Tekken: Blood Vengeance

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English: Tekken: Blood Vengeance

Japanese: 鉄拳 BLOOD VENGEANCE

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Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jul 26, 2011

Producers: Digital Frontier, Bandai Namco Games

Licensors: Bandai Entertainment

Studios: None found, add some

Source: Game

Genres: Action, Fantasy, Martial Arts, Sci-Fi, Supernatural

Duration: 1 hr. 33 min.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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High school student Ling Xiaoyu is recruited by Anna Williams of G Corporation to transfer to Kyoto University and gather information on a student named Shin Kamiya. Meanwhile, Jin Kazama, the current head of the Mishima Zaibatsu, sends Alisa Bosconovitch to the university for the same mission. Though they do not know each other's true motives, Xiaoyu and Alisa become close friends. However, their friendship is put to the test when Shin is captured by an unknown assailant.

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Bosconovitch, Alisa

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Matsuoka, Yuki
Japanese

Ling, Xiaoyu

Main

Sakamoto, Maaya
Japanese

Kamiya, Shin

Main

Miyano, Mamoru
Japanese

Kazama, Jin

Supporting

Chiba, Isshin
Japanese

Mishima, Kazuya

Supporting

Shinohara, Masanori
Japanese

Lee, Chaolan

Supporting

Okiayu, Ryoutarou
Japanese

Mishima, Heihachi

Supporting

Ishizuka, Unshou
Japanese

Williams, Anna

Supporting

Watanabe, Akeno
Japanese

Williams, Nina

Supporting

Tanaka, Atsuko
Japanese

Mokujin

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Mouri, Youichi

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Katayama, Kazuyoshi

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Satou, Dai

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Sakimoto, Hitoshi

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Nov 18, 2011

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 3

Keirik (All reviews)

70 people found this review helpful

Greetings, commoners. It is I, Emilie De Rochefort the Great. Due to the informal situation, you may call me Lili.
As many of you have no doubt noticed, Namco made the very questionable decision to omit me from the CGI feature "Tekken: Blood Vengeance". Instead, they offered me to watch and review it for this particular website, an offer I graciously accepted.
Now, many (or all) of you may find my omission from this movie to be highly alarming. After all, I am the main character of the Tekken franchise, and the entire plot revolves around me and my exciting exploits. But I suppose that some read more

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Jul 26, 2011

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 3

Suyomizzle (All reviews)

23 people found this review helpful

Ah... where to begin? The nonsensical plot? The horrendous dialog? The non-existent character development? If it weren't for the gorgeous 3D visuals of the movie it would be a complete and utter failure.

Harada and Sato's mission to create an accessible and enjoyable Tekken film for non-Tekken fan falls flat on its face. Only someone with a flawless understanding of the Tekken lore could understand how this movie makes sense. With only a passing knowledge of the Tekken story line, it's very difficult to understand where this fits and why it was necessary.

The story of two rival corporations, G-Corp run by Kazuya and Mishima Zaibatsu run by Jin, both vying to control the M-Gene makes absolutely no sense. Their reason for hunting for this mutation is never clearly explained and by the end of the film is not even relevant, as that plot-line gets completely abandoned in favor of a flashy ending fight scene. It's not an understatement to say that nothing about this film makes any sense.

Those hoping that some snappy and thought provoking dialog saves a sinking story should abandon those hopes. The dialog is legitimately laughter inducing for all the wrong reasons. With lines like "sometimes you have to fail to succeed," it sounds as though every line from this film was pilfered from a budget store greeting card.

As far as character development, there honestly isn't any. The characters are as one-dimension and static as possible. Their motivations are never clear and even if they were, the incomprehensible plot would make them impossible to understand.

If there's one thing positive to say about this film, it's that it is absolutely gorgeous. The CG-animation is in a league of its own. Relatively realistic facial and body animations and well choreographed fight scenes make the movie a joy to look at, at the very least. The film probably would have been better off abandoning any plot or character related scenes and just presenting itself as a long montage of fight scenes to showcase the beautiful animation and jaw-dropping 3D effects.

Despite this meager success, the film even fails to deliver to dedicated Tekken fans as only a fraction of the cast makes an appearance. The cast of this movie will certainly seem adequate to die hard Xiaoyu or Alisa fans, but the fact that Sato couldn't even add a few random cameos for some other fan favorites is downright sad.

This movie doesn't appeal to anyone, even diehard Tekken fans will be immensely disappointed. And those without an encyclopedic knowledge of the Tekken lore will be absolutely lost. Even taking into account the amazing animation and 3D tech used in the film, it might be wise to wait until it's featured in another film that can deliver on other merits besides simply being a technological marvel. The fact that Harada and Sato put their name to this is astonishing, but don't be fooled, this movie totally sucks. Avoid at all costs.

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Jan 31, 2012

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 6

Nipsirc (All reviews)

23 people found this review helpful

Whoever composed the trailer for this film deservers some sort of award for editing, because i for one was whole-heartedly anticipating this film a great deal.

Given the sheer amount of characters and character turnover, and the fact we're now approaching the 6th generation of games, the story has been somewhat of a shambles for some time. That said they do attempt to the focus the story on a handful of cast members, with the odd cameo appearances from Tekken regulars.
Xiaoyu, Jin, Kazuya, Anna and Nina make up the main stays, joined by newcomer from the most recent game Alisa Bosconovitch.
Xiaoyu is recruited by Anna on behalf of Kazuya to investigate Shin a former class mate of Jin's. I frankly have lost track of if she's still looking for Jin as was the case at some point, but i assume this to be her motivation for going along with this.
The story was, even by Tekken standards pretty terrible, poorly constructed and largely unnecessary, the story merely serves to gather all the characters behind the scenes together for big show down, rendering the leads as little more than spectators.

The CGI doesn't seem to have made any real progress from the first Final Fantasy film. It generally all looks very nice, and the action scenes flow very well and look highly impressive, but they've still got a long way to go with the character models. Xiaoyu looks down right creepy at times, any time they attempt to animate anything facially the whole process falls down horribly, and looks terrible and often deformed. Alisa came out better, but there's still plenty of off moments. Claire Redfield's model in Biohazard: Degeneration single handedly destroyed the film for me, and with that setting the bar pretty low the efforts here have not done much better.

Xiaoyu and Alisa's friendship in the film actually worked for me and was one of the better aspects of the film. I'd not learnt anything of Alisa from the last game, but her voice acting was good and most of her scenes with Xiaoyu were enjoyable. The rivalries between Jin and Kazuya and Nina and Anna also feature heavily as a secondary focus, none are fleshed out in any meaningful manor, but this was clearly aimed at existing fans, so entirely forgiveable.

Now i doubt many people expected much from the story, so what about the fights? The answer is very hit and miss. All the early action is very average, Xiaoyu and Alias's mid way fight was probably the high point for me, with the end 3 way show down being hugely disappointing, although i did enjoy getting to see all the devil forms in action. There's allot of wasted potential here, I'd have enjoyed nothing more than seeing Jin and Kazuya go at it as often as possible, there's a total lack of focus, or downright epicness to the fights, i was left feeling largely unsatisfied and would have no real desire to re-watch any of the sequences, there just not that technically good.

Overall there's just allot of wasted potential, i get that they couldn't do anything to drastic to the Tekken universe, but the fights we did get were just hugely underwhelming, the story wasn't well thought out and there's not allot to praise, i can't help but wish one of these game film adaptation's would adapt the actual game material, the events between Tekken 2 and 3 would have made for an excellent story, hint hint.

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Aug 12, 2014

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 2

K99ani (All reviews)

19 people found this review helpful

When I hear Tekken, I remember those days when I has a PS2 and mashed buttons till my fingers wore out.
This is the only reason I bothered to watch this anime.

To those who haven't played any of the games and those who have an interest in the series - don't bother watching this. If you want to know why read on.

I never had any great expectations whatsoever from this anime but I had some standards.

- Special effects
- Lots of characters from the franchise
- Good action scenes
- And Identifiable moves.

None (except the first which should have been a given) were satisfactory.

I never expected any read more

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