Finish Him! Mortal Kombat 1995 vs. Mortal Kombat 2021 May 7, 2021
Mortal Kombat finally released in theaters and on HBO Max a few weeks ago, which means everyone and their mothers has watched the latest iteration of the popular video game and spent the last week either blasting it as the worst film
ever made or one of cinema’s great masterpieces.
My take? It’s an enjoyable action flick with a few decent fight scenes marred by some bad performances and dialogue. But who cares when “the chick gets her gut blown out, and you can see her spine,” as one of my friends so keenly pointed out via text message?
I hope Joshua Lawson s back is okay after carrying this entire film.
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Twenty six years after its first film adaptation, the new
Mortal Kombat dropped last week and I give it a big chef’s kiss . The gory ’90s video game coming to the big screen for the second time was exactly what I didn’t know I needed in 2021.
Directed by Simon McQuoid, the film is packed with the brutal and bloody violence you’d expect from a movie based on an R-rated video game with all the classic fight moves and memorable phrases “get over here” gave me actual goosebumps fans were hoping for. The movie had an astonishing cast, including Jessica McNamee (Sonya Blade), Joe Taslim (Sub Zero), and Hiroyuki Sanada (Scorpion), and new addition Lewis Tan (Cole Young). But out of the whole colourful team, my all-time favourite character was Kano, played by the goat himself,
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The text below contains SPOILERS!
In the plot of ‘Mortal Kombat’, Kung Lao (Max Huang) ends up being assassinated by Shang Tsung (Chin Han) when the villain invades the temple where the Champions of Earth trained for the tournament.
After breaking up with Nitara (Elissa Cadwell) in a bloody scene, Lao suffers the wrath of Tsung, who drains his life energy by uttering the classic line:
“Your soul is mine.”
In the history of the games, Kung Lao is also assassinated, but at the hands of Shao Kahn, and is resurrected by the witch Quan Chi, who transforms him into a vengeful spirit.
All-Female Mortal Kombat Spinoff Reportedly In Development
It’s fair to say
Mortal Kombat has been a big success for Warner Bros. Though critics haven’t been all that kind, fans have reacted positively to it and the video game adaptation has broken HBO Max records – it earned more views in just its first three days on the platform than
Godzilla vs. Kong did in five. So it seems like we can rest assured that the studio will continue the franchise. And their plans may extend past just a sequel, too.
Giant Freakin Robot is reporting that Warner Bros. is “currently thinking about” doing an all-female
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