all quarters. Tekken seems to be a confused movie. They did not understand whether they should make an intense, emotional movie or whether they should make a pulpy, campy movie – and what we get is a middling affair between the two.
The screenplay is clichéd at best and uninspired at worst. Tekken seems to be a hotchpotch of several story arcs taken from the different action movies and made into one big brouhaha. The supporting characters are clichéd, the molls are clichéd, and the villain is of course, the biggest cliché and even the main protagonist is almost a spoof of the original character in Tekken. But then, you cannot actually do much out of a fisticuff arcade game that had a wafer thin plot anyway.
Special mention should be made about the action scenes. The makers of Tekken, and the distributors who got the movie into India seem to be complete disconnected with reality. Today, when our homegrown Production Houses make action sequences like the ones from Wanted, Dabangg, Robot and now Singham, we fail to understand what made them release such dated action sequences. Granted that there is a market that wants real-to-real, dirty, gritty hand to hand combat, but the action sequences here make the ones in Blood Sport, the original movie look like a classic.
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