I've seen Blood Vengence and other than Lee Chaolan's "Excellent" dialogue the rest is just bad, it's mostly because I really can't stand Alisha Bosconovitch
The 2011 live-action Tekken movie was actually pretty good.
It's more of a realistic dystopian/social-sci-fi take on the Tekken 5 story and although not all of the characters/interactions are done perfectly (Christy is straight-up butchered in that film), the characters that are done well look spectacular, like "straight out of the video-game 10/10 cosplay" levels of good-looking.
This specific Tekken film from the 90's was trying to tell the story before the retcon. In this iteration, Kazuya sells his soul for power, whereas the video-game lore retconned it to where Kazuya awakened the Devil Gene after being thrown off a cliff by Heihachi.
This resulted in a movie with pretty poor character choices and interactions, especially when considering how Jun was treated. It's a shame to say that this iteration gives her the best character.
I hope the upcoming Netflix adaptation called "Tekken: Bloodline" does better. It's supposed to take place during Tekken 3 and follow Jin's path...The trailer looked okay, but CG anime tends to have visual and artistic limitations.
(If you want to see King and Paul, they are featured in the trailer, but also new characters like Leroy from Tekken 7. I don't know how that's going to be dealt with from a character standpoint, but I am curious)
Last edited by Kazamas-Keyblade at 11:43:19 AM EDT on July 10, 2022.
Dranzerstorm
Master of Lists (Senior Otaku) | Posted 07/10/22 | Reply
@Kazamas-Keyblade:
Also don't be afraid to request an anime to review, especially as this is the most active I'll be for reviewing this month
Dranzerstorm
Master of Lists (Senior Otaku) | Posted 07/10/22 | Reply
@Kazamas-Keyblade:
I've seen Blood Vengence and other than Lee Chaolan's "Excellent" dialogue the rest is just bad, it's mostly because I really can't stand Alisha Bosconovitch
Kazamas-Keyblade
Otaku Legend | Posted 07/09/22 | Reply
Also, we don't talk about the "Tekken: Blood Vengeance" CGI film...The final fight scenes were pretty cool, but everything else was...*shudders*
Kazamas-Keyblade
Otaku Legend | Posted 07/09/22 | Reply
The 2011 live-action Tekken movie was actually pretty good.
It's more of a realistic dystopian/social-sci-fi take on the Tekken 5 story and although not all of the characters/interactions are done perfectly (Christy is straight-up butchered in that film), the characters that are done well look spectacular, like "straight out of the video-game 10/10 cosplay" levels of good-looking.
Kazamas-Keyblade
Otaku Legend | Posted 07/09/22 | Reply
Ooh, a Tekken film review, interesting.
This specific Tekken film from the 90's was trying to tell the story before the retcon. In this iteration, Kazuya sells his soul for power, whereas the video-game lore retconned it to where Kazuya awakened the Devil Gene after being thrown off a cliff by Heihachi.
This resulted in a movie with pretty poor character choices and interactions, especially when considering how Jun was treated. It's a shame to say that this iteration gives her the best character.
I hope the upcoming Netflix adaptation called "Tekken: Bloodline" does better. It's supposed to take place during Tekken 3 and follow Jin's path...The trailer looked okay, but CG anime tends to have visual and artistic limitations.
(If you want to see King and Paul, they are featured in the trailer, but also new characters like Leroy from Tekken 7. I don't know how that's going to be dealt with from a character standpoint, but I am curious)
Last edited by Kazamas-Keyblade at 11:43:19 AM EDT on July 10, 2022.