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NEW YORK (CNS) -- The problems with "Mortal Kombat" (Warner Bros.) go well beyond off-kilter spelling.
In fact, director Simon McQuoid's feature debut -- a reboot adaptation of a series of video games previously brought to the big screen via a couple of movies dating from the mid-1990s -- is, by turns, brutal, ponderous and silly.
Working from a script by Greg Russo and Dave Callaham, McQuoid charts the exploits of Cole Young (Lewis Tan), a mixed martial arts fighter whose languishing career becomes the least of his problems after he gets mixed up in a prolonged cosmic smackdown. The struggle pits the underdog forces of planet Earth against those of a realm called Outworld.