Mortal Kombat

Now that the dust has settled, was this a classic, kick-ass '90's kung-fu action flick, or an embarrassing failure?

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>classic, kick-ass '90's kung-fu action flick
This. I do remember being a bit disappointed when Sub zero got impaled with a stick of ice though. I had a friend tell me about this scene and I expected him to get basically cut in half by a plate of ice with jagged edges. So, to see him getting pierced by an icestick was underwhelming.

It was cheesy schlock even back in the 90s. But it was fun as hell! I wish they had put more effort into annihilation.

It's good if you're a kid, goofy if you're an adult. Back then it was pretty decent for its time, and considering how many video game movie failures there have been, it still holds up as one of the few successful ones... but it's still really bad from a story telling and visual standpoint. It's old though, so you can't really knock it too hard for that stuff, especially the latter.

In the end, I haven't seen it in probably 20 years, and I don't have any interest in watching it again, so that's pretty much where it stands for me.

the first thing. the embarrasing failure was the second movie

It's on Netflix now

>but it's still really bad from a story telling and visual standpoint
Visual in terms of cgi? Sure but if you're talking about set design then this movie was legitimately amazing for being shot in location like in Outworld.

It's as good as a fucking mortal kombat movie could ever be. It really should have been rated R.

well, the source material is what it is, you cant do more than a flick, although they could have worked more on character development and backstories. compare it to the mcu, the source maerial is outstanding, and so we get heroes that are really fleshed out characters, with interesting stories and dilemmas throughout. of course the writers knowing that they are working on a series of films could really express themselves and take simple comicbook heroes and have them in the final mpvies ponder existential themes like friendship, death, sacrifice. and with thanos they really brought in true philosophy. cinema has come a long way since the 90s, and action movies are a way to touch on multiple themes, hence their overwhelming success

yeah, I think the movie's just fine visually.

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