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io9 has a link to the trailer (posted on YouTube).  I didn’t even know a Tekken movie was in the works.  (Ignorance, after all, is my strong suit.)  It’s only natural that Meredith Woerner would invoke the recent, hidious Street Fighter movie in the headline, but the real question is: How could a fighting game adaptation get any better than Corey Yuen’s D.O.A. - Dead or Alive?  Seriously, now.  Since video game adaptations like this barely function as anything other than meager attempts at mainstream fanservice anyway, what could top the already over-the-top, luminous ludicrousness of a film where a bunch of megahotties team up to take down Eric Roberts?  The keys to success were Yuen’s sense of humor about the project (which was shared by most of the cast, although Devon Aoki looks like she’d get lost somewhere between the shower curtain and the shower basin if someone didn’t draw her a map) and his outstanding fight choreography, both of which laughed at the risible T&A quotient and reveled in it.  You rarely see a B-film so comfortable being what it is, and doing it well.  As I understand it, the choreographer for Tekken is Cyril Raffaelli, who coordinated the action for District B13, its sequel, and Hitman.¹  One can also hope that he learned a little something from Yuen while working as a stunt coordinator on the first two Transporter films.  I’ll certainly see Tekken eventually, if only because it’s fun to see how much gravitas Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa can wring out of cookie cutter cartoon villians.

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