Film adaptations of videogames tend to be absolutely awful – and from the looks of this trailer for Namco’s Tekken the filmmakers aren’t out to change that. It does however look significantly more entertaining than Street Fighter : The Legend of Chun Li and the Dead or Alive movie, but the bar for fighting game movies isn’t set exceptionally high.
The film-makers don’t seem to have taken too many liberties with the Tekken canon which -Â like most fighting games -Â is absurd to begin with. At least it’s an actual fighting tournament, and there seems to be a pretty big focus on actual fighting and most of the characters resemble their in-game counterparts. It looks like rubbish, but at least it looks like fun rubbish. Nobody was expecting Oscar material here.
Trailer after the jump.
Last Updated: January 15, 2010
koldFU5iON
January 15, 2010 at 15:26
I’m in … who’s with me
Geoff
January 15, 2010 at 15:29
Me! Me! Looks good for a laugh and a bit of chopsocky ass kicking.
Fatbob
January 15, 2010 at 16:17
Is Vinny Jones supposed to be Paul? Where is his fro?
spl0it
January 15, 2010 at 16:39
Geoff how can you forget that Candice Hillbrand is in it
KTV *Fap* *Fap* *Fap* *Fap* *Fap* *Fap*
Nick de Bruyne
January 15, 2010 at 18:28
I really think that this is going to be what most people want. We don’t want some bonehead story, we just want the characters from the game to be in a tournament and have some kick ass fights. It’s the reason that most people still have a special place in their hearts for the original Mortal Kombat movie.