Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Some things I liked some I did not.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Video fighting games never seem to adapt well to the big screen. In the past we've had the likes of STREET FIGHTER and MORTAL KOMBAT crash and burn and remaining totally forgotten about these days apart from all but the most die-hard action lovers. TEKKEN is another low rent addition to this sub-genre of film-making, a high intensity and noisily violent fighting film without much in the way of story or originality to bother it.The film is based on a Japanese video game and is a Japanese/US co-production. It stars the little-known Jon Foo as Jin Kazama, a poor young fighter who enters a futuristic fighting tournament in order to win glory and riches for himself. What follows is a film chock-full of hard-hitting action which is nevertheless let down by some choppy editing and poor fight choreography. You know the routine in these Hollywood films: the actors never get a real chance to show off their unadulterated skills because the editor is too busy cutting the fights with super-fast editing. It's a shame, but little surprise given director Dwight H. Little's pedigree (which includes HALLOWEEN 4).Still, if you like nondescript action with plenty of added-in special effects, TEKKEN passes the time, just about. Foo is probably the weakest link to me here; I only know him for his brief cameo in WARRIOR KING, but he seems entirely to lack gravitas and depth, even if he does look like the character he plays. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa stars as the tournament director and the ever-scary Cung Le plays one of the rival fighters. Gary Daniels is here too in a typical bad guy part although he's sorely underutilised, which is a shame because he looks fantastic. I was surprised to see Luke Goss on board given that he doesn't take part in much of the action. Lateef Crowder, also from WARRIOR KING, also has a cameo pretty much exactly the same as in that movie.

As a huge fan of the Tekken series, upon finding out about the game being adapted into a film, I honestly never had high hopes in the first place. Normally, video games that are made into a film are normally horrendous (with the exception of Resident Evil) and on seeing the trailer, I knew this would be no exception. First of all, there are a lot of inaccuracies in the film. First of all, Jin (the main character) wasn't introduced until the third Tekken game but it is understandable to have him in the movie as the majority of the games are centred around him. However, Jin was only 15 when his mother died but in the film he was an adult. Speaking of his mother, Jin, in the video game she was murdered by the character Ogre which is the reason why Jin began to fight and enter the King of the Iron Fist tournament, but in the film she is not killed by Ogre but by a bazooka? and Jin goes to the Iron Fist to kill Heihachi, who in the video game was Jin's mentor!I could ramble on more about the inaccuracies like Steve Fox being Jin's mentor, or Paul Phoenix not being involved in the film even though he is in all the games, but there are other criticisms at hand. The acting - TERRIBLE! It was like everyone done a half-hearted performance, not bothered about what events occurred. It was like they were just waiting for filming to end.Characters - Now I know that they can't include every character in Tekken, but they probably had the worst selection ever! They had Christie to play the female lead which makes no sense. They had Sergey, Raven, and others who weren't introduced until Tekken 5 or 6. And Foo, who played Kazama didn't even look like Jin! He wasn't broad enough and they pathetically modified his hair to make it look like Jin only to have it look like an ice-cream cone.And where was Hwoarang in this? Everyone loved a bit of Hwoargie in the games!So overall, I give it a 3/10. The visual effects, the fight sequences and Yoshimitsu's outfit are the only positives about the film. You can tell that they put a lot of work into locations and such with their rather large budget. However, if you're a die hard Tekken fan like me, don't watch it, you will be frustrated. This goes on the list of bad video game to movie adaptations along with Street Fighter, House of the Dead and more. So don't waste 90 minutes of your life watching this frustrating film. Just play the game.Anderson

Now this is a cool movie adaptation of a video game series. I only recall playing Tekken 3 and the arcade game version. When I realized this film existed, I was surprise because while the franchise was popular, it wasn't as big as Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter. So I checked this action out and found myself impressed.Plot: After numerous wars messed up the planet, governments dissolved and corporations took over, the most powerful being Tekken, headed my Heihachi Mishima (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa from Mortal Kombat!). Every year, a tournament called Iron Fist takes place were fighters from different corporations battle each other brutally for the people's entertainment. When his mother gets killed by Tekken's Jackhammer soldiers, Jin Kazama blames Heihachi and decides to go kill him at the Iron Fist tournament, but first he must get past the likes of Bryan Fury, Nina Williams, Yoshimitsu, and other furious fighters that are also at the tournament.This is a true action movie. Brutal fights, diverse cast of characters, sexy women, great use of music, and a cool story. It's awesome that Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa is in this movie having previously played as Shang Sung from Mortal Kombat.I'm not sure why some people didn't like this movie adaptation. I'm sure I did. This is good old-fashion tournament fighting and I highly recommend that you check this out. MORTAL KOMBAT!!! Oh, sorry, wrong game.

I'd like to tell Dwight H. Little a couple of words about Tekken movie. Dwight, what's wrong with you? Have you ever tried to play (or at least watch playing) a Tekken game? I don't think so. Usually cinema shows that famous video game films aren't enough similar to the original game story but you won every negative record with Tekken :) This movie is a complete and personal re-interpretation of the true Tekken story, the only similar things are some characters and...maybe the title. Personally speaking I also liked the story introduction since at the beginning I thought it could show Tekken from another point of view but then...after watching the 1st hour I realized it was all completely wrong and misunderstood, trivial and with so many errors.If you are thinking this is just my personal point of view I invite the reader to search on the net "Tekken film Notable_Differences_from_Game_to_Film" where there's a huge list of wrong things for a Tekken film; starting from the name "Tekken" itself that has NEVER been the name of a corporation, even children know that in every Tekken chapter for over 10 years Mishima's corporation is called "Mishima Zaibatsu", everybody knows that, it's written everywhere.The movie completely ignores some of the key characters of the story, I'll write here only some of the major errors: - Where the hell is Lei Wulong? - Where the hell is Paul Phoenix? - Where the hell is King or Armor King? - Where the hell is Craig Marduk? - Where the hell is Hworang? Hworang!! He is and always has been Jin's opponent, ALWAYS since Tekken 3 - Where the hell is Xiaoyou? Xiaoyou's in love with Jin while in the movie he easily finds love and sex with Christie (absurd!) and an unknown character named Kara (completely invented) - Kazuya also sports beard and mustache!! Have you ever seen Kazuya's face??? - There is no connection or interaction between Steve Fox and Nina Williams despite the fact that they are mother and son!!! - Anna and Nina Williams HATE each other!!! While in the movie they work together! - I wasn't able to understand in the film where Jack was, then I realized it is so different!!! Jack is a robot with the appearance of a BIG BIG man with short hair, big arms, military jeans and boots. In Tekken movie Jack is a thin android-soldier dressed with a samurai-like uniform.