Tekken Film

Ten years ago, when I was 18 years old, I went to a kid's birthday party. He was my mother's godson and he had a Playstation and I ended up playing a few matches with my sister. We played Tekken 3 and I remember I particularly enjoyed the fact that once we ended up a full round with a player we could see his or her story. I loved the idea of kicking someone's ass and have a motive for that. It wasn't just violence since the game actually has a plot. So we bought a PSOne plus Tekken 3 and we've been following the game ever since. It was such a rush to play Tekken 4 and 5...and a few years ago it was finally announced a film. Like all other games that were adapted into films Tekken ruined the magic. I had the displeasure of watching the film this weekend and I was shocked beyond belief. The argument was cliché and Alan B. McElroy missed the game's plot and focused on something just slightly related to the original story. I guess they thought the fans would be satisfied by simply watching the characters in their trademark costumes. WTF! I felt like I was wacthing some random film from which I didn't know anything when in reality I know pratically everything about the Tekken plot and its characters. The battle scenes are pretty good, I have to admit that, but the rest is just plain stupid. One thing Tekken fans are used to is to see Heihachi Mishima as one of the most badass bosses of the Mishima Zaibatsu and in the film Heihachi is a nice old granpa. Kazuya is a cold and heartless rapist and a womaniser who has two lovers as bodyguards: Anna and Nina Williams (in the game the sisters are mortal enemies and under no circumstances they would share a man!!!). Jin is a brave young man, who knows nothing about his father and finds out that his mother was once raped by Kazuya. It also seems he inherited his father's taste for women because he has a girlfriend back at home and still flirts with Christie, who by the way is not related to Eddy in any way, although in the game she's his student. So they mixed fighters from all the games and left out several who are important to the story. I especially noted the absence of Xiaoyu, Julia Chang, Paul Phoenix, Hwoarang and Lee Chaolan. In the film Steve Fox is a veteran fighter and not a young boxer. If you're a real Tekken fan, don't watch the film, it will hunt you down in your sleep forever. I'm doomed.