Mortal Kombat (1995) - Awfully Good
April 27, 2021 by:
Stars: Robin Shou, Bridgette Wilson, Christopher Lambert
An actor, a federal agent, and a guy who actually knows how to fight are all called to participate in an interdimensional martial arts tournament that will decide the fate of the entire planet.
Note: If you’re looking for coverage of MORTAL KOMBAT: ANNIHILATION, undoubtedly the much, much, much worse movie in this series, I refer you to Jesse Shade’s excellent Awfully Good Movies video.
First things first: 1995’s MORTAL KOMBAT has probably the best theme song of any movie, video game or otherwise. More feature films need to have title tracks where someone just repeatedly screams the name of the movie. I defy you to think of a film in which this would not be amazing.
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation Was the First Fan-Service Blockbuster
very bad movie.
However, bad movies are often revealing. Part of this is down to their inherent artlessness. It’s easy to get swept up in a well-constructed film and to miss the larger designs at work within it. To use a familiar metaphor, filmmaking is like magic. The key to the construction of a good trick is that the audience never sees the wires. In contrast, with bad films, there’s nothing for the audience to do but stare at wires. There’s a bizarre honesty to misfires like
watching a story unfold on screen will always be different from
Every Mortal Kombat Movie Ranked From Worst To Best
Shaun Munro reviews every Mortal Kombat movie from worst to best…
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
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Last Action Hero - The UnPopular Opinion
April 1, 2021 by:
THE UNPOPULAR OPINION is an ongoing column featuring different takes on films that either the writer HATED, but that the majority of film fans LOVED, or that the writer LOVED, but that most others LOATHED. We re hoping this column will promote constructive and geek fueled discussion. Enjoy! SOME SPOILERS ENSUE
If you were past puberty in the 1990s, you were an Arnold Schwarzenegger fan. From his 1980s action epics
Raw Deal, The Terminator, Commando, Conan the Barbarian, Predator and more, Arnold owned Hollywood. Entering into the 1990s with
Total Recall, Kindergarten Cop, and