I just finished watching it - and it's not that bad. Of course, it's nowhere as good VG adaptation as Mortal Kombat 1995 (fighting game) or Silent Hill (if thinking about all Vg movies in general), but it's better than Dragonball Evolution, Street Fighter, SF: Legend of Chun Li, and DOA: Dead or Alive.
In terms of faithfulness, it's not really to my liking as a Tekken games fan, that they changed much of the story around - but I'm not too surprised since it's being done to a lot of VG movies, such as Resident Evil films, and the Hit-man movie which just borrowed elements from the games (such as "Heihachi Mishima is Dead" quote from Tekken 5, Devil Gene vaguely implied with the quote "Curse of the Mishima Bloodline"
Fights were pretty entertaining, though I wish they would have shown the actual fighting styles that match with the actual styles stated (for example, in the movie, it states Raven does Ninjitsu and Dragunov does Sambo, but they're not using those styles at all), Heihachi's fighting action was way too limited (interrupting Jin's fight with Yoshimitsu to save Jin and that's it), and Anna didn't fight at all in the tournament, she does attack Jin in the darkness with her sister Nina, but it's very short and hard to see cause they fight in the dark. Also,final fight between Jin and Kazuya was very disappointing - I was very let down by how short and how weak they made Kazuya (he slashes a worn out Jin on the chest, but when Kazuya himself who isn't even worn out gets slashed by his own axe in a little cut, it's game over? Jesus.
One of the highlights of the film would be Ian Anthony Dale's acting as Kazuya (some people may be more familiar with his role as Scorpion in MK: Rebirth). He did surprising well in this role, and I could see his as Scorpion in a upcoming MK film (though I don't want it to be Rebirth).
There are some corny lines (such as Eddy's "come on boy!") and some really annoying moments (such as those two punks cheering on Jin on his final fights, they were as annoying to me as those hackers from the Transformers movie. Also, Christie's so-called romance with Jin really didn't convince me either, though I do have to admit Overton is very hot).
Anyway, I relatively enjoyed the movie (like when I watched Resident Evil films and Hit-man film), but I guess I owe it partly due to setting my expectations pretty low before watching - and it keeps me thinking could they have done a better job with bigger budget? And if the director and his team were someone like Joey Ansah and his crew for SF Legacy short film, what would it be like?
In terms of faithfulness, it's not really to my liking as a Tekken games fan, that they changed much of the story around - but I'm not too surprised since it's being done to a lot of VG movies, such as Resident Evil films, and the Hit-man movie which just borrowed elements from the games (such as "Heihachi Mishima is Dead" quote from Tekken 5, Devil Gene vaguely implied with the quote "Curse of the Mishima Bloodline"
Fights were pretty entertaining, though I wish they would have shown the actual fighting styles that match with the actual styles stated (for example, in the movie, it states Raven does Ninjitsu and Dragunov does Sambo, but they're not using those styles at all), Heihachi's fighting action was way too limited (interrupting Jin's fight with Yoshimitsu to save Jin and that's it), and Anna didn't fight at all in the tournament, she does attack Jin in the darkness with her sister Nina, but it's very short and hard to see cause they fight in the dark. Also,final fight between Jin and Kazuya was very disappointing - I was very let down by how short and how weak they made Kazuya (he slashes a worn out Jin on the chest, but when Kazuya himself who isn't even worn out gets slashed by his own axe in a little cut, it's game over? Jesus.
One of the highlights of the film would be Ian Anthony Dale's acting as Kazuya (some people may be more familiar with his role as Scorpion in MK: Rebirth). He did surprising well in this role, and I could see his as Scorpion in a upcoming MK film (though I don't want it to be Rebirth).
There are some corny lines (such as Eddy's "come on boy!") and some really annoying moments (such as those two punks cheering on Jin on his final fights, they were as annoying to me as those hackers from the Transformers movie. Also, Christie's so-called romance with Jin really didn't convince me either, though I do have to admit Overton is very hot).
Anyway, I relatively enjoyed the movie (like when I watched Resident Evil films and Hit-man film), but I guess I owe it partly due to setting my expectations pretty low before watching - and it keeps me thinking could they have done a better job with bigger budget? And if the director and his team were someone like Joey Ansah and his crew for SF Legacy short film, what would it be like?