He leaps from his hotel room, bumps his head and joins an assassin cult group lead by The Minister (Rade Serbedzija).
K (Kane Kosugi) escapes from a swat team that can only come at him two at a time, although there are a dozen of them coming up the stairs. Soft plot spoiler review, I give you an idea about the ending, although I omit the details. Keep in mind that this isn't supposed to be a 100% accurate adaptation of the game, and it'll probably entertain you.Reviewed by nogodnomasters 5 / 10 I HAD ISSUES WITH HIM 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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