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DokBrowne [ 7.0 ]
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Well it would beat "Mortal Kombat Annihilation" in a tournament fight, at least. More distended than its immediate predecessor, and not as pure as the '95 "MK", but despite how many times I dozed off because my brain was comprehensively unengaged from start to finish (probably at least 20 times but each occasion was less than a minute long, I'm told), I'm still tickled by how gloriously old-fashioned this was - a big summer movie in the 2020s unafraid to have some cheesy fx and composite work (love it), lots of Asian martial arts fantasy visual cues, fight sequences that aren't that great at all despite being the selling point but at least most of the combatants are a colorful lot of garish makeup, CGI, hair styles, wacky voices and terrifically chintzy costumes. I'm not praising any of that ironically.
I do wonder if it wasn't actually the best idea to "give us" the tournament that everyone complained was missing from the first movie (everyone but me! I had no problem with how they kept contriving reasons to pit characters against each other in that first one), because it still feels like a bunch of random scenarios but now it's truly non-stop, fight after fight after fight and it gets tiresome. Yes, it's the only reason we're here, I don't know why this bugged me exactly. Maybe the movie was just too long. Paul W.S. Anderson's "Mortal Kombat" didn't have this problem imo.
Cast/character highlights: Karl Urban spoofing action movie stars, Josh Lawson as this new franchise iteration's comic relief fave Kano, Adeline Rudolph Kitana is a pretty decent new main protagonist (and Tati Gabrielle as her bff Jade may be even better). I thought Baraka (aka big toothy-mouth with arm-blade weapons) would be a scene stealer and the movie really pushes him as another comic relief but it gets old fast. And carrying over from the first movie, the three actors who play Sonya Blade, Liu Kang and Shang Tsung continue to be dull ciphers, sorry to say.
Not as creatively gory as the previous movie, though? Some nasty fatalities but fewer this time, if I'm remembering correctly.
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