The film stars Jon Foo, Kelly Overton, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Ian Anthony Dale, Cung Le, Darrin Dewitt Henson, Candice Hillebrand, and Luke Goss.

Experienced in sports movies, Little decided to make Tekken focused on realism, resulting in the removal of supernatural elements from the video game series as well as comic relief characters.

Tekken premiered at the American Film Market on November 5, 2009, and was released direct-to-video in the United States on July 19, 2011, by Anchor Bay Entertainment.

One night, Jin is targeted by the Jackhammers, the elite specs group that patrols the Anvil and ensures the safety of Tekken City.

After winning a wild card berth in Iron Fist by defeating the disgraced Marshall Law, Jin goes to Tekken City, sponsored by former boxer Steve Fox.

In the Finals, Jin is forced to fight against Bryan Fury, who had already defeated and killed Dragunov, while Kazuya holds Christie hostage in the control room.

[8] Originally, Charles Stone III was going to be film's director who teased in 2004 it would different from other adaptations like Mortal Kombat or Tomb Raider; He claimed the narrative would heavily focus on the characters to provoke a more dramatic style.

Little requested help from writer Alan B. McElroy, who had done Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers and Rapid Fire while doing research for the movie.

The characters used in the narrative were chosen since they came across as the most realistic ones in contrast to the supernatural Devil Jin, whom they felt was more fitting for an anime film.

[13] In order to bring more realism to the fights, the team used real fighters including Lateef Crowder, Roger Huerta and Cung Le.

Finding Jon Foo as Jin proved to be a difficult task due to how they needed somebody who was young, skilled, and handsome.

Other actors include Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, whom they found fitting for Heihachi Mishima, as well as the skilled Ian Anthony Dale.

Though the narrative appears to explore political events due to how the Tekken tournament has changed the world, there were no intentions to provide such context.

While the film does not offer a proper closure to the family struggle, Little claimed they added scenes about him and Heihachi to provide content for a sequel, should it be approved.

[16] As a self-proclaimed fan of the Tekken series, Jon Foo felt honored to play Jin's character in the live-action film.

While the team used CGI visuals for the arenas, they also used real buildings and crowds that viewed the battles, which was especially helpful since they did not have a big budget.

In regards to battles, the staff aimed to make homages to the video games with Little specifying the faithful recreation of Eddy Gordo's moves.

He opined that director Dwight H. Little "show[s] off an impressive spectrum of fighting styles and intensity, though he goes a little crazy with trendy cinematographic choices and hyperactive editing".

[26] Rating it "Guilty", DVD Verdict enjoyed how faithful most of the character's designs were to the games but aimed criticism towards battles which employed weaponry.

[27] Martial Arts Action Movies claimed that while the film seems universally hated due to how unfaithful is to the source material and "bland" storyline, he still liked it thanks to the visuals and fight choreography.

[30] Rating it B, The Fandom Post disliked Jin's shoehorned love-interests, including a white-washed Christie Monteiro, as well as the lack of focus on fights prior to the finals in the Iron Fist Tournament.

[27] Although Martial Arts and Action Movies criticized Foo's acting, calling it "emotionless", his fight sequences were praised.

[29] Paul Pritchard of DVD Verdict compared Tekken to other video game film adaptations: "In the grand scheme of things, Tekken bests both Street Fighter: The Ultimate Battle (1994) and Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009) movies with ease, but lacks the goofy charms of Mortal Kombat.

[32] MovieHole was also negative, attributing the lack theatrical release in North America to distributors realizing that viewers would not waste money on it.

[33] Katsuhiro Harada, director of the Tekken video game series, criticized the film: "That Hollywood movie is terrible.

[34] Reacting to Harada's comments, Nick Chester of Destructoid said the film is "not great, but 'terrible' is a stretch", saying that it "does a decent job of trying to stay true to the look and feel of the [games]" and that "the fight scenes weren't bad".