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
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
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As recently as 2009, a second sequel to Paul W.S Anderson’s “Mortal Kombat” (1995) was in the works at New Line. Where did it all go bung for an OG follow-up?
Distributor New Line Cinema and producer Threshold Entertainment had high hopes for a franchise, even signing star Robin Shou (Liu Kang) to a three-movie contract. But after the dismal performance of 1997’s “Mortal Kombat : Annihilation” at the box office, let alone the ugly reaction to the film itself from both critics and fans of the series (heck, even the game’s co-creator Ed Boon hated it), it was no longer a given the “victorious” original would spawn a second sequel.