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Mortal Kombat fans will have plenty of opportunities to shout, FINISH THEM! throughout the movie and in this R-rated adaptation, the fatalities are as gruesomely insane as you d hope but the last thing anyone will want when the credits roll is for this saga to be finished. Thankfully, the movie (which is in theaters and streaming HBO Max now) tees up more to come.
Review: Mortal Kombat fans get the blood-soaked movie they deserve
New treatment of video game property gets a hearty hey, at least they didn t screw it up
Adam Graham
As a slick, competently made piece of corporate intellectual property, the bloody, hyperviolent Mortal Kombat gets the job done.
If that description is overly mechanical, well, so is Mortal Kombat. Based on the hugely popular video game series, the film centers around a series of fights where the fate of the universe is at stake. A few decent jokes are cracked, the gruesome kills are appropriately over-the-top and it feels like the filmmakers have actually played Mortal Kombat, or at least talked to some people who have. For a Mortal Kombat movie, you could do a lot worse, and probably not too much better.
HBO Max's Mortal Kombat movie delivers on its promise of the video game's ultra-violence with gory fatalities and bloody dismemberments, but not much else.
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