Mortal Kombat (2021)

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Aaaah 90's animation.
I just watched this yesterday and it was okay.
I found Kano HILLARIOUS. The Kung Lao character also had a nice jab back to him.
Anyway I hope we get some cringy articles out of it ripe for mockery.
 
I watched it and in general I thought that it was pretty good. I have played a few of the games and watched the older films.

The casting for Kung Lao, Kano and Sub Zero were great. They ended up being my favorite characters. Kinda sad they all got killed off.

I think the villains were very underdeveloped.

Cole was kind of boring even if the guy that played him is hot.
 
REMEMBERMKULTRA dijo:
If I was to write a Mortal Kombat movie I'd put more emphasis on the actual tournament aspect.

A bunch of people including Johnny Cage, Sonya Blade and Jax are teleported to Outworld. They meet Liu Kang and Kung Lau, two Shaolin monks. They are knowledgeable about Mortal Kombat explain that they are Earth's greatest warriors and they have to compete in the tournament against the champions of Outworld. If they lose Outworld gets to conquer Earth.

Shang Tsung and the various Outworld champions are introduced, including Sub-Zero, Goro, Kitana, Mileena and a bunch of jobbers.

At some point Raiden explains who Sub-Zero is and how he butchered the entire Shirai Ryu clan on Shang Tsung's orders.

What follows is a series of one-on-one battles overseen by Raiden, who is sympathetic to the humans but is unwilling to directly help them. The various human jobber characters (nameless soldiers, athletes etc) get butchered by the villains, showing the heroes the stakes.

Kung Lao is ripped in half by Goro, and Liu Kang swears revenge. Johnny Cage defeats Kitana but is unwilling to kill her, to the annoyance of Liu Kang and the other heroes.

In the end the final Earth heroes are Johnny, Sonya, Jax and Liu Kang. The final Outworld characters are Goro, Sub-Zero, and Mileena.

Sub-Zero fights Jax and shatters his arms, although Jax survives. Johnny Cage fights Mileena. At first she beats him up, but once he notices her deformed face he starts taunting her, causing her to lose her cool. He takes advantage of her temper to defeat her non-lethally (he hasn't killed anyone in the tournament).

That night while everyone is asleep the Mileena attempts to murder the heroes in their sleep, starting with Johnny. Mileena attacks Johnny, but Kitana confronts her. They fight and Mileena and Kitana kill each other. Johnny cradles Kitana as she dies.
Shang Tsung insists that Mileena acted without his permission and Raiden doesn't believe him but decides that the tournament shall continue.

Sonya fights Sub-Zero and he starts to win but Jax gives her critical advice from his fight with Sub-Zero and she defeats him.

Finally Liu Kang battles Goro. The fight is long and brutal but in the end Liu Kang transforms into a dragon, killing Goro with an animality.

Raiden declares Earthrealm to be the victors but Shang Tsung reveals that he had been covertly collecting the souls of all of the fallen kombatants. He mortally wounds Raiden with his godlike powers and declares that he shall conquer Earth.

Raiden uses the last of his strength to summon Scorpion from hell. Scorpion battles and kills Sub-Zero while Liu Kang, Sonya and Johnny fight Shang Tsung. After Shang Tsung dies Scorpion ascends to heaven, finally at peace.

The movie ends with Liu Kang returning to his shaolin temple, Johnny Cage becoming a national hero and Jax and Sonya creating the Special Forces to stave off future Outworld threats.

The post-credits stinger shows Kano and Shao Kahn equipping Outworld soldiers with modern weapons so they can invade Earth.

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That's my shitty Mortal Kombat movie idea.
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Whoah whoah hold up.

First off, Sub-Zero didn't kill the Shirai Ryu on Shang Tsung's orders. Sub-Zero killed Scorpion while on a mission for Quan Chi, and then Quan Chi butchered the Shirai Ryu to reward Sub-Zero.

Second, Sub-Zero wouldn't be fighting for Outworld; in the original universe he joined the tournament because he was under orders to assassinate Shang Tsung. Even if you wanted to take artistic liberties and decide that in your film adaption, Sub-Zero isn't loyal to Earthrealm or the Lin Kuei, he'd sooner fight for the interests of Netherrealm rather than Outworld. Saying Sub-Zero is on the Outworld team makes as much sense as saying Bo Rai Cho is part of the Dragon King's army.

And third, OH MY GOD KITANA WOULD NOT LOSE TO MILEENA


(but in fairness, focusing on Cage and Scorpion is a sound idea, and your Kano / Kahn ending is totally konsistent with kanon. A couple more rewrites and your script may be ready for the greenlight)
 
Well just finished watching it and it has just enough fan service in it to make me not call it much worse than the other 2 movies, but much worse than the youtube mini-series.

Best moment Sub Zero vs Scorpion, they even bring back real MK music for it. Second best Kano, 3rd the ending more classic music.

Called Kano doing a face heel turn, but at least we got to see Kabul even if their roles were switched.

Lui Kang is a sissy and they murdered my boy Kung Lao.

Honestly feel Smoke could have played Meleena's role. Keep her for Kitanna.

Bat-girl cool.

Well we all now know the real reason they choose Cole and meh... apart from spoilers Cage would have been just as good.

This chosen shit is shit.

Hopefully Nightwolf is in the next one.

And now I'm off the watch the 1st 2.



Also If anyone can tell me what Hanzel Und Gretyl did on Annihilation's OST I'd be very thankful.
 
Solid Snek dijo:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=sC64MKsfoGE

That's kind of a random question. Are Hanzel and Gretyl on the new MK soundtrack? I think they'd get cancelled hard, if anyone remembered who they were.
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Big fan of theirs, got to see them on their 2014 Black Forest Metal Tour where they signed a copy of Uber Alles. Never heard of them getting cancelled, they were on the 2015 docu Rammstein in America. Got a story about cancellation?
 
Cole cannot fucking act. Like replace him with a plank of wood. As for why there is a rando? I have no idea. Mortal Kombat is extensively diverse already with a handful of white dudes. I mean, Liu Kang is there. I don't even know why they bothered with a random. It really doesn't serve any purpose and is really a poor excuse for writing. You've got Liu Kang, Jax, Sonya, Scorpion, Sub Zero...you have a ton of people to pick and focus the movie on. I don't understand why they needed some random. Its not like there is any deep lore. It just bogs the film down.

The problem is that movies want to be more than they actually are. Mortal Kombat should just be a bloodier 'Blood Sports'. It shouldn't have a complicated plot. Lets us get to know the characters and let them beat the shit out of each other. We don't need a convoluted backstory. This is one arena where just exposition is fine, because plot isn't really the point of the film. Its about the fights, the effects and the gore.

You have people who want it to be 'more' than that and that's where we run into trouble. Like, what is the point of this being an assassination plot? The movie is Mortal Kombat, let them fight it out. I sort of yearn for the 1980s where there's just this simple concept and they just do it. They're not afraid of putting it any higher than that. But why do we need a prequel? Why do we need 'unlocking their powers'? I just fail to see why we need all this extraneous shit surrounding it.

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I also don't get the point of a fighting tournament where you can just gang up and murder all the fighters beforehand and go "LOLZ I WONZ U LOSE"

I mean that's not a tournament, that's a gangland assasination. Like what's even the point? It's so dumb
 
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Who would have guess that an animated film, which was its own take on the first game, would be the palate cleanser I needed after seeing the live action reboot.
 
Solid Snek dijo:
Whoah whoah hold up.

First off, Sub-Zero didn't kill the Shirai Ryu on Shang Tsung's orders. Sub-Zero killed Scorpion while on a mission for Quan Chi, and then Quan Chi butchered the Shirai Ryu to reward Sub-Zero.

Second, Sub-Zero wouldn't be fighting for Outworld; in the original universe he joined the tournament because he was under orders to assassinate Shang Tsung. Even if you wanted to take artistic liberties and decide that in your film adaption, Sub-Zero isn't loyal to Earthrealm or the Lin Kuei, he'd sooner fight for the interests of Netherrealm rather than Outworld. Saying Sub-Zero is on the Outworld team makes as much sense as saying Bo Rai Cho is part of the Dragon King's army.

And third, OH MY GOD KITANA WOULD NOT LOSE TO MILEENA


(but in fairness, focusing on Cage and Scorpion is a sound idea, and your Kano / Kahn ending is totally konsistent with kanon. A couple more rewrites and your script may be ready for the greenlight)
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I know it's not 100% lore accurate but no video game movie is.
 
I just realized why Cole's power is a plot armor, because he's a fucking punching bag :story:
Kano, Kung Lao and Sub-Zero carried the movie hard
 
This movie more or less bored the fuck out of me. Anytime I'm checking the runtime left more than once I know I'm just wanting this shit to be over. This film had a lot of potential for an R-rated and splashy gorefest but it was ruined by what had to be one of the weakest storylines I've ever seen. I get it, it's Mortal Kombat; you don't come for the compelling, engaging plot but this felt like it was a script written in the 90's by a ten year old and the lead was the writers own self-insert character.
From what I recall they wanted to get actually trained fighters to play the roles which is kind of pointless when there's so many jump-cuts and edits you'd think you're watching Liam Nielson jump a fence. Some of these 'fighter actors' have dialects so thick I'm surprised they weren't given subtitles. Out of the entire cast Kano, Kung Lao, Sub-Zero and Scorpion were giving it their all and it shows. It's already been mentioned ten times over but there's plenty of characters that could have made better leads and a more coherent story.
They also pretty much burned a chunk of the stable of fan favorite fighters in what they clearly thought was going to be a lead-up into a movie with an actual tournament. You would think given that the 'real fighting' starts in the next film they'd used shit-tier fodder for this one. No one's gonna care or miss Frost, Rain, Stryker, Jarek, Kai or freakin' Meat.
Cole is by far the worst part of this film. He's a shitty character that gives weird Mary-sue vibes. His 'arkana'(which I spelled with a K because, c'mon, it's Mortal Kombat) is literal plot armor because despite being the shittiest fighter hands down his magical power is the ability to take down Goro like a bitch. A guy that could rip him in half and has like three feet on him gets completely owned by a guy wearing shitty gold armor and has weird tonfa like arm blades.
It's worth watching for the terribad appeal but it's nothing that's gonna blow your mind. I'd give it a 4/10.
 
MasterDisaster dijo:
They also pretty much burned a chunk of the stable of fan favorite fighters in what they clearly thought was going to be a lead-up into a movie with an actual tournament. You would think given that the 'real fighting' starts in the next film they'd used shit-tier fodder for this one. No one's gonna care or miss Frost, Rain, Stryker, Jarek, Kai or freakin' Meat.
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That's what I thought they were going for by using Nitara and Reiko, but then they had to throw in Mileena and Kabal as well as have Goro go out like a bitch because the CGI was too expensive.
 
Movie was real bad. Not only do I think the 90's one was better, I think it told a more coherent story.

This feels like a movie that had been tossed around for years in production hell, getting half assed partial rewrites trying to pitch it into a greenlight. Eventually it just gets thrown into production with out anytime or any talent to clean up the Frankenscript.

The movie flows like a made for TV movie where they just had to go from scene to scene and needed the barest of exposition dumped to justify it.

Pros:
- The director let the Australian man ad lib his lines as an average cheeky Aussie and it's by far the only entertaining thing in the movie.

Cons:
-Everything but let's keep to the notable ones:
-The plot's flaws aren't even worth going over. It's bad, it's obviously not a coherent narrative, and any patchwork to the plot was probably done in filming.
-Every character is bad. Raiden's most prominent trait is that he is completely disinterested in the events happening around him. Liu Kang got those Bruce Lee muscle textures, looks like a decent Made for TV live action Goku. At best you get Kung Lao who is able to squeeze out a little screen presence with nothing to work with. OC MC Cole literally feels like he's there just for Writing for Dummies point of you have to have a character who knows nothing to explain the plot to the audience.
- The Focus on Scorpion and Sub-Zero. It takes a lot of screen time, and the movie acts like it's parts has a lot of weight. It's completely pointless, it's told to us like it matters but not shown or told why. Sub-Zero is just silent murder man, Scorpion is just a dude he killed and was real mad in hell until he just shows up from the dead to get his revenge. Trying to tie it to the OC MC adds nothing other than our right laughing at Scorpion asking Cole to protect his bloodline, when casting makes it blatant Cole is a cuckold raising a daughter obviously not related to him. This feel like there was draft of the script where Scorpion vs Sub-Zero was the main focus, that was more written over than rewritten.
-Every fight is bad. The CGI was cheap, the bad cinematography doesn't cover up the poor choreography. The violence is not impressive, and was obviously designed to be easily cuttable if they late in production decide to go with PG 13.

This is shit, this write up will likely be the last thought I have about it that isn't passing, they should of payed Kano's actor to do a YouTube bit with OzzyMan cause that's all he's doing in the movie, and it's the only bit that was entertaining.
 
Polyboros2 dijo:
Pros:
- The director let the Australian man ad lib his lines as an average cheeky Aussie and it's by far the only entertaining thing in the movie.
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This movie was largely filmed in South Australia, so in addition to Josh Lawson as Kano, the director Simon McQuoid is also Australian as is Jessica McNamee (Sonya Blade) and other members of the supporting cast.

Polyboros2 dijo:
Liu Kang got those Bruce Lee muscle textures, looks like a decent Made for TV live action Goku.
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As Kano says in the movie, “Put a shirt on Magic Mike.”

Polyboros2 dijo:
OC MC Cole literally feels like he's there just for Writing for Dummies point of you have to have a character who knows nothing to explain the plot to the audience.
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It definitely would have been possible to cut Cole from the movie, and have the tournament needing to be explained to Sonya and Jax instead of having them be Mortal Kombat Truthers.
 
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