An ok fighting movie but the name Tekken and being able to use the characters costumes and names really carries it. If it weren't for those things my rating would probably be a 5. The costumes were pretty good but although they looked the part, most of the actors didn't really give the characters justice. Marshall Law was way too aggressive and not as lighthearted as he is in the games. Like cmon he's not a cage fighter for the Mishima's he owns a restaurant. But of course we want to see the iconic fighting moves! We want to see some electric wind god fists, we want to see some wave dashing and hell sweeps....nope. The only people who actually fought like the actual character were Eddy Gordo and Bryan Fury. The rest of the cast you would see maybe a little hint of the character but for the most part it was just regular martial arts. And yeah Tekken like most fighting games the story isn't super coherent and it can be all over the place but the movie has it all messed up. [spoiler] Kazuya should not be working with Heihachi and he's not even half demon like he is in the game. [/spoiler] I'll give it one thing though, it's way better than the Tekken anime movie that's for sure.

To the best of my recollection, I never played the video game so I'm only grading this on its merits as a movie, not as a big-screen adaptation of the game. That being said, I can only give this a "Meh" rating because it basically sucked except for the fight scenes...and it took forever to get to those. The whole backstory was a major yawner and did very little - well, actually NOTHING - to make me buy into the characters or the whole "revenge" thing. I didn't learn anything interesting about the Jin character, and even less about his mother, his history, the Anvil, the Tekken corporation, etc. Well, wait...I take that back: the first 10 seconds of the movie, the narration explains **EVERYTHING**... right? This not-very-entertaining film was reminiscent of Jean Claude van Damme's _Lionheart_ which is one of my favorite movies of all times...for the fight scenes. I swear, if I could find a collage of JUST the _Lionheart_ fight scenes, back-to-back-to-back, I could watch those over and over....and _Tekken_ was very similar: the fight scenes were kickass, but the rest of the movie just frankly blew chunks. I enjoyed seeing Luke Goss again, after recently watching all the _Death Race_ films but he fell a bit short in his role; one minute he's got a British accent, the next he sounds like a street thug from any decent-sized city in the USA. And like all the others, you got this whisper of a backstory about his character but absolutely nothing to make you feel any attachment. Bottom line: this is a good movie **for the fight scenes** but don't expect anything beyond that. Do yourself a favor and skip ahead to right at the 20:00 mark (okay, you could maybe add 30 seconds and start at the 19:30 mark but it wouldn't add anything except another 30 seconds) and you'll be right at the beginning of the fight scenes. Nothing to get excited about (in the first fight, that is) but you can shave off 20 useless minutes. Seriously. There are no fight scenes in the first 20 minutes, and the lighting is so bad it's hard to follow what little IS going down. I repeat: _Watch this ONLY for the fight scenes._ Don't say I didn't warn you...

Boring watch, probably won't watch again, and can't recommend.

I tried and fell asleep on this 3 times. There is plenty of things happening, but who cares, really?

The movie goes far out of the way to disconnect the audience from the characters, world and action.

Maybe I'll update this if I can ever get through it, but I can't see it being better than what I think it is right now.

Unless you're just a big Tekken fan, go watch "Dead or Alive" instead.

**Tekken blends 80s fighting movie elements with early 2000s action and storytelling to make a decent video game film filled with nostalgia, good choreography, and a ridiculous amount of cheese.**

Tekken is one of the most 80s movies released in 2010! The story follows a dystopian future where evil corporations control the world and throw an annual fighting tournament to appease the disgruntled masses. The slums of this movie look torn right out of Demolition Man or Judge Dredd, and many of the costumes rock the 80s aesthetic as well. But none of that is necessarily a bad thing. As far as video game movies go, Tekken was pretty solid. The character designs stay faithful to the games, the fight scenes are entertaining and have solid choreography, and the acting, while cheesy, is alright. Tekken doesn't do anything new with a script that follows the same beats as The Running Man, Death Race, or any other dystopian death game movie, but that is a reoccurring formula for a reason - it's fun! Without knowing much about the games, I was able to enjoy this cheesy old-school action film that felt equal parts 80s and early 2000s. It's not exceptional, but it is entertaining if you want to enter a time machine to decades past and see some people get punched.