areaseven Posted November 11, 2010 Posted November 11, 2010 No surprise at all on this. Tekken Creator Katsuhiro Harada Calls Tekken Film "Terrible" “That Hollywood movie is terrible. We were not able to supervise that movie; it was a cruel contract. I’m not interested in that movie.” Still, as bad as the movie is, it's still much better than The King of Fighters. Quote
Vepariga Posted November 11, 2010 Posted November 11, 2010 yeah its better then most Fighting game films actually...I dont know why its so hard to make a faithful rendition..the amount of source material is mountainous. Quote
areaseven Posted November 11, 2010 Posted November 11, 2010 yeah its better then most Fighting game films actually...I don't know why its so hard to make a faithful rendition..the amount of source material is mountainous. Simple answer: producers don't care. All they see is the title of the game which, to them, is enough to sell the movie. Quote
Oihan Posted November 15, 2010 Posted November 15, 2010 (edited) No links to share, but i heard it over the radio today that Jet Li (who claimed that Fearless was his last action movie) is pretty much 90% agreeable to act in the Tekken Live action movie as the character Boxer. Good/bad news for Jet Li fans....bad news for Tekken fans. If the live action Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat movies are any kind of indication of what to expect...I'll be passing. Edit: I guess it'd help if I read the rest of the thread first and looked at the posted dates.... Edited November 15, 2010 by Oihan Quote
terry the lone wolf Posted November 16, 2010 Posted November 16, 2010 Tekken is probably trash but it's the best of all the garbage. The fight scenes are really good and way better than SF: Chun Li & KOF LA. So in a weird way does that make it a good movie? Quote
areaseven Posted November 16, 2010 Posted November 16, 2010 (edited) Tekken is probably trash but it's the best of all the garbage. The fight scenes are really good and way better than SF: Chun Li & KOF LA. So in a weird way does that make it a good movie? No. It's still a crap movie, as the storyline and characters bear little or no resemblance to the video game. At least Mortal Kombat stayed true to the original concept, despite being much less violent.Here's a more detailed review of the film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCDDP3SkGzg Edited September 2, 2014 by areaseven Quote
SilentCrossHairs Posted November 16, 2010 Posted November 16, 2010 Eddie Gordo fight scene was way to short and yes the movie blows Quote
areaseven Posted April 30, 2013 Posted April 30, 2013 With this movie bombing at the box office and video rentals, you'd think that the producers would learn from their mistakes. Unfortunately, they didn't. Last year, Crystal Sky Pictures announced the development of the prequel film Tekken: Rise of the Tournament. No characters have been cast and no plot has been announced (not like that hurt them the first time around), but Ong-Bak director Prachya Pinkaew was on the director's chair for this. No further announcements have been made since then. Tekken: Rise of the Tournament Prequel in Development Quote
Old_Nash Posted April 30, 2013 Posted April 30, 2013 (edited) Ok... At least there's not a sequence of KoF... Edited April 30, 2013 by Old_Nash Quote
areaseven Posted August 29, 2014 Posted August 29, 2014 (edited) Tekken 2: Kazuya's Revenge Crystal Sky Pictures, 2014 Directed by Wych Kaos (Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever) Based upon characters from the bestselling video game series Tekken by Bandai Namco Games Running Time: 88 minutes Rated R for graphic violence, suggestive sexual situations and profanity. Cast Kane Kosugi (Nakabara in Ninja: Shadow of a Tear, Ryu Hayabusa in DOA: Dead or Alive) as "K" / Kazuya Mishima Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Kwang in Licence to Kill, Roshi in Elektra) as Heihachi Mishima Rade Šerbedžija (Gregorovitch in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, Murad in Taken 2) as The Minister Gary Daniels (Kim in City Hunter, The Brit in The Expendables) as Bryan Fury Kelly Wenham (Julie in Steel River Blues, Jess in Where the Heart Is) as Rhona Anders Paige Lindquist as Laura Charlotte Kirk as Chloe Biljana Misic as Natasha Sahajak Boonthanakit as the Janitor Synopsis A man with no memory of his past is recruited to become an assassin in the slums outside Tekken City. But the more targets he eliminates, the more he begins to discover clues on who he really is. Lowdown Wow... talk about milking a franchise to the bone. Just when you thought Crystal Sky Pictures learned their lesson after their 2009 live-action film adaptation of Tekken flopped big-time, they released another installment just for the sake of keeping the live-action rights to the Tekken franchise. While Tekken 2: Kazuya's Revenge is marketed as the prequel to Tekken, it's so remotely away from the source material that it will be referred to as Generic for the rest of this review. Generic is simply that - a generic martial arts film with the Tekken name slapped onto it. There are only three characters from the Tekken series; everyone else you see here are actors hired to appear on screen. The setting itself doesn't even match that of the first Tekken film. Tekken was set in a dark, Blade Runner-ish dystopian future, where humans are forced to live on artificial food due to the scarcity of real food; on the other hand, Generic's setting takes place mostly on bright sunny days, and people are even growing corn on their backyards. Worse is that the production crew barely did anything to cover up the fact that they were filming in Thailand. Also, as an attempt to keep viewers interested, the producers threw in some hot chicks that can't act their way out of a paper bag. So what else is new? But how about the fight scenes? While there are no shaky-cam shots, the fights suffer from shoddy editing and just being bland. Kane Kosugi is an excellent martial arts actor, but it seems as if his opponents were just lazy or uninterested. Overall, Generic is not the worst fighting game adaptation, as The King of Fighters remains undisputed. It's just a throwaway movie that no one will remember. Rating: D- References The Internet Movie Database Edited September 1, 2014 by areaseven Quote
Old_Nash Posted August 30, 2014 Posted August 30, 2014 I post it in the Worst sci-fi movies^^ Man... Quote
Black Valkyrie Posted August 30, 2014 Posted August 30, 2014 They`d better make a movie, based on this one . Quote
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