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So Cole is literally the player in action story games. You run around, some random people yell at you to do things and you do it without question basically.
He's also the fish out of water/audience surrogate. His main purpose is to have the lore explained to him and have the plot happen to him. Like a crappy itsekai protagonist.
It's funny because the movie starts off so strong... then the moment it introduces Cole it's like a completely different writing team came in and took over, but it never fully recovers even in the end.
Totally agree, was really hoping Scorpion and Sub Zero would fight through an entire tournament just to get at each other, neither caring which side they were on, while other characters from both sides try to get them to see sense. That way you get the revenge plot, tension and give characters and their decisions weight.
Plot armor wasn't really the thing, the problem was his fighting style. He's the type who doesn't block and hopes he hits harder, which isn't the right idea for a Champion especially an old one.
The fatalities are even more of a forced in gimmick considering that they are kind of pointless from a story perspective, if the actual lore from the games (and even MK9's semi-reboot) were used Sub-Zero was like the only canon death from the actual tournament era of the games. It wasn't until the 3rd game where the tournament concept is thrown out the window as Outworld says "Screw it" and just invades that they started really killing off characters. Even then with most of those character deaths being off-screen after 2 leading into 3, and you could still count almost every rostered character with a canon death on 1 hand.
I think that's what made the Sonic movie work. They simply cared about portraying the essence of the character and create an origin for his rivalry with Eggman. There's nothing else related to the games aside from these easter eggs and some names, that's why you can watch it without feeling like you have to play the games to understand it or even enjoy it. I really wish more videogame movies decided to try this approach
It starts out good Subzero shows up the fight wasn't groundbreaking but works but then we get a wooden plank as the main protagonist with plot armour and the rest is a trainwreck
For all cinematic universes, Mortal Kombat Cinematic Universe would've made the most sense. This movie should've been set in 1600s Japan, building up the rivalry between Scorpion and Subzero.
Whether it’s set in the 1600’s or not, they should have spent more time into building up the characters since their planning on having another one anyway
Yeah really, @@HighordStarkiller. Cole's character never made sense for me either. While the fight scenes are up to so much better than the original MK movie's fight scenes most of them also made no gosh darn sense. This movie should have been called: "Mortal Kombat: Wasted Opportunity".
Hell, Hanzo/Scorpion's story was really well-done. I was actually looking forward for more of his screen time, only to find out that he's merely a walking plot device.
I hate it when character's do that, especially with little to no context whatsoever. Batman is a corny name on it's own, but the character behind it gives it power. The mere backstory and context of that character changes the meaning of Batman. It's not just a dude in a batsuit, it's the freakin BATMAN. Sub-zero on the other hand (In this film) just gives himself that name cause fan service.
I was one of those people who criticized him for misreading the goal at the end, but I still liked the video overall, it was just a very big nitpick for me.
The Scorpion portion drove me crazy. The movie starts with this amazing concept of two ancient warriors locked in battle by revenge and kills the man that would be scorpion. Cool, I am intrigued, let's see where this goes. It then focuses on a less interesting character with a subpar actor who uses a Scorpion cheat code he didn't know he had. Such a waste.
@@tiaaaron3278 Talking from a story telling perspective. Like yeah Cole sucks but had they let him earn the mantle of scorpion and avenge the clan it would have been a better story arc overall. They could have made him scorpions reincarnation and it would have worked better. Probably also doesn't help that Cole doesn't even exist in the games so there no attachment to the character at all vs someone like scorpion
Shang Tsung in the begining of the movie: Raiden can't find out we're killing the fighters before the tournament Shang Tsung 10 minutes later in Raiden's house: You can't stop me
Fuck I thought the same thing. Like he knows they are being killed that's why he is looking for them. The movie is only worth for the fights, that even without the game context are pretty cool, specially the first one
More like... Raiden at the beginning- "Im the defender of earth, but cant interfere with the tournament itself Raiden when earth is invaded before the tournament takes place: "Yeah... Imma leave all the fighting to you guys for...reasons?
This ^ MK2021 is not a love letter but a shallow fanservice. Hey, you know this cool guy Reptile who spits acid, goes invisible and he is last one of his species? Too bad you care for him cause he will be a jobber. Hey you like Kung Lao, whom people wanted to see in Live Action for so long? Ok, we let him won one fight and then he dies. This movie promised so much and did not deliver any of it. Most fight scenes are mediorce and poorly shot, The Raid or Undisputed fights are many levels above it. Poor acting, unispired scenery and music, this movie is not something that will stuck in your head at all.
This movie is like kingsglave to FFXV It's a fanservice movie for gamers but still the direction is still catered towards casuals thinking MK is just about the gaming references
@@Superluigi881 not really, I rewatched the old one and when Sub Zero and Scorpion show up to attack Liu, Johnny, and Sonia before the tournament, Raiden straight up zaps them. In the old one, Raiden is the reason why Outworld can't be caught cheating. They know he can't interfere but only as long as they follow the rules. In the new one, Raiden doesnt get a slicer of respect. They dont give a single crap about cheating and killing earth's chosen ones right in front of him.
What the f*** are you talking about? The fights were garbage, not fit for the legacy of this franchise. It's even more disgusting when you realize the actor playing Sub-Zero was also in one of the most orgasm-inducing martial arts movies of all time, The Raid. You're so much better off watching both Raids than this POS...
The two major flaws for me was having the main character be someone that's not of the Mortal Kombat world and their power basically being black panthers suit. Big props for starting at the pivotal scene of Sub-Zero versus Scorpion and I really hope they lead on to Quan Chi and Shinnok being behind the attack
I dislike Coles character but I like His power because, as far as I know, There’s never been a Mortal Kombat character where the more damage you take, the harder you hit. That could be a great addition to the game meta
@@syndrome5372 oh also that, one of the producers said in an interview that they decided to NOT include Johnny cause they didnt wanted a "White Straight Man" in their movie with a diverse cast.
ironically kano being motivated by money is legit, its touched on in mk11 that when he has the power to get whatever he wants, money power whatever he comes to realize its the thrill of the chase that he loves. the rest eeehhhhhh
but the problem with that is the fact that anyone who haven't played the game wouldn't know this which was the point of the video, alot of crap didn't make sense for movie only watchers and that was his main problem with video game movies
@@kb.brandyn6798 Because: Winning for the good guys = Money still has value. Winning for the bad guys = World is practically destroyed, money is useless. Should have offered him POWER, not Money.
@@kb.brandyn6798 No he didn't. "Kabal: Fight with us and you'll have more money then you know what to do with. Hell, you could turn this whole temple into your own casino if you wanted to. Just name your price then double it, then double it again. So what are you waiting for asshole. Kano: So what would I need to do?" End of scene. So you're making things up.
I really want someone to talk about how horrible half of the figh scenes editing was. Like these actors trained to do these fights and yet the camera cut every .5 seconds
Probably because half of the cast aren't martial artists who can actually pull that stuff off and make it look good without the help of editing? I mean there is a huge disparity in quality from fight scene to fight scene. All the Scorpion and sub zero fights were pretty great. The main character handled himself well too.
@@PolishGod1234 but ready player one had more creativity put into it's action scenes and references plus it looks spectacular in comparison to this film
They basically rushed through the telling of the story so they could spend the rest of the time packing the movie full of fan-boy game references, one-liners, catch phrases & inside jokes...
@@cynicalsassparillagaming6827 the movie was far from fine. It was devoid of logic, devoid of meaningful character moments outside of the first 7 minutes, shitty editing, and shitty pacing.
@Marauders Corner Straight to insults because someone has a different opinion to you? God forbid you act civil when encountering someone with different views to you. The movie is perfectly fine. Not amazing but was a perfectly good movie. And before you try to pull the elitism card (which i wouldn't put past you given how you have acted so far) I have been playing and have been a fan of MK since deadly alliance. The movie is not perfect and i will not pretend like it has no flaws, it does. but it is not a bad movie and is definitely not a failure by any means.
@@cynicalsassparillagaming6827 saying "it's not a failure" is an objective statement. on the other hand "I liked it, I enjoyed it" is subjective, it's a whole other story. It's up to you to spot the differences, and the consequences. choose carefully.
I mean, Mortal Kombatants tend to have enough superhuman strength to reliably defeat full conversion cybernetic ninjas to begin with, so his mecha-arms might not have been all that much stronger than his pre-cyborg arms. Also, I think that his arms are explicitly supposed to be part of his Arcana boost in this movie (because apparently the writers have been playing Persona, or something), so they are probably magic now, even if the rest of his body isn't as superhuman as it.
I mean, he got his arcana, which is supposed to be raw strength, not just the cyber arms. The entire purpose of starting with the weak frail looking arms is to visually represent how strong he is, until he unlocks his arcana and they fill out to visually represent how strong he has become. It's not the arms themselves that make him strong it's the arcana and the melding of man and machine.
@@Lucian_Andries looks like after mk 9 they all have the same lore. maybe beat'em up from PS2 doesnt, but still numbered games are all connected by power of time travel shennenigans
The saddest part is that the tournament is the most important thing in this film. It's why everybody is doing everything they are doing. BUT IT NEVER HAPPENS!
@@franklinturtleton6525 well but that is probably cause they already wanted to make a sequel with the tournament. The real problems of this movie are putting characters without any explanation or at least not one from the classic games and all the “everyone unlocks a superpower”. Sonya didnt shoot energy balls from the hands because of a superpower but because of her gloves. Eveything in this movie besides the references has nothing to do with the og source
I just don't get how you can have Mileena without Kitana. And not go into like...any backstory. They skipped so many steps for no context fights..and I'm sad about that.
I’m a Mileena fan but I just don’t think she belonged in this movie at all. She has a whole story line of her own and it’s weird without her even mentioning Kitana or Shao Kahn.
Yeah agreed. But I felt that way with pretty much every outworld character. Goro, Reiko, Mileena, and Nitara had no personality. Kabal was the only one who stood out I guess, but he felt super out of place among that group of warriors Shang Tsung had lol.
@@THE_BEAR_JEW And that was the problem Shang Tsung not being old for starters but also acting like he was THE big bad , even Mileena was acting like an underling when speaking to him in Outworld even tho she was always rebellious and seductive in nature
Y'all ever think you're expecting way too much from mortal kombat? I don't think it was even intended to be taken as that serious of a film...I don't sit through a f&f movie and think to myself "you know, they haven't earned enough emotion in this explosion scene, not enough weight behind it" or "why are they racing a sub? That doesn't even make sense!" No. I came to the theater to see fast cars and explosions now let's see them blow up that fucking sub. Just like I don't care how logical it is to see jax fight sub zero in the scene, I just came here to see the fight.
Can we just get a "subzero x scorpion kill the shit out of each other in medieval japan" movie? That's kind of the best part of MK for me, if I'm honest. And could be a really cool movie to stablish the basis of this universe
honestly, a prequel movie exploring the rivalry between the Shirai Ryu and the Lin Kuei would be nice, the web series Mortal Kombat Legacy did a great job with it, so i dont see why we cant have a descent movie depicting it, besides the lack of the rest of the characters, of course.
They honestly should have just went the cinematicuniverse way, since they planned to make multiple movies from the start. Begin with a big medieval Sub-Zero vs Scorpion movie Continue with a Jax / Sonya / Kano war movie Then a kung-fu movie with all the shaolin characters and THEN, you make the avengers. I mean, the mortal kombat tournament.
I thought it was really weird that this movie was clearly only made for people who had played the games, but then the protagonist is a completely new character who takes the "chosen one" status away from a character that's _still in the movie,_ but now relegated to exposition dumps and training montages. So much of the movie is for die-hard fans (Nitara was in what, two games?) but then the protagonist reads like someone's fan OC who's superpower is literal plot armor.
Exactly. They are like "this movie is for the fans so we can just go over the lore quickly or none at all." But also: "we need to add an audience surrogate character for the new ppl to follow the story!" In the end, they failed to please either side properly.
And the 95 movie had not one but two decent audience surrogates. On one hand Liu Kang who left the whole thing and now has his own reasons to fight anyway, and then Johnny Cage who want's to prove that he is real but goes in over his head and justifies exposition..
What's your point? Shang Tsung says so. "There will be no Mortal Kombat." With the intent of breaking the rules and killing the heroes outside of the tournament.
This video just proves that the original Mortal Kombat theme makes every thing more badass. This movie would have been a 10/10 if the song was just played on loop the whole time
Cole left his family to protect them, since he is being tracked. But then he totally disregards this and goes back to them later in the movie, which leads to Goro appearing... terrible writing
Jax: You can be tracked so they'll find you. Cole: I'll leave to protect you. Also Cole: I can't do this. Raiden: Then go. Cole: Ok! Me: Your family... remember??
I watched this movie and immediately thought that Cole should have been Kenshi. He should have been a former swordman that became blind but was still chosen to be a chosen warrior. Then when he gets his power he becomes psychic and becomes a great fighter. Boom, a better story with an established character.
Cole should have not been in this movie in general. I remember many people stating why he was in the movie when you have hundreds of MK characters you could have used. The obvious choice was Johnny Cage and/or Liu Kang as the protagonist. Why wasn't the actor for Cole cast as Liu Kang?
I hate that I’m defending it but the scene where Kano gets leg sweep over and over was a homage to fans of the video game. The leg sweep was a cheat people used over and over in the game lol.
Yeah, but that's exactly what Filmento stated. Filmento stated that the leg sweep IS a homage to the games, but it makes no sense. Since the first two-fight scenes established Kano as an aggressive fighter that needs to tone down. But then, constantly getting his legs swept shows that he is too slow and casual of a fighter. It goes against what has already been established. So Filmento states that the movie was willing to sacrifice story precedent to reference the game.
@@Byronic19134 But the criticism is valid because they could have made a movie that was for the people who played the game and still made general sense and this scene is a good example. They could have both had their in-joke and still stayed true to what had been established about Kano's fighting style because the reason the leg sweep was so popular with under-skilled players and infuriated the better ones was that it was an overly effective move for its simplicity, so spamming it could counter stronger moves. So they didn't need Kano to just walk into the leg sweep each time because he's too slow or casual, they could have shown him being aggressive, rushing in and getting taken down by a sweep, then jumping up and running forward with purpose, getting taken down again, etc. They just might have needed to be a bit more creative about how the leg sweeps were done to make it work.
Yeah, I really don’t understand why they chose to introduce a brand new character rather than use Jax or Sonya to accidentally stumble into everything and inevitably get swallowed up in the whole of it.
Honestly, I think Sonya should have been one of the focal characters, specifically because she's the one investigating it. Heck, you could have had most of the movie be about her and Jax investigating, ultimately leading to an encounter with Kano before heading out to Raiden's temple. Jax can still lose his arms the same way he does in the movie. Simultaneously, you could also have Liu Kang, Kung Lao and Raiden on their own sub-plot, tying them into the movie better. And if you want to stick with a Cole Young-Esque character, why not bring in one of the recent, younger characters? Heck, Takeda could have been a much more interesting character to follow, given the angst his character goes through in the lore!
IE: explore its world building to even get the game elitists to acknowledge the movie's existence without bashing on it cause one character doesn't follow a certain game gimmick.
Mortal Kombat 2021 is a 10 year old smashing together his older brother/dad’s Hot Toys MK figures, and he just learned how to say the F word that day. And Cole is the one toy that still fills the store shelves after each other character has already sold out.
@Mark Reynolds could you elaborate on that? i havent and dont have intentions to watch the movie ever since i saw Blackleena, that rised a huge red flag for me. And it didnt helped that Jax's actor lately saying that the 95 movie was racist for casting a white actor for Raiden, even though in the games he is always protrayed as caucasian.
@@LordofSadFac Mileena being black was enough for you to not watch the film? Out of everything that could’ve prevent you from seeing the movie, it was that?
@@bilbobaggins3068 yes, and its because lately there is a trend to change the race and gender of the characters, and when they do that most of the time they cast someone not based on their acting, but their race and/or gender, thats why i saw Blackleena as quite a red flag.
@@possessorofgreatness7620 maybe its racist, but its not wrong. Lately multiple studios pull that off, just look at Batwoman Season 2 for a good example of Race Casting.
I think the solution you're alluding to was right under their noses: the Dragon Mark. If someone else with the Dragon Mark challenges you, you have to fight, or you die. If they fight and lose, the victor can still leave without performing a fatality, setting up Round 2.
I'm an MK fan, I was totally obsessed with it as a child, and you know what did I feel during most of the "reference" scenes in this movie? Cringe and sadness about them failing the movie so badly. So I really don't think those things work good for fans =x Also, main guy HAS to be the new scorpion, it's so stupid that he isn't and instead his ancestor shows up, oh come on! >_
As a friendly warning, Filmento, do beware that Dead Meat got his Mortal Kombat Kill Count video Copyrighted. This was due to the original MK theme song being in his video. You have a variety of cover MK theme songs in your video. So feel free to reach out to Dead Meat if your video gets Copyrighted.
PewDiePie video also got copyrighted for using mk theme song for 3 seconds and they wanted full money of the video so he just made the video silent for those 3 seconds
As a huge fan of the Mortal Kombat lore, I'm shocked that they changed so much stuff for no reason. I'm so glad I never went to see it in the cinema because I probably would have walked out early and demanded a refund.
That literally kills evertything that has happened until that point ? Cole and jax are in danger? teleport the fuckers!! The outworld leader comes up to fighf ? Teleport the fuckers away instead of putting a barrier. Were getting smashed to pieces by the bad guys? TELEPORT EVERYONE AT ONCE!!! Its not like its tiring for him to do it.
@@cauaviniciusguedes2004 when I watched that, I got excited and thought... "oh boy I'm up for a 8/10 really good video game movie. oh yeah"... after the next 20mims I had come to realise that it was gonna be the same old bullshit.
@Noneya Business i dunno why they keep doing it. it's not like they are experimenting cause it's been done a lot of times and has been hated almost every time. Don't the makers know that already? If they do, why do they make the same mistakes? If they don't, how the hell don't they?
Actually, had they followed the mythos of the game, everything you mentioned as an issue in story-telling would make more sense. For example: Jax first appeared in a game with regular arms, but im the next game he had metal arms. The reason? At the end of the original game/tournament, Outworld says "screw it" and invades anyway. Jax (having lost in the tournament) felt he needed an upgrade to better compete, so he got some secret cybernetic enhancements that the government was working on...the movie made ridiculous changes to 20 year-old background stories that made this story more convoluted than it needed to be, and just created plot hole after plot hole after plot hole
It was done properly too, if he was hit or been dealt damage in away and said "flawless victory" i wouldeve been annoyed, but they got that right atleast 😂
@@acesuperwolf3277 You mean like the original? Shang Tsung beats the shit out of Lu Kang, then Lu Kang wins and declares flawless victory. It's like bruh? He was dragging you around by your hair.
@@N3r0ThlHeavyMetal meant for the fans because the fans have the money to pay for HBO Max. Butchered for the new generation, because the studio thinks they're all dumb.
"Mileena" is just Mortal Kombat Earth's analogue to calling an obnoxious lady "Karen." The fact that it actually turned out to be the right name this time is just the law of averages. On a related note, on Mortal Kombat Earth instead of "OK Boomer" they say "Whatevs, Eld(er Gods)."
To someone who replied and deleted the comment. That is why I've used the word in inverted commas. As I'm just trying to defend it even though I know the OP is right.
It has always been an integral part of Scorpion's character arc that he is obsessed with idol singers, and he got in the habit of randomly shouting that particular english phrase after listening to The Sparkling Yuki-nyan 5's hit single "Get Over Here (Into My Kokoro)" on loop for 36 hours straight. This lead to the eventual revelation that his wife and child had contracted the hit on their entire family themselves.
You’re right actually. Cole’s entire purpose is to be a stand in for the audience who gets all the questions about the lore explained to him. They stated this
@@marblejar786 because he is the fixture for part 2 they wanted us to know who this random guy who pieces the story together. Then had Kano be the comedic relief
@@marblejar786 that’s another reason this movie sucks. They also stated they didn’t want Johnny cage in the lead because they didn’t like the idea of a masculine white male taking the lead. I’m not lying.
which is absolutely unnecessary when you make a movie about a game that is decades old, has multiple sequels, and is actively being played by your target audience.
@@Belicure so instead they got the most bland, milk toast Asian dude they can get as the lead and give him the role with absolutely no character whatsoever. Hmm... Good choice.
So many things bothered me but I love how Sonya just forgot about Jax. No emotion, no worry, just "where is jax?? Eh, oh well." These two went to war with each other so you know that would create a big bond. This movie should've been on Sci-Fi.
That leg sweep bit is actually a pretty hilarious reference to how frustrating that move was if you had a friend that wouldn't stop doing it. It doesn't even reference anything scripted in the game, but what players did with the game. Brilliant!
I am so glad you did not come out with praise for this movie as many other critics have done (simply to follow the herd IMO). You're the best reviewer Filmento!
If you haven't seen it, The 4th Snake, The Fighters Den and History Behind the Warrior all have great reviews as well. HBTW is the best imo but 4th Snake is great too.
what really fucked me up is how quickly they went from 2nd act fight to 3rd act.. no training/overpowering/realization montage or anything.. they were losing then they went into the void for 3 literal minutes and then they just won. incredibly anti climactic and overall pretty confusing
My friends and I had an absolute blast with this movie. Not because we thought it was good, we realised very early on that it wasn't, we were laughing at it the entire time, it's so over the top and serious about itself but also hilarious, a good combo. It has found a place in my Dumb/Silly/Entertaining category.
Yeah, to be honest I wasn't expecting much except to spend a couple of hours letting my brain shut down and recharge while I enjoyed some spectacle and fan service. I was therefore satisfied - in fact, I got more than I bargained for in the opening sequence so that was a plus. But I can understand the frustration of people who just want to see their favourite game serviced in a way that advances their enjoyment of the source material. That's why I've not watched any of the movies based on any games that I'm genuinely invested in, like Assassin's Creed or Warcraft.
@@pszczolka80 I'm similar, I've never seen the assassins creed, warcraft or hitman movies, though I maintain the Prince of Persia movie is surprisingly decent, compared to most game adaptations. As for people not liking it when the stuff they love is adapted poorly, I can certainly relate, I'm a big Wheel of Time and Dresden Files fan, and while I still think the WoT show has potential, the Dresden show was a travesty. Jim Butcher deserves better, and I hope to someday see a good adaptation of his work.
I think the problem with a lot of movies that come from comics or video games is that they usually either dont adapt to the medium or change so much that it's almost unrecognizable
@@marsmurderer9868 I think Sonic The Hedgehog is an alright standard, even though I don't see it as a Sonic movie but more of average children's movie with Sonic and Robotnik in it. It might be just me by it doesn't really appeal to what I'd want in a Sonic movie.
@@marsmurderer9868 I'm hoping they do, the set photos seem to show G.U.N which is one of the things I thought was missing from the original and I hope that the film takes on a more serious tone and has less flossing and fart jokes than the original. But I'm skeptical and cynical so I'm doubting they'd do that.
Yes Reptile his whole story of joining Mortal Kombat to please Shao Khan and have wanting him to resurrect his race while slowly falling to his role as a servant until he lost sight of his original goal and now seeks nothing more than to serve his master was beautifully presented in this story. I especially love this particular line: "Scezzzz" Just encapsulates the character perfectly. He and the other villains were done so much justice.
"Death means nothing" Thats actually another reference to the game and is a huge problem with the games as well. Death truly means nothing. When you die in the MK universe you just get sent to hell (The Netherealm) until you find a way to escape. This has happened a ridiculous number of times throughout the entire series.
While in the game it brings a good reason why characters that died can return for the next game, it needs to get some context for a movie. It can be a reason for a villain to gloat, because on the the heroes victories will have meaning. It can be a story arc showing the process of someone escaping. But just throwing it in like that is a reference to the games without any reason to the story of the movie.
I mean yeah but also no like…a normal person can’t escape the nether realm. Scorpion didn’t really escape he just became a demon. Even in mkx they didn’t escape they came like anti versions of the characters. It’s also why they hate on raider so much lol everyone just goes to hell no matter how good they are.
This has been the thing since the very first Mortal Kombat game in existence, you can't hate on this pivotal part of the lore. The problem is this movie uses that line to justify the characters being shit. Like saying "Don't worry, we'll fix them posthumously."
I believed the theory that Cole was actually Kuai Liang. It would have been such a clever way of adding an "outsider" character, then tying him right back into main MK lore at the end.
This movie felt like it was two completely different scripts smashed into one. My brain still hurts thinking about how moments of brilliant cinematography (like Subzero's hailstorm attack on the ice cream shop) are in the same movie as Kung Lao loudly announcing "Flawless Victory!" to himself as his friends are getting their asses kicked.
@@CahyoPrabowo He never got hit in that fight against Nitara, did he? At least that was true. Still, realy stupid to bring that line in this situation!
They need to make Mortal Kombat like Bloodsport: build the entire movie around this single tournament, and that venue should be where character development, interactions and story should happen. Easy fun, compelling action.
That's the main problem in this new movie: character development. Goro, for example. In the first movie, he was built to be fearsome, the film slowly shows us the idea of him being unbeatable, until almost the end, so Cage's victory was really special. Now, Goro shows up and, in a couple scenes ahead, he's killed. Same for the others: not a single relatable char. Is it that hard to build an interesting character out of an established game franchise built around - you bet - characters?
Exactly!... this movie was just...off. Mortal kombat is a huge franchise with a sh*t load of characters. So...when they try to do a fan service instead of telling a compelling story, the movie just becomes a crap. Even though the fight scenes were good, the movie overall was a let down for me. And, as you've mentioned, this movie would've been so much better if it was just about scorpion's journey on getting revenge.
there is an animated movie that kind of does that, but it does such an awful Dick Riding of Scorpion that it ruins every other character, SPECIALLY GORO!
This adaptation is like a college-level film production without prior grounded consistency with the character-design and background story within the source material.
Nah, it's like a college level essay where they give you 5-10 characters that you need to use but you are stoned and way too late, so you just write some barely coherent stuff and hope you somehow get a passing grade ;).
@@kongmengyang1098 But his arms are attached to his unaltered body, which can't support that weight. Does the movie or game mention that the arms are magical in origin? Because that would solve the problem.
I still can't wrap my head around the fact that they felt they needed some OC main character to be the audience surrogate. Paul WS Anderson managed it with Johnny Cage.
@@DJ-gd1to LMAO shut the hell up with that nonsense. Nothing about this has anything to do with the "blm thing" at all. What the director said has no correlation.
I think the thing with many video game movies is a lot of directors are just interested in banking off the novelty of these titles. Rather than creating a narrative that compliments whats already established or paces and challenges itself in a way that compliments the feel of a common video game experience.
I watched this with a group of friends and we took a drink every time: 1. There was a finishing move 2. A character says or does something explicitly from the game 3. They say "Mortal Combat" Was a wonderful experience
For all its flaws, the original Mortal Kombat movie succeeded in being both a real movie, in terms of plot, characters and motivations, and yet serving the game's fans generously. It's not the best movie, but probably the best video game movie.
Prince of Persia? I hate saying this, but at least Sonic was SOMEWHAT competent, and it's not really decent at all. If you mean adapted things, and include books, LOTR is pretty damn good
@@quangbangoz Yeah, first movie ever with a techno soundtrack. It's super dated now, but I remember me and my friends went WOW in the Theater when the music starts right away with the New Line logo.
@@pheniellanz5271 scorpions revenge has too much packed into it with too little time, and randomly focuses on random characters with their own storylines at a weird pace, sorta like this movie. The thing it did better was at explaining what was going on and it was a bit more logical than this movie, but it isn't really the best. It should have focused on scorpion rather than trying to focus on both since it is called "scorpions revenge".
whats even weirder is they dont actually do the mortal kombat tournament storyline in order to give them more room to do things... only to end up giving us a psudo mortal kombat tournament with goro. its like the film maker understood what you were saying for the beginning and end of the movie, but forgot about the hour and 30 minute block in the middle.
Scorpion, Lui Kang, and Kung Lao were ok too. Sonya and Jax were decent...they all just had no story or stakes though. Honestly, Cole not being Cage or even Scorpion ruined the movie either way.
You could remove Cole as a character from this entire movie and it would have been better. You could have taken the original story from the original Mortal Kombat movie and it would have been better. You could have ditched the hour and a half-long "find temple + training" BS and it would have been better. Somehow this movie had two decades of video game movies setting an example of what not to do and they still did it anyway.
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Finally, something to hang that is not involving my neck.
Ok
Would you want to do a video on the Mortal Combat from '95?
Wait people actually liked this movie? I've heard nothing but hate especially for Cole Young
@@FriedBreadToastFish FATALITY!
So Cole is literally the player in action story games. You run around, some random people yell at you to do things and you do it without question basically.
Thats the perfect waay to put it
You nailed it
videogame movies either throw away the story for the sake of being a movie or throw away being a movie for the sake of staying faithful to the story
He's also the fish out of water/audience surrogate. His main purpose is to have the lore explained to him and have the plot happen to him. Like a crappy itsekai protagonist.
@@vanillaicecream2385 "Throw away the story in order to fit in Fan Service."
It's funny because the movie starts off so strong... then the moment it introduces Cole it's like a completely different writing team came in and took over, but it never fully recovers even in the end.
Yeah. The first scene is just 10/10.
Totally agree, was really hoping Scorpion and Sub Zero would fight through an entire tournament just to get at each other, neither caring which side they were on, while other characters from both sides try to get them to see sense. That way you get the revenge plot, tension and give characters and their decisions weight.
I actually think the apparitions of Scorpion to Cole were remnants of an old script where they fought against each other rather than Sub-Zero...
It starts by a scene that is such a strong cliché that I had to turn off the movie.
@@raukoring You're so cool. So edgy. I wish I could be just like you.
I like how Cole's super power is literal plot armor
😂😂😂😂
Ikr hahahahha
Plot armor wasn't really the thing, the problem was his fighting style. He's the type who doesn't block and hopes he hits harder, which isn't the right idea for a Champion especially an old one.
That is what I thought when I watched it!
training alone ain't enough when you gotta defend earth from a dragon god from another realm🤷🏾♂️js
Cole's armor is like one of those pain killer commercials where they show you the muscle pain.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Stop✋
😩😭🤣
Plot armor 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Exactly!
Coming from an MK fan!
@@IronMan-jj2fd wait I thought you died?
Moral of the story: don’t adapt a video game franchise for its gimmick; adapt it for the story and universe that it built.
The fatalities are even more of a forced in gimmick considering that they are kind of pointless from a story perspective, if the actual lore from the games (and even MK9's semi-reboot) were used Sub-Zero was like the only canon death from the actual tournament era of the games.
It wasn't until the 3rd game where the tournament concept is thrown out the window as Outworld says "Screw it" and just invades that they started really killing off characters.
Even then with most of those character deaths being off-screen after 2 leading into 3, and you could still count almost every rostered character with a canon death on 1 hand.
if "hey look it's the guy.. omg he's gonna do the thing.. OMG HE DID THE THING" is the hook of the movie then you have fucked up
The problem is that it's clear that the director and writer didn't know much or cared about MK universe.
Str8 up
I think that's what made the Sonic movie work. They simply cared about portraying the essence of the character and create an origin for his rivalry with Eggman. There's nothing else related to the games aside from these easter eggs and some names, that's why you can watch it without feeling like you have to play the games to understand it or even enjoy it.
I really wish more videogame movies decided to try this approach
After watching the opening scene I thought "wow this film is going to be incredible. There is no way this could go wrong...wait who the hell is Cole?"
except for the really decent backstory of Scorpion I don't find anything logical in this movie's plot.
Lmfao me too.
Starts off with subzero and scorpion... ok. Nice.
Cole enters the story.
Who the fook is this guy?!?!?
same, the opening part feels like a totally different movie. The tone shift gives you freakin whiplash ...
It starts out good Subzero shows up the fight wasn't groundbreaking but works but then we get a wooden plank as the main protagonist with plot armour and the rest is a trainwreck
The beginning of the movie vs the rest of the movie feels like two completely different films.
Definitely, not just in tone but in quality, too.
Facts
First 20 minutes were the best in the whole movie.
They really didn’t go into enough detail in the two clans story
I actually like that, they could've dragged it out into like three movies but they actually moved the plot forward
Beginning was made to sell tickets, end was just to fill out time. Sad
This movie will be remembered for its first 20 minutes.
You had your Eyes shut during that Kung Lao Fatality?
Not really, 3 months later and i totally forgot the movie existed.
2 years later and no one ever brings it up. Even the original Mortal Kombat movie had a decently long legacy
For all cinematic universes, Mortal Kombat Cinematic Universe would've made the most sense. This movie should've been set in 1600s Japan, building up the rivalry between Scorpion and Subzero.
Ummm, nah
Whether it’s set in the 1600’s or not, they should have spent more time into building up the characters since their planning on having another one anyway
You just wanted a Scorpion based movie
@@TheDevilFox. haha fr
Mortal Kombat Origins: Scorpion vs Subzero
*I gotta be honest, when watching the movie, I was more invested in Sonya and Jax's stories than the actual main character's story*
That considering they cut down Sonya and Jax's stories to emphasize Cole's plot. Which unfortunately never clicks with the audience.
they cut Johnny for this
what a waste
Yeah really, @@HighordStarkiller. Cole's character never made sense for me either. While the fight scenes are up to so much better than the original MK movie's fight scenes most of them also made no gosh darn sense. This movie should have been called: "Mortal Kombat: Wasted Opportunity".
Hell, Hanzo/Scorpion's story was really well-done. I was actually looking forward for more of his screen time, only to find out that he's merely a walking plot device.
Almost like Sonya or Jax should've been the main character instead...
"I am no longer Bi Han. I am Sub Zero."
"Okay, but what's the mask for?"
"...COVID."
"I am Sub Zero"
HAHAHAHAHA
Maybe that’s why Bi Han always wears a mask.
To hide the scar scorpion gave him
I hate it when character's do that, especially with little to no context whatsoever. Batman is a corny name on it's own, but the character behind it gives it power. The mere backstory and context of that character changes the meaning of Batman. It's not just a dude in a batsuit, it's the freakin BATMAN.
Sub-zero on the other hand (In this film) just gives himself that name cause fan service.
@Shoutmon DX 2 Yeah, I'm not certain I really explained it that well.
the montage of DiCaprio pointing to the tv every time there was a reference to the game had me dying lmfao!
Raiden here seemed like a grumpy old man that liked pissing off Shang Tsung rather than the wise Thunder God we all know and love.
Ikr
And he didn't say " I must consult the elder gods " so ain't no true raiden
I am pretty sure that they will make him do more in the next movie.
@@nestormelendez9005 he dared to call HIMSELF an elder god, cringed hard
He just seemed like a dick, had zero hope in the fighters and acted like nothing like himself
idk how Scorpion and Bi-Han still move like that after carrying all the movie on their backs
Because they only had to hold it for 10 minutes, the rest of the time Kano was doing the heavy lifting.
well...there isn't that mutch to carry anyway
You exaggerated a lot...
Kano and Kung Lao were amazing Characters as well!
Liu Kang can be better in the next movie. The cast was great overall!
@@pedromonteiro2248 you arent wrong tho :/ i think that kung lao deserved more time and kano is ok
Johnny carried the 95 one
Never apologise for criticising a movie that a lot of people like that's why I watch your channel, and it is what makes you great 👍
And I like how he keeps on stand corrected
Yeah man, we need some unbiased criticism. Look at some of the Snyder cut fans, they have left some of the horrendous comments that I have ever seen.
I agree I enjoyed watching water world (because I thought the idea was stupidly hilarious) but it's a bad movie and I won't cry when it gets dunked on
Who liked this movie?? There has still not been a decent mortal combat.
I was one of those people who criticized him for misreading the goal at the end, but I still liked the video overall, it was just a very big nitpick for me.
The Scorpion portion drove me crazy. The movie starts with this amazing concept of two ancient warriors locked in battle by revenge and kills the man that would be scorpion. Cool, I am intrigued, let's see where this goes. It then focuses on a less interesting character with a subpar actor who uses a Scorpion cheat code he didn't know he had. Such a waste.
The sad part is had Coles' armor gradually turned him into scorpion they could have at least partly salvaged the last act.
As Grandmaster Blueberry Ice once said:
"Such wasted potential"
@@ikechristyii4970 Why? Scorpion is Hanzo Hasashi not Cole Young. We don't need Cole Young. Throw him away, he's trash.
@@QuinoLising Boy, I sure hope the sequel doesn't ruin our Grandmaster Blueberry Ice. They butchered his brother.
@@tiaaaron3278 Talking from a story telling perspective. Like yeah Cole sucks but had they let him earn the mantle of scorpion and avenge the clan it would have been a better story arc overall. They could have made him scorpions reincarnation and it would have worked better. Probably also doesn't help that Cole doesn't even exist in the games so there no attachment to the character at all vs someone like scorpion
Shang Tsung in the begining of the movie: Raiden can't find out we're killing the fighters before the tournament
Shang Tsung 10 minutes later in Raiden's house: You can't stop me
Fuck I thought the same thing. Like he knows they are being killed that's why he is looking for them. The movie is only worth for the fights, that even without the game context are pretty cool, specially the first one
More like...
Raiden at the beginning- "Im the defender of earth, but cant interfere with the tournament itself
Raiden when earth is invaded before the tournament takes place: "Yeah... Imma leave all the fighting to you guys for...reasons?
He got the motherboxes duhhhh
it's not a movie. It's a mash of references. It's like watching a youtube playlist
it's like avp requiem. so many references to other movies it forgot to be its own
This ^ MK2021 is not a love letter but a shallow fanservice. Hey, you know this cool guy Reptile who spits acid, goes invisible and he is last one of his species? Too bad you care for him cause he will be a jobber. Hey you like Kung Lao, whom people wanted to see in Live Action for so long? Ok, we let him won one fight and then he dies. This movie promised so much and did not deliver any of it. Most fight scenes are mediorce and poorly shot, The Raid or Undisputed fights are many levels above it. Poor acting, unispired scenery and music, this movie is not something that will stuck in your head at all.
Never thought of it like this but this is definitely all reference no story
This movie is like kingsglave to FFXV
It's a fanservice movie for gamers but still the direction is still catered towards casuals thinking MK is just about the gaming references
That's the most accurate way of putting it! Thanks!
Man I’m in tears laughing at that Cole “let’s take him down together” part 😂😂😂
Basically me when seeing the end of Hobbs and Shaw.... after being woke up ofcourse.
They really made him op to the point where they had to jump him 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Same here was Watching it with my friends, couldn't help but laugh , it was also hilarious watching nitara, Reiko and mileena die
Same! The Sarah Connor part¡ lmao
I love how he explains everything in a philosophical and deep way but also constantly puts memes in the background
It is clever storytelling...and helps keep off the copyright fiends.
That is the best thing about the channel
@@shawerful5209 agreed
Raiden when Kung Lao's soul was being eaten: I cannot interfere 😔
Raiden later on: 😏
RIGHT
To be fair he's always been like this.
@@AxxLAfriku Hope you get well real soon, though you should stop kicking computers
@@Superluigi881 Probably needed to consult the Elder Gods
@@Superluigi881 not really, I rewatched the old one and when Sub Zero and Scorpion show up to attack Liu, Johnny, and Sonia before the tournament, Raiden straight up zaps them. In the old one, Raiden is the reason why Outworld can't be caught cheating. They know he can't interfere but only as long as they follow the rules. In the new one, Raiden doesnt get a slicer of respect. They dont give a single crap about cheating and killing earth's chosen ones right in front of him.
“Were at least one of the fights cool?”
“Yea”
“What did it cost?”
“Everything”
and the fights weren't even as cool as in the 1994 movie..
What the f*** are you talking about? The fights were garbage, not fit for the legacy of this franchise. It's even more disgusting when you realize the actor playing Sub-Zero was also in one of the most orgasm-inducing martial arts movies of all time, The Raid. You're so much better off watching both Raids than this POS...
There was like, one good fight between sub zero and scorpion? And there were parts of Mileena’s second fight that were decent?
the fights weren't that impressive either. even the cutscenes of the game looked better
@@Gungrave123 I feel like that's a stretch
The two major flaws for me was having the main character be someone that's not of the Mortal Kombat world and their power basically being black panthers suit. Big props for starting at the pivotal scene of Sub-Zero versus Scorpion and I really hope they lead on to Quan Chi and Shinnok being behind the attack
I dislike Coles character but I like His power because, as far as I know, There’s never been a Mortal Kombat character where the more damage you take, the harder you hit. That could be a great addition to the game meta
@@arkham8078 not really, Lucario in Smash Bros has that meta and he is considered noob friendly due to that.
They decided Johnny cage was unnecessary to make room for that bland original character
@@arkham8078 marketing, he'll be featured in the next game!!
@@syndrome5372 oh also that, one of the producers said in an interview that they decided to NOT include Johnny cause they didnt wanted a "White Straight Man" in their movie with a diverse cast.
"There will be no tournament because...there will be no tournament."
Absolute masterstroke of editing Filmento. :D
I guess we could have just said that and there would be no mk1
ironically kano being motivated by money is legit, its touched on in mk11 that when he has the power to get whatever he wants, money power whatever he comes to realize its the thrill of the chase that he loves. the rest eeehhhhhh
but the problem with that is the fact that anyone who haven't played the game wouldn't know this which was the point of the video, alot of crap didn't make sense for movie only watchers and that was his main problem with video game movies
He literally only joined them for money in the movie why wouldn't he leave them for more
@@kb.brandyn6798 Because:
Winning for the good guys = Money still has value.
Winning for the bad guys = World is practically destroyed, money is useless.
Should have offered him POWER, not Money.
@@brianfewer919 if you watched kabal literally said anything money could buy and yes they use currency in outworld
@@kb.brandyn6798 No he didn't.
"Kabal: Fight with us and you'll have more money then you know what to do with. Hell, you could turn this whole temple into your own casino if you wanted to. Just name your price then double it, then double it again. So what are you waiting for asshole.
Kano: So what would I need to do?"
End of scene. So you're making things up.
I really want someone to talk about how horrible half of the figh scenes editing was. Like these actors trained to do these fights and yet the camera cut every .5 seconds
At least i could tell what was happening here, unlike batman begins and dark knight (both movies are amazing but the action scenes suck)
Probably because half of the cast aren't martial artists who can actually pull that stuff off and make it look good without the help of editing? I mean there is a huge disparity in quality from fight scene to fight scene. All the Scorpion and sub zero fights were pretty great. The main character handled himself well too.
@@Mrenderboyomemes
TDK fight scenes were god awful
@@orbitalpunch4711 dark knight rises fights were decent but that was the weakest of the trilogy
2 seconds.
This whole movie is “I understood that reference” the movie
Same with Ready Player One
@@PolishGod1234 but ready player one had more creativity put into it's action scenes and references plus it looks spectacular in comparison to this film
@@shawklan27 Ready Player One was didn’t have any creativity as it was all in the book.
Just like WoW movie then too
I understood that reference to "I understood that reference".
They basically rushed through the telling of the story so they could spend the rest of the time packing the movie full of fan-boy game references, one-liners, catch phrases & inside jokes...
^This!
The worst part is the last 3 games have been like films, so it seemed like a no brainer to break the curse.
And it did. the movie is perfectly fine and is definitely not a failure.
@@cynicalsassparillagaming6827 the movie was far from fine. It was devoid of logic, devoid of meaningful character moments outside of the first 7 minutes, shitty editing, and shitty pacing.
The games aren’t well written either with dumb decisions and bad retcons
@Marauders Corner Straight to insults because someone has a different opinion to you? God forbid you act civil when encountering someone with different views to you.
The movie is perfectly fine. Not amazing but was a perfectly good movie. And before you try to pull the elitism card (which i wouldn't put past you given how you have acted so far) I have been playing and have been a fan of MK since deadly alliance.
The movie is not perfect and i will not pretend like it has no flaws, it does. but it is not a bad movie and is definitely not a failure by any means.
@@cynicalsassparillagaming6827 saying "it's not a failure" is an objective statement. on the other hand "I liked it, I enjoyed it" is subjective, it's a whole other story. It's up to you to spot the differences, and the consequences. choose carefully.
Only Jax's arms are augmented, his legs, core, back are not, so it looks unbelievable he can lift a boulder that heavy without getting smooshed.
The comment I was looking for 😂
honestly, dont think about it too much. Like, where did the augments even come from then? I just take everything in this movie with a grain of salt
I mean, Mortal Kombatants tend to have enough superhuman strength to reliably defeat full conversion cybernetic ninjas to begin with, so his mecha-arms might not have been all that much stronger than his pre-cyborg arms.
Also, I think that his arms are explicitly supposed to be part of his Arcana boost in this movie (because apparently the writers have been playing Persona, or something), so they are probably magic now, even if the rest of his body isn't as superhuman as it.
I mean, he got his arcana, which is supposed to be raw strength, not just the cyber arms.
The entire purpose of starting with the weak frail looking arms is to visually represent how strong he is, until he unlocks his arcana and they fill out to visually represent how strong he has become. It's not the arms themselves that make him strong it's the arcana and the melding of man and machine.
I understand your point, but this is a movie where someone got sliced into 2 can still scream
I like how the plot armor is so literal
@Noneya Business There's the chance it was intended as a joke, which I'm inclined to believe given the rest of the movie
And the funny/tragic thing is, the movie doesn't even get the game lore right.
Which one?
@@Lucian_Andries looks like after mk 9 they all have the same lore. maybe beat'em up from PS2 doesnt, but still numbered games are all connected by power of time travel shennenigans
The saddest part is that the tournament is the most important thing in this film. It's why everybody is doing everything they are doing. BUT IT NEVER HAPPENS!
@@franklinturtleton6525 well but that is probably cause they already wanted to make a sequel with the tournament. The real problems of this movie are putting characters without any explanation or at least not one from the classic games and all the “everyone unlocks a superpower”. Sonya didnt shoot energy balls from the hands because of a superpower but because of her gloves. Eveything in this movie besides the references has nothing to do with the og source
@@quite_a_handle Every single game is one continuous timeline even with time travel and all that.
I just don't get how you can have Mileena without Kitana. And not go into like...any backstory. They skipped so many steps for no context fights..and I'm sad about that.
He wasn't asking for every to have an explanation. Just basic accuracy would be fine for him.
I’m a Mileena fan but I just don’t think she belonged in this movie at all. She has a whole story line of her own and it’s weird without her even mentioning Kitana or Shao Kahn.
Yeah agreed.
But I felt that way with pretty much every outworld character. Goro, Reiko, Mileena, and Nitara had no personality. Kabal was the only one who stood out I guess, but he felt super out of place among that group of warriors Shang Tsung had lol.
@@THE_BEAR_JEW And that was the problem
Shang Tsung not being old for starters but also acting like he was THE big bad , even Mileena was acting like an underling when speaking to him in Outworld even tho she was always rebellious and seductive in nature
another thing i hated is how they made scorpion needed help vs subzero butbin the game it always shows him beating subzero ass by his self
I enjoyed the movie, it was fun, BUT I totally agree with this video.
What pipe are u smoking I could barely stay awake
i enjoyed it too, looking forward to second part
The beginning was fun and the end was fun for me it's TRUE what they say if you are a True MK fan like Me you wont enjoy this movie very much
Y'all ever think you're expecting way too much from mortal kombat? I don't think it was even intended to be taken as that serious of a film...I don't sit through a f&f movie and think to myself "you know, they haven't earned enough emotion in this explosion scene, not enough weight behind it" or "why are they racing a sub? That doesn't even make sense!" No. I came to the theater to see fast cars and explosions now let's see them blow up that fucking sub. Just like I don't care how logical it is to see jax fight sub zero in the scene, I just came here to see the fight.
@Vincent H. you have to understand it was just a movie and i dont care about your opinion
Can we just get a "subzero x scorpion kill the shit out of each other in medieval japan" movie?
That's kind of the best part of MK for me, if I'm honest.
And could be a really cool movie to stablish the basis of this universe
honestly, a prequel movie exploring the rivalry between the Shirai Ryu and the Lin Kuei would be nice, the web series Mortal Kombat Legacy did a great job with it, so i dont see why we cant have a descent movie depicting it, besides the lack of the rest of the characters, of course.
Scorpion and Sub-Zero are the most beloved characters anyway for many Fans. I would be cool with a Prequel.
as a prequel, it'd be awesome. IF done correctly. a lot of stuff can be concocted just with that simple setup.
They honestly should have just went the cinematicuniverse way, since they planned to make multiple movies from the start.
Begin with a big medieval Sub-Zero vs Scorpion movie
Continue with a Jax / Sonya / Kano war movie
Then a kung-fu movie with all the shaolin characters
and THEN, you make the avengers. I mean, the mortal kombat tournament.
I hope we get another animated film like Scorpion's Revenge tbh
I thought it was really weird that this movie was clearly only made for people who had played the games, but then the protagonist is a completely new character who takes the "chosen one" status away from a character that's _still in the movie,_ but now relegated to exposition dumps and training montages. So much of the movie is for die-hard fans (Nitara was in what, two games?) but then the protagonist reads like someone's fan OC who's superpower is literal plot armor.
Exactly.
They are like "this movie is for the fans so we can just go over the lore quickly or none at all."
But also: "we need to add an audience surrogate character for the new ppl to follow the story!"
In the end, they failed to please either side properly.
And the 95 movie had not one but two decent audience surrogates. On one hand Liu Kang who left the whole thing and now has his own reasons to fight anyway, and then Johnny Cage who want's to prove that he is real but goes in over his head and justifies exposition..
Funniest thing is Nitara works against Outworld in the games lmao
I think that’s exactly what cole is lol.
Mortal Kombat is the name of the tournament that they fight in. So technically there was no Mortal Kombat in this movie.
Or most of the Mortal Kombat games.
@@jays.6843 Lol yeah i dont think X or 11 have MK, 11 for sure
No, there wasnt
Yeah but you forgot GET OVER HERE
What's your point? Shang Tsung says so. "There will be no Mortal Kombat." With the intent of breaking the rules and killing the heroes outside of the tournament.
This video just proves that the original Mortal Kombat theme makes every thing more badass. This movie would have been a 10/10 if the song was just played on loop the whole time
Realmente
“Lord Raiden can you send anyone anywhere.”
*nods*
“Then send them all into a volcano or the bottom of the ocean.”
I didn't know Goblin Slayer was in this movie
Raiden: I could, but I cant get involved.
@@theandroids I can only get involved when a baby needs to be saved.... 😂
@@kongmengyang1098 Lucky for the baby there was no tournament...
@@theandroids Raiden: I MUST CONSULT WITH THE ELDER GODS
They could make that cole is like possessed by scorpion's soul, gaining his abilities but losing control, like a vessel to scorpion's revenge.
“When you try to please everyone you end up pleasing no one” Have you ever heard that saying?
fax
Disney’s Star Wars
Disney Mulan the live Action version . Also Disney is basically working for the Nazis now ( China )
You leave people more impressed when you don't try to impress them
Perhaps but in this case i don't see it applying. You can have a good story and also have the good action. They forgot the good story.
Cole left his family to protect them, since he is being tracked. But then he totally disregards this and goes back to them later in the movie, which leads to Goro appearing... terrible writing
Didn't raiden force him to go back to his family though?
I thought Raiden did that on purpose to have Cole's power come out. Probably worth the risk if the whole world is at stake.
Correct. Terrible writing.
Jax: You can be tracked so they'll find you.
Cole: I'll leave to protect you.
Also Cole: I can't do this.
Raiden: Then go.
Cole: Ok!
Me: Your family... remember??
it wasn't even long after either haha, and because the training was to hard.
I watched this movie and immediately thought that Cole should have been Kenshi. He should have been a former swordman that became blind but was still chosen to be a chosen warrior. Then when he gets his power he becomes psychic and becomes a great fighter. Boom, a better story with an established character.
Cole should have not been in this movie in general. I remember many people stating why he was in the movie when you have hundreds of MK characters you could have used.
The obvious choice was Johnny Cage and/or Liu Kang as the protagonist. Why wasn't the actor for Cole cast as Liu Kang?
I remember people theorizing that cole young was just an americanization of kwai liang, young sub-zero's name
Lets say these people are now in sadness
@@Seizurs2 É cara o poderia ter sido algo nesse naipe infelizmente não foi
@@heitorpedrodegodoi5646 ver um comentário em português no meio de comentários gringos bugou minha mente por uns 30 segundos kfjskdsjkxsk
@@alessandropereira4976 É que eu ia falar em engrish só que o cara tem "filho" no nome ai meti um português.
I hate that I’m defending it but the scene where Kano gets leg sweep over and over was a homage to fans of the video game. The leg sweep was a cheat people used over and over in the game lol.
Yeah, but that's exactly what Filmento stated. Filmento stated that the leg sweep IS a homage to the games, but it makes no sense. Since the first two-fight scenes established Kano as an aggressive fighter that needs to tone down. But then, constantly getting his legs swept shows that he is too slow and casual of a fighter. It goes against what has already been established.
So Filmento states that the movie was willing to sacrifice story precedent to reference the game.
@CCP Tube 😂😂😂
Just block low.
@@mlgamings6110 Thats what is wrong with this entire video because the market audience for this movie was always people who played the game
@@Byronic19134 But the criticism is valid because they could have made a movie that was for the people who played the game and still made general sense and this scene is a good example. They could have both had their in-joke and still stayed true to what had been established about Kano's fighting style because the reason the leg sweep was so popular with under-skilled players and infuriated the better ones was that it was an overly effective move for its simplicity, so spamming it could counter stronger moves. So they didn't need Kano to just walk into the leg sweep each time because he's too slow or casual, they could have shown him being aggressive, rushing in and getting taken down by a sweep, then jumping up and running forward with purpose, getting taken down again, etc. They just might have needed to be a bit more creative about how the leg sweeps were done to make it work.
Yeah, I really don’t understand why they chose to introduce a brand new character rather than use Jax or Sonya to accidentally stumble into everything and inevitably get swallowed up in the whole of it.
Or Jhonny Cage.
@@mayotango1317 luke cage??
Honestly, I think Sonya should have been one of the focal characters, specifically because she's the one investigating it. Heck, you could have had most of the movie be about her and Jax investigating, ultimately leading to an encounter with Kano before heading out to Raiden's temple. Jax can still lose his arms the same way he does in the movie. Simultaneously, you could also have Liu Kang, Kung Lao and Raiden on their own sub-plot, tying them into the movie better.
And if you want to stick with a Cole Young-Esque character, why not bring in one of the recent, younger characters? Heck, Takeda could have been a much more interesting character to follow, given the angst his character goes through in the lore!
IE: explore its world building to even get the game elitists to acknowledge the movie's existence without bashing on it cause one character doesn't follow a certain game gimmick.
Or Lui Kang.
Mortal Kombat 2021 is a 10 year old smashing together his older brother/dad’s Hot Toys MK figures, and he just learned how to say the F word that day. And Cole is the one toy that still fills the store shelves after each other character has already sold out.
Lmao
Cole is the “peg warmer” lol
A "toy story" version of this story could as well have been better
@Noneya Business hell yeah I agree 💯. Sub and scorpion will be scalped and sold on eBay for triple the price!!!
All that’s missing is that someone who would peek into the scene and shout in falsetto, “TOASTYYY!”
For like 15 years I always thought he said “ whoopsie” hahaha
Someone did say toasty, it was early in the movie but I forget what scene, I think it was one of kano's scenes
@@richardgray9284 my childhood is ruined
They could do it in an after credits scene just for fun... But if they do a sequel, Johnny will most likely say it.
"BI-HAN!!!" was the only point in the movie where I actually felt something other than boredom.
Scorpion's Revenge did everything this movie did but better. Plus actually featured the Mortal Kombat tournament
@Mark Reynolds could you elaborate on that? i havent and dont have intentions to watch the movie ever since i saw Blackleena, that rised a huge red flag for me. And it didnt helped that Jax's actor lately saying that the 95 movie was racist for casting a white actor for Raiden, even though in the games he is always protrayed as caucasian.
@@LordofSadFac Mileena being black was enough for you to not watch the film? Out of everything that could’ve prevent you from seeing the movie, it was that?
@@bilbobaggins3068 yes, and its because lately there is a trend to change the race and gender of the characters, and when they do that most of the time they cast someone not based on their acting, but their race and/or gender, thats why i saw Blackleena as quite a red flag.
@@LordofSadFac despite i hate SJWs Its hard to deny your logic is plain racist.
@@possessorofgreatness7620 maybe its racist, but its not wrong. Lately multiple studios pull that off, just look at Batwoman Season 2 for a good example of Race Casting.
Potential first scene of the sequel: cole young has a heart attack
Yes
No, I wanna see Cole go and meet Johnny Cage, then Johnny just fkn massacre the guy and takes the mark
if there is a god lol
Yknow the easy solution is him being killed by Goro, or maybe Shao Khan like Jax or Kung lao he dies for the greater good
Get off your device your obviously using it for bullshit.
I think the solution you're alluding to was right under their noses: the Dragon Mark. If someone else with the Dragon Mark challenges you, you have to fight, or you die. If they fight and lose, the victor can still leave without performing a fatality, setting up Round 2.
You sir make a very valid point and I only hope I get to see your version of the movie from an alternate dimension
@@robertthepunchwizard5964 Yeah with a 200$ budget it will turn out the best movie ever made
@@ahabduennschitz7670 I have mixed feeling about mortal kombat movie
But was that explained at all in the movie?
But then again is there any necessity for the violence to happen though
I'm an MK fan, I was totally obsessed with it as a child, and you know what did I feel during most of the "reference" scenes in this movie? Cringe and sadness about them failing the movie so badly. So I really don't think those things work good for fans =x Also, main guy HAS to be the new scorpion, it's so stupid that he isn't and instead his ancestor shows up, oh come on! >_
Cole: "aRe YOu SuRe? We CaN TaKe HiM oUt ToGeThER!"
I LAUGHED WAY TOO HARD AT THIS
@Koukab Yasmeen stop
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
They need more than 1 hour 40 minutes for mortal kombat
Mortal Konbat 95 did JUST enough.
@@antwanscott97 yes but if you want to tell the story probably of the first game I’d say you’d need either a much longer movie or a Tv series
@@kingsman5121 its a prequel to the tournament
They should have made it just about Scorpy and Suby
@@jaxisticspace4919 But was it a good idea to have this movie set up the tournament rather than having it already established?
As a friendly warning, Filmento, do beware that Dead Meat got his Mortal Kombat Kill Count video Copyrighted. This was due to the original MK theme song being in his video. You have a variety of cover MK theme songs in your video. So feel free to reach out to Dead Meat if your video gets Copyrighted.
James covered the song with saxophone playing of his own to get around it in the re release so filmento could probably use James saxophone clips
Good idea, @@shaqtinoah.
WB will strike even without audio, they strike Angry joe based on background footage alone even when it's from the trailer.
PewDiePie video also got copyrighted for using mk theme song for 3 seconds and they wanted full money of the video so he just made the video silent for those 3 seconds
As a huge fan of the Mortal Kombat lore, I'm shocked that they changed so much stuff for no reason.
I'm so glad I never went to see it in the cinema because I probably would have walked out early and demanded a refund.
Shang Tsung's plan felt like something a high school bully would pull in order to get rid of the protagonist out of the big event
"Raiden, can you teleport anyone anywhere?"
I literally facepalmed when I saw that scene.
😂😂😭😭👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
That literally kills evertything that has happened until that point ?
Cole and jax are in danger? teleport the fuckers!!
The outworld leader comes up to fighf ? Teleport the fuckers away instead of putting a barrier.
Were getting smashed to pieces by the bad guys? TELEPORT EVERYONE AT ONCE!!!
Its not like its tiring for him to do it.
Same 😂🙄
@@WhiteZelda And yet everyone in the cast or crew managed to avoid it hitting them in the face
Mortal Kombat is an excellent 13-minute film that sadly keeps going after that moment.
Yes, scorpion and sub zero opening was the best thing of this movie.
@@cauaviniciusguedes2004 when I watched that, I got excited and thought... "oh boy I'm up for a 8/10 really good video game movie. oh yeah"... after the next 20mims I had come to realise that it was gonna be the same old bullshit.
@Noneya Business i dunno why they keep doing it. it's not like they are experimenting cause it's been done a lot of times and has been hated almost every time. Don't the makers know that already? If they do, why do they make the same mistakes? If they don't, how the hell don't they?
Actually, had they followed the mythos of the game, everything you mentioned as an issue in story-telling would make more sense. For example: Jax first appeared in a game with regular arms, but im the next game he had metal arms. The reason? At the end of the original game/tournament, Outworld says "screw it" and invades anyway. Jax (having lost in the tournament) felt he needed an upgrade to better compete, so he got some secret cybernetic enhancements that the government was working on...the movie made ridiculous changes to 20 year-old background stories that made this story more convoluted than it needed to be, and just created plot hole after plot hole after plot hole
you know it's meant for the fans when a character says "Flawless Victory" after splitting someone in half
It was done properly too, if he was hit or been dealt damage in away and said "flawless victory" i wouldeve been annoyed, but they got that right atleast 😂
@@acesuperwolf3277 but it doesn't sound natural for him to say, i can see Shang Tsung going "Flawless Victory" With good context, but not Kung Lao
@@acesuperwolf3277 You mean like the original? Shang Tsung beats the shit out of Lu Kang, then Lu Kang wins and declares flawless victory. It's like bruh? He was dragging you around by your hair.
"meant for the fans" doesnt mean it has to be stupid. also most characters were butchered, so not so sure about "meant for the fans".
@@N3r0ThlHeavyMetal meant for the fans because the fans have the money to pay for HBO Max. Butchered for the new generation, because the studio thinks they're all dumb.
I like how Cole just knows Mileena’s name, even though it isn’t said once in the movie before
My guess is Cole overheard Shang Tsung calling her name in Outworld...for some unexplainable reason 🤣
"Mileena" is just Mortal Kombat Earth's analogue to calling an obnoxious lady "Karen." The fact that it actually turned out to be the right name this time is just the law of averages.
On a related note, on Mortal Kombat Earth instead of "OK Boomer" they say "Whatevs, Eld(er Gods)."
Raiden mistaking Samurai with Ninja makes me giggle.
@@lnsflare1 thats good
@@lnsflare1 Whatevs, Eld.
Scorpion: *Speaks Japanese the entire movie*
Scorpion later in the movie: GET OVER HERE!
Scorpion Afterward: *Speaks only Japanese again*
It makes 'sense' ... it's like people who can't speak English but only learn a few key words and phrases and some derogatory words
Hell is fire, brimstone, and English class
To someone who replied and deleted the comment. That is why I've used the word in inverted commas. As I'm just trying to defend it even though I know the OP is right.
It has always been an integral part of Scorpion's character arc that he is obsessed with idol singers, and he got in the habit of randomly shouting that particular english phrase after listening to The Sparkling Yuki-nyan 5's hit single "Get Over Here (Into My Kokoro)" on loop for 36 hours straight.
This lead to the eventual revelation that his wife and child had contracted the hit on their entire family themselves.
@@neonpiranha3664 I was about to reply exactly that lmao
18:39 That edit was beautiful, nearly fell out of my chair.
You’re right actually. Cole’s entire purpose is to be a stand in for the audience who gets all the questions about the lore explained to him. They stated this
@@marblejar786 because he is the fixture for part 2 they wanted us to know who this random guy who pieces the story together. Then had Kano be the comedic relief
@@marblejar786 that’s another reason this movie sucks. They also stated they didn’t want Johnny cage in the lead because they didn’t like the idea of a masculine white male taking the lead. I’m not lying.
which is absolutely unnecessary when you make a movie about a game that is decades old, has multiple sequels, and is actively being played by your target audience.
@@Belicure so instead they got the most bland, milk toast Asian dude they can get as the lead and give him the role with absolutely no character whatsoever. Hmm... Good choice.
@@mrii114 and the story is basic anyway
So many things bothered me but I love how Sonya just forgot about Jax. No emotion, no worry, just "where is jax?? Eh, oh well." These two went to war with each other so you know that would create a big bond. This movie should've been on Sci-Fi.
This is the effect of being in the Friend Zone.
Sonya didn't want to be "Blacked"
@@dorstefan clearly you don’t think men and women can be friends.
@@rodrelackerman9324 she already did.
But no joke, they're just friends.
That leg sweep bit is actually a pretty hilarious reference to how frustrating that move was if you had a friend that wouldn't stop doing it. It doesn't even reference anything scripted in the game, but what players did with the game. Brilliant!
I I always spam in fighting games
That's kind of the entire point he was making. Like if you take out the context of the video game, it makes zero sense.
I am so glad you did not come out with praise for this movie as many other critics have done (simply to follow the herd IMO). You're the best reviewer Filmento!
If you haven't seen it, The 4th Snake, The Fighters Den and History Behind the Warrior all have great reviews as well. HBTW is the best imo but 4th Snake is great too.
Cole's power is quite literally Plot armor lol
I'm tired of seeing all these comments everywhere... Damn
I had the exact same thought while watching the movie lmfao
@Mimi S Ryan George on Pitch Meetings made up the joke
what really fucked me up is how quickly they went from 2nd act fight to 3rd act.. no training/overpowering/realization montage or anything.. they were losing then they went into the void for 3 literal minutes and then they just won. incredibly anti climactic and overall pretty confusing
13:34 “There will be no tournament because they’ll be no tournament” 💀
My friends and I had an absolute blast with this movie. Not because we thought it was good, we realised very early on that it wasn't, we were laughing at it the entire time, it's so over the top and serious about itself but also hilarious, a good combo.
It has found a place in my Dumb/Silly/Entertaining category.
Yeah, to be honest I wasn't expecting much except to spend a couple of hours letting my brain shut down and recharge while I enjoyed some spectacle and fan service. I was therefore satisfied - in fact, I got more than I bargained for in the opening sequence so that was a plus. But I can understand the frustration of people who just want to see their favourite game serviced in a way that advances their enjoyment of the source material. That's why I've not watched any of the movies based on any games that I'm genuinely invested in, like Assassin's Creed or Warcraft.
@@pszczolka80 I'm similar, I've never seen the assassins creed, warcraft or hitman movies, though I maintain the Prince of Persia movie is surprisingly decent, compared to most game adaptations. As for people not liking it when the stuff they love is adapted poorly, I can certainly relate, I'm a big Wheel of Time and Dresden Files fan, and while I still think the WoT show has potential, the Dresden show was a travesty. Jim Butcher deserves better, and I hope to someday see a good adaptation of his work.
I think the problem with a lot of movies that come from comics or video games is that they usually either dont adapt to the medium or change so much that it's almost unrecognizable
As much as I absolutely hate saying it, Sonic the Hedgehog is probably the gold standard on how to adapt a game into film
@@marsmurderer9868 absolutely agree
@@marsmurderer9868 I think Sonic The Hedgehog is an alright standard, even though I don't see it as a Sonic movie but more of average children's movie with Sonic and Robotnik in it. It might be just me by it doesn't really appeal to what I'd want in a Sonic movie.
@@sketchsskotch1073 it's definitely setting up a more traditional Sonic Adventure 2 style universe with Tails, Knuckles, and Shadow.
@@marsmurderer9868 I'm hoping they do, the set photos seem to show G.U.N which is one of the things I thought was missing from the original and I hope that the film takes on a more serious tone and has less flossing and fart jokes than the original. But I'm skeptical and cynical so I'm doubting they'd do that.
this entire movie felt like a bunch of youtubers got together to make a fan made movie
Except those are actually good sometimes.
hahaha exactly my words, shouda been on youtube originals or syfy
Mortal Kombat Legacy is already a thing!
Felt more like a school film project. This is the worst movie I've seen this year
MK Legends: Scorpion's Revenge is the superior Mortal Kombat film. Period.
Yes Reptile his whole story of joining Mortal Kombat to please Shao Khan and have wanting him to resurrect his race while slowly falling to his role as a servant until he lost sight of his original goal and now seeks nothing more than to serve his master was beautifully presented in this story.
I especially love this particular line: "Scezzzz" Just encapsulates the character perfectly. He and the other villains were done so much justice.
"Death means nothing"
Thats actually another reference to the game and is a huge problem with the games as well. Death truly means nothing. When you die in the MK universe you just get sent to hell (The Netherealm) until you find a way to escape. This has happened a ridiculous number of times throughout the entire series.
While in the game it brings a good reason why characters that died can return for the next game, it needs to get some context for a movie. It can be a reason for a villain to gloat, because on the the heroes victories will have meaning. It can be a story arc showing the process of someone escaping. But just throwing it in like that is a reference to the games without any reason to the story of the movie.
I mean yeah but also no like…a normal person can’t escape the nether realm. Scorpion didn’t really escape he just became a demon. Even in mkx they didn’t escape they came like anti versions of the characters. It’s also why they hate on raider so much lol everyone just goes to hell no matter how good they are.
This has been the thing since the very first Mortal Kombat game in existence, you can't hate on this pivotal part of the lore.
The problem is this movie uses that line to justify the characters being shit. Like saying "Don't worry, we'll fix them posthumously."
I mean at least in the games there is a lore based reason as to why they come back to life and they're all plausible within the story
Damn, Filmento's insertion of the MK song makes the fight scenes so much better.
And Shang Tsung never changed his appearance, which is, like, his thing.
To be fair Shang Tsung didn't fought on this movie, hopefully they make a sequel
@@abejamanlapelicula5595 nah...he should have shape shifted and Led them into a trap like he did in Mk1995
I love how deep you go with your insights. Thank you! Keep going! 🔥
u smell like u vented
@@sub-zero5433 u smell like u vented
@@kyloren1674 nice switching acc or not?
I believed the theory that Cole was actually Kuai Liang. It would have been such a clever way of adding an "outsider" character, then tying him right back into main MK lore at the end.
This movie felt like it was two completely different scripts smashed into one. My brain still hurts thinking about how moments of brilliant cinematography (like Subzero's hailstorm attack on the ice cream shop) are in the same movie as Kung Lao loudly announcing "Flawless Victory!" to himself as his friends are getting their asses kicked.
It's like the first act was written by one guy and the second and third act by the other
I hated that Kung Lao part so much
and in the game "flawless victory" should be achieved without getting a single hit.
@@CahyoPrabowo He never got hit in that fight against Nitara, did he? At least that was true. Still, realy stupid to bring that line in this situation!
They need to make Mortal Kombat like Bloodsport: build the entire movie around this single tournament, and that venue should be where character development, interactions and story should happen. Easy fun, compelling action.
That would make it a good movie though and for some reason they want to do the complete opposite.
@@cambodianbreastmilk2980 they want to make "relatable" characters. All we want is an excuse for them to fight. nothing else
Just watch the original in HD, your welcome
That's the main problem in this new movie: character development. Goro, for example. In the first movie, he was built to be fearsome, the film slowly shows us the idea of him being unbeatable, until almost the end, so Cage's victory was really special. Now, Goro shows up and, in a couple scenes ahead, he's killed. Same for the others: not a single relatable char. Is it that hard to build an interesting character out of an established game franchise built around - you bet - characters?
There doing the tournament version next movie
I would prefer an Scorpion solo movie as a start for a MKCU, focusing in just him, his vengeance and rise from hell would be really interesting
I imagine that as kinda like a mix of "Ghostrider" and "Spawn" but in medievil Japan.
Exactly!... this movie was just...off. Mortal kombat is a huge franchise with a sh*t load of characters. So...when they try to do a fan service instead of telling a compelling story, the movie just becomes a crap. Even though the fight scenes were good, the movie overall was a let down for me. And, as you've mentioned, this movie would've been so much better if it was just about scorpion's journey on getting revenge.
with some badass character arc.
there is an animated movie that kind of does that, but it does such an awful Dick Riding of Scorpion that it ruins every other character, SPECIALLY GORO!
Scorpion is one best Mortal Kombat Characters but he can’t hold a movie alone.
A friend said this and I can't unsee it; the dragon marks are basically cutie marks straight out of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
Random fights for the sake of fighting is not just a problem with video game movies, it is also a problem with story mode in fighting games
15:56
"What good is a casino in a post apocalyptic world?"
*Laughs in Robert Edwin House*
less of a casino more a hideout
Hey, hey i understood that reference!
House always wins
Gotta spend your koins somewhere.
And shouldn't it be a "kasino"?
@@coolnut99 I see watcha did there
This adaptation is like a college-level film production without prior grounded consistency with the character-design and background story within the source material.
Nah, it's like a college level essay where they give you 5-10 characters that you need to use but you are stoned and way too late, so you just write some barely coherent stuff and hope you somehow get a passing grade ;).
17:56 I love this part of the video so much ! Im always cracking when "it comes". Dicaprio be blessed, you created my best meme in this last years.
15:11 And then Jax crushed his vertebrae, because it doesn't matter how strong your arms are, you need to lift with your Core.
But he obviously lifted with his arms 😂
@@kongmengyang1098 But his arms are attached to his unaltered body, which can't support that weight. Does the movie or game mention that the arms are magical in origin? Because that would solve the problem.
If only they used the theme song as much as you did 🤷🏻
Missed the opportunity to use it more! Like damn!
Then when they did use it they changed into a shitty dub step version
If you wanna see a movie that feels very mortal Kombat-ish, I’d recommend Ninja Assassin, such a badass movie
I still can't wrap my head around the fact that they felt they needed some OC main character to be the audience surrogate. Paul WS Anderson managed it with Johnny Cage.
It’s because of the atmosphere with the whole BLM thing. As stupid as it is, they decided they didn’t want a white man to be a lead in the movie. Smh
@@DJ-gd1to This is clearly not the reason this decision was made. Have you ever heard of Lui Kang lol?
@@Gum_Cuzzler what's wrong with him? He seemed to fit his character perfectly.
@@DJ-gd1to LMAO shut the hell up with that nonsense. Nothing about this has anything to do with the "blm thing" at all. What the director said has no correlation.
@@Gum_Cuzzler i heard of Liu Kang before, never heard of Lui Kang though
I think the thing with many video game movies is a lot of directors are just interested in banking off the novelty of these titles.
Rather than creating a narrative that compliments whats already established or paces and challenges itself in a way that compliments the feel of a common video game experience.
I watched this with a group of friends and we took a drink every time:
1. There was a finishing move
2. A character says or does something explicitly from the game
3. They say "Mortal Combat"
Was a wonderful experience
whats Mortal Combat tho? kan u spell it right?
@Noneya Business that must sukk
For all its flaws, the original Mortal Kombat movie succeeded in being both a real movie, in terms of plot, characters and motivations, and yet serving the game's fans generously. It's not the best movie, but probably the best video game movie.
Agree on that. The only thing that would make it more MK would be an R rating. Everything else works fine for MK and as a movie.
Prince of Persia? I hate saying this, but at least Sonic was SOMEWHAT competent, and it's not really decent at all.
If you mean adapted things, and include books, LOTR is pretty damn good
Ahhh, the ONLY Mortal Kombat movie that exists. And it was pretty good. Everything that came after... just a fever dream of my dying mind
Mad soundtrack to go with it to.
@@quangbangoz Yeah, first movie ever with a techno soundtrack. It's super dated now, but I remember me and my friends went WOW in the Theater when the music starts right away with the New Line logo.
Director: Let's pull out the storyline of scorpion's revenge animated movie and then fuck it up 100 times.
What are on?! The animated one is the BEST. Hell, I dare to say it’s the only good MK movie
@@pheniellanz5271 The original MK Movie still has a lot of charm. Especially Johnny vs Goro.
It's not really close to scorpion revenges.
@@randomcenturion7264 that’s just nostalgia talking
@@pheniellanz5271 scorpions revenge has too much packed into it with too little time, and randomly focuses on random characters with their own storylines at a weird pace, sorta like this movie. The thing it did better was at explaining what was going on and it was a bit more logical than this movie, but it isn't really the best. It should have focused on scorpion rather than trying to focus on both since it is called "scorpions revenge".
whats even weirder is they dont actually do the mortal kombat tournament storyline in order to give them more room to do things... only to end up giving us a psudo mortal kombat tournament with goro.
its like the film maker understood what you were saying for the beginning and end of the movie, but forgot about the hour and 30 minute block in the middle.
That's what bothered me most.NO TOURNAMENT. NO SCORPION FOR THE MAJORITY OF THE FILM
Now that i've seen this, i realized that the Indonesian viewers weren't really overproud, Sub-Zero really did carry the whole damn movie
Kano too!
Movie didn't have much... But they made sub zero bad ass, and I thought Kano was good too. Scrap the rest. Ugh.
Give Kano his props too man. This is the first time he is actually being seen in a positive light 🤣🤣
Scorpion, Lui Kang, and Kung Lao were ok too. Sonya and Jax were decent...they all just had no story or stakes though. Honestly, Cole not being Cage or even Scorpion ruined the movie either way.
@@mscopycat5137 which is something he should never be seen in
You could remove Cole as a character from this entire movie and it would have been better.
You could have taken the original story from the original Mortal Kombat movie and it would have been better.
You could have ditched the hour and a half-long "find temple + training" BS and it would have been better.
Somehow this movie had two decades of video game movies setting an example of what not to do and they still did it anyway.