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Storyline :
MMA fighter Cole Young seeks out
Earth’s greatest champions in order to stand against the enemies of Outworld in
a high stakes battle for the universe. MMA fighter Cole Young (Lewis Tan),
accustomed to taking a beating for money, is unaware of his heritage-or why
Outworld’s Emperor Shang Tsung (Chin Han) has sent his best warrior, Sub-Zero
(Joe Taslim), an otherworldly Cryomancer, to hunt Cole down. Fearing for his
family’s safety, Cole goes in search of Sonya Blade (Jessica McNamee) at the
direction of Jax (Mehcad Brooks), a Special Forces Major who bears the same
strange dragon marking Cole was born with.
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Soon, he finds himself at the
temple of Lord Raiden (Tadanobu Asano), an Elder God and the protector of Earth realm,
who grants sanctuary to those who bear the mark. Here, Cole trains with
experienced warriors Liu Kang (Ludi Lin), Kung Lao (Max Huang), and rogue
mercenary Kano (Josh Lawson), as he prepares to stand with Earth’s greatest
champions against the enemies of Outworld in a high stakes battle for the
universe. But will Cole be pushed hard enough to unlock his Arcana, the immense
power from within his soul.
About The Movie :
The expression “a video-game movie” has become the sci-fi, action movie is really amazing. For good reason too, as films that use video-games as their
source material almost invariably turn out to be, at best, substandard.As part of a two-hour
movie though, the action scene only arrives after an hour and a half of some
really mind-numbing filmmaking. It’s a nonsense movie with nonsense characters,
even in the rare moments when it’s visually comprehensible. None of that would
really matter if the series’ raison d'etre was handled with finesse, but sadly,
the biggest sin committed by Mortal Kombat 2021 is that its
action is uninteresting.
Something seems off from the get-go. In modern-day, we’re introduced to a brand new character created for the film, Cole Young (Lewis Tan), an audience point-of-view avatar to bring us into this world of inter-dimensional martial arts. Young, a husband and father, is a down-on-his-luck cage fighter who agrees to bouts for measly pay, until he’s suddenly roped up in all the tournament shenanigans by existing franchise mainstays like Sonya Blade (Jessica McNamee) and the robot-armed Jax (Mehcad Brooks), who already know the ins and outs of the lore. Young is an outsider to the proceedings, and Tan plays him with a Keanu-esque mix of confusion and sincerity no matter the occasion. He’s a fairly likeable presence — but he’s also completely unnecessary, for one key reason: Who, in the year of our lord 2021, needs to be introduced to Mortal Kombat like it’s a novel or complicated concept?
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Sub-Zero was tasked by Shang Tsung, the
sorcerer ruler of Outworld, to kill all the earth’s warriors before Mortal
Kombat can take place. It’s not allowed, but when have evil men followed rules?
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Being inspired from a fighting game, Mortal Kombat offers an abundance of richly designed and performed action scenes, and in that sense it is a pretty good martial arts movie. It doesn’t hurt that many actors including Lewis Tan, Joe Taslim and Hiroyuki Sanada are action heroes and, it shows. Real stunts are well complemented with visual effects and CGI. This movie is certainly going to be remembered for years.
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Justice is done to each and every character and that will make the fans happy. The iconic rivalry between Sub-Zero and Scorpion Taslim and Sanada are both eerily credible in the role is done really well.
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What kind of movie is it, then? Well,
it’s one where chase scenes and characters moving from place to place feel like
long stretches of nothing, but it’s also one where at least a couple of the
actors seem to be aware of how silly the whole thing is. Ludi Lin plays the
fireball wielding Liu Kang, who guides the likes of Young and Blade into a training
temple. His every move feels like classical dance, even if he’s just pointing
at a door. Max Huang plays Kang’s cousin Kung Lao, a prestigious fighter who
wears an enormous hat with bladed edges. Anytime Kung Lao is on screen, the
film takes itself seriously, and Huang seems to lean into it,
delivering every line like it’s a lofty speech from The Lord of the
Rings, even though what he’s sayings sounds like it could be trivia
from Mortal Kombat. Someone seems to have told Lin and Huang they were
starring in a Mortal Kombat parody, and honestly, it works wonders.
So, that’s it. Mortal Kombat delivers for the most part. It is easily one of the best video-game movies ever made. Especially if you are a fan, this film is going to be an entertaining vacation to Nostalgialand. As Scorpion would say, get over here!