![]() ![]() Neither film did particularly well over here, which is probably why its taken almost 18 months for the UK to get Tekken 2: Kazuya’s Revenge.Īs someone whose main passion outside of movies, and this website, is playing video games – predominantly of the fighting and shmup variety – you’d think I’d be rather biased when it comes to loose adaptations of the very videogames I love to play. More recently two film adaptations of two heavyweight fighting franchises made their debuts on DVD and Blu-ray here in the UK: Tekken and The King of Fighters, released in 20 respectively. Although I have a soft spot for the first two. ![]() Even the TV movie of Red Faction surprised many, managing to make a coherent story out of the franchises many games.īut movies based on fighting games? They’ve had it a lot worse! Streetfighter, Double Dragon, DOA, Mortal Kombat: Armageddon… Not the greatest of examples to be fair. And the Need For Speed movie wasn’t that bad to be fair – managing to pilfer from both NFS: Most Wanted and NFS: Hot Pursuit, whilst throwing in a little Fast & Furious style action-drama. The Resident Evil franchise has at least managed to find a fanbase and continuing budgets to keep going even in the face of derision from non-gamers and gamers alike. But they’re not all bad… Mortal Kombat kicked plenty of on-screen arse and garnered many a film fan’s love thanks to a plot that didn’t mes around with the source material or with inconsequential new storylines and characters. You end up with films like Alone in the Dark, House of the Dead, Bloodrayne, Doom and 2007’s Hitman. Especially when adapted into live-action movies. Videogames… They’ve not had the best of luck when it comes to translating themselves from game to movie. Stars: Kane Kosugi, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Rade Serbedzija, Gary Daniels, Kelly Wenham, Paige Lindquist, Charlotte Kirk, Biljana Misic, Sahajak Boonthanakit, Ron Smoorenburg, Eoin O’Brien | Written by Nicole Jones-Dion, Steven Paul | Directed by Wych Kaos ![]()
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