Browsing the reviews on this site i was surprised to see so many, indeed, ANY good reviews of this film. Admittedly I've seen worse films in my opinion but I couldn't really see anything that anybody would like here...
Mortal Kombat is little more than a series or apparently unrelated fights which, whilst well choreographed, add nothing to story, character or... well... anything. The concept of the "tournament" was good but the fact that you couldn't tell which fights were part of the tournament and which occurred just because people wanted to kill each other kind of took away any motivation from the fighting. Also, i watched another action film after this, and I found that once the fist fighting started, I was incredibly sick of just watching people hit each other.
I'm all for dumbed-down entertainment, but there's such a thing as dumbing it down too far, and here is the evidence. There's not really anything good about this film except for the opening music, and that doesn't make up for the following hour and a half.
Mortal Kombat is little more than a series or apparently unrelated fights which, whilst well choreographed, add nothing to story, character or... well... anything. The concept of the "tournament" was good but the fact that you couldn't tell which fights were part of the tournament and which occurred just because people wanted to kill each other kind of took away any motivation from the fighting. Also, i watched another action film after this, and I found that once the fist fighting started, I was incredibly sick of just watching people hit each other.
I'm all for dumbed-down entertainment, but there's such a thing as dumbing it down too far, and here is the evidence. There's not really anything good about this film except for the opening music, and that doesn't make up for the following hour and a half.