The Tekken trailer has been making its rounds on the internet. Here's my take: 2010 is not the year that video game adaptations will be rescued from the land of horridness.
What went wrong with this Tekken? Take a look:
It starts out looking alright, but then the bad acting begins. You see some quick cuts of fighters being acrobatic, but then one tatted up fighter taunts "This is Iron Fist!"
OH, IS IT?
Next, we see our first familiar face, Heihachi Mishima. That is Cary Tagawa (Mortal Kombat) He looks a lot smaller than the Heihachi from the games, doesn't he? Some people may hate that they didn't get a super buff octogenarian to play Heihachi, but this movie looks like it needs as many actual actors in it as possible. I'd rather have Cary playing Heihachi over some old meathead.
Then there are some glimpses of the many Tekken fighters. Some are more obvious analogs to their digital counterparts than others.
1. Bryan Fury (?)
2. Lei Wulong (?)
3.Yoshimitsu.
4.Raven.
5.Eddy Gordo.
6. Lee (?)
7. Nina Williams.
This is when the trailer is most faithful to Tekken. You see the match-up screen, the Announcer shouts the names of Raven and Eddy Gordo. (SPOILERS: Eddy Gordo wins :) ) We are then introduced to our young hero, the poor, Mom-less Jin Kazama. I think that this guy is not an entirely terrible actor.Jin gets the "people's choice" spot, which means he comes in off the street and kicks some ass. Jin's love interest (I suppose) is a cornball. Where's Ling Xiaoyu? Speaking of corniness, marvel at how Raven sounds like the Blade Rip-off that he is. Oh man, there is so much to hate in this trailer.
Maybe Kazuya can save this movie. Whoever the guy hiding in the shadows is, that's most likely him. To end the trailer, we get a lot of dull, unimpressive action that doesn't at all hint at the moves the characters pull off in the game. Besides the bad acting and the dull sets is the lack of some big budget effects. If any movie needs to have some flash to it, it's a film based on a bright-colored, flashy game like Tekken. Tekken looks like an college kid did it and blew most of his meager budget on some MMA fighters he found at a local gym. There are no two better words for this trailer than "It stinks!"
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