![]() In the context of a film structure I understand why it made sense to remove Johnny Cage as having him in the same party as Kano would be redundant. The whole issue of Johnny Cage falls into the realm of fixing a problem you created. Otherwise the combined visuals and choreography along with the kicking soundtrack make the action scenes in this the best we’ve seen to date. Computerized blood will never look great in my opinion, and there’s a few points in the film where it does look bad. Visually Mortal Kombat is a good looking film. We also get a lot of fatality moments pulled straight out of the games. Previous Mortal Kombat movies tended to gloss over the gamey aspects of each character, but here their quirks are more celebrated no matter how ridiculous. Not only are they well choreographed, but the blows dealt feel like they have some force to them and you spend a lot of the time feeling like the protagonists have actual stakes at risk. There are characters who are notable to the plot that don’t get much explanation for their presence outside of “bad guy must kill” including Mileena (Sisi Stringer), Nitara (Mel Jarnson), and Kabal (Daniel Nelson, Damon Herriman voicing) who has a bit of a Brooklyn accent now.īut how are the fights, you stupid moron, I hear you saying. The overall cast is shockingly large including Sonya Blade (Jessica McNamee), Kano (Josh Lawson), Raiden (Tadanobu Asano), Jax (Mehcad Brooks), Liu Kang (Ludi Lin), Shang Tsung (Chin Han), Bi-Han (Joe Taslim), Hanzo (Hiroyuki Sanada), Kung-Lao (Max Huang), and more. Cole is the descendant of Hanzo, who we all know becomes Scorpion. Cole’s job is to serve as the fish out of water so the characters and world can be explained to new viewers. ![]() The movie introduces new fanfic insert character Cole Young. Bi Han kills Hanzo, Jax loses his arms to get his signature metal replacements, Sonya hates Kano, etc. It’s not what’s important.įor Mortal Kombat fans this is a story we’ve seen retread a million times over. It’s a plot that’s utterly stupid when given any serious thought, but ultimately it’s just surface coating to justify a game where badass people with magical powers kill each other in a ring. The basics are simple There’s a fighting tournament between realms and if a realm wins a certain number of times, they win the heavenly legal rights to invade the losing world. Mortal Kombat is a property that is simultaneously simplistic yet incredibly complicated just due to the sheer accumulation of characters over the saga.
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