Mortal Kombat (2021)

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I'll see it tonight once husband gets off work but it kills me that it sounds like they fucked up the most simple of stories somehow from what friends are saying.

Why Cole? Liu, Johnny and Sonya were just as clueless as to what's going on in the original film and learned on the way like the audience. Don't need some OC.

And don't give me that Johnny Cage is the white devil shit. Liu was the main character and Johnny was his cool sidekick until like X. Everyone likes Cage and it's disrespectful they won't even put in all three heroes from the original game.
 
The movie came out on my day off. However I'm being a good little boi and saving it for after supper. Gonna play a few towers on MK11 for most of the day.
 
The whole chosen and arcana bullshit feels forced as hell and only there to give Sonya a way to feel worthless for not being one of the chosen until she gets to kick Kano's ass.

I also laughed my ass off when it turned out Cole's secret power was... Having armour? And Jax's, of course, is the secret ancient Shaoilin magic of sci-fi cybernetic arms. If Sub-Zero didn't rip off his arms, do you think the power would have had them ripped off anyway to replace them?

I knew Kung Lao was screwed the moment he started kicking ass. Mortal Kombat only allows him to be competent when he's about to die.

I'm surprised Shao Khan wasn't mentioned once in this movie.

"The Elder Gods are too lazy to enforce their rules." "But then why don't I break the rules too?" "Only bad guys are allowed to abuse this. Good guys gotta stick to the rules."
 
I'm not going to spoiler shit, this movie is streaming and you know what the fuck you're doing if you clicked this thread.

So I'll lead with the good:
The effects are pretty fucking nice. They obviously put a lot of effort into the ice effects, no doubt, and they put in the appropriate amount of blood. Some of it ends up looking a little CG-ish, but it don't look cheap.
Speaking of the gore, a lot of it is in the fights, and the fights are pretty well choreographed! It isn't as good as I might like, but I would rate it at about 7-8/10 in terms of fighting. At least I always had a firm idea of what was going on.

Now for the bad, and the first and biggest issues with this movie is that
🔔🚨THERE IS NO MORTAL KOMBAT IN MY FUCKING MORTAL KOMBAT MOVIE!🚨🔔
Seriously, at no point in time is there a fighting tournament to decide the fate of Earthrealm, which is the fucking point! I spent so much of the movie's runtime waiting for the tournament to begin!
With all the focus on prophesies and bloodlines and arcana and shit I spent half the movie, at least, feeling like I wandered into a not-MK movie. Just blah blah blah boring shit that I do not and never will care about because none of it fucking matters. We're dealing with crazy dimensional realms and literal sorcerers and shit, we don't need to completely fail at half-ass boring explanations for shit that doesn't matter anyway. It actively pissed me off, not just they tried but they failed so badly. "You just got pulled into an alternate dimension by a lightning god, and now you throw fireballs so you can fight an evil sorcerer to save everyone on Earth. Literally the entire world depends on you just rolling with it." Boom, done.
Speaking of, who's this fucking Cole guy? Why the fuck is he in this movie when there are literally dozens of actual game characters to use? "We need a non-white protagonist, also Nigleena!" is a bullshit excuse when, as many people have pointed out, Liu Kang is right there. SO IS JAX! As for a clueless character to explain shit to, again nobody knows shit except Lui Kang and Raiden! It was have been as easy to focus on Jax/Sonya as the clueless protagonists chasing Kano to the secret monastery where Liu is, or some other shit, the structure of this movie just pisses me off. Oh, and who was involved with casting? Why is Sonya a spindly thot? Lui Kang looks so soft faced and is just...weird. The Cole guy was like a plank of wood, no charisma at all - I don't know who anybody else was and I didn't even really care. The closest thing to chemistry was between Kano and Kung Lao. None of the villains had much in the way of menace or impact. The first movie in the 90's was deeply flawed, but at least the casting was better and it made "YOUR SOUL IS MINE!" iconic.

Final Verdict:
Torrent or Stream if you're already paying for whatever its on. Don't pay for it at the theatre.
 
Última edición:
It was alright, not bad but also not good, and not goodbad either. I think I'm still gonna prefer the 90s original as a random drunken watch in the future to be honest.
 
This is a terrible film. This should have been a new HBO MAX series and they could have taken the time to, you know, focus on the character development.

There’s way too much story in MK now after 29 years to just shove so much into a 1:30 minute film just to set up a sequel (that I hope never gets made).
 
Basically how I feel:

The original MK film was the right format and story for a Mortal Kombat movie, but lacked the gore and technical effects to fully pull it off.

This new movie has the gore and the technical effects to make it look good. It looks really good most of the time, but sadly, the film doesn't have the right story! Tournament to determine the fate of Earthrealm....BOOM! Easy, work with that. And that's not what this movie was. The tournament never happens which to me goes against MK entirely, and why is Liu Kang not the lead here?
 
Cole didn't bug me as much as I thought he would, but I also realized during the climactic fight that I was hoping Sub Zero would rip his head and spine out. It would have been the most interesting thing involving Cole.
 
A man of no consequence dijo:
All these big action epics just keep trying to set up a universe like shittastic Marvel.

fuck them all.
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Yeah, this movie really needed to have a tight focus on the core concept and deliver a clear and cohesive standalone story. There is enough in the lore already to support a lot more films, but you can't build sequels on a bad foundation. This film just completely missed the point of itself.

Also, did anyone else get pissed off that everyone used the term 'marking' for the stupid dragon birthmark/scar/whatever? Nobody says dragon 'mark' or dragon 'sign' or dragon 'symbol' or whatever. Everyone, at all times, calls it a marking. It was just kind of a weird way to address it I thought.
 
Also, did they really need to add this bullshit with Earth Realm's Kombat team being decided by either being a direct descendent of a chosen or killing a chosen? The whole reason the tournament exists is to give realms a fair shot at defending themselves from invasion, but your roster now depends on just hoping the mark happens to end up with a good fighter by the time that the Tournament rolls around.
 
I was expecting a 7/10 movie and got a 5/10 movie.

Kano's actor was the only good one in the whole movie. Raiden and Cole's actors were definitely the worst. And yes, the editing is terrible.

It also annoys me that there was no actual tournament. It's just an event they reference.
 
It's pretty lousy, and not in a fun way.

Here's what I wanna know: Where the hell did they spend the $100 million budget?

They cast a bunch of nobodies (with two or three famous marital artists), like 75 percent of the movie takes place in generic warehouses, caves or gravel pits, and save the Subzero vs Scorpion fight, the fights are lackluster and the fight choreography was lousy. For crying out loud, they have 10 cuts in a scene showing leg sweeping!

There are direct to streaming action movies that cast bjgger names and have better production values than this. Hell, another movie out right now, Nobody - great fucking movie btw - cost $15 million to make and it has scenes better shot than this entire movie.

How did this cost $100 million? Sure hope they didn't pay half that for the script.
 
Deep into 95 movie. Such a fun fantasy film and a favorite of mine still. Not a super fan of the games but this at least feels like a real movie with a charismatic cast and great dialog and fucking awesome soundtrack.

I'll try 2021 movie again tomorrow but fuck me man... Blah.
 
Pretty fun movie, pretty good - manages to slightly rise above completely trashy action vidya movie with the Scorpion bookends people mentioned. Not some must watch masterpiece, but who thought it even should be? The seethe across this thread, before and after the movie came out, seems a bit embarassing though, especially considering how not-wokie the movie is. It's fucking mortal kombat, even the new games didn't have Citizen Kane (or whatever) quality characters and story, let alone the original movie. God, I love Johnny Cage and "those were 500 dollar sunglasses" as much as anybody else, but it's just the narrative power fantasy of a mutant combined 12 year old and a coked up movie exec. Which is pretty fun, but don't make it more than it is.

11/10 as a 6-7/10, worth watching, a point for HBO Max.
 
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.
 
Sustainable War dijo:
The seethe across this thread, before and after the movie came out, seems a bit embarassing though, especially considering how not-wokie the movie is. It's fucking mortal kombat, even the new games didn't have Citizen Kane (or whatever) quality characters and story, let alone the original movie.
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I think most people complaining about the movie would have been happy with a more straightforward adaptation of the games that focuses on the tournament instead of this being a weird prequel that adds extra bullshit like the dragon markings and the fighters having to unlock their "arcana".
 
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