HBO Max, Downtown Center, Park, Sunset Drive-In Directed by Simon McQuoid, this most recent installment in the Mortal Combat franchise follows MMA fighter Cole Young (Lewis Tan), whose career seems to be fading fast. It s all but over . except just maybe he s the only offspring of 117th century ninja clan leader Hanzo Hasashi (Hiroyuki Sanada), who was defeated by evil Bi-Han/Sub-Zero (Joe Taslim), who slew the whole Hasashi bloodline except for a hidden infant daughter found by Lord Raiden (Tadanobu Asano) lowercase god of thunder who saves the girl so she could continue the Hasashi bloodline and its prophesy that the blood of Hanzo Hasashi will unite a new generation of Earthrealm champions to defeat Outworld before Outworld wins a 10th Mortal Combat tournament and takes over Earth.
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After spending the last two decades re-watching 1997’s so-utterly-bad-it’s-good
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, fans like me finally got a new live-action movie in the franchise. Just like the previews promised, 2021’s
Mortal Kombat comes with great fight scenes and a lot of faithfulness to the many characters it includes from the source material. But it also delivers a bland lead and an abundance of clichés. The combination of silly action movie tropes and seriously fun fight scenes result in a middle-of-the-road movie that can be entertaining if you know what you’re getting yourself into.
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There’s a couple of wildly crafted creatures in Warner Bros’ “Mortal Kombat” (see review here) – and not surprisingly, the Aussie-lensed production went straight to some of the local talent to provide their voices.
Here’s whose vocal stylings you’ll hear in Simon McQuoid’s action-packed movie reboot!
Damon Herriman
Familiar to both international and local Aussie audiences, South Australian-born actor Damon Herriman provides the voice of Kabal.
A character first introduced in the “Mortal Kombat 3” game, Kabal sports long black hair, Hookswords, superhuman speed, and a respirator.
Herriman’s long list of credits include ’90s comedy “The Big Steal”, co-starring alongside Ben Mendelsohn, Foxtel’s “Love My Way”, U.S hit “Justified”, and “Mindhunter” and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”, playing Charles Manson in both of those. He also recently lent his lungs to “Peter Rabbit 2”, voicing Tom Kitten.
MORTAL KOMBAT!!! A blood-slicked reminder that, in arcade fighter games and Hollywood blockbusters alike, no fatality is ever truly permanent.
Simultaneously, he’d been writing, shooting and producing his own projects most of them not in the action genre, but dramas, comedies and even a silent film inspired by Jean-Luc Godard’s nouvelle vague classic “Band of Outsiders” aiming to build a reel and take his career into his own hands.
Then, a few years ago, he sat through the longest plane ride of his life.
Tan had finished filming “Wu Assassins” and was on a flight to Japan when he heard that he’d lost out on the massive Marvel role he’d been reading for. “I was in a terrible state of mind for 12 hours straight,” he says. “Didn’t sleep, landed in Japan and was like, ‘I’m going to get off this plane and I’m never going to think about this again. I’m going to not only move forward, I’m going to move forward with more ferociousness.’”
Review: Mortal Kombat is bloody, stupid and fun for fans of the property
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By: Tom Santilli
and last updated 2021-04-23 08:43:35-04
(WXYZ) â Tom Santilli is a respected journalist and member of the Critics Choice Association, Detroit Film Critics Society and Online Film Critics Society since 2010. Tom is the Executive Producer and co-host of the syndicated TV show, Movie Show Plus, which has been on the air for 20+ years in the Metro-Detroit market and Mid-West. He is also the film critic for WXYZ-TV.