The stories become deeper and the emotions with the characters spur you to keep taking down opponent after opponent until true vengeance can be exacted and you are hailed King of Iron Fist Tournament! King and Armour King, Jin and Kazuya, Nina and Anna: the stories were developing nicely!
Xiaoyu becomes more and more upset at the thought of the bloodshed, and we start seeing nice character development with a lovely moment between her and Alisa, where Xiaoyu compares Alisa to her old refrigerator, but the metaphor is rather nice and glazes over the low tone at the time.
Awesome that you have a collection of this, but I think that its missing two things. One of them is the music when the 'Tekken Blood vengeance' logo appears before 'Daily Life' and after 'G-Corporation' . The second was the scene when Xiaoyu and Alisa fight in front of the temple/building . The music in the second one starts when Alisa runs up to her, Xiaoyu dodges two-three kicks, a punch, and then gets hit bythe following three kicks after which she gets down into Art of Phoenix and reverts back to her fighting stance.
Additional things to include here is that Harada when he talked with Dai Sato, the one who wrote the script, said he wanted to exclude this scene which they had a convo about, Harada expresses to us how he told him to not remove that scene from the movie, a scene which many point it out about the film that doesnt make it fit with the story of the games, yet Harada approved of that to be left in. Saito also said he didnt wanna bring to the character Xiaoyu anything more then the games already did, suggesting he wrote the plot in mind by not doing something the games didnt already do with her lore wise, so its not like he wrote whatever he pleased without thinking, especially as he is a fan of the series, even mentions when he was offered to do the movie, he went to get familiar with the series again, nail in the coffin is the mentioning how it exists in the tekken universe, which goes with all we talked by far on canonicity so far, so it is part of the lore.
Tekken 6 came out in 2009, even earlier if we count arcade release and all that, Blood Vengeance came out in 2011, with them thinking of it as early as of January of 2010 to make one, so they didnt thought of the movie by the time the game was out already, also Tag 2 already shows them in Alisa, Miharu, Xiaoyu and Panda endings (latter one being shown in tekken 7 as explained earlier), that they know each other which is more recent then Tekken 6 and closer in release date with the movie as well where its been already out in arcades in 2011 and releasing next year after, so whatever that one had it got overwritten by Tag 2 and the movie.
VeNoM362 has been waiting for a CG Tekken movie since Tekken 5. So will it be released on dvd in the US this summer(I know its not coming to theaters here) or is that just the Japan date. Also will the voice actors from the game be used or will there be a english cast for a US release? I hope both, cause I wanna watch the movie and not read the whole bloody time but it will be weird to hear the Mishimas speaking english.
i kno tekkens storyline mostly about the mishimas, but i hope its not just about jin vs kaz all the time, or nina vs anna. i hope they put all other rivalries like jin vs hwoarang. king vs marduk etc.
and i hope not too much devil flying around and lasering otherwise it be just too anime-ish. im just hoping for some heavy fist fight & extreme martial arts. nonetheless, it still be one the best cg movie ever (2nd to ffac)
Sometimes a movie makes me really glad that CGI was invented, and TEKKEN: BLOOD VENGEANCE (2011) is one of those movies. This photo-realistic digital action epic is the kind of sweet eye candy that makes my eyeballs feel good.
Xiaoyu and Alisa are two high school girls who both have a crush on introspective loner Shin, who's brawny and handsome but troubled, maybe even suicidal. What the girls don't know is that Shin is the sole survivor of a genetic experiment and his rapidly mutating body is sought by two arch rivals, Mishima Zaibatsu and the sinister G Corporation. What Shin doesn't know is that Xiaoyu is an unwilling agent of G Corporation and Alisa is a humanoid robot from Mishima Zaibatsu, and they're both under orders to locate him.
Behind all of this, as Tekken fans will have already guessed, is the blood-feuding Mishima clan. Jin, the youngest, is the head of Mishima Zaibatsu while his father and mortal enemy Kazuya runs G Corporation. Kazuya, with the help of evil warrior babe Anna Williams, hopes that isolating Shin's "Devil Gene" will help him control his own super powers, but Jin and his beautiful assistant Nina Williams (Anna's sister) are determined to thwart him by getting to Shin first. Pulling everyone's strings in the background is mean old family patriarch Heihachi Mishima, whose intentions are even more insidious.
The film's opening, which resembles something out of AKIRA, thrusts us right into the action with a motorcycle vs. big rig collision on the freeway which leads to fierce hand-to-hand combat between the Williams sisters. Here, we get an indication of how good the motion-capture animation is going to be in this movie, with the impossibly-stacked ladies literally looking like living dolls.
It only gets better when Xiaoyu and Alisa meet on their high school campus and begin their friendly rivalry over Shin. Sumptuously rendered backgrounds bursting with vivid color and detail are realistic yet fanciful at the same time, providing the backdrop for some gorgeous character design. Faces and body language are highly expressive and nuanced, with little of the "uncanny valley" effect seen in other virtual characters.
The direction, editing, and virtual camerawork are outstanding as well, as the filmmakers are able to meticulously construct fight scenes in a way that live action can rarely achieve. The first really awesome example of this occurs when Alisa's programming forces her into battle against Xiaoyu in a thrilling and visually dazzling sequence. A mix of lightning-fast moves and slow-mo are easy to follow even as the action rushes by almost in a blur.
The film climaxes with a half-hour series of bouts between the Mishimas as they assume their true beastly appearance and wreak all kinds of destruction, laying waste to the countryside. Director Yoichi Mori keeps the action and suspense of this all-out war building until the blazing finish, with an appropriately grandiose musical score to propel things along.
But just as important are the quieter scenes between Xiaoyu and Alisa, with Dai Sato's screenplay allowing them lots of charming interplay to offset the bad-girl posturing of the Williams sisters and the seething fury of the Mishimas. Pink-haired robot Alisa is particularly endearing with her childlike innocence and wide-eyed fascination with human behavior, making it even more startling when her programming forces her into attack mode complete with chainsaw arms and rocket-powered wings. Feisty and funny schoolgirl Xiaoyu is also a very likable and lifelike CGI creation.
The DVD from Bandai Entertainment is in 16x9 widescreen with Japanese and English 5.1 soundtracks and English subtitles. Extras consist of a movie trailer and a movie/videogame hybrid trailer.
Even if the story and characters weren't so compelling and the action so intense, TEKKEN: BLOOD VENGEANCE would be worth watching simply to bask in the strikingly good visuals. You don't have to be a fan of "Tekken" or videogames in general to be entertained by this awesome example of superior digital animation.
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Heihachi Mishima is the Patriarch of the Mishima family, a family that has been boiled with feud for years to come. After multiple resources suggest that Heihachi was slain by his own son, Kazuya Mishima. Heihachi begins schemes to experiment on his son's blood, which has the Devil Gene in order to use it to unlock ultimate power.
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