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...