Mortal Kombat: mediocrity at its finest
By Andrew McManus - Contributing Columnist
As summer approaches we are seeing more tent-pole films open up. Recently with Godzilla vs. Kong and now MORTAL KOMBAT!
I remember the original film that came out in 1995 and its sequel. Maybe it’s because I was a kid and always wanted to play the video game (I never got it.) But I thought the movie was awesome. The premise of this original and of the reboot is easy to follow. There is a martial arts tournament between warriors from Earth and the Outworld (mostly bad guys.)
Something something destiny something something Outworld something something ancient tournament something something prophesy. OK, so now we have covered the plot of the third and most successful attempt at turning the
Mortal Kombat gaming franchise into a film franchise. That most successful tag is faint praise indeed for this patience-testing slug fest. Luckily, there s Josh Lawson as Kano, the hard-drinking Australian mercenary who provides a well-needed sense of dismissive comedy in the midst of all this po-faced nonsense.
Unfortunately, he s the sidekick/thorn in the side of Cole Young (Tan), the orphaned descendent of Hanzo Hasashi (Sanada) who has spent the last few years getting his ass handed to him as a cage fighter, only to be dragged into this battle of the realms by future cyborg Jax (Brooks) and Sonya Blade (McNamee). They tell him that they re hunting for chosen ones with a magical birthmark shaped like a dragon, just like he has, but they re mainly around to get h
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