Mortal Kombat II

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Should I soyjak at this or wonder if MK would be better if Ed quit and became a bartender?
 
I'll open saying Matt Mullins was a better Johnny Cage and he does his own stunts.

The fact this franchise goes out of its way to avoid having Liu Kang as the main character despite all the DEI fucking garbage everywhere else is a fucking joke. You have an actual Chinese guy that can do legit martial arts cast as Liu Kang,and do NOTHING with him... :lossmanjack:

I guess I shouldn't complain, though. If you did feature Liu Kang, they would make him black.
 
I just saw it. I loved it. I thought everyone was good. The Big Trouble in Little China shout out was great.

I wasn't expecting best picture. But I thought it's a fun movie that knows what it has to be and leans into it.
 
Does the 50 year old man who doesn't know martial arts do martial arts in the movie or do they keep doing deepfakes in wide shots and use a lot of quick cuts when he has a fight scene?
 
TheTitKoker dijo:
Was jarring to me watching Urban without his Bri''ish accent from Boys, but I would've cast someone else as Johnny for sure.
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I agree.
Karl Urban works in roles with characters that are menacing (Butcher in Boys, Dredd in Dredd, Black Hat in Priest, Vaako in Riddick etc)
He's not ideal for Johnny Cage.
But then again, does Hollywood even have anymore actors that can pull 30+, fit, handsome, witty and cocky characters? Nothing comes to mind.
 
I didn't hate it, but I'm already forgetting it the next day.

Did they shoot this movie and then add Urban in reshoots? If he was part of the movie from the start he's very clunkily used. If he's added into an already complete movie, that makes much more sense.
 
I watched this yesterday through entirely legal means. I really enjoyed it.

The cast is wonderful. The visuals are great. The choreography was good. The fatalities were brutal and satisfying.

The script... well, it's got a lot of problems.

The movie isn't long enough, and it's 15 minutes shy of 2 hours. I understand why they didn't want to go that long for what amounts to a justification for spectacle fight scenes, but with that many characters, they really needed more time. Several important character scenes in the movie (like the introduction) are too snappy and feel perfunctory. And I understand a lot of the returning characters were introduced in the first film, so there's no reason to waste time establishing them in 2. But there's very little time spent watching them interact with each other, and that's a problem. You have to assume the audience didn't play the games.

There are several silly MacGuffins (like the stupid amulet) in the movie that made me roll my eyes, and they should have spent the time to make them feel less perfunctory. But they didn't, and it didn't feel right because they took other parts of the movie seriously. You can't say the movie is supposed to be schlocky when you play so much of the drama straight and also execute it competently.

But the cast... pretty damn good.

I'm a big fan of Urban as an actor, and I don't want to say he's miscast here because I don't think he is. But there's a lot of strangeness about his dialogue. Some of his lines are perfect and very funny, but then he's missing dialogue a person in his situation should have. He should have been a lot more shocked and freaked out by the portal and other world filled with monsters, but they just sort of oddly skip over that stuff.

And Urban also might be, I'm sorry to say, a little bit too old for the role. Not for Johnny Cage, just for this movie. Johnny Cage being a washed up movie star is fine. Has Urban had work done? He looked a little strange in the close-ups.

I laughed pretty hard at how awful the choreography and editing was in his old movie. Excellent stuff.

The best actor in the whole thing was the lady who played Kitana. She was perfect in every way. But everyone else was somewhere between solid and excellent. The guy playing Kano is awesome and made me laugh a lot. And we should all be thankful Hiroyuki Sanada is willing to appear in nonsense films like this one.

And they didn't even really give Cole Young the kind of ignoble send off they could have given how much of the audience disliked him. He would have won everything for the good guys if Shao Khan hadn't been cheating. But I think they made it clear he won't be back, necromancer or not.

Yeah, it's an imperfect film, but I liked most of it. I could have done with less ADR'd fan service (Scorpion doesn'tneed to yell his no-Japanese-accent game line every time he impales someone), but maybe someone will strip that out in a fan edit.
 
I liked it, but I haven't watched the first one. The 3rd movie should be less shamed of being a mortal Kombat movie. I think a point of actual conflict in the movies should be the relationship between Liu Kang and Raiden as that's something that is actually present in the games. A voice cameo from Richard Epcar would be neat too.
 
I visited KF movie night briefly yesterday.
They were playing MK2 so I've decided to watch it.

Fucking hell, this movie was horrid.

First of all, it looked like garbage. You could clearly tell that the actors were on a small green screen set because of how awkwardly they moved and the crappy CG backgrounds didn't help.
Second, the writing, as the Australians say, blew chunks. I know that the new games since the reboot are taking themselves very seriously but my childhood memories are of the OG trilogy and that shit was really stupid and it knew it was stupid, the 1995 movie captured the non-serious nature of MK way better.
Third, the fights were trash. The only decent ones were Kung Lao vs Liu Kang (because it featured 2 proper martial artists) and Baraka vs Cage (because the non-serious nature was present in this one).

Urban played Cage like he lost a bet and he had to be in the movie as punishment.
The fucker who played Raiden sounded like he doesn't know English and he learned his lines phonetically. Dude needed subtitles for real.
Kano was fun but he didn't do anything.
I liked Baraka, it was cool that they made him a good guy.

The 2021 movie was much better and that one sucks.
I hope they won't make more of these.
 
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