The Tekken Movie Looks Shockingly Tekken-ish
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Always vigilant TR reader HalfAzedNinja spotted this ad for the upcoming Tekken movie at the American Film Market (as shown on Coming Soon). What’s weird is that it kind of looks like Tekken. Oh, it doesn’t look as much like Tekken as that awesome fan-made trailer, but, well, as HalfAzedNinja put it:
Amazingly, I was actually able to make out some of the characters such
as Jin, Nina and Anna Williams, Law and Baek. That’s more than I was
able to make out from Street Fighter: The Legend of Kristen Kruek.
Indeed. Of course, I don’t know who the dude with the evil goatee is supposed to be — Heihachi, maybe? But if all they’ve done is switch Heihachi’s admittedly unfilmable hair with an evil goatee and left the rest of characters alone, Tekken fans should get down on their knees and praise Evil Flying Jesus.
P.S. Tekken sucks.
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