Indeed, how well can you do a story based on a game where you hit the other guy, and there's a cast of 20-30 fighters? How do you give everyone screen time? Is there enough time to give lip service to most or all of the cast, but still have something resembling a coherent story? And even if the story is coherent, is it good? In the case of Tekken: the Motion Picture, the answer is clearly a resounding NO. Tekken normally has about 20-30 characters and they only concentrated on only 9 of them and more on Kazuya, Heihachi, jun, Lei, Lee, Jack while smaller roles were given to Nina, Anna, Michelle and Roger and Bruce. the movie was supposed to be as good as the game but it wasn't most of everyones favorite characters like king or Yoshimitsu were only shown for a second i mean if you'd blink once you'd miss 10 of them. the plot for Kazuya and Jun was very well but nothing was said about the others it was like they never existed. The animation in Tekken is all digital, but since it's done by GONZO, it looks dull and boring. I blame director Kunihisa Sugishima. You'd think that Namco could find someone a little better to handle the adaptation of their flagship fighting series-- like maybe Masami Obari. Also not worth the computer they were saved on are Kazuki Yanagisawa's character designs, which are pointy, and very, very ugly.
Review of Tekken: The Motion Picture
