Washed-up MMA fighter Cole Young, unaware of his heritage, and hunted by Emperor Shang Tsung's best warrior, Sub-Zero, seeks out and trains with Earth's greatest champions as he prepares to stand against the enemies of Outworld in a high stakes battle for the universe.
The long awaited Mortal Kombat movie is finally here. Almost all the iconic main characters from the game are represented. Blood and gore are very present in this movie, and it’s great. They don’t shy away from the graphic violence which keeps the essence of the video game. Fight scenes are decent enough to entertain. The character Kano is very well depicted and even brings some humor to the table. Mortal Kombat brings a lot of fun with explicit violence and good enough fighting scenes.
2021 Mortal Kombat is a mess. Let’s start with the story. It’s very convoluted, you don’t quite know what’s the main story. It’s more a collage of side stories put together. The lead character (Cole Young) is so boring, you just don’t care about him. Character development is absent from this movie. You don’t know anything from any character unless you played the game. This is Simon McQuoid’s first full-length directorial movie, and it shows. They sould’ve got a more experience director if this project was taken seriously. The fighting is decent but still does not compare to recent martial art movies like IP Man or The Raid. With an R rating, they should’ve made intense and exciting fighting scenes. The costumes are another misfire. Scorpion and Sub-Zero’s outfits are horrible and seems very uncomfortable for the actors. Also, some cool characters are wasted quite easily and others are just threw in the movie for no reason. Shang Tsung, who was the main villain in the 1995 movie, is so lame and uninteresting, I was very disappointed. As for the production, editing can be better but overall the movie looks a little cheap. Mortal Kombat is a huge disappointment. They had 26 years to make a better movie than the 1995 version. They failed miserably. Let’s just hope the sequel will be much better.
