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Popular fighting-game franchise Tekken receives the big-screen treatment here in a slick retelling that does its best to encapsulate the game's vast and complicated mythology and still find room for plenty of its signature martial arts face-offs. Set in the not-so-distant future, Tekken is a vast corporation that has risen out of the ashes of several world wars to dominate North America. Its CEO (veteran character actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) placates the downtrodden population with the Iron Fist tournament--a last-man-standing brawl, with wealth and fame to the winner. Among the combatants is Jin Kazama (Jon Foo), a s
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Popular fighting-game franchise Tekken receives the big-screen treatment here in a slick retelling that does its best to encapsulate the game's vast and complicated mythology and still find room for plenty of its signature martial arts face-offs. Set in the not-so-distant future, Tekken is a vast corporation that has risen out of the ashes of several world wars to dominate North America. Its CEO (veteran character actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) placates the downtrodden population with the Iron Fist tournament--a last-man-standing brawl, with wealth and fame to the winner. Among the combatants is Jin Kazama (Jon Foo), a street tough with a vengeance jones against Tekken after its goons murder his mother (Tamlyn Tomita). What follows is a mishmash of fight scenes and subplots involving the true identity of Jin's father and his relationships with other fighters, including Kelly Overton's absurdly semidressed female fighter, all of which comes together in a bland frappe of Not Quite Exciting and Not Quite Camp. Prolific film and TV director Dwight Little hews too closely to the game's cartoonish visuals--Tagawa's slashes of white hair and eyebrows, while correct for the character, look ridiculous--though in truth there's little by way of inventive plotting for such silliness to undermine. Dedicated Tekken fans will probably find the script's shortcuts anathema; one presumes that unassuming newcomers to the franchise or those simply looking for an unchallenging time-killer will be the film's key audience. The DVD includes a behind-the-scenes look at the fight choreography by Cyril Raffaelli (The Transporter, District B13), which at times proves more exciting than the film itself. --Paul Gaita
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Manufacturer: Anchor Bay Entertainment
Release date: 19 July 2011
EAN: 0013132346199 UPC: 013132346199
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