Watching the movie now. It’s real lame and unfaithful to the source material. I’ve been mostly skipping the awful acting and going to the fights. I am seeing some of the game’s moves though.
Ground tackles, that’s mainly it. Eddy Gordo actually stuck to Capoeira because his actor is an actual practitioner of it, Lateef Crowder.
Doa was like an unofficial installment in the (shitty remake) Charlie’s Angels series.
As someone who enjoyed Chun-li to an extent, yeah Tekken was firing on all cylinders for the most part. It seems like they went out of there way to make it like Tekken even going as far having them fight on different types of stages and wearing the various costumes. Hell i was even surprised they threw in the reference to Bryan being a cyborg. Up until that point, i figured they weren’t going to mention that. If they somehow do a sequel, i figure Heiheichi will be back.
Saw Miguel and Bob’s throws too. Finished watching it. It was meh.
Bryan Fury was awesome, that was GARY DANIELS! He was kenshiro in the first of the north star live-action flick, and an impressive martial artist in his own right.
Dude is 47 too, and looked 30’ish in Tekken. Talk about a great work ethic despite only getting mediocre roles. Tekken was probably his biggest starring role in a long time and he was in top form.
This I can agree with. Helena (and that skinny chick they got as Kasumi) aside, I thought DOA was great in capturing the spirit and the cheese of the game.
Tekken being on par with TLOCL seems correct.
I didn’t mind the Tekken movie all that much…wasn’t completely unwatchable IMO. Watching Jin get some was pretty humorous, though.
You realize it’s hard to take the rest of your post seriously after this right?
I liked the cheesy, b-movie, john carpenter-esque quality of the sets and special effects. Some of the early fights were good, especially Eddy’s capoeira (I loved that guy’s scene in Tom Yum Goong) but it really went downhill from there. The longer the movie went on, the worse the fighting got it seemed. I got really sick of the redundant flashback-to-Jun power ups too. How many times did she really have to tell him to not give up?
Couldn’t they find a girl to do capoeira for christie? She really didn’t fit without it. I mean since they made up that whole romance with jin plotline anyway, couldn’t they have just called her Asuka instead? Or Julia? Or Xiaiao?
Why wasn’t Heihachi kicking ass? he went out like a sucker imo… not a good look for one of my favorite characters.
I have to agree though, for (mostly) trying to stick to the source material, it’s definitely way better than the chun li movie… but overall just another example that movies made out of video games are destined to be both bad movies and disappointing to fans of the original game in the first place.
As a yoshi player, I laughed when Kazuya called Yoshi a “True Samurai Warrior” when he was describing the Tekken fighters in the beginning(he’s a ninja in the games)
Actually I don’t get it when people say B movie. Is that supposed to be bad, because I’m thinking you’re grading movies by the higher letter the better the movie. So if an A is stuff like Inception, The Dark Knight, American Gangster, Training Day, and Forrest Gump, then how do people put cheese movies like Steven Sagal flicks or Street Fighter right under those?
B(udget) movie.
Considering he was bitchin around Kazuya and treating him verbally and somewhat physically like a red headed stepchild. It was enough for me. I would’ve died laughing if Kazuya actually cried in his penthouse after that scene where Heiheichi roughed him up a bit.
By the way, just because i enjoyed Chun-Li doesn’t mean i lose credibility. It goes the same way for people that enjoyed DB Evolution. God knows i didn’t like it but there are people that enjoyed it and i can’t take that from them.
Jesus Christ, this movie is bad. I got like 30 minutes in before I couldn’t take anymore. 
It’s seriously Dragonball: Evolution bad. At least Jon Foo makes a pretty good Jin physically (of course, the writers made him nothing like Jin, anyway) and the girl playing Christie was hot.
honestly…lets be real here…nothing about yoshimitsu makes sense in the ninja department.
Interestingly, The Final Battle, The Legend of Chun Li and Tekken are very different to each other, but they are all bad on a somewhat comparable level. All of them are objectively much worse than the animated SF2 movie and objectively much better than the SF OVAs, but ranking those three against each other is a matter of what you?re looking for.
Tekken has the most accurate cosplay and the most impressive fighting moves, but the fights are surprisingly lame and many characters are totally out of character (and given that Tekken is famous for its tacky clothing, it?s arguable whether the accurate cosplay is a good or bad thing).
The Legend of Chun Li is the only to get alignments right, as well as most personality traits, and its characters are the least flat. On the minus side, it has the most cheesily plastered specials and too little action.
Then the old The Final Battle is the best flowing and most entertaining one, as well as the only that doesn?t take itself seriously. The problems, generalized cheesiness and out-of-character-ness.
I personally prefer The Legend of Chun Li, though I understand that other people may prefer the others. But they all are on the same league.
It’s like,
Good tier:
-SF2 Animated
Bad tier:
-The Final Battle
-The Legend of Chun Li
-(Tekken would belong here)
Garbage tier:
-OVAs for SFA and SF4 series.
You know that [details=Spoiler]Bison’s blond body is incapacitated at the end of the film, forcing him to do a bodyswitch[/details], right?
Movie was pretty bad, and I’m a big fan of Tekken. Kazuya was a straight-up bitch, they didn’t explore the entire dynamic well enough and a lot of the characterizations were laughably dumb. Christie’s a hot white chick? Steve Fox is a 40-something trainer despite being the 20-something Nina’s son? GTFO. Try harder plz Namco
I seriously thought the guy playing Steve Fox was actually Paul Phoenix. LOL I swear.
Also, Nina is young, Steve is old–story-wise, it’s supposed to be the opposite. As a dedicated Tekken player, it was nothing but facepalm with this movie. =(
Lateef Crowder was the only person making this movie awesome, and he lost his first fight. the chicks where hot, all of them. kazuya looked like kazuya but acted like some bitch.
The SSFIV Juri OVA is far better than the Chun Li ass flick. Now if it was only subbed…
And I’ll take SF Alpha and Generations over the Chun Li flick. So for me it’s like this:
-SF II Animated movie
-Mortal Kombat
-JCVD SF
-SSFIV Juri OVA
-SF Alpha Generations
-Tekken
-SF Alpha
-Chun Li/SFIV ova Ties that bind