Here we meet our hero, who is simply branded (quite literally), “K” throughout most of the film. And we’re giving a very dry, and dusty setting. Instead of the bleak, but colorful landscape of the original, we are instead whisked back to the beginning. What happens between Tekken and Tekken 2 is that the creative team decides to focus more on a central character than the concept behind the tournament and its champion. Though this isn’t an exact science as the Mortal Kombat sequel actually suffered from embracing the source material more! On the other hand, when you seem to take a silly source material seriously, you end up with a movie with no unique vision and a pain to sit through. I know people will disagree with me, but when the creative forces decide to embrace the inherent silliness of the medium, we end up with terrible but enjoyable films. See there’s a certain charm and insanity to making video game movies.

Much like the transition from Street Fighter: The Movie to Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, this prequel loses a lot of charm that makes the original enjoyable. I enjoyed it so much that I had the slightest interest in the sequel being at least half as entertaining. That hasn’t prevented me from finding some element of entertainment in a handful of them including the original live-action Tekken movie.

Video games have notoriously been a terrible source for movies to mine thus far.

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