Bad Bad Bad
Added 11/21/2009
This Movie is the worst of all, the games are fantastic but this movie is not worth a peany. They forgot what really is Mortal Kombat and is a game of alot of blood and vailence and this movie have nothing of it. What happend to the producer of this movie? I hope if they ever redo all of the mortal kombat films that they put them all R and not PG-13. Sorry for my english =)
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Six Days to Destroy the Earth...95 Minutes to Wreck a Movie
Added 10/29/2009
It's tough to find a new way to criticize a film like "Mortal Kombat: Annihilation", since enough burnt gaming fans and casuals viewers alike have already blasted it from hell to breakfast many times over. I need not say that this is one of the worst game adaptations ever put to celluloid, nor need I say that it is inferior to its prequel, the original Mortal Kombat, in just about every conceivable way. This is the kind of movie that makes ignorant critics look down on video games without even playing them. Let me go about this systematically...
The story: Picks up right where the prequel left off. Shao Kahn (Brian Thomspon, Cobra) invades Earthrealm with an army of minions to merge earth with Outworld. To defeat him and his generals, the remaining warriors of earth must embark on their own quests to gain the power within to defeat a seemingly undefeatable enemy.
There are a few things bugging the story written by Lawrence Kasanoff and Joshua Wexler, the most damning of which is the sheer amount of stuff they try to stuff into the script. For example, take the amount of characters lifted from the game: "Mortal Kombat" had twelve, whereas "Annihilation" features twenty-three. There simply isn't enough time in a 95-minute movie to give each of these guys a decent character, and it shows...most painfully in the fact that not all of them even get to fight. Characters that had at least some personality in the previous movie are dashed or simply killed off. It's so big of a mess that the quest of self-enlightenment the warriors go on remains essentially unfulfilled, since there is zilch character development. I really don't know why they win in the end...
Cast & acting: Sandra Hess ("General Hospital") replaces Bridgette Wilson as Sonya Blade and James Remar ("Dexter") replaces Christopher Lambert; the former is an improvement, the latter is catastrophic, since Lambert was one of the few truly likable guys in the first film and Remar gives a stunningly bland performance as the short-haired Thunder God. I have mixed feelings about the new cast: guys like ex-San Diego Charger Lynn Williams as Jax, Paul Litefoot (The Indian in the Cupboard) as Nightwolf, Musetta Vander ("The Cell") as Sindell, and my favorite B-movie baddie Brian Thompson as Shao Kahn certainly look their parts, but if anyone among them and the rest of the ensemble could ever act, they've forgot how to in here. There is absolutely no reprieve from the nonstop amateurish dramatics fueled by cornball dialogue and the fact that nobody is taking the film seriously.
Action: Of the nine martial arts encounters, only one of them is a decisively good fight (Rayden vs. the Raptors) and only one other fails to suck entirely (Sub-Zero vs. Scorpion). As far as I'm concerned, this is entirely unacceptable when you've got the likes of Robin Shou and Keithe Cooke on the choreography team, but through an abundance of pose-striking, slow-motion flipping/falling, and quick-cut editing, decent fights look cruddy and bad fights look awful. If this is the very first martial arts film you've ever seen, you might be able to excuse it out of ignorance, but what's here fails to hold its own against the solid match-ups of the original film.
Production: not unlike "Spawn" released in the same year, "Annihilation" falls victim to exploiting excess 3D animation that looked cool in its day but woefully outdated in a time of "Lord of the Rings" and Pixar. The original film is guilty of this, too, but "Annihilation" is off the charts: virtually every scene in the movie incorporates either weird lighting effect or some kind of three-dimensional being hopping around, and the climax of the film involves Shou and Thompson transforming into two embarrassingly fake-looking monsters. Again, this is forgivable if you've never seen 3D animation before...but let's face it, that makes you one of the few.
In the end, the film is palatable to the younger crowd (heck, I loved it nine years ago), but anybody who actually takes the time to read the text scrawls in the video games is going to feel like commiting a few Fatalities themselves. If you're an old fan, ignore this review, but if you've never seen this before, go back to the original film and be thankful for Paul Anderson's good days.
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Mortal Kombat 2 is as awesome as the first movie. this movie rocks. The Montaro Character is sweet in the film. i hope they make Mk3. this is a must see movie
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MK Anhilation review part 2 part 1 on mortal kombat I/mortal kombat II DVD reviews 5.5/10
Added 10/8/2009
Continuing, When Cage is killed. When Jax asks Sonya who Johnny is Sonya never responds. it's like the 1st movie didn't matter. James Remer is ok but not great like Chris Lambert's Raiden. Jax was ok & Kitana 1 of the characters with the strongest dialog from the 1st movie in this you don't care if she lives or dies. Is the movie God awful hë** no I can tell you it's half decent & it's watchable. 10-15 minutes of build up then 2-5 minutes of fight scenes the soundtrack is good again & the story somewhat follows the MK 3 storyline. So not a good sequel but it's watchable I got better things to say about Anhilation than the live action Street Fighter movies or that Double Dragon crap the Mario Movie. You know imagine if Uwe Boll directed this how bad it would have been plus John R Leonetti had no credibility as a director.
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Great movie
Added 6/1/2009
It is exactly as I remember from my childhood. I now have the series, but the question is, when are they going to make another one?
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Bad Bad Bad
Added 11/21/2009
This Movie is the worst of all, the games are fantastic but this movie is not worth a peany. They forgot what really is Mortal Kombat and is a game of alot of blood and vailence and this movie have nothing of it. What happend to the producer of this movie? I hope if they ever redo all of the mortal kombat films that they put them all R and not PG-13. Sorry for my english =)
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Six Days to Destroy the Earth...95 Minutes to Wreck a Movie
Added 10/29/2009
It's tough to find a new way to criticize a film like "Mortal Kombat: Annihilation", since enough burnt gaming fans and casuals viewers alike have already blasted it from hell to breakfast many times over. I need not say that this is one of the worst game adaptations ever put to celluloid, nor need I say that it is inferior to its prequel, the original Mortal Kombat, in just about every conceivable way. This is the kind of movie that makes ignorant critics look down on video games without even playing them. Let me go about this systematically...
The story: Picks up right where the prequel left off. Shao Kahn (Brian Thomspon, Cobra) invades Earthrealm with an army of minions to merge earth with Outworld. To defeat him and his generals, the remaining warriors of earth must embark on their own quests to gain the power within to defeat a seemingly undefeatable enemy.
There are a few things bugging the story written by Lawrence Kasanoff and Joshua Wexler, the most damning of which is the sheer amount of stuff they try to stuff into the script. For example, take the amount of characters lifted from the game: "Mortal Kombat" had twelve, whereas "Annihilation" features twenty-three. There simply isn't enough time in a 95-minute movie to give each of these guys a decent character, and it shows...most painfully in the fact that not all of them even get to fight. Characters that had at least some personality in the previous movie are dashed or simply killed off. It's so big of a mess that the quest of self-enlightenment the warriors go on remains essentially unfulfilled, since there is zilch character development. I really don't know why they win in the end...
Cast & acting: Sandra Hess ("General Hospital") replaces Bridgette Wilson as Sonya Blade and James Remar ("Dexter") replaces Christopher Lambert; the former is an improvement, the latter is catastrophic, since Lambert was one of the few truly likable guys in the first film and Remar gives a stunningly bland performance as the short-haired Thunder God. I have mixed feelings about the new cast: guys like ex-San Diego Charger Lynn Williams as Jax, Paul Litefoot (The Indian in the Cupboard) as Nightwolf, Musetta Vander ("The Cell") as Sindell, and my favorite B-movie baddie Brian Thompson as Shao Kahn certainly look their parts, but if anyone among them and the rest of the ensemble could ever act, they've forgot how to in here. There is absolutely no reprieve from the nonstop amateurish dramatics fueled by cornball dialogue and the fact that nobody is taking the film seriously.
Action: Of the nine martial arts encounters, only one of them is a decisively good fight (Rayden vs. the Raptors) and only one other fails to suck entirely (Sub-Zero vs. Scorpion). As far as I'm concerned, this is entirely unacceptable when you've got the likes of Robin Shou and Keithe Cooke on the choreography team, but through an abundance of pose-striking, slow-motion flipping/falling, and quick-cut editing, decent fights look cruddy and bad fights look awful. If this is the very first martial arts film you've ever seen, you might be able to excuse it out of ignorance, but what's here fails to hold its own against the solid match-ups of the original film.
Production: not unlike "Spawn" released in the same year, "Annihilation" falls victim to exploiting excess 3D animation that looked cool in its day but woefully outdated in a time of "Lord of the Rings" and Pixar. The original film is guilty of this, too, but "Annihilation" is off the charts: virtually every scene in the movie incorporates either weird lighting effect or some kind of three-dimensional being hopping around, and the climax of the film involves Shou and Thompson transforming into two embarrassingly fake-looking monsters. Again, this is forgivable if you've never seen 3D animation before...but let's face it, that makes you one of the few.
In the end, the film is palatable to the younger crowd (heck, I loved it nine years ago), but anybody who actually takes the time to read the text scrawls in the video games is going to feel like commiting a few Fatalities themselves. If you're an old fan, ignore this review, but if you've never seen this before, go back to the original film and be thankful for Paul Anderson's good days.
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Mortal Kombat 2 is as awesome as the first movie. this movie rocks. The Montaro Character is sweet in the film. i hope they make Mk3. this is a must see movie
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