Mortal Kombat Review

Mortal Kombat Movie Review.

Mortal Kombat from 1995 was one of my favorite movies from childhood. So, I was bit apprehensive about the new Mortal Kombat reboot in 2021.

Sadly, my apprehension was right. But let’s start with the positives first.

SOME of the fight scenes are competently done. There is some decent amount of blood and gore. The deaths in the film are over the top, vicious and bloody.

That’s about it for the positives.

Now, be warned there will be a bit of spoilers but the movie has nothing major to spoil anyways.

This is a movie named Mortal Kombat spelled with a K, but the famous tournament after which it is named, doesn’t even HAPPEN in the movie! Digest that for a moment.

Someone in Hollywood thought it would be a smart and subversive idea to have the remake of Mortal Kombat not even have the tournament instead they have a bunch of random trainings, fights and showdowns.

Sometimes the character building is so bad that a character named Jax goes up against someone whose name I didn’t even catch and this person didn’t even DO anything evil in the previous scene. Absolutely no reason for the audience to be invested.

The story is disjointed, told via text on screen, exposition and random narration. Whenever this happens in a film, know that the said film is in a crisis.

The Scorpion Vs Sub-Zero showdown is sort of lame, the best parts of it are shown in the trailer. Rest of the fights have some random dialogs / visuals thrown in from the game to give the core fanbase something to like.

The famous theme song from the original makes a very tiny appearance and that too is not used properly!

Rating: 5/10. This is a one time watch if you can catch it for free somewhere on streaming. Some moments are enjoyable but overall, it just didn’t work for me.

Conclusion : Why is it SO difficult to make a movie about a fighting tournament with super-powered characters? It should be sort of like Enter the Dragon but with powers. Why is that hard to do? 1995 version achieved it, but that’s outdated now. So just remake what worked in the first film, what’s this crap about the tournament named MORTAL KOMBAT not even occurring in the movie itself? Then Name the movie, “Maybe Mortal Kombat: Before the Beginning. The Prequel.” I hope there is SEQUEL and it actually has the tournament in it…

P.S : This has the lamest 'Get over here' in the history of the games. come one dude (Director). At-least TRY!