You need that fore-knowledge of who Kazuya (called “K” for the majority of this film, despite his name in the title) is, to really understand what’s going on within the confines of the films convoluted plot. You see it turns out his father thought his mind was too weak, leaving him open to concepts like a fair fight and not just killing everyone in battle – not your typical bad guy traits and certainly a weakness that makes Kazuya (according to his father) not worthy of being a part of the Mishima clan he was born in to.īut those unfamiliar with Tekken won’t really discover that till the very end of the film, as Kazuya’s story is coming to a close – which means Tekken 2: Kazuya’s Revenge truly is for the hardcore franchise fans. In fact it’s not unless you’ve seen the first film, or know the plot of the video games (and therefore know who Kazuya is beforehand), that you’d be able to put two and two together to realise that Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa’s character – who spends the majority of this film in the shadows watching what is going on with our amnesiac hero – is actually Kazuya’s father and the man who ran the Tekken tournament in the first film, Heihachi Mishima.įor the big difference between film and game story is, unlike in the game, Kazuya is not thrown off a cliff and left to die (which he doesn’t, thanks to the “devil gene” he carries within him), instead his memory is wiped by his father and, suffering from amnesia, he is kidnapped by an underground crime organization and turned into a ruthless assassin. Even moreso when I learnt this would be the story of another of the franchises key characters, Kazuya.Ī prequel to the 2011 movie, Tekken 2: Kazuya’s Revenge – whilst there’s a lot of liberties taken with the plot of the game franchise – still sticks to the core story of a father and son at odds. So I was actually excited for the sequel. I loved the first Tekken film, mainly due to the great underdog storyline and two fnatastic performances from Jon Foo as Jin Kazama and Cung Lee (who I still think is criminally underrated as a movie hard man) as Marshall Law. Neither film did particularly well over here, which is probably why its taken almost 18 months for the UK to get Tekken 2: Kazuya’s Revenge.Īs someone whose main passion outside of movies, and this website, is playing video games – predominantly of the fighting and shmup variety – you’d think I’d be rather biased when it comes to loose adaptations of the very videogames I love to play. More recently two film adaptations of two heavyweight fighting franchises made their debuts on DVD and Blu-ray here in the UK: Tekken and The King of Fighters, released in 20 respectively. Although I have a soft spot for the first two.
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Even the TV movie of Red Faction surprised many, managing to make a coherent story out of the franchises many games.īut movies based on fighting games? They’ve had it a lot worse! Streetfighter, Double Dragon, DOA, Mortal Kombat: Armageddon… Not the greatest of examples to be fair. And the Need For Speed movie wasn’t that bad to be fair – managing to pilfer from both NFS: Most Wanted and NFS: Hot Pursuit, whilst throwing in a little Fast & Furious style action-drama. The Resident Evil franchise has at least managed to find a fanbase and continuing budgets to keep going even in the face of derision from non-gamers and gamers alike.
But they’re not all bad… Mortal Kombat kicked plenty of on-screen arse and garnered many a film fan’s love thanks to a plot that didn’t mes around with the source material or with inconsequential new storylines and characters. You end up with films like Alone in the Dark, House of the Dead, Bloodrayne, Doom and 2007’s Hitman. Especially when adapted into live-action movies. Videogames… They’ve not had the best of luck when it comes to translating themselves from game to movie. Stars: Kane Kosugi, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Rade Serbedzija, Gary Daniels, Kelly Wenham, Paige Lindquist, Charlotte Kirk, Biljana Misic, Sahajak Boonthanakit, Ron Smoorenburg, Eoin O’Brien | Written by Nicole Jones-Dion, Steven Paul | Directed by Wych Kaos
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