Mortal Kombat - Movie Review

mortal kombat has finally arrived this film has been in development for a very long time we had the original mortal kombat back in what 95. paul w s anderson then a sequel mortal kombat annihilation which was an absolute abomination against humanity and so funny i love watching that movie oh my god as long as i have the power khan you will never rule this world as long as the portal remains open your world becomes my world but all these years later we have a new adaptation of the film that's rated r and very bloody and very violent this film tells the story of mma fighter cole young who seeks out earth's greatest champions in order to stand against the enemies of outworld in a high-stakes battle for the universe when it comes to the mortal kombat games my friends and i always enjoyed kicking each other's asses in them but i never really got into the story i know there's a lot of story to mortal kombat never really interested me i liked ripping people's spines out what can i say that's about it so that's really all i wanted from this movie i wanted really bloody brutal epic fights that felt weighty that had impact to them it was rated r and that's what was promised me the first like 10 minutes of the movie i was like holy [ __ ] this is like way better than i thought it was going to be because my friend and i we were just gonna we actually made popcorn and we were just going to like watch this and and kind of laugh and and stuff our faces filled with popcorn and candy but the first 10 minutes of the movie were surprisingly great i love hiroyuki sonata i think he's one of the best actors ever check out the original japanese ring last samurai the wolverine the twilight samurai the guy is amazing and so to see him in this video game movie i was like oh man they're going for authenticity here there's some serious [ __ ] seasoned talent in this movie awesome and then they pulled the 2014 godzilla where that movie started out with brian cranston got us wrapped up into that character and then pivoted to a far less interesting character in aaron taylor johnson's soldier this movie does the same thing by pivoting away from hiroyuki sonata's hanzo hisashi and going to someone named cole young who's an mma fighter an invented character has nothing to do with mortal kombat lore that's fine i don't give a [ __ ] uh do whatever you want as long as the story story's good i just didn't really find this character very interesting he was a down and out kind of underdog fighter who wanted to provide for his family and we've seen that 21 000 times so i don't know it was a strange choice to sort of have him be the protagonist when there is so many a plethora of other more interesting mortal kombat characters to make the protagonist but beyond that i found the movie mostly pretty entertaining especially when kano came on screen josh lawson as kano is a scene stealer without a doubt he's so much of a scene stealer it's mind-boggling it's like he's in a different movie the other great addition to the film is sub-zero he's exactly what i wanted to see from sub-zero a badass who shows up in the real world sometimes kills some people with ice and uh does some [ __ ] up [ __ ] i really liked sub-zero a lot in the film he's what he needed to be as i said my expectations for this movie were give me bloody brutal fights and have them say some funny mortal kombat catchphrases and make me laugh while i choke to death on popcorn and for the most part i got that however i do have one major complaint with the movie and it's unfortunately the way they edited the fight scenes if you've watched my channel for a long time you know that i'm not really a fan of quick cut editing i never have been and i don't really know anyone who is for whatever reason they decided to do that quite often there is a considerable amount of coverage to these fight scenes and the they cut around them a lot and i don't understand why it's just ugly it doesn't have to be that way and the other thing is that while the fights are very bloody at times it seems very focused on the fatality element like we're going to kill this person in a very gruesome way at the end but before that it's very pg-13 the fights don't feel like they have weight to them there's not a lot of impact to the punches characters get boulders thrown on them and then the boulders are picked up and they have like dust on their shoulders and that's it there's there's not a lot of blood until somebody gets sliced in half by a spinning hat okay that's [ __ ] awesome but for the most part it doesn't really feel like people are being hurt or are in danger like i look at a movie like the raid for instance that to me feels more like mortal kombat characters in that movie feel like they are being brutalized and truly viciously savagely hurt here it feels very pg-13 until they're killed and i wish that there was more impact to the way these fights happened and they didn't feel so superhero-y where it feels like everyone can just kind of get up and walk away that's not how i envision mortal kombat and when you're going for a rated r and you have that opportunity to make incredibly well choreographed fights that are also very brutal and you feel that pain and they don't do it i would say that was the movie's biggest actual flaw for me you know i mean the character stuff i expected to be cheesy i expect the world to be silly and over the top i i wanted all of that and the movie gave me that but the best parts of the movie are easily scorpion and sub-zero anything involving those two people [ __ ] great the whole setup of what they could do in the future i don't know i was a little disappointed also that the mortal kombat element of the tournament felt like it was just this thing they talked about sometimes the actual fights between a lot of these characters and the third act felt almost like a montage very quick and throw away but honestly i feel like most mortal kombat fans especially hardcore mortal kombat fans will find enjoyment in this movie and i certainly laughed a lot and had fun while people were being brutally killed i just wish that it was um i'm not saying more gritty or realistic i just want to feel like they are in danger like the pain element of mortal kombat i need to feel like that's part of this universe the next time we see more of these fights i'm gonna give mortal kombat a c plus guys thank you so much as always for watching but i also want to tell you about a pretty cool video game right now that's in the middle of a kickstarter it's called ghosts it's a new fmv game from one of the writer producers of host jed shepherd which recently won the fangoria chainsaw award for best streaming premiere it's a partnership between visible games limited run games trevor henderson and the jim henson creature shop it's targeting all platforms like pc switch ps4 and xbox and the kickstarter ends on may 7th and i think it sounds really cool especially if you're a horror fan so i would suggest checking out that kickstarter i have linked it in the description below guys thank you so much as always for watching look forward to more reviews very soon and if you like this you can click right here and get stuck manized [Music]

Channel: Chris Stuckmann

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Keywords: Mortal Kombat, Movie Review, Chris Stuckmann, 2021, Video Game, Reviews, Film, Scene, Clip, Trailer, Teaser, Sonya Blade, Kano, Sub-Zero, Jax, Raiden, Scorpion, Liu Kang, Kung Lao, Johnny Cage, Lewis Tan, Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Joe Taslim, Hiroyuki Sanada, Mehcad Brooks, Ludi Lin, Max Huang, Simon McQuoid

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Length: 7min 25sec (445 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 23 2021