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Mortal Kombat (1995)
Rate:
4
Viewed:
7/11
7/11:
Let me get this out of the way first: Mortal Kombat was specifically made for infantile boys and man-children who
wasted a significant portion of their lives playing the video game during the 90's.
They also spent countless hours memorizing combos and bragging to others that they were Mortal Kombat gods. The
result? They've become full-blown mental midgets with a twenty-year-old loser status that they've been struggling to get
rid of.
To cash in the popularity, a movie had to be made. I won't cheat you by what I think of it because I
played a bit of the game on SNES although I was never impressed. It's a great disappointment for many reasons.
One is the lack of blood and gore. I mean, it was the winning feature of the series and exactly the reason why
Mortal Kombat was one of the most popular game of all time.
Two is the inaccuracies when it comes to the depiction of the characters. Sonya Blade's uniform looks all wrong. Shang Tsung is
an old, not young, man. Raiden's name isn't spelled "Rayden."
Three, Raiden does nothing in the movie. What a fucking disappointment.
Four, nothing in the world has prepared me for this? Ha! Mortal Kombat is 100% pure rip-off of
Enter the Dragon,
but at least, this one is more coherent by getting the tournament play correct.
Five, if you look at Bridgette Wilson (who's Pete Sampras' wife if you can believe it) as Sonya Blade, it's
obvious that she had no martial arts training. Cynthia Rothrock would've been a better choice. And I was thinking more
of Brandon Lee or maybe Phillip Rhee for Liu Kang.
Six, the show gets boring and corny after a while, especially the fight scenes and when Shang Tsung kept using the well-known
lines from the game with a great deal of emphasis on each syllable.
Seven, the finishing moves were the hallmark of the game, yet nearly none of them is shown in the movie. Come on, that's full
of crap. You mean to tell me that it can only be done in the game but not in the movie? Lame-o.
Eight, what's with Johnny Cage? He's so annoying.
All in all, what I saw in the film isn't Mortal Kombat enough.