Good evening, everyone! Sorry for being absent from movie reviewing for a couple weeks. I’ve just been crazy busy with other activities, and things like that. So yeah, great to be back again for another session. Today, in honor of the newer Mortal Kombat film being released, we are going to talk about the very one that came out in the 1990s, 1995, as a matter of fact. Based on the video game of the same name, the movie is Mortal Kombat.
Plot: When an evil sorcerer named Shang Tsung (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) from place called Outworld makes his plans to take over Earthrealm (basically Earth), three fighters named Sonya Blade, Johnny Cage, and Liu Kang (played by Bridgette Wilson, Linden Ashby, and Robin Shou attempt to challenge him, and his evil army in a tournament, known as Mortal Kombat. Will they be able to defeat Tsung, and his evil army, and prevent them from conquering, and destroying Earth once and for all?
Well, for a movie company like New Line Cinemas, or any other film company to make a film that’s based on a video game, they definitely did try as hard as possible to make this film good. Is this film great? Not quite. Well, there are some good things in this film, no doubt. First off, there is some really great action. When you watch this film, you can tell that the movie makers were paying close attention to nearly every detail of how the game worked, such as how the people move about, the way that people fight in the game, and things like that. George S. Clinton also does a cool job with the music. It’s interesting how he not only compare his score in this film, but also does this unique thing of incorporating things like rap music along the way too. It’s also fascinating to see how the world building of Mortal Kombat works, and how situations need to be handled from time to time.
However, while these are good things, the film is at least okay. Here’s the deal. There are the good things without a doubt. Still, the characters don’t seem to stand out all that much. Sure you care for them in a sense. Even so, the main characters seem to feel a little dull, and bland. Because of this, you don’t seem to care about them all that much. Yeah, the villain might be the closest thing to memorable, but that may be it. Oh, and there’s the CGI. Oh man, the CGI didn’t seem to age all that well. Sure, this film was released back in the 1990s. So yeah, that’s a good example of how technology didn’t seem to improve quite yet.
And that’s my review for 1995’s Mortal Kombat. It’s not a bad film per se. However, after you watch this film, you can likely tell that this film may have been somewhat ahead of it’s time. But hey, if this was one of the very first times for a movie to be based off a video game, besides the live-action Super Mario film, then I guess all the more reason to realize that you can’t get stories fully right the first time around, eh? And hey, at least other films that would be released later on that were based on video games would improve in story telling with films like Prince Of Persia: Sands Of Time, or movies like those. Well, still, this is a film that can be a fun watch if you want to watch even a decent action film On Demand.
Final Grade: C
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