New MORTAL KOMBAT Snags (Relatively) Massive Opening Weekend
Producer James Wan and director Sim McQuoid’s live-action reboot of MORTAL KOMBAT Snagged a Pretty Massive Opening Weekend Post-COVID. By Mike Sprague
Producer James Wan and director Sim McQuoid’s
Mortal Kombat is now in theaters and HBO Max. And it made a pretty massive amount of money at the box office, considering the last year.
TOP 5 DOMESTIC BOX OFFICE
1. MORTAL KOMBAT ($22M)
4. NOBODY ($1.8M)
5. RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON ($1.6M)
Domestically, this is the first time since the pandemic began that two films have grossed over $10M+ on the same weekend. Exhibitor Relations Co. (@ERCboxoffice) April 25, 2021
The new
Mortal Kombat movie is bad.
Sure, maybe you enjoyed it. Maybe it scratched a specific itch for you. Maybe it surpassed your low standards. But let’s be honest with ourselves here: it’s a bad movie, a misfire that somehow manages to ignore what makes its source material such goofy, compelling fun while also failing as an actual piece of cinema.
I’m not here to write a review of
Mortal Kombat. We already have one of those. I’m here to talk about the worst part of the new film, the element that ground my gears to dust and made it clear that this take on the obscenely violent and utterly ridiculous video game franchise didn’t understand the appeal of those games. This is an aspect that even Paul W.S. Anderson’s 1995 film – itself an imperfect, rubbery pile of nonsense – managed to get right. In other words: no excuses.
Mortal Kombat Movie Made Two Big Changes To Jax
While many of the lore changes in this year’s
Mortal Kombat movie are subtle to the extent that only hardcore fans are likely to spot them, others are considerably more overt in nature. The central role of Cole Young (Lewis Tan) belongs in the latter camp, of course, as do rewrites of several well-known character qualities. Jax, a close friend of Sonya Blade and fellow Special Forces operative, is perhaps the most obvious recipient of said quirks, with ScreenRant noting that the film changes “how he lost his arms and how they were replaced afterward.”
Apr 26, 2021
I just watched Mortal Kombat which came out on HBO Max. I have actually watched it 3 times now already and if you re wondering why, it s because I love Mortal Kombat. This movie might not have been technically the best movie ever but it definitely was dope for me. I have been playing Mortal Kombat since I was a kid, it was one of the first games I ever had and absolutely loved every minute of it. Scorpion is 100% my favorite character. Just need to put that out there.
So the movie starts with the origin story of Scorpion where he meets Sub Zero for the first time and Sub Zero kills his entire family. Bit of an a hole. From there we move onto Cole Young, the main character of the movie. He is a cage fighter who has the Mortal Kombat logo imprinted on his skin. This is not a birth mark, it is an invitation to Mortal Kombat. So eventually Cole gets to know Jax, Sonya Blade, Kano and some others who either have the dragon mark or are interested in the dragon mark. They dec
Apr 26, 2021
I just watched Mortal Kombat which came out on HBO Max. I have actually watched it 3 times now already and if you re wondering why, it s because I love Mortal Kombat. This movie might not have been technically the best movie ever but it definitely was dope for me. I have been playing Mortal Kombat since I was a kid, it was one of the first games I ever had and absolutely loved every minute of it. Scorpion is 100% my favorite character. Just need to put that out there.
So the movie starts with the origin story of Scorpion where he meets Sub Zero for the first time and Sub Zero kills his entire family. Bit of an a hole. From there we move onto Cole Young, the main character of the movie. He is a cage fighter who has the Mortal Kombat logo imprinted on his skin. This is not a birth mark, it is an invitation to Mortal Kombat. So eventually Cole gets to know Jax, Sonya Blade, Kano and some others who either have the dragon mark or are interested in the dragon mark. They dec