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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.
Vinicius Monteiro
Oct 12, 2026 · via TMDB
Video game adaptations are always a tough balancing act, but this take on *Mortal Kombat* drops the ball almost immediately. Instead of actually showing the epic, life-or-death tournament the franchise is famous for, the entire movie feels like a drawn-out prequel. The biggest mistake is shoving classic, beloved characters aside to focus on Cole Young, a painfully generic new guy with zero charisma and literal plot armor. It’s incredibly frustrating to watch actual legends take a back seat just to push a bland fighter who feels completely out of place in this universe. The movie’s overall vibe is totally all over the place. It kicks off with a genuinely amazing, gritty prologue in feudal Japan, but quickly turns into a cheap-looking B-movie with flat jokes and boring sets. To make matters worse, the writers tried way too hard to logically explain how magic works by introducing a lazy concept called "Arcana." Instead of honoring the grueling training or cool tech upgrades that originally defined these characters, everyone just magically unlocks a superpower when they get beat up enough. It completely ruins the unique identities that made these fighters so cool in the first place. The way the movie treats its legendary roster is honestly a huge letdown. Fan favorites like Liu Kang are reduced to boring tour guides who just explain the plot to the audience, while Raiden, a literal god, just stands around doing absolutely nothing to help out. The bad guys have it even worse; terrifying Outworld legends like Mileena and Kabal are turned into silent, throwaway henchmen who just show up to get brutally killed. Even the epic rivalry between Scorpion and Sub-Zero, which was the main selling point of all the trailers, is totally wasted and put on ice until the very end of the movie. By the time the third act rolls around, the movie rushes to the finish line in a messy, chaotic blur of fights that lack any real emotional weight. While the gory fatalities and the awesome remix of the classic techno theme song offer a quick hit of nostalgia, they can't save a story that fell apart way earlier. Ultimately, the film feels like an expensive, incomplete commercial that's way too obsessed with setting up a sequel. It’s a sadly wasted opportunity that sacrifices a good, standalone story just to tease us with what might come next.
Joogle83
Jul 21, 2026 · via TMDB
A Flawed but Fun Fatality-Filled RideMortal Kombat (2021) - A Campy Yet Great Remake of the Franchise Mortal Kombat (2021) is a love letter to fans of the long-running fighting game franchise, embracing its over-the-top action, brutal fatalities, and cheesy one-liners while delivering a modern take on the saga. It may not be a flawless victory, but it's a bloody fun ride that understands the essence of Mortal Kombat.A Nostalgic Yet Fresh Approach Unlike the 1995 Mortal Kombat film, which leaned into PG-13 territory, this remake finally unleashes the franchise's signature gore with R-rated brutality. Director Simon McQuoid crafts a film that respects its source material, giving fans what they've always wanted-faithful character designs, iconic catchphrases, and jaw-dropping fatalities ripped straight from the games.While some story choices may be divisive (Cole Young's addition feels unnecessary), the film does a great job at reintroducing classic characters like Scorpion, Sub-Zero, and Kano in a way that feels fresh yet familiar. The opening battle between Hanzo Hasashi (Scorpion) and Bi-Han (Sub-Zero) is a highlight, offering a gripping and beautifully choreographed fight that sets the tone.Campy Charm Meets Brutal Combat This movie doesn't take itself too seriously, and that's part of the fun. Kano (Josh Lawson) steals every scene with his crude humor, perfectly embodying the kind of campiness fans love about Mortal Kombat. While some dialogue is laughably bad, it adds to the film's charm rather than taking away from **** action sequences are the true star here, delivering satisfying, bone-crunching fights. Sub-Zero (Joe Taslim) is a standout villain, using ice-based attacks in visually stunning ways. The film builds toward a climactic battle that feels like a straight-up boss fight, with Scorpion's arrival delivering the ultimate fan-service moment.Final Verdict: Flawed, But Fun as Hell Mortal Kombat (2021) isn't perfect-some characters feel underdeveloped, and the tournament itself never actually happens-but it nails the tone and spectacle that fans crave. It's a campy, bloody, and action-packed reboot that leans into the franchise's strengths while setting the stage for bigger battles to come.Final Score: 7.5/10 - A Flawed but Fun Fatality-Filled Ride.
james4715
Jan 7, 2025 · via TMDB
Enjoyed it overall but the story was meh. Loved that they had goro and other characters and that they also alluded to characters like kitana by showing off her fan and stuff. I wish that there was a tournament in the film and they stuck closer to the Mortal kombat story. Cole Young was not a very good character in my opinion.
The Movie Mob
Jan 13, 2023 · via TMDB
<b>Mortal Kombat shows off some amazing design and stunt work, but the writing keeps it from everything fans wanted it to be. Hopefully, the sequel will learn from these shortcomings.</b> I would be lying if I said Mortal Kombat (2021) was everything I had hoped. But I also enjoyed it and hope the sequel does happen someday soon. <blockquote><b>Pros:</b> * The character roster was pretty big for a first outing, and I appreciated seeing so many of my favorites right off the bat. * The costuming and aesthetics were stunning. I immediately recognized each character because their designs held true to the games while still being updated and modernized. The attention to detail was incredible. * Josh Lawson surprised, making Kano undoubtedly the most entertaining part of this movie. * Casting some true martial artists like Joe Taslim and Hiroyuki Sanada gave the action more skill and grit. * The R rating was the right fit for Mortal Kombat, allowing the gore-filled fatalities fans have come to love in the games. </blockquote><blockquote><b>Cons:</b> * With a massive payer of characters to choose from in the Mortal Kombat universe, the addition of Lewis Tan’s Cole Young was unnecessary and annoying. A dozen existing characters could have served as the audience’s perspective. * Adapting a fantastical and violent video game to a feature film is no simple task. However, Kevin Tancharoen perfectly grounded the Mortal Kombat story while keeping the magic and fantasy roots in Mortal Kombat: Legacy (2011). Unfortunately, Simon McQuoid struggled with that balance, resulting in a script that felt like the CW team wrote. * The whole Arcana superpower thing stripped the need for skill from some of the fighters, becoming a disappointing dues ex machina. I would have preferred better writing.</blockquote> All in all, there were more pros than cons, but the cons took what could have been great and made it decent. All the pros give me hope that Mortal Kombat 2 can fix the cons and make a much better sequel. Fingers crossed!
GenerationofSwine
Jan 11, 2023 · via TMDB
OK... my wife is the Mortal Kombat fan of the family, and the fighting game fan of the family. So this should really be her review... because I'm just going to trash it. The problem here is plot, as in they actually tried to add in a real plot. Mortal Kombat is a fighting game. You play it to peacefully beat your friends to a bloody pulp... and that is where the fun is. But they added a plot. In Twister, the star of the show was the tornado. The plot was there to move the view from tornado to tornado. And in Back Draft, it was the same... with fire. Mortal Kombat thought it had to be deep. It thought it had to be something more than it a tournament. It thought the characters had to have more than surface level depth. THE DIDN'T. The Tournament should have been the star. The plot should have only been there to move you from fight to fight with a climax that shouted "FATALITY!" and left it at that. Instead they tried to add depth where no depth was needed... and that killed the fun of Mortal Kombat. Not every movie needs to have a plot and characters, some movies work best as mindless popcorn munching escapism.
tmdb28039023
Aug 28, 2022 · via TMDB
Mortal Kombat is not just too long for a movie based on a fighting video game; it’s actually too dumb to even be a movie based on a fighting video game. On the one hand it does a Resident Evil, introducing a new character and making him the hero, instead of giving this role to an already established character – preferably one that is, you know, popular among the franchise’s fan base. And on the other hand, it dips into the same old MK well, kicking off with the Hanzo Hasashi Family Massacre – Kombat’s equivalent of the biblical Massacre of the Innocents. Only last year the animated Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge covered the exact same ground, and did it a lot better. The intertitle that follows the prologue confirms that we are not about to see anything new (Earthrealm blahblahblah Tournament blahblahblah Outworld blahblahblah). MK21 contains exactly (sub)zero surprises. The first time we see Jax, we know he is going to lose his original arms and have them replaced with cybernetic prosthetics (the only surprising thing about this is that the character's first replacement arms are quite underwhelming. Jax eventually gets something more in line with what we’re used to; the question is, why does the movie do in three steps what it should do in two?). Similarly, Kano's true, treacherous nature is no secret. We already know all this. We know it like the backs of our hands. If we don't know it from playing the game, we know it from watching the 1995 movie – speaking of which, MK95 is 10 minutes shorter (it wasted little time with pre-Tournament antics, and it didn’t even bother with a Training Montage; in contrast, MK21 includes what is best described as a tutorial, not the way you want to go about evoking a video game feel), which is to say 10 minutes better. It also had better effects; its Goro was clumsy and awkward – something like the Cryptkeeper on stereoids – but when Johnny Cage punched him in the balls, I felt it. Conversely, when Cole (Lewis Tan), the aforementioned brand-new character, fights Goro in MK21, it’s like he’s shadowboxing, and his shadow happens to be a four-armed man-mountain of pixels. All things considered, what’s the point of watching a movie where we can anticipate every important event, and anything we don’t see coming a mile away turns out to be unnecessary? For example, it's cool – pun intended – when Sub-Zero makes it hail, but that’s just a gimmick – nothing more than smoke and mirrors.
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