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thenitekrawler

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The first film took a game and toned it down to work for Hollywood; the second took the same game with an expanded story and made it into the most ridiculous movie of all time. Packed full of badly choreographed fight sequences, unnecessary...
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The first film took a game and toned it down to work for Hollywood; the second took the same game with an expanded story and made it into the most ridiculous movie of all time. Packed full of badly choreographed fight sequences, unnecessary scenes, bad costumes, and over acting, its still a must see film along with pulp fiction to explain the 1990's. This film should never be took seriously or seen as a part of the Mortal Kombat story. Its enjoyable to watch as a mortal kombat fan from a comedic point of view.

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Posted dec 23, 2007 5:09 am pt

Lynxan1

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Is this a good movie, no... do I hate this movie, nope. This movie realy does drop the ball after the far better showing before it. The fights are just adverage at best and it does get a feel wrong.

The movie for the most part...
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Is this a good movie, no... do I hate this movie, nope. This movie realy does drop the ball after the far better showing before it. The fights are just adverage at best and it does get a feel wrong.

The movie for the most part uses the story of the the third game (Don't blame them for skipping two, it was just the same as one, just in outworld, witch they went to in the first movie.) and just seems rather pointless. By the end you have to wonder if anything they do in the movie realy helped at all (outside of getting Jax, who just replaces Jonny since they let him just go off himself right off)

I mean Lu goes out to gain his Animality, witch fought horridly and was usless at the cost of nealy having Katanna killed. Sonya goes off to find Jax, somthing that would had not been needed if they had fought at the start with Jonny. In the end I'd say they realy just where weaker by the end, At the start they had 4 mortals and a thunder god ready to fight and the portals had just opened so that the world was not too harmed. By the time there 'Ready to fight' they are 5 mortals, no thunder god and, as said in the movie, most of the best fighters in the world are dead.

As much as I have griped this is as far below adverage as the first was above and it was such a shame as I'm sure somthing better could had been done with this.

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Posted nov 24, 2007 11:43 pm pt

kylehannah

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The storyline is not only ridiculous but makes no sense.Characters come out of nowhere and disappear as if never existing in the first place.The fight scenes are incredibly bad,cheesy,a mix between power rangers and 3 ninjas.The special effects...
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The storyline is not only ridiculous but makes no sense.Characters come out of nowhere and disappear as if never existing in the first place.The fight scenes are incredibly bad,cheesy,a mix between power rangers and 3 ninjas.The special effects are laughable and the acting is equivalent to a chimpanzee.This won't even please fanboys because it's nothing like the game.The script is worse than an elementary school play and the outfits look like halloween costumes.Bad everything from stage direction,to acting,to action Mortal Kombat is annihilated by this sad excuse for a sequel.

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Posted jul 25, 2007 9:26 am pt

iluvstv

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when i finished seeing this movie i was like omg what happened ? There's no real story line and a lot of it just doesn't make sense. If these people realy want to redeem themselves they should remake the second one so that it can actually tie in...
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when i finished seeing this movie i was like omg what happened ? There's no real story line and a lot of it just doesn't make sense. If these people realy want to redeem themselves they should remake the second one so that it can actually tie in with the third one that they want to make otherwise they are going to have to have some killer scenes and special effects

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Posted apr 10, 2007 9:57 am pt

John666666666

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Not only is this movie the worst video game movie ever made, it's one of the worst movies ever. I wasn't expecting it to be good or great, but I thought it would at least be entertaining like the first movie. Boy was I wrong, and I see their...
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Not only is this movie the worst video game movie ever made, it's one of the worst movies ever. I wasn't expecting it to be good or great, but I thought it would at least be entertaining like the first movie. Boy was I wrong, and I see their trying to make a third one. What the hell is the movie studio thinking, I guess they are pretty confident they can making a better movie than Annihilation which would be pretty easy to do.

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Posted mar 15, 2007 1:39 am pt

CarlosY2Jericho

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Do yourself a favour, don't ruin the awesome original Mortal Kombat movie by watching this piece of sorry crap. The Story is pathetic, Johnny Cage dies within the opening deconds of the movie (Yeah I spoiled it, so there's no need to watch it),...
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Do yourself a favour, don't ruin the awesome original Mortal Kombat movie by watching this piece of sorry crap. The Story is pathetic, Johnny Cage dies within the opening deconds of the movie (Yeah I spoiled it, so there's no need to watch it), Rayden's a fashion model who gets a haircut and asks Liu Kang if he's looking good, Shao Khan is really lame and nothing like what he appeared in the ending of MK1. The only two good things about this movie is Robin Show, Talisa Soto, the cheesy euro trance music and the brother of Sub-Zero, that's it.

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Posted jan 30, 2007 6:25 pm pt

YamataDragon

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Probably the best Mortal Kombat movie I have ever seen. The action is awesome and the fight scenes are so cool. A must see movie.

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Posted jan 24, 2007 10:33 am pt

• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  60
  But the most stimulating, satisfying aspect of this action fantasy is the theme music.

  by Lisa Alspector | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  50
  Its dazzling special effects make its combatants flip and fly, spin and soar, all the while punching and kicking each other like jackhammers, only to leave viewers utterly unmoved.

  by Peter Stack | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  30
  Pic consists largely of choppily edited fight scenes (usually involving somersaults and back flips) combined with various computer graphic effects.

  by Daniel M. Kimmel | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Daily News
  
  25
  It wastes no time getting to the punching, kicking, stomping and zapping that passes for a cinematic event. [22Nov1997 Pg. 35]

  by Jami Bernard | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  20
  This tedious hodgepodge of martial-arts mayhem, bogus mysticism and computer-generated special effects doesn't even pretend to have a plot.

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »
• [+] Empire
  
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  It would miss the point to complain that the plot is nonsensical drivel peopled by paper-thin characters and a paucity of ideas.

  by Ian Freer | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
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  Fragmented and monotonous, without a semblance of the gymnastic cleverness that at least made the first Mortal Kombat film into watchable trash, Mortal Kombat Annihilation is as debased as movies come.

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
  12
  This film has no story, no characters, and no coherence.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  10
  Here's the lowdown on the latest chapter in Mortal Kombat: deadly dull.

  by Lawrence Van Gelder | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  10
  The sequel is quite serious, charmless and critic-proof (in fact, it wasn't screened for the media), and it may attract the teenagers who have made the game so popular. [24Nov1997 Pg.10]

  by Bob Heisler | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
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  The movie is nothing more than a perpetual chain of elaborately choreographed (by returning star Robin Shou) fight sequences that mix live-action foregrounds with complexly layered digital effects and are linked together by the most flimsy and laughable of plot elements.

  by Marjorie Baumgarten | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
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  It's cynical and it's depressing, and I would lock a child in a room before I'd show him Mortal Kombat: Annihilation.

  by Hazel-Dawn Dumpert | Read Full Review »