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.
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Mortal Kombatis still being talked about following its highly anticipated release. One of the film’s stars is already envisioning the future for his character.
Beware, spoliers ahead.
Whether you liked it or not,
Mortal Kombat was a success for HBO Max and at the box office and will likely spawn sequel films. Indonesian actor and renowned martial artist Joe Taslim who did what he had to do as everyone’s favorite cryomancer assassin Sub-Zero has plans for his character that he hopes will come to light in future films.
Speaking with
The Hollywood Reporter, Taslim revealed that he hopes to play Bi-Han (Sub-Zero’s real name) again in a prequel and a subsequent sequel. Now, for those who have seen the movie, Sub-Zero was turned into a sweltering pile of ash…literally, by Scorpion (Hiroyuki Sanada) with the help of his distant ancestor and newbie to the franchise Cole Young (Lewis Tan). In
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If the so-called “video game movie curse” has yet to be broken in earnest with a truly great movie adaptation, recent years have at least seen Hollywood making a more concerted effort to show these IP the respect they deserve.
The latest attempt to translate a hit video game to the cinematic medium is the long-gestating
Mortal Kombat – a table-clearing reboot following two live-action predecessors released in 1995 and 1997, and a standalone animated film from last year.
While few would call any one of the four films
Maybe.
Based on the monumentally successful video game franchise and essentially wiping clean the events of the 1995 “Mortal Kombat” movie and the 1997 sequel, this blood-spattered, hard-R fantasy adventure is a fresh start in what is clearly intended to be a new series of films. (The ending even spells out certain details about the next adventure.)
Lewis Tan as Cole Young in “Mortal Kombat.” (Mark Rogers/Warner Bros. Pictures)
It’s a good-looking film with impressive special effects and some darkly funny kill scenes, but story lines and dialogue that might work in a participatory video game experience often come across as ridiculous and convoluted when we’re just sitting back and soaking it in. Nor does it help matters that the aforementioned new character, a former MMA champion named Cole Young (Lewis Tan), who has yet to realize he’s the latest in a very long line of noble warriors, is earnest and drab and not nearly as interesting as just about every supporting c
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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.