Mortal Kombat (2021) Movie Review – Finish Me
“I have come for your souls.” “You will leave this place at once, sorcerer.” “These are your champions?” Ah, hello World Wide Web. I’m Decker Shado, the internet personality with the best hair. and recently Mortal Kombat 1 came out, which is the latest sequel of the Mortal Kombat franchise. That is also a reboot, but not quite. But it is the first. It changes the story around in a game series that no one really cares that much about the story anyway. But either way I do movie reviews. So let’s talk about the film franchise. The Mortal Kombat
movie franchise began in 1995 with Paul W.S. Anderson’s Mortal Kombat and killed two years later with Mortal Kombat Annihilation. Forgotten and only spoken of in soft whispers until 2021, with a third movie that completely reboots the film franchise. Mortal Kombat, directed by Simon McQuoid. Interestingly enough, it’s said that one big reason that Paul W.S. Anderson ended up doing like the entire Resident Evil film franchise is because of the fact that he did not do the sequel to Mortal Kombat and really did not like what they did with it. But after seeing what he did with
the Resident Evil franchise, I’m not sure he would have done any different. but what is Mortal Kombat all about? Well, Earth Realm must defend itself from the forces of Outworld
But what it’s mostly about at its heart is super ninjas beating the crap out of each other, blood flying everywhere, Bones breaking, and the body count rising. So let’s take a look at Mortal Kombat and see if they at least got that right. Our story starts way back in 1617. Japan. Hanzo Hayashi, played by Hiroyuki Sanada, heads back to the well to fetch more water for his family. wife Harumi played by Yukiko Shinohara and son Satoshi, Played by Ren Miyagawa. Not to mention the little one, miscellaneous nameless infant played by Mia Hall. and everything is
happy and perfect and wonderful and not at all what I associate with Mortal Kombat. That’s better. I’m beginning to think they probably regret building their house out of paper. Fortunately, they just so happen to have a handy dandy trap door to a baby sized hidey hole and tuck little whatchama- callit away before they are approached by the Chinese assassin or the Lin Kuei, Bi-Han, played by the Indonesian Joe Taslim. 半蔵どこだ Oh oh wait wait, hold up, hold up, hold up. Anata.. wa.. あなたは tabemas.. o.. 食べますを funben! 糞便 Nah, but the internet is a beautiful thing.
But this assassin has powers. Ice powers, Ice so cold it drops the temperature far below freezing. Subzero, if you will. But the screams of his family alert Hanzo, and he runs as fast as he can back home, but not fast enough as he finds his family you know, just waiting outside. Chillin’. But as he mourns Lin Kuei assassins approach. So we jump right back into the action as Hanzo shows us just what people did before they invented wood chippers. after having the stuntmen spew enough CGI, Hanzo decides We gotta go more Mortal Kombat here, grabbing
his wife’s kunai and some rope. He takes the rest of them out in short order. And while the music, it isn’t bad for a modern movie based on a video game. It never really goes all the way for that kind of pseudo eastern folk of the original Mortal Kombat or full on techno syndrome. After dealing with the forest demons, Hanzo tracks down Bi-Han, who is waiting for him, waxing poetic about how he slaughtered the entire Hasashi bloodline in Chinese. And it’s not like Bi-Han can’t speak Japanese. He knows enough to be taunting the guy’s family
in Japanese earlier. But you got to understand Japanese has varying levels of formality and casualness to it and Bi-Han Doesn’t even respect the guy enough to even talk to him like this is an anime. So he throws the kunai and misses Or does he? Slashing open Bi-Han’s face! Not that it matters much as the Lin Kuei assassin beats the crap out of the man and stabs him with his own kunai. Hey, I’m dying here. “For the Lin Kuei.” Oh, you’re not going to put English in little parentheses under that subtitle? So job well done. He
just leaves. But wait. Hanzo is not dead. Got to painfully crawl back to his home before bleeding out and dying. Oh. Accomplished a lot there. But the baby is still alive. And wouldn’t you know it? The God of thunder Raiden, played by Tadanobu Asano, teleports in and rescues the child teleporting it just before the movie literally spells out some very important plot points. Seems Earth Realm is just about doomed. One more lost tournament and Outworld is free to invade and that would suck. Buuuuuuuuuut Ancient prophecy about the Hasashi bloodline saving the day and all that.
And while I haven’t followed the Mortal Kombat mythology 100% all this time, with all the lore and all of the reboots that technically don’t reboot, but do, there’s a lot of different versions of Canon that are all technically correct. Yet somehow this movie still managed to do something that is not correct in any of them. Because say hello to our create-a-character protagonist Cole Young, played by Lewis Tan. He’s here with his wife Allison, played by Laura Brent and their daughter Emily, played by Matilda Kimber. Probably not going to surprise you, but Cole here, well, he’s
a fighter! Problem, though. He’s a crappy fighter doing $200 matches and handily getting pounded into the mat. Just to explain that he is really, really good at getting kicked in the face before we establish some other useful plot points. in Outworld we are introduced to Sub-Zero as he has an impromptu chat with Shang Tsung, played by Chin Han. They spitball the basic plot of this movie. Hey, that Mortal Kombat tournament is something else. Innit? Win ten of them and we can invade Earth Realm even better, we already cheated and won nine of them. So this
one is very important. So best bet? “There will be no tournament because there’ll be no opposition left to fight. We will already be victorious.” They’re going for another classic from the nineties, the Tonya Harding strategy. But there was that prophecy that the Hasashi bloodline would save the day in the nick of time, but Sub-Zero already killed them all centuries ago. So let’s jump back to the totally unrelated, create a character and see how he’s doing. No, no, no, no, no, no. It’s Jason. Freddy or Rambo that got in the Mortal Kombat games. Candyman has only
been in the Mortal Kombat fan games. We’re going to ignore that for now anyway. Far more important is that while Cole sucks at fighting, he’s not bad at sportsmanship. And Emily has just the thing he needs to git gud. “It’s a strength bracelet. Now we got one each.” What he’s supposed to do with that? Defeat Outworld with the power of friendship? Honestly, that wouldn’t be too far off from Feel your animality. But what’s this? A new friend walks up, Jax played by Mehcad Brooks. He’s like, Hey, great fight. Love the part where you get kicked
in the face. Anyway, where’d you get that gnarly tattoo? Cause, like, it’s not a tattoo. I’ve had this birthmark since I was born. “Well ain’t that something?” Yeah he just has the Mortal Kombat logo right there on his skin like bam. I mean, I’ve heard of viral marketing campaigns before, but this is something else. What does it mean? Find out next time as they go their separate ways. For now, there’s something far more important to establish. while he is at a late night diner with his family. “It’s snowing.” “But it’s July.” Oh, I guess this
movie takes place in Australia. But this is no ordinary cold snap. Oh, no. This is a sign that Sub-Zero has arrived creating ice and controlling it, beating the crap out of random people with weaponized hailstones. But what’s this? Jax swoops in to save the day, grabbing Cole and his family and quickly explaining the situation. “Whatever that was back there, it’s after both of us. Look.” “That’s.. That’s impossible.” Jax is also part of the Mortal Kombat viral marketing campaign for you see those who bear the mark of Mortal Kombat, are the chosen ones chosen to defend
Earth Realm in the Mortal Kombat tournament. And for those of you out there unfamiliar with the games, that is not how any of them work. But until the tournament, Outworld’s just been trying to straight up murder Earth’s chosen fighters. Speak of the devil, who should be around the corner but Sub-Zero. And Jax neglected to bring his snow tires and ice chains. No bother. He still got his KSG-12, so Cole can escape with the car. While Jax intends to defeat Sub-Zero with a face full of buckshot. Oh, but he froze that gun. And the gunpowder going
off somehow did not just force its way through the ice or raise the temperatures well above subzero. Oh, well, it was still a pretty cool effect shot. And it forces Jax to engage in classic hand-to-hand combat. No bother. Jax still has quite the set of guns on him. But it turns out that Sub-Zero has no problem freezing those guns, just as well shattering both his arms into tiny bits before tossing him down to his presumed demise. But of course he’s still alive. Nobody popped out to say FATALITY, that’s a dead giveaway. Pardon the phrase. Cole
in the meantime, just drove home and fortunately, no adrenaline rush is going to keep his daughter from going to bed. Cole realizes though if Sub-Zero is after him, staying with his family will only put them in danger. Fortunately, before he went off on his own, Jax just so happened to drop the name and address of his partner just in case. “What are you doing here?” “I’m looking for Sonya Blade.” And trying to make the best first impression. Cole was working on showing how friendly he was by sneaking around in the dark and silently going up
behind her, putting his hand on her shoulder from just out of frame like all friends do. Sonya Blade, played by Jessica McNamee, soon realizes what Cole is and is a bit worried that Jax hasn’t pinged back yet. But there’s no time for that. We’ve got to give Cole the massive exposition dump. Seems the dragon markings give you superhuman abilities which can only transfer from one person to another if you kill someone with a mark and means you are one of the chosen ones who must defend Earth Realm during the sacred tournament of Mortal Kombat. “Did
you make that last part up? Just kind of sounds like you made it up. I mean, and look, they spelled the wrong.” “You listen to me. I think there’s another tournament coming.” yeah. When you schedule something at repeating intervals, it tends to come back around. But Cole is here because they need Earth’s champions and have been having a problem where they keep dying before they can find them. Who else has the mark? Why none other than our handy dandy prisoner over here. Kano, played by Josh Lawson, because he kind of sort of slit the throat
of the guy that Sonya was tracking. “Fate has better standards than you.” “Lucky for you, I don’t have any standards. Let’s see if you’re a natural blond.” Kano also stands in as our comic relief or rather comic Gatling gun, I’m not going to lie. I did chuckle a few times, but I mean, come on, you throw enough of it at the wall, some of it’s going to stick. But what’s this? Sonya doesn’t have the mark. Oh, and suddenly the power cuts and something broke in to Sonya’s secret hideout with ridiculously powerful acid, something they can’t
see and something not of earth realm. It claws Kano’s face and escapes detection thanks to its power of invisibility. Reptile. And yeah, I get it. He’s reptile. He is a reptile. I do know that is kind of how it’s worked for a while now, but I always liked it when Reptile was the Green Ninja. And under the mask he’s a reptile. But hey, monster you do you. Utilizing Reptile’s acid spit, Kano frees himself from his chains and heads into the fight, stabbing a flare into the invisible beast, revealing its position and giving them a chance
to work together, stabbing the creature before Kano tears its heart out of its chest. “Kano wins!” Kano is tired now. Kano thinks he’ll go get himself some Mackers. But whoopsie! The fire kinda sorta burnt up All that information Sonya had on that whole Mortal Kombat thingamajig. And she never thought to maybe have a backup. But looky here. Kano just so happens to be a former smuggler who just so happened to do black market deals into Raiden’s Temple. Therefore, he just so happens to know exactly where they need to go. How convenient. Of course, he’s not
enthusiastic about being forthcoming with the information, so Sonya gives him an ultimatum. If he helps them, he can have THREE MILLION DOLLARS! As opposed to the angel I would have gone with, which is, Hey, Outworld is attacking Earth realm, which is the entire realm. So that dimension will destroy our dimension and your part of this dimension. So maybe help out. But hey, I guess the Mr. Beast strategy works, too. And they’re off, taking one of Kano smuggling planes out to the middle of nowhere and skydiving in to somewhere. It’s a desert and they are going
in a direction, Yeah, maybe this wasn’t the best travel itinerary, but not to worry for a friendly face has appeared over the horizon. Hello, Earthrealmers. It is I, Decker Shado. The internet personality with the best hair here to remind you to like the video. And if you haven’t yet, maybe subscribe. Huh? Oh, fine. Talk to the monk. “Okay, that’s far enough MC Hammer.” Liu Kang, played by Ludi Lin, introducing himself Mortal Kombat style with one of his signature fireballs. Though, personally, I know him more for doing that cartwheel into the uppercut that knocks your opponent’s
head off. But I guess that is a bit much for a hello. Liu Kang tries to give the group a friendly greeting. But Kano is more interested in when he gets his own super powers. All in due time. Kano. All in due time. They are led to Raiden’s Temple, and Liu Kang explains that all of them who hold the mark have the key to unlocking their inner power. Yep. That means everyone here except for you, Sonya. And they must unlock the power or they will never be able to defeat the champions of Outworld. Also, it
would help if you get here sometime before someone tears both of your arms off as Jax has the mark. But he’s not doing so hot. “We have sourced every realm to find a way to heal him.” We can’t rebuild him. We don’t got the technology, but we know someone who does. Anyway, it’s time to meet Lord Raiden. Like, hi Brought all of Earth’s champions for you and he proceeds to roast them. “You are in no physcial or mental shape to fight.” You are going to need at least ten Rocky training montages. “You don’t even have
a marking.” Hey, who let her in here? “Wait, hang on. What about me, Gandalf? What does my fourtune cookie say?” Gah, he’s like the Energizer bunny. He just keeps going and going and going. so if they’re going to have any chance to save Earth realm from certain destruction, they’re going to have to unlock their inner power. Later. First, we got to watch as Outworld attacks the temple directly. Sub-Zero is about to take out Liu Kang But wait. He is saved by the suddenly CGI Kung Lao, played by Max Huang. But Shang Tsung is also here
as well as Mileena, played by Sisi Stringer. And yes, she ain’t got no mask on. I’m assuming it’s like most of these deals with movies that they have a masked character and then they get someone to play them who looks good. So there goes the mask. And like most times with Mileena especially, that kind of misses the entire point. But wait, Raiden teleports in like Tsung! What do you doing? The tournament hasn’t started yet. And Shang is all like, But that doesn’t mean I’m not allowed to finish them off right now. And Raiden’s like nope
and casts a big ol bubble of protection. So Shang Tsung’s like fine, I’ll leave. But when the tournament comes you’re all dead. Anyway, time for Kung Lao to introduce himself. “Descendant of the great Kung Lao, the grand champion of the Order of Light.” “Never heard of him.” Kano, please. Some of us are trying to learn something here. As they have very little time until the tournament, Liu Kang says they must begin training at once, specifically to unlock their inner power. You know, special moves. “I hope I get fireballs.” “There is no guarantee.” “So look, instead
of fireballs What else can I shoot out of my hands? Like knives, or guns?” “If you ever shut up!” Of course, in the games, the special moves are explained by virtue of the fact that it’s a video game. Somehow this confuses screenwriters. So that’s why we got this whole thing with the Mortal Kombat logos and chosen ones and feel your anima- Arcana. But but but but but but, they have to unlock it first. So Kung Lao beats the crap out of Cole, hoping that the ordeal will be enough to unlock his. “In Mortal Kombat, talent
will only get you so far.” To truly excel, you must purchase the battle pass and other microtransactions. Kano isn’t impressed with how easily they turned Cole into a punching bag, But when he goes up against Liu Kang, well, they just do a leg sweep spam trick against Kano. I’m not even joking. And honestly, I love it. This is straight out of the classic games. Ao his arcana ain’t unlocking anytime soon. And Jax isn’t even in any shape to fight. He’s back on his feet. But the little mecha arms they built for him are surprisingly weak
for cybernetic prosthetics. “These don’t work. These are not me.” Yeah, but you can’t expect to win a fight without any arms at all. I mean, this is Mortal Kombat, not Time Killers. So things aren’t looking great for them. Cole is useless. Kano is undisciplined, and Jax is boxing in the Special Olympics. But Liu Kang and Kung Lao have not given up. Thinking up a new strategy, taunt Kano, turning this friendly supper to insult hour, saying how uncultured he is and how stupid that scar on his face looks when everyone knows Kano’s supposed to have a
cool Terminator style metal eye. Which also made it easier to explain how he’s able to shoot a death laser out of the thing. It’s because it was a big metal red eye. Now, Now it’s because his arcana makes so much more sense, doesn’t it? With Kano, the first to unlock his arcana that means they need to get to work on the rest of them beating the crap out of Cole once more, but to no avail. Raiden is very disappointed in him as a result, And he’s like, Hey, I never asked for this. Why am I
the only one who has the birthmarks since they were born? So Raiden explains. It was passed down from the Hasashi bloodline. That’s right kids, the baby Raiden saved in the opening was Cole’s great, great, great, great, great grandmother. “I had hoped the power in your bloodline was still strong in you. Now I know that’s not the case.” Funny me is that the Hasashi bloodline is Japanese and Lewis Tan is half English, half Chinese. I mean some mixing after hundreds of years, you’d expect at least. But I just find it kind of funny that Hollywood makes
such a big deal about how it is so right and moral that you have to make sure that your characters are played by actors the same race as the character. But when it comes to Asians, I guess, you know, they all kind of look alike. Either way, Raiden says he’s a lost cause and should just drop the quarters and not bother continuing. So he returns home just as much of a failure and a loser as when he left. But we still got like 40 minutes of movie left, so let’s introduce some new characters. Nitara, played
by Mel Jarnson, Reiko played by Nathan Jones, and of course Kabal, played by Daniel Nelson. Shang Tsung is like, Hey guys! Saw the Earthrealmers, and man, they suck. “We are on the precipice of victory and taking Earth realm forever. But we must strike now.” I mean, we do have the tournament coming up and all that, but eh? Shang Tsung figures kill them all before the tournament and boom, job done. But how? Kabal has an idea. Kano just so happens to be an old friend of Kabal’s and when he just so happens to be walking to
the safety bubble all alone, Kabal will just so happen to be able to show up completely unnoticed by anyone else, allowing him to tempt Keno to join the dark side. And together they will rule the galaxy with Outworld is far, far cooler. And it’s time to get with the winning team. And it just so happens that the safety bubble is linked to a magical anchor, which just so happens to be completely unguarded. And of course, while Raiden set it up in like a fifth of a second, now that the bubble has burst, nothing we can
do about that. So Shang Tsung shows up with his posse to finish them. But what’s this? They also sent Goro to Cole’s house to take him out. So the fight is on, Earthrealmers defend Raiden’s temple in one location while Cole gets pounded to dust in another. But, but, but, but. But still not at the tournament. So the casualties are kind of limited. “This is not the blood of the chosen one. Your death has no worth.” As if the fact that she wasn’t fighting back with elemental powers and superhuman abilities wasn’t a big enough hint. But
that’s not to say that no one gets taken out here. Nitara attacks Kung Lao, so Kung Lao slices her in two! “Flawless victory.” Fatality. A flawless victory, is when you win the fight without even getting hit. And you can have both at once. But come on, man. Fatality. Back with Cole, though his family tries desperately to escape. So Goro beats the crap out of their car. Hey, wait a minute. This isn’t Street Fighter. But seeing his family in danger finally manages to unlock Cole’s inner acana power chakra soul train, turning his friendship bracelet into friendship
armor. or power, whatever. And he gets weapons to boot. point is it’s kind of like that part in the Doom movie where Karl Urban gets God mode. Suddenly Cole is super strong and nearly invincible. Oh, that’s not unbalanced at all. And he easily takes out Goro. Oh, oh, oh, oh, I’m sorry. I guess. I don’t know my own strength. My bad? Things aren’t looking so hot back at Raiden’s Temple, The baddies beat down all the champions And now Sonya is trouble. But Jax cannot lift the rock upon her with his piddly little tinker toy triceps.
But wait, now he unlocks his arcana. The magical power of big ol robot arms like the ones he had, but far, far more impressive. Forget the arms, that man’s lower back is ridiculous. Oh, guess it’s time for Raiden to show up. He pops a portal, allowing Cole the chance to return to the temple so that they can start teleporting elsewhere. But wait. Shang Tsung throws a wrench in the works, delaying the teleportation just long enough to consume the soul of Kung Lao. Man, don’t you hate it when the deities’ God powers are just weak enough
to allow the bad guy to get in a few good hits. I guess everyone’s got some kinks in their plot armor because, Hey, Raiden just so happened to teleport everyone else to this handy dandy realm between realms, which just so happens to be the one place that Shang Tsung cannot reach. How convenient. But they’re all like, Well, that’s it. Kung Lao died. Guess it’s time to give up. But wait. Cole says they must fight for Earth and friendship and I don’t know. I still really don’t care about this guy. But the convenient God powers just
keep coming as Raiden just so happens to be able to teleport anyone anywhere at will. Please ignore the gaping plot holes this brings up. But Cole hatches a master plan to pit the fighters against Outworld’s champions and beat them at their own game, pitting each fighter against another across a variety of recognizable but unique locations. “What about Sub-Zero? Nobody’s taking him out one on one.” “Yeah.” “We save Sub-Zero for last.” So Sub-Zero’s the final boss? A bit odd. But hey, I guess you know Goro was level one Reptile was a tutorial mission. So no, we
still are not at the Mortal Kombat tournament. But everyone’s fighting kind of like a tournament. But you know, without all that pesky structure and honor. Anyway, Jax takes out Reiko, Sonya defeats Kano with the power of a garden gnome. Liu Kang fries Kabal to a crisp. And before Mileena can kill Cole, Sonya swoops in and power ring blasts a hole through her torso. “That’s pretty cool.” “Little parting gift from Kano.” And while it took everyone else days of harsh training to unlock their arcana, Sonya just did it during a scene transition. Is there anything you
can’t do when you’re out of frame? But Outworld is playing dirty or well, Earth realm isn’t exactly keeping it above the belt here, but Sub-Zero has kidnaped Cole’s family, luring him to come to them alone. Just ignore the whole Raiden instant transmission trick, it somehow isn’t working right now. Oh, would you look at that. Sub-Zero has frozen the Hasashi family to death! again! But Cole lashes out with his ancestor’s Kuna, bleeds on it, and Hellraiser Style manages to bring Hanzo back from the dead. “Get over here.” Who has returned from the underworld not as Hanzo
Hasashi, but Scorpion. And while he was down there, he picked up English. So the fight is on. Scorpion versus Sub-Zero. But while we could be watching a cool fight between two iconic Mortal Kombat characters, it keeps getting interrupted so we can watch Cole try to bring his family back to life with the power of fists. This goes back and forth for a while, but Sub-Zero eventually freezes scorpion But wait! It turns out fire is far more effective at melting ice than punches. Who could have guessed? As it’s super effective, Scorpion has no problem finishing off
Sub-Zero going for the classic where he removes his mask, revealing a human face and breathes fire on Sub-Zero, burning him to a crisp, “Toasty!” A fan favorite. Though personally I would have preferred a brutality. Just have Scorpion run up to him and just start beating the crap out of him. Just going faster and faster and faster and faster until he breaks the speed of sound. And then the guy explodes and body parts rain down everywhere and they don’t even makes sense. There’s like 12 legs and five ribcages! After this, Scorpion’s, like, cool. Could you take
care of my family for me? I ain’t about to start visiting for holidays. and he teleports out of there shortly before everyone else teleports in. Yeah, the teleporter magic is working again. No time to question it for Shang Tsung has arrived. “Today you’ve killed my warriors and you think you have won.” Well, you fight to the death, the other guy dies. You win. “Next time I see you, I will not bring fighters.” Okay. Okay. So we’re finally going to settle this like adults with a game of Goldeneye. “I will bring armies.” Starcraft works too. Raiden’s
like, uh uh uh, got to wait for the sequel first and zaps the wizard back to Outworld so we can be like, Hey, you know who else got sweet Mortal Kombat logo on his skin? Johnny Cage. Yeah. Remember him? Fan favorite People love Johnny Cage, especially when he’s in the movies like he wasn’t in this one anyway. Anyway, that was Mortal Kombat. And don’t let it bother you too much of that, Johnny Cage wasn’t in it. Neither was the Mortal Kombat tournament. And we spent, like, the whole movie hyping the thing up. So that quite
a piece of artistic choice right there. I mean, the movie took a lot of liberties with the material, but wow. Though, it should be stated from my position. Eh? I didn’t hate all the changes, most likely because I just got off the summer of Milla Jovovich and the Resident Evil movies hardly had anything at all to do with the games, but taken as a movie by itself and trying to forget it’s about Mortal Kombat. the flick at least has some stuff going for it. the acting is all right and the visual style used throughout is
clear, consistent and high quality, which matches the tone of the flick very well. Combine that with some honestly impressive special effects, and at least for the cinematography on display, Mortal Kombat is the best looking movie adaptation so far. But as I’ve put off talking about the plot and writing this long, you can guess where this is going. While it does stay truer to the source material than a lot of so-called adaptations, the fact that it got it Oh, so close, but still went off the rails with some newly introduced subdermal McGuffin, as well as having
the main protagonist be someone not from any of the games. And with a power set so broken, we can be sure they’ll never be put in the games. It’s all the more frustrating to watch. Then, of course, it’s the classic issue of having very loosely defined superpowers where one minute characters are able to completely alter the course of events with but a few simple tricks, and the next we’re just supposed to forget about all those things they just showed us they’re clearly able to do because we’ve got a far simpler action scene we really want
to do at the end of the day, Mortal Kombat is the second best Mortal Kombat movie ever seen. Visually, it’s leagues ahead of the original with far better special effects choreography and over-the-top action. But, cheesy as it was, the original did still do a far better job adhering to the lore of the franchise. Thus Mortal Kombat from 2021 comes in at three cardiovascular souvenirs out of five. A beautiful disappointment, but at least it’s not annihilation. Thank you all for watching. I have been Decker Shado, And remember the true key to defeating the forces of Outworld
once and for all lies in mastering the ancient technique of the Babality. “Focus on the pain, Cole.” “I’m focusing! Nothing’s happening, and it hurts!” “Oh, stick with it.” And while you’re here, why not brush up on your knowledge of the Mortal Kombat extended lore with Dead Meat’s video of the 2011 video game Kill Count? Yeah, he’s got writers helping him. I don’t. But the best I can do is maybe the summer of Saw that seems relevant about now. Or the algorithmically selected recommended video? Whatever that is.
