An old(Well not that old really) saying goes "Movies based on video games are going to fail as are games made out of movies" and this one wasn't an exception. It wasn't as bad as some other video game adaptions but still not worth anyone's time, since there are better movies in the "tournament of death", like Blood Sport or Mortal Combat and "underdog fighter", Rocky and the original Karate Kid, categories. The main problem here are the inconsistent characters and a plot that just doesn't make sense. These two problems go hand in hand.
The movie is set in your typical "governments have collapsed and greedy evil corporations oppress everyone"-dystopian future that we have seen a million times before. The main character, Jin, lives in the Anvil a slum outside of the city where all the rich and pretty people live. The movie hints to resistance movement against the current regime, but they never really do anything. Jin's mommy gets killed in a raid against the resistance, while Jin is fucking some blond chick we won't meet for the rest of the film. Jin becomes angry and wants vengeance against the head of Tekken, the evil corporation that runs things. To accomplish this noble goal, he enters the Iron Fist tournament in order to gain access to Tekken. Jin makes it in beats a bunch people with your average every day Kung Fu moves seen a million times before and forgetting that he had the blond girl friend has an affair with a brunette babe also participating in the tournament. Before he can meet his target, the old guy's son coup's him and everyone involved in the tournament gets arrested, but they manage to excape, the old guy who used to lead Tekken explains to Jin that the bad boy who couped him is his dad.(like no one guessed it already) They get arrested, the old guy gets executed and a bunch of death matches start. Eventually Jin beats a cyborg dude and his dad, the good guys win and freedom is restored. The End.
This plot didn't make any sense, why does Jin's victory bring the downfall of Tekken? He didn't even slay the bad guy. Suddenly the big generic Stormtroopers who massacred indiscriminently both civilians and their own members suddenly decide not to follow their leader and the rich pretty people in the Tekken city are going to open the doors to hordes of bikers, gang bangers and drug addicts from the slums. I think not, more probably the still alive bad guy carpet bombs the slums with napalm before going back to his business of being a bad guy. This didn't make any sense. The character of Jin made even less, he wasn't really a character, he was just someone who did stuff to fit the plot, any attribute that was established about him was discarded in the next scene. The other characters weren't really interesting either, more like props than anything else, ready to fill their pre-set functions. The supportive girl supports when the hero is down, the mentor gives useful hints about the hero's opponents, the bad guy does bad stuff and so forth.
This movie was pretty much a waste of time, not worth watching or paying for that matter. I feel sorry for any who did.
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