Mortal Kombat

[Local Trouble]

I preferred the tone of the prologue.  Hiroyuki Sanada elevated the material to the point that I thought it might actually be played straight.

[SM]

So the rest of the flick isn't like that?  The opening looked decent - and not just 'decent for a video game movie'.

[Local Trouble]

It's as if halfway through Shane Black took over as director.

[Xenomrph]

Shane Black is a good director, when he has good material to work from.

[razeak]

A film that is like an interpretation of ADD. it's a wonderful mess, but like local said, the tone of the first 10 would have been preferable.

[Ingwar]

Christ, that was horrible experience. I lost nearly two hours of my life. Irredeemable.

As if Shang Tsung sucked out your soul?

I wish he did. At least I would be dead. Now I have to live with this experience till rest of my life. First Mortal Kombat is 26 years old and it's miles away better than this one. But I must say that cast is decent. Everything else is utterly horrible.

I need detox.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dz0YU0jJr4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFRmNVzYe20

[BigDaddyJohn]

Shane Black is a good director, when he has good material to work from.

But the material he worked from was his, he co-wrote it...

[Gentleman Death]

Maybe because I went in with no expectations but I really enjoyed it. Loved Kano and the fights were pretty decent.

They did try to squeeze in quite a few things which made it jumbled at times and some of the actors were questionable at their performances.....but I thought it still overcame its hiccups. I'd say it's worth a watch.

[ace3g]

I would have preferred more of a tournament environment and something we don't see in the MK movies are rounds between fights.  Not all fights have to go past Round 1 but it would be cool to see some cornering, strategy discussed.

Also as mentioned before but wasn't a big fan of the actor playing Shang Tsung.  His presence on screen wasn't threatening to me.

[Gentleman Death]

I would have preferred more of a tournament environment and something we don't see in the MK movies are rounds between fights.  Not all fights have to go past Round 1 but it would be cool to see some cornering, strategy discussed.

Also as mentioned before but wasn't a big fan of the actor playing Shang Tsung.  His presence on screen wasn't threatening to me.

Agreed. It wasn't until about halfway through that I realized there wasn't going to be the actual tournament and although I was a little bummed, I did like the overall approach as to why.

A time wise, I had issues with Lui Kang and Shang Tsung as well...but I can actually say I hope they do another and maybe improve on them.

[Xenomrph]

Shane Black is a good director, when he has good material to work from.

But the material he worked from was his, he co-wrote it...

That's my point, he didn't have good material to work from so the end result was mediocre.

He can also be a good writer (Lethal Weapon, the Long Kiss Goodnight, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Iron Man 3, The Nice Guys) so I don't know what happened with The Predator aside from studio meddling I guess?

[BigDaddyJohn]

To be fair I think Fred Dekker also has a fair amount of responsibility in this.

Anyways !

[KiramidHead]

I liked it, but a CGI stunt double would have been a better actor than Lewis Tan. And the whole chosen one thing is super weak, but at least they fixed most of the other major problems with the scripts.

[ace3g]

Also Jax is lucky

Spoiler

Spoiler

His arcana was metal arms...



Also Sonya quickly develops here arcana just in time to save Cole

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[Crazy Rich]

Didn't feel too strongly either way seeing the new movie, I just did it for the experience because my hyped brother didn't want to watch it alone and I didn't want to be mean.

I don't even play the games or anything so it's not like I had any stakes or expectations.