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Tekken: Blood Vengeance (SLIGHT SPOILERS)
14 years ago
How long has it been since I did a journal here? A pretty damn long time XD
Okay so I came from the screening of Blood Vengeance with my brother, and I'm going to give you all my 2 cents with little spoilers.
The story is that Xiaoyu was forced by G-Corp to investigate Shin Kamiya, whom G and the Zaibatsu are both after. Alisa is there searching for Shin, and while they initially start off as rivals, they become friends.
Other characters are there, and while a majority of them do get the chance to shine, there are others who are just tacked on there for the sake of screen time and their roles are filled with no explanation. For example Ganryu is apparently the gym teacher at the MPT HS and Lee is a teacher at Shin's school. Both do not fight, and throughout the film it is not explained why Ganryu was a gym instructor or why Lee was even a teacher in the first place. Also Lee doesn't get involved in the G/Mishima conflict in the film; he just serves as a plot device and some other characters also don't seem to recognize him which makes his presence all the more disappointing.
The film had potential for great action scenes, but with the exception of the beginning, the fights between Xiaoyu and Alisa, and the final fights, most of them build up then it suddenly switch back to Xiaoyu's and Alisa's developing friendship and their investigation. I feel the film focuses too much on these 2 characters (and Panda) instead of characters who really deserve it (Such as Jin and Kazuya). When the action and fight scenes do come up, they are really epic and worth seeing, though they get a little cliched at times.
Now onto the voice acting. It is mostly decent, like Jin, Kazuya, Heihachi and the Williams sisters for example, though I really don't like Xiaoyu's voice: she sounds too old, the girl sounds fake in some of her acting, and at times makes Xiaoyu sound somewhat obnoxious in comparison to her more cute personality (IMO they should've got Laura Bailey to voice her). And Lee, I can tell it was probably Doug Erholtz who did him because he sounds so like Hazama from BlazBlue. Another thing is that the actors mispronounce some of the names, like Bosconovitch (Boss-kO-nO-vitch).
Another peeve I have is how much this film contradicts the established game's story and create some plot holes: notably Alisa's fate at the end and the final battle which makes Jin's sacrifice with Azazel in Tekken 6 seem so anticlimatic in comparison.
Overall, I think this is a decent film for some diehard Tekken fans and it has good action scenes, but when it comes to those who are well familiar with the stories and the characters as well as those who barely know the thing about the series, it has potential to be much better than it is.
6.5/10
Okay so I came from the screening of Blood Vengeance with my brother, and I'm going to give you all my 2 cents with little spoilers.
The story is that Xiaoyu was forced by G-Corp to investigate Shin Kamiya, whom G and the Zaibatsu are both after. Alisa is there searching for Shin, and while they initially start off as rivals, they become friends.
Other characters are there, and while a majority of them do get the chance to shine, there are others who are just tacked on there for the sake of screen time and their roles are filled with no explanation. For example Ganryu is apparently the gym teacher at the MPT HS and Lee is a teacher at Shin's school. Both do not fight, and throughout the film it is not explained why Ganryu was a gym instructor or why Lee was even a teacher in the first place. Also Lee doesn't get involved in the G/Mishima conflict in the film; he just serves as a plot device and some other characters also don't seem to recognize him which makes his presence all the more disappointing.
The film had potential for great action scenes, but with the exception of the beginning, the fights between Xiaoyu and Alisa, and the final fights, most of them build up then it suddenly switch back to Xiaoyu's and Alisa's developing friendship and their investigation. I feel the film focuses too much on these 2 characters (and Panda) instead of characters who really deserve it (Such as Jin and Kazuya). When the action and fight scenes do come up, they are really epic and worth seeing, though they get a little cliched at times.
Now onto the voice acting. It is mostly decent, like Jin, Kazuya, Heihachi and the Williams sisters for example, though I really don't like Xiaoyu's voice: she sounds too old, the girl sounds fake in some of her acting, and at times makes Xiaoyu sound somewhat obnoxious in comparison to her more cute personality (IMO they should've got Laura Bailey to voice her). And Lee, I can tell it was probably Doug Erholtz who did him because he sounds so like Hazama from BlazBlue. Another thing is that the actors mispronounce some of the names, like Bosconovitch (Boss-kO-nO-vitch).
Another peeve I have is how much this film contradicts the established game's story and create some plot holes: notably Alisa's fate at the end and the final battle which makes Jin's sacrifice with Azazel in Tekken 6 seem so anticlimatic in comparison.
Overall, I think this is a decent film for some diehard Tekken fans and it has good action scenes, but when it comes to those who are well familiar with the stories and the characters as well as those who barely know the thing about the series, it has potential to be much better than it is.
6.5/10
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