tOfficial Mortal Kombat (SPOILERS) discussion Thread

I can not believe they showed Scorpion's dong in the background

I agree w/ Shang Tsung. I also think Lu Kang was miscast too. Lu was just too scrawny and soft spoken to me. Also the actor for the Cole guy was pretty weak, but I can overlook all those things.

It was very entertaining and I hope the second movie involves the tournament aspect more. I loved the "Finishing Moves" integrated and the reference made when Lu Kang just kept sweeping Kano's feet and he said something like: "Do you have any other moves?" [I'd hate when you'd be playing the original games and some douche would just keep doing the leg sweep over and over like it was unstoppable]

I haven't played the video game in years so the only way I recognized some of the characters was from the viral video of Marshawn Lynch, Gronk and Conan playing one of the recent games.

I liked how they showed the Johnny cage movie poster and it suggest their will be a sequel and CAGE will be in this one

Seems like a lot of folks here loved it.

My son and I watched it today, had been looking forward to it.
We both thought it sucked overall

Kano was okay. Opening scene was great. Sonya was hot.

Cole was weak, and his whole subplot was a bit too sappy for this (oh look, there's his cute little girl sitting in the corner, yelling 'don't tap out daddy').

Some of the CGI was bad; I almost think Goro looked better in the 90's movie.

Can't quite put my finger on why it disappointed me... I think it just never committed. It had some camp, but didn't go as full-on camp as it could have. But if not campy, it should have gone more combat-oriented, and I really wasn't impressed with the fights at all, technically. I'm also watching Warrior on HBOMax, and this doesn't come anywhere near that show. Sonya does a spin move at one point, and the video cut to her landing is just obvious. They don't switch to a different angle, there's just a frame-jump and suddenly she's on one knee.

Remember how Star Wars threw in the chopped-off arm scene, to make it to PG? That's exactly what this film did. A couple of finishing moves have enough gore to make it R, otherwise it would be ok for TV without any cuts. Even the language isn't that much worse than you might see on network TV.

Was it fun to watch a new movie? Sure. But I don't see myself looking to rewatch this. I'd rather watch the old movies or the TV series.

I enjoyed it, it’s probably the best you can do to adapt mortal kombat to film. Sub zero was a total badass and they nailed him and scorpion down. I feel like Raiden was terribly cast. Some of the dialogue and acting was a tad cringe at times, especially around Cole and his wife. Really don’t see why we were introduced to him as a character and wasn’t impressed with his speciality.

Look forward to hopefully getting a sequel with Johnny Cage and some other characters.

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It really strikes me as on a par with the lesser JCVD movies, but without the same skill level on display. Nothing really makes you go 'wow, that was cool'.

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Would be awesome to get him as Johnny Cage in a sequel.

They didn’t really tell us what cole’s powers were once he got the gold suit. He got a couple of swords? He could have bought those on the street.

WAiting for the porn hub meme
Tsang sung sucks off kung lao

I guess the purpose of cole is to resurrect scorpion when coles blood touches the dagger. Hanzo is the only one that could take down sub zero. Scorpions blood line was crucial.
Now that sub zero was stopped, earths champions could survive until the tournament I guess?

Would have been way cooler of a moment had we not seen scorpion on the trailer fighting sub zero.

Anyways
We better get the tournament in part 2