Instead of looking like a Hollywood movie, The whole film has that "shot in my backyard" feel and visual nature akin to those cheapskate Malaysian or Singaporean TV productions. Instead, he gets shoehorned into a production directed by "Wych Kaos". He could have been Hollywood's Donny Yen or at least followed in his father's footsteps (Sho Kosugi) in becoming a cult classic Kung fu star. He does his own stunts, he is a trained martial artist with a flair for movie fighting. Having had nothing but supporting roles so far, Mr Kosugi deserves a good movie as a main character to really showcase his skills. Martial artist actor Kane Kosugi is wasted on this misbegotten prequel. In TEKKEN 2, it is a completely unrelated movie which had some characters names changed to names from Tekken. Despite the mixed up story, Characters looked like how they do in the games, they wore familiar costumes and hairdos, and many familiar set pieces are showcased. The first TEKKEN movie starring John Foo and Ian Anthony Daniel at least looked like Tekken. Laughable too his how this movie is obviously not related to the Tekken franchise at all. For 10 whole minutes while the voice-over from the Minister goes on and on about how his army of homeless beggars, sorry looking ruffians and old ladies are going to rid the world of evil. For example you have this whole 10 minute sequence of K taking a walk through Slum Town.doing nothing. The story is just THAT badly paced that it actually comes across as tiresome. There's a bit more to the story about K discovering he is really Kazuya and a showdown with Tsang Tsung.erm, wrong franchise.Cary Hiroyuki (although he claims to be one Heihachi Mishima) and a couple of thugs but one's patience would be truly tested by then. So when K gets tasked to take out Gary Daniels (who everyone mistakes for a Tekken character called Bryan Fury) he finds out that the Minister is not the holy man his followers think he is. The victors are sent on assassination missions, something about cleansing the world or some dope like that. This Organization (consisting of mostly homeless Asians and stunt people) pits its members against one another in fights to the death. Still he gets knocked out and recruited by a criminal Organisation run by "the minister". Waking up In a dystopian corporation run future which looks an awful lot like a present day south East Asian slum, K (who is obviously Kane Kosugi) is haunted by an obnoxious voice in his head, hunted by rent-a-cops in old army wear, and discovers he knows kung fu. The "man" in question is called "K", not "X" and "Kazuya's Revenge" is possibly the worst case of spoiler in the title, especially since the main plot is about K rediscovering his identity as Kane Kosugi, oops sorry, I mean, the titular Kazuya, after an unexplained bout of amnesia. TEKKEN 2 is not a sequel, and has little to do with the beloved video game franchise it claims to be based on. Ironic that the movie itself features a main character with a similar identity crisis. TEKKEN 2: Kazuya's Revenge aka A Man Called X is a movie with an identity crisis. Instead we got that hack who made one of the worst movies of all time BALLISTIC: Ecks vs Sever. As if the production credits alone are not a clear warning sign of the type of quality we are expecting here.A while ago, this movie was to have been directed by The guy who did ONG BAK, that excellent Muay Thai movie.
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