I am like nine Mortal Kombats (Mortals Kombat? whatever) behind, but I remain baffled by the decision to center Scorpion and Sub-Zero in the lore. Raiden is the best character all-around, and almost all of the others are more interesting than Slippery Ninja and Draggy Ninja. Why try so hard to get us invested in their…

Eh, I kind of liked it.

Pretty much spot on.

The opening scene is odd. It’s not only a fairly solid tribute to old martial arts movies, it’s really visually striking and beautifully lit. Then the rest of the movie is shot in the flattest, dullest way possible. There had to be a way to make that fighting pit set look less like a fake rock set from the original…

Which totally makes sense! Those movies are safe bets to make an absolute fortune in perpetuity. But in trying to do that they completely forget that the first movies in those franchises were not two hours of waiting to get to the fireworks factory only to get a “To Be Continued!” when they reach the front gate.
If…

Yeah, for me it was a genuine toss up as to whether he was going to chase Karli or try to stop that truck from falling.

I did not see it as Walker coming back to save the day. I felt he came back for the sole purpose of revenge killing Karli. Then somewhere in the whole business his better side took over and that’s when he started helping Sam and Bucky.

It feels like the stuff with Val may have been shuffled around a bit to compensate for Black Widow having yet to come out, and the fact it’s coming between now and Loki suggests Disney/Marvel have gotten as far as they can without letting it establish things better.

It doesn’t even have the tourny? What the hell?

Especially since, come on, does anyone want to see anything other than a bombastic, violent, martial arts tournament with campy characters being played by people having a blast?

Just to be clear, do you mean “live action video games adaptions, or you genuinely mean all of them? Because both Street Fighter II the Animated movie and Fatal Fury the Motion Picture exist.

The problem with video game adaptations is that studios continue to tackle games that are either a) next to impossible to translate to film in a way that’s meaningful or b) so cinematic themselves that adapting them is pointless.

It’s fucking ridiculous that Paul WS Anderson continues to lead the pack for video game adaptations by a vast margin. It’s almost proof positive that video game movies can never be “good,” they can only be “stupidly, earnestly fun,” and you need a termite auteur like Anderson to deliver it. I don’t want to believe…

I am disappointed that Scorpion and Sub-Zero are not played by the same actors in the same costume with the colors changed in post. Way to ignore your heritage guys.

I can kind of forgive them for that, since a lot of fans tend to find the backstory of these things fun in a goofy soap-opera kind of way and there have been a few official games that didn’t deal with the tournament but still turned out okay.

This, it turns out, is his pass into the upcoming (in the next film) Mortal Kombat tournament

I respect your opinion and this thoughtful review. However, I have heard it has a lot of people punching each other, and I think I still need to see that.

So the main character is some random dude who’s not even from the games and the whole damn plot of the games, that being a silly tournament, is not even in the movie? What parts of Mortal Kombat did these people think was interesting.  Just take the script for Enter the Dragon or Bloodsport and just add monsters and…

The opening scene feels like a different movie. The quality of the acting drops precipitously after that scene, it’s almost like you are in a historical drama and then it pivots to a “B” movie. The character of Cole Young was a waste of time. Sonya Blade’s plot was cringeworthy. The only fighter I felt invested in was…

That person not only exists, I’m going to see the movie with him on Tuesday because his wife thinks anything with an R rating is a ‘scary film’ and refuses to go, so I’m tagged in. I'll sit through long monologues on every detail, but I refuse to watch the Netflix MK film beforehand to "get a basic understanding of…