Mortal Kombat (2021) is by far one of the worst video game movie adaptations I have seen in the past twenty five years.
The film spends far too much time introducing popular MK characters that have already been well established and given a proper back story in the video games. This is a MK movie for crying out loud the MK franchise has been going since the early 90s anyone watching this movie already knows who Scorpion and Sub Zero are they are the two most popular characters in the franchise.
Many of the characters iconic powers are made completely pointless in this movie. There's a particular scene in the movie where Sub Zero uses his ice powers to bombard his targets with icecles but none of them are sharp or even vaguely pointy he essentially throws icy slush at them injuring nobody not even the defenceless civilians. Liu Kang uses his fireball attack a handful of times throughout the movie and like Sub Zeros ice power he harms literally no-one with it not even when he hits Kano in the face with it instead Kano just shrugs it off like it's nothing.
There are a couple of fatalities in the movie that are somewhat decent and bloody but unfortunately they only take place during the last twenty minutes of the movie and are just fatalities from the game nothing new or exciting. All the special effects in this movie including the blood are all just CGI special effects with almost no practical effects outside of set designs which still look cheaply made. The Prince Goro character is entirely CGI and in my opinion looks even faker than in the 95 MK movie and that was just a rubber animatronic with stop motion special effects. Goro looks more like one of the CGI orcs from the live action World of Warcraft movie only with worse CGI.
The costumes look worse than in the 90s MK movies and look more like costumes used in a fan made MK movie not a modern high budget movie. I personally wouldn't use any of these costumes in MK 11 unless I wanted my character roster to look more like their rejected character concept art.
The films soundtrack is atrocious and lacks any energy to it which is a shame because the 90s MK movies had such kick ass sound tracks that got your blood pumping during fight sequences. The iconic Mortal Kombat theme is used for five seconds during the movies climax and is played over the ending credits. The MK theme in this film is just another crappy modern day techno remix with no bass to it.
The movie teases a sequel or to be more accurate the entire movie is one long teaser trailer for the next movie which judging by this crap will be about as entertaining as watching paint dry.
If your a Mortal Kombat fan try and avoid this movie if you can because it will only leave you feeling disappointed and angry that even after over twenty years they still can't even put together a half decent MK movie.
The film spends far too much time introducing popular MK characters that have already been well established and given a proper back story in the video games. This is a MK movie for crying out loud the MK franchise has been going since the early 90s anyone watching this movie already knows who Scorpion and Sub Zero are they are the two most popular characters in the franchise.
Many of the characters iconic powers are made completely pointless in this movie. There's a particular scene in the movie where Sub Zero uses his ice powers to bombard his targets with icecles but none of them are sharp or even vaguely pointy he essentially throws icy slush at them injuring nobody not even the defenceless civilians. Liu Kang uses his fireball attack a handful of times throughout the movie and like Sub Zeros ice power he harms literally no-one with it not even when he hits Kano in the face with it instead Kano just shrugs it off like it's nothing.
There are a couple of fatalities in the movie that are somewhat decent and bloody but unfortunately they only take place during the last twenty minutes of the movie and are just fatalities from the game nothing new or exciting. All the special effects in this movie including the blood are all just CGI special effects with almost no practical effects outside of set designs which still look cheaply made. The Prince Goro character is entirely CGI and in my opinion looks even faker than in the 95 MK movie and that was just a rubber animatronic with stop motion special effects. Goro looks more like one of the CGI orcs from the live action World of Warcraft movie only with worse CGI.
The costumes look worse than in the 90s MK movies and look more like costumes used in a fan made MK movie not a modern high budget movie. I personally wouldn't use any of these costumes in MK 11 unless I wanted my character roster to look more like their rejected character concept art.
The films soundtrack is atrocious and lacks any energy to it which is a shame because the 90s MK movies had such kick ass sound tracks that got your blood pumping during fight sequences. The iconic Mortal Kombat theme is used for five seconds during the movies climax and is played over the ending credits. The MK theme in this film is just another crappy modern day techno remix with no bass to it.
The movie teases a sequel or to be more accurate the entire movie is one long teaser trailer for the next movie which judging by this crap will be about as entertaining as watching paint dry.
If your a Mortal Kombat fan try and avoid this movie if you can because it will only leave you feeling disappointed and angry that even after over twenty years they still can't even put together a half decent MK movie.