True, also another fun fact. It's to this day the best and only original video game theme song made specifically for a video game movie and was even used in one of the video game trailers itself for MK X.
Fun Fact 2: The original motive for Scorpion and Subzero working together was written that they were friends. But members of the Test Audience didn't like how this didn't feel true to the lore, so the director had Shang Tsung say how they were "Deadliest of enemies, but slaves under my power."
I wonder how Sub Zero got into that position... 🤔 I mean, I get that Scorpion is under Shang Tsung's power cause he's clearly a wraith already but Sub Zero is alive, so how the hak does Shang Tsung gain power over BI-HAN?? Shouldn't he be wraith then therefore Noob Saibot instead of Sub Zero? Also, fun fact 3: Sub Zero and Scorpion are brothers now in the MK1...
@@nilesstark Oh, right I forgot abt that. Yeah, Sub Zero was basically an assassin back then so it makes sense that Shang's kinda 'hired' him cause he indeed had deals with the Lin Kuei... but yk i just got the impression that Shang Tsung meant like the sorcerer kind of power when he said that lol
The fight too! 🔥🔥💯 Also, I really like the moment when Reptile is awakening and we can hear "REPTILE" by Shao Kahn's voice like in the game... It makes me hyped for this fight even more lol
Christopher Lambert was having the time of his life in this role. I was so hyped when they got him, Linden Ashby, Bridgette Wilson and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa to reprise their roles in MK 11. Also, you'll recognize Bridgette Wilson from Billy Madison.
Kano was played by Trevor Goddard who sadly died in 2003. He was also a mercenary in another cult classic called Deep Rising with Treat Williams. Goddard's last cinematically released role was in Pirates Of The Caribbean, and his only line was "Say goodbye" to which Orlando Bloom replies "Goodbye". Edit: Robin Shou was an absolute weapon on this movie... he would judge how good his fight scenes were by how many of his own bones got broken, and would do takes repeatedly until he got injured... just to make the movie look better.
Yeah, he's the reason Kano is now Austrailian in the series. Originally Kano is I believe Chinese American. I heard he had killed himself when people found out he wasn't actually Austrailian, but looking it up; From what I found, he overdosed and his father revealed the truth after his death.
I love how his attitude is, "Sure, I want to help these mortals, but I'm cool with whatever happens as long as it's a good show." He's a god. Mortals are there for his amusement.
@@danielkeller1337 I think it's more of miscasting than him not having the acting skills. One of that actor (James Remar) most famous movies is The Warriors-a 1970s classic movie.
To answer Roxy’s question of “Where’s Johnny?” during the Liu Kang-Reptile fight scene, there’s a deleted scene where Johnny Cage was gonna help Liu Kang, but Kitana appears and told Johnny Cage not to interfere.
Only the true gamers from the 90s would notice that.i grew up playing street fighter mortal Kombat and even killer instinct. All 3 games were amazing but for some reason mortal Kombat was the most famous
I agree, the new Mortal Kombat was ok in its own right a handful of stuff I would have changed about it. It doesn't even feal like a movie to me it kind feels like these new style of mini series now a days
Imagine watching this in the theater that had the audio set so loud that you could feel your bones vibrate in your body when that intro music started. Maybe the most epic moment watching a movie experience I've had even if it wasn't the greatest movie I'd seen up to that point.
Put some respect on Linden Ashby. He played one of the best dads ever on Teen Wolf. He's also in Resident Evil 3 and bunch of other things. Certainly acted since then. He got a lead in action series and then went to Melrose Place off this though
yes i was looking for this comment i was hoping i wasnt the only one that remembers johnny cage also played one of the best dads in teen wolf and have to mention the other best dad JR Bourne
He also recently got back into martial arts. So apparently back when they made this, he was into it pretty strong, which would explain his casting. Then he fell out of it as he got older.
Roxy said she hasn't seen Evil Dead, so now we need to see her react to it. I'm assuming Tara hasn't seen it either, so the two of them would be great to do a first-time watch. Can't wait to see it.
Loved this movie when I was 6 years old! Been one of my favorites since! Brandon Lee, originally, was going to play either Liu Kang or Johnny Cage, but sadly this would never happen as Lee died of an accidental gunshot wound to the chest in 1993, a whole year before production for the movie started. Steven Spielberg, a huge fan of the video game, was going to have a Cameo in the movie as Cage's director, but he turned it down and a look alike was hired instead. Cameron Diaz was cast as Sonya Blade, but dropped out after she broke her wrist during training. Brigette Wilson was cast in the role.
@@damienlu7318This was made back when Mortal Kombat was still corny. Takes itself a bit too seriously these days. This movie is back when you'd do an explosive fatality and 28 spines would fall out of the sky.
When this movie came out, I was in 5th grade, and my parents didn't want to take me to the theater to see it. But about a year later, when I was in 6th grade, and my teenager cousin came over to babysit me. He brought the vhs and we watched it and then played mortal kombat on Sega the rest of the night. It was so much fun I'll never forget it.
Kinda the same, the difference is that it was my uncle(more like an older bro to me, only 9 years of age difference). I remember how I stayed that fateful day at his house and we played MK 3 on Sega. Uhhh... sweet memories.
Yes, the fans wanted a PG 13 version of a R rated bloody violent it game. It's a fun movie. They come close to nailing the violence. Some weak choreography in a movie that needs to excel at that too. Not everywhere. Just in some places.
@@popculturewatch8689 I see your point, and agree with it mostly. I'm the first to admit it was FAAAAAR from a perfect movie or adaptation 👍🏻🤣! But I believe that the (hard) PG13 was better than the poorly rendered CG blood filled R of the recent one. And I also believe most fan wanted fights, the characters they knew and loved, and an actual MK rather than the laughable "family drama" of the remake. And about the fights, yes they were not as spectacular (or bloody) as the one from the games (or the remake), but they did it MOSTLY practical, with the limitations of their budget and the SFX of the time (as far as I'm concerned, the puke inducing 'quality' of the SFX from the sequel proves that they did a good job with this one 😱🤣!!).
@jean-mi1825 this movie isn't bad at all. I quite love it. It's just also a sanitized version of the source material which makes it flawed. The choreography of today and some real violence matched with this template is all we need.
@@PollyHatesCrackas I’m going to honest I’ve never actually watched this movie I was born in 2005 I’m just saying what I’ve learned from watching videos on the movie
Liu Kang spamming a sweep attack is the most game accurate thing about this movie. I enjoyed this movie more than I thought I would. I can't wait for the sequel for that one meme alone.
Cary Tagawa {Shang Tsung) was so iconic as a voice and actor in this movie that after this movie, when Mortal Kombat released further sequels, they modeled him after Cary, he's been Shang for little over 2 decades now lol.
Linden Ashby (Johnny Cage) is great in the tv show Teen Wolf. I love that show and wish yall could react to it. Though the first season might seem like any other first season show, its not bad, but the show really kicks up well.
The Scorpion and Reptile fights were expanded on. Johnny was supposed to defeat Scorpion in the area with the trees then and there, and Liu Kang was supposed to kill Reptile immediately upon finding him. But they wanted more action, so they decided to let them have expansions in the fights.
Effortless timing light for now it might be considered cheesy butt back in the day that movie was what mortal Kombat 1 games were and it's way better than the version that's out right now that one was trash and why do I react Reseda same thing as cheesy as a comedy she has no idea what this movie is she probably is given to mortal Kombat fan she had no idea what the story was in the game or the movie
Fun fact: Kano was originally meant to be English. However, when the movie came out, everyone in the audience thought that the actor playing Kano was speaking with an Australian accent. The makers of Mortal Kombat simply decided to go with it, and Kano has been an Aussie from that point on.
Now this was the reaction I’ve been wanting!!!! I don’t care what anyone says, Mortal Kombat 95’ is a freakin classic and always a good watch! The music gets me hype every time and its in constant rotation on my gym playlist. Fingers crossed we get the 90’s TMNT next 🎉🎉🎉
Fun fact: Robin Shou, the actor who played Liu Kang, was a World Martial Arts Champion in real life. Another known martial artist was Hakim Alston and Chris Cassamassa, who were in an old TV show called WMAC Masters. Yes, these guys are old now 😅
I love Linden Ashby, the actor playing Johnny Cage. The Scorpion vs Johnny Cage fight is one of my favorite movie fights. Ashby never went on to become a major actor but he was in one of the Resident Evil movies and he played one of the main characters in Teen Wolf.
I'm not ssyin her opinion is wrong or not. valid or whatever but at the same at the same time. It's also coming from someone who has no idea about anything about the movie but I'm sure she probably thinks that any woke movie that's out there today is great and Barbie's the best movie ever being woke with a lot of man hate
This is 1995!... based on a computer game...jeez. what were you expecting Oscar wins? Also, at the time, I was 12, this was awesome. I remember watching street fighter and thought that was trash. Must watch it again!!
Yall are 30+ there is no way you grew up became what you are on the tube and never watched mk as a kid 😂 stop the lieing right now... i also just recently saw the sun for the first time ever. I never looked up before
This is still my favorite video game movie overall!! Love it, you can tell the guys who made this are MK fans. Long live MK man! Also, FYI the Johnny Cage nut punch is one of his signature moves from the game and inspired by Van Damme from Bloodsport (the whole point of Johnny Cage's concept) that wasn't in there for pure comedy purposes but I can see how normies would think that.😅 I can tell these two are a little lost because they're not familiar with the canon in the games....even in the games story fights were almost random at times, it's organized better than this movie but it's pretty much just fight after fight. Kitana was helping Earthrealm more specifically Liu Kang because she saw that he was good and strong enough to beat Shang Tsung, her realm of Edenia was taken over and merged with Outworld by Shao Kahn which she explains but I take it Roxy missed that part. Deep down she despises Shao Kahn and Shang Tsung. She was forcibly adopted by Shao Kahn and ordered to work with Shang Tsung. The reason why they couldn't do any brutal, gory fatalities is due to the time period catering to the younger demographic in the 90's compared to now. Christopher Lambert, Cary and Linden Ashby are in a lot of stuff. Liu Kang and Kitana really just started liking each other here they develop more in the next movie and as Roxy says "makey outey" lol in one scene they do almost kiss but get interrupted.
The remake and animated films are worth watching as well. The actress playing Sonya was also in Last Action Hero and Billy Madison. The director of this also directed Alien vs Predator and most of the Resident Evil films
They've recently just added Lambert, Ashby and Wilson-Sampras as skin choices to their MK11 characters(normal Sonya is voiced by Ronda Rousey, but if you pick the 1995 movie skin, she becomes voiced by Bridgette Wilson-Sampras.
Ok, this reaction was pretty hard to watch. Actually, to say it was a reaction is kind of stretching it a bit. It seemed more like a failed attempt at doing a MST3K knockoff. The humor attempts just fell really flat. You don't have to try and inject as much pop culture references and word play humor that it takes up 90% of the reaction. That isn't a reaction video. A reaction video is more like the recent reactions we got with the Judge Dredd and Dredd movies. They were honest reactions to what was happening with a sprinkling of humor thrown in at appropriate times. Also, you have to understand the type of movie you are watching. Trying to analyze the hell out of a 1990's fun action movie that was working to convince audiences that video game adaption movies could work, that isn't going to go into the prospect as a masterclass of movie making, just seems to be a jab at the movie for no reason. They knew who their target audience was and they went for it and it worked. If John was to do his own take on MST3K and not label it as a reaction, I can see that actually working, but trying to do the non-stop humor in a reaction video just doesn't hit the mark.
To answer her question on why Kitana wasn't killed.. She's the daughter of Shao Khan (big baddie at the end) who is the emperor of Outworld. Shang Tsung is not allowed to kill her because Shao Khan is his master. As for Raidens motivation he's just responsible for gathering earths best warriors to partake in the tournament. And being an Elder God he's forbidden to partake in the tournament personally.
20:20 Zero Signal by Fear Factory. Watching this in theaters back in day was quite the experience. All us teens and tweens were jumping around, yelling, cheering throughout the entire film. So much fun.
You guys forgot a lot of signature moves from each character. Johnny Cage infamouse split and groin punch is a special move, Soña's leg grab originally would throw opponent to the other side of the arena. Reptiles character, Lu Kangs speedy air kicks! I'm mad I never saw Kitana use her fans.
The best live action Street Fighter sequence is from a Jackie Chan movie called City Hunter. Jackie Chan dressed as Chun Li fighting people? I didn't know I wanted that but hell yeah!
I saw this movie on opening weekend with my brother and best friend Doug. The badass soundtrack which I still have on cassette is AMAZING. Awesome movie.
This movie came out when I was 9yrs old. My Father R.I.P. took me to see this and the sequel. The film was kind of aimed at fans who knew the lore from the first 3 games and MK Trilogy, as well as the comics. Unfortunately they relied too much on people knowing the lore which is why the story was a bit convoluted. Johnny and Sonya slowly developed a relationship through the lore where he was hell bent in rescuing her from the Emperor. Liu and Kitana where one of those will they won't they loves due to circumstances of their situations. These were ignored for the film to focus on the fights which worked against it. However to many young fans, including myself, we loved it when it released.
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I have a few I choose when I play but I would say my first favorite is Sub-Zero. Mostly, the "Kwai Liang" Sub-Zero, as anyone who's familiar with the MK series knows who I mean. This movie is the best Mortal Kombat movie to me.
But I mean if it was a comedy than every single line or every single moment of the movie would be a joke liar liar is a comedy this one is not any of those
My older brother and I saw it in theaters, I was 10. There were a handful of other people there. And as soon as that song kicked on in the beginning, we stood up and fucking raved 😅 a glorious movie going experience
What I loved about this movie is that the producer who was over this, ACTUALLY DID HIS HOMEWORK.... The fact that they teased actually GAMERS to MORTAL KOMBAT by showing you places in the movie from the game. Like THE PIT, or OUTWORLD, is why THIS MORTAL KOMBAT IS BETTER THAN THE NEWEST ONE....
This was a big deal for all the Mortal Kombat players back in the day. I saw this in the theaters and loved it. I think it came out after MK2 was already out. MK song was a big hit and sold a lot more CD's than they thought it would. People now it might say its cheesy and it is but unless you were there for this special time history....its hard to understand why we loved the movie. Hearing the name Mortal Kombat makes me feel like a kid playing in the arcade.
Every arcade, Walmart lobby had a mk or mk 2 machine filled with kids playing, everything mortal kombat was selling like crazy blood in mortal kombat genesis vs no blood mk on snes, was the single decision that turned Sega into the new king of home video games
@@petewillson205 LOL/ The blood in Sega was the only really good thing about having a Sega. Everyone hated the MK2 machines at the arcade because the computer was too hard to play against....expect there was a trick no one really knows about the MK2 machines. If you play on the player 2 side.....the machine wont throw you and lets you win most of the time.
@jimbo4423 true, but it was the death nail, Nintendo's only miss calculation, everything else was perfect for launch, sega a marketing machine sonic/sports/violence segz does what Nintendont
@@petewillson205 imagine if Nintendo allow for blood to be in the Mk games. Sega would have taken a big hit. Thats true.....Sega was a marketing machine. I think thats why it lasted as long as it did. I love Sega but if you're had to pick between a Nintendo or a Sega.....my brother always pick the wrong system....if it was between Nintendo or Sega Master system.....he picks Sega. PlayStation or Sega Saturn...he gets the Saturn. PlayStation or Atari Jaguar....he gets the Jaguar. I'm like "Whats wrong with you!?" I've always been for PlayStation guy but the truth is I never bought or owned any PlayStation. Lol
I think watching this as a kid and being a fan of the MK games, it elevated the movie for me. I still love it despite all the flaws. Such a cool, brainless, fun movie. One thing it did get right was the feel and vibe of the games.
Snuck into the theater to see this as a kid with my brother. I will NEVER not get hyped at the opening or "Reptile" intro with Liu Kang getting his ass handed to him through a wall.
Saw this in theaters to, being a massive MK fantatic. Also fun fact, Christopher Lambert's chuckle is iconic from every movie he does, including Highlander where he is mostly known for.
How have these pop/nerd culture "movie reviewers" not seen so many iconic movies? I get that sometimes you miss out on something, put they just keep putting out these "first time" reactions. I'm gonna call bullshit on these.
I fell personally attacked for this chick and her girlfriend from 2023 coming after my 1996 favorite memory movie bruh yall ain't worthy of this classic who questions anything in this movie
For all the Cheesyness and campiness, this movie is actually a pretty good video game adaptation. -It as some of the most important and recognisable charavters of the game. -The fights takes places in Decors that are pretty much the same as the stages in the game -Each fighter has his/her special move For people my generation who where Arcades addicts, this movie is an absolute gem. And it really made me feel something when they used the MK theme song in the trailers for MK11. (SHort story, even tho EVERYONE and their dogs associate MK with the theme song, Netherrealms studios actually din't had the rights for the Song, since it was made for the movie and not a part of the game. So evne tho they could use it, they had to pay for it if they ever did, to the dismay of fans, they never did. Till MK11 where they found an agreement with the studio to use a remixed version of it, wich had a PHENOMENAL impact on the game's visibility and sales. The game's and movie fans where waiting for 30 years, to finaly have their Titular theme song BE in their game)
Does John realise he can do a reaction without trying to crack a joke every 5 seconds. And the guy playing Johnny Cage has done a lot. He was even in Resident Evil 3 film and was a main star in the Teen Wolf series.
He doesn't joke that often . The way it's edited just makes it seem that way. Plus, reactions are meant for reactions, not watching people silently watch videos. John likes to joke in his commentary , and that's his style. He makes plenty of serious analysis as well.
@@ImAlsoMerobiba I don't expect him to be silent. It was juat the fact on this video it was a bit too much. I prefer it when we just gives his analysis and lets the jokes come naturally.
This movie will forever be one of my biggest guilty pleasures. As someone who loves Mortal Kombat to this day, it's just super great to see where so much of the iconic stuff that's still used in the games comes from this movie.
If you want to, check out the Mortal Kombat Legends animated films. Those include the gore that these live action movies lack from the games. The newest animated movie Cage Match will come out mid october
i saw this in the theater as a kid. It was the loudest movie i ever saw. When the title Mortal Kombat letters came into frame, the ping sounds were so loud it hurt my ears. A few of the theater seats were busted, so people sat in the aisle. love this movie.
I was the perfect Target Audience for this Movie when it came out. 18years and a massive Fighting Game Lover. Imagine sitting in the Theater and that "MORTAL KOMBAT!" hit. That Adrenaline Rush alone carried you through the whole Movie. 😂
don't care what anyone says this is one of the rare occasions where a video game movie with a serious and world ending circumstances without being over the top and staying at where it should be and it literally mortal kombat does it right in many ways.
The Actor who plays SCORPION 🦂 Is CHRIS CASAMASSA his entire family is has their karate school in LA, and one of their students was the late 😢 *RIP 🕯️ Jason David Frank 🕯️*
When I tell you guys I'm so happy for these oldie goodies you guys have been reacting to..!! Let's goo, I love this movie so so much.. Childhood fave absolutely.. You guys rule!!!
