Tekken (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Tekken |
| Original title | Tekken |
| Country of production | USA , Japan |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 18 FSK 16 (shortened) |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dwight H. Little |
| script | Alan B. McElroy |
| production |
Steven Paul , Benedict Carver , Jamee Natella |
| music | John Hunter |
| camera | Brian J. Reynolds |
| cut | David Checel |
| occupation | |
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Tekken is a martial arts film released in January 2010 that is based on the Tekken game series . After an anime adaptation of the Tekken series was published in 1998 with Tekken: The Motion Picture , this is the first real adaptation. The budget for the film was $ 35 million.
The Beat 'em up adaptation was published in Germany on September 24, 2010 on DVD and Blu-ray in two cut versions, an abbreviated FSK-16 and an FSK-18 version.
With Tekken 2: Kazuya's Revenge , also Tekken: A Man Called X , a prequel was released in 2014.
action
After the great wars, the states fell apart; the world is under the control of a few corporations that form their own self-contained parallel societies. One is Tekken, who is run by former Iron Fist Champion Heihachi Mishima. Every year the corporations compete in an international tournament, the Iron Fist Tournament . In addition to the best fighters in the corporations, anyone who manages to survive in a selection battle has the opportunity to take part in the Iron Fist .
Jin, a young man who makes a living from stealing from Tekken and lives in the slums outside, sets off a series of incidents after a theft. After the Tekken Jackhammers (a group of the Corporation's death squads ) chase him down, they kill his mother Jun Kazama, who taught him martial arts and kept him from getting close to Tekken. After her death, Jin discovers that she was from Tekken herself. Angry about the murder of his mother, he joins the open Iron Fist eliminations and wins as a slum dweller and becomes their representative.
After the tournament he meets former Iron Fist fighter Steve Fox, who offers to help him as a manager and mentor. In Tekken he comes closer to the fighter Christie Monteiro in a friendly and erotic way. Heihachi's son Kazuya Mishima recognizes Jin's fighting style. His research reveals that he is his father, who raped his mother, also a successful tournament fighter, who, it later turns out, was only able to escape with the help of Heihachi.
Tired of his father, Kazuya decides to break his guardianship and seizes power in the city. He tightens the rules of the tournament so that the fights are now fought to the death, and takes his father, Jin, and the other fighters prisoner. Jin stands up to the strongest fighter, his father then decides to "take care of" the matter himself, but Jin can defeat him.
After the end credits of the film, Heihachi Mishima, believed dead, can be seen regaining the loyalty of one of his Tekken Jackhammers .
Differences to the game series
- In the film, Heihachi's company is called Tekken , in the games it is Mishima Zaibatsu . The locations are also different, the Tekken Group controls North America, but the Mishima-Zaibatsu is in Japan.
- Yoshimitsu works for the Mishimas in the film, in the game series he is a cyborg and was the leader of a ninja clan (Manji Clan), and also a declared archenemy of the Mishimas, who likes to keep them on their toes with robberies and sometimes very humorous actions. He doesn't work for the Mishimas there, but takes part in the tournaments for various personal reasons, for example to save the scientist who made him a cyborg, or to invest the money in aid projects for children.
- A robot series called "Jack" appears in the games. This name only appears in the film as a guard and combat soldier and does not take part in the tournament. The Jacks in the film are simple cyborgs with fully automatic weapons that take advantage of their majority. The Jack in the game is a unique, self-sufficient robot with strong armor and its own will, and bigger and stronger than the Jacks in the film.
- Steve Fox is an active fighter in the game, in the film he appears as Jin's trainer and manager. He is also actually the son of Nina Williams, who is younger than him in the film. In the game, she was in cryosleep for a while and therefore “stayed young” there too.
- In the game, Eddy is Christie's grandfather's student, a Capoeira master, and he passed his knowledge on to Christie and they have the same fighting style. They don't know each other in the movie and Christie has a different style of fighting.
- Both Kazuya and Jin can transform themselves into "demons" in the games through a special gene. This is not addressed in the film.
- In the movie, Jun was raped by Kazuya and became pregnant with Jin, but in the game Jun and Kazuya were a couple.
- The Zaibatsu special unit is called Jack Hammers in the movie , although it is called Tekken Force in the game .
- Sisters Nina and Anna Williams are enemies in the games, but in the film they fight side by side, working for Kazuya.
- In the film, Bryan Fury, with armor in his body, is the champion of the last tournament. There was never a clear champion in the game.
- Heihachi and Kazuya Mishima hate each other in the game and have always wanted to kill each other. In the film, Kazuya is the heir to Heihachi Mishima and is also loved by Heihachi as a son.
reception
"The plot of the film is a means to an end, a bridge to and a reason for its multiple fight scenes."
"In the pantheon of videogame-to-movie adaptations, 'Tekken' belongs with the successful ones like the 'Mortal Kombats' and 'Tomb Raiders' of the world."
“Every fan of the video game should skip the film, because what they are offered here is simply an insult and is difficult to please. [...] A video game adaptation that one would have wished for Uwe Boll to direct. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Tekken . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2010 (PDF; test number: 123 760 V).
- ↑ Release certificate for Tekken . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, August 2010 (PDF; abridged version).
- ^ Film Review: Tekken (2010) , accessed August 23, 2010.
- ↑ Tekken (2010) Movie Review ( Memento of the original from August 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 23, 2010.
- ^ Tekken (2010) Film Review , accessed September 10, 2010.
Web links
- Tekken in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Tekken atrotten tomatoes(English)