This coming Friday (04-23-21) the highly anticipated “
Mortal Kombat” movie will be hitting not only
HBO Max but theaters as well. It’s definitely one fans will enjoy. As it is a good mix of action, gore and can we say it – diversity.
EURweb correspondent Monique Loveless caught up with
Mehcad Brooks, who plays Jax in the franchise film. Discussing the diversity of the film was a major point Brooks brought home.
“I was in from the beginning,” Brooks says about taking on this role.
“Jax is an icon to me and when I read the script, I was impressed,” The actor continued “It wasn’t just playing to the lowest common denominator or just playing to the game. It was playing to a new generation by elevating these characters to a new cinematic level in which they deserve.”
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Ludi Lin and Max Huang in
Mortal Kombat. When the original
Mortal Kombat film came out in 1995, it was among the first wave of movies based on video games, coming just three years after the game itself debuted in arcades in 1992. Like virtually every other video game adaptation since, it was much derided for its laughable plot, dialogue, and, most importantly, action. Twenty-six years later, not much has changed in the reboot of the franchise except one key thing that lines it up much better with the aesthetic of the video game series. In this
Mortal Kombat, the central figure is MMA fighter Cole Young (Lewis Tan), who is initially unaware that he shares a heritage with the great Hanzo Hasashi (Hiroyuki Sanada), an 1800s era Japanese warrior whose family is slaughtered in a brutal opening sequence.