Mortal Kombat (1995) - Movie REACTION!! 

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Aaron: Why'd he do that?! There's no one chas-- Eric: Aaron shut the f**k up!!! Rule #1: DON'T QUESTION 90s MOVIES!!!

Fun fact: they only hired Christopher Lambert to do a few talking scenes, no fighting, but he was so nice he wanted to hang around for the whole duration of the filming and help out and do extra stuff.

The actor that plays Shang Tsun is such a badass OG. And he's good in other films as well. He has one of the best scowls of any villain. I think it's universally agreed upon that he is one of the best parts of this movie.

I am like Eric. I saw this as a kid front row because it was so packed, with my brothers at a $1 theatre. The whole theatre was infinity war level hyped. It was amazing.

As much as love the casting of Liu Kang, Johnny Cage, Raiden, and Kitana; the absolute best in this movie is as Shang Tsung!!! He is one of the most charismatic villains in all of 90’s cinema.

"Those were $500 sunglasses, asshole" Best line in the whole movie

Eric has watched 3 seasons of Cobra Kai. He knows enough karate.

Eric: "I don't have four arms, but I can do karate!" Aaron: "I have forearms." Underrated joke.

Eric’s Tommy Wiseau comment gave Aaron flashbacks lol

Spielberg was suppose to be that cameo, as a huge Mortal Kombat fan, but ended up being busy, so they did just a reference to him

I honestly liked this Raiden. His wierd laugh gave his some character.

Yes, Aaron. That is Mortal Kombat's version of Hell. The real question is... how the shit did Cage get out of there?

Robin Shou, the perfect cast for Liu Kang

I hear people complain sometimes about the Reptile fight asking why Johnny didn’t help. To them I ask a simple question: Who do you think was playing that sick beat during the fight?

25:43 “why was there another door, inside the door that they walked in?” “Aaron, shut the fuck up!” Eric steady telling aaron in this video lmao

3:16 Can we talk about how perfect that scream was???

“Okay....now who feathered her hair”? One of the hardest laughs I’ve ever had watching a reaction. Thank you so much Eric.

Their reaction to this movie was pretty much Aaron: Wait a minute... Eric: Aaron, SHUT THE F*CK UP!

Aaron: "Why is there- " Eric: "Dude, shut the fuck up!" The entire reaction in a nutshell xD

Linden Ahsbey is one the biggest underrated actors of our time.

"AARON, SHUT THE FUCK UP!" Finally, the audience gets a voice.

I remember watching this in the theater with my dad and when Reptile was thrown into that statue and sound effects and music started to kick in and the announcer said, “Reptile!” I remember one dude shouted, “fuck yeah!” And the rest of the audience just had a ball. This first time experience was so much fun

I like how everyone is going back to this movie cuz of the 2021 movie

The "dance moves" during the opening song were hilarious

I like Aaron, always thought he was a funny guy, but I can’t deny I always think it’s funny when someone tells him to shut up.

Eric. You made this video. You've seen this movie a hundred times and you are STILL immersed as if its the first lol. Cheers.

Best fight...Scorpion vs Johnny Cage...all works so perfectly ! The choregraphy, soundtrack and area they fight ( maybe it's netherrealm)...Just amazing !! And of course he says GET OVER HERE !!!

"When I was a kid, those things looked SO REAL!" "Now? They look REAL bad!" LMAO Impossible to NOT love the techno funk Theme song!

In the original Mortal Kombat game Johnny Cage was modeled after Jean Claude Van Damme from Bloodsport. Raiden was based off of the lightning character in Big Trouble in Little China. So was Shang Tsung whos based on the villain Lo Pan from Big Trouble in Little China. And Liu Kang was modeled after Bruce Lee. So that's why Johnny Cage's move is the split and punch to the balls. Van damme did that move in Bloodsport.

i love the "reptile" when he transforms. right out of the game, so satisfying.

Linden Ashby, who played Johnny Cage, is an experienced martial artist and did a lot of his fights. I believe him and/or Robin Shou got injured during some stunts which can explain why in a few spots they used a stunt.

I love when the brother's ghost emerges to talk to Liu Kang, all the other ghosts are floating behind them going WHEEE!

Liu Kang saying, _"Le's go home."_ always has an accomplished feel good vibe for me. Such a fantastic movie! So many quotable lines in this movie: "Use the element which brings life." "Sub-Zero and Scorpion, the deadliest of enemies.. but slaves, under my control." "Save your pity for the WEAK!" "It has BEGUN!" and so many fucking more lmao.

This movie was legendary in it's time. The music, the corny fights, the special effects, all of it.

Haha Eric’s “shut the f**k up Aaron”, is just as good as the Big Lebowski’s, Walter saying “shut the f**k up Donny!” 🤣🤣

Actually they set the final battle up to have 3 separate parts or rounds. 1. The opening until Liu got the punch to the jaw on the lower level where he got the win 2. After Shang says "Your Mine" and he slammed Liu's face into the ground where he got the win 3. The 3rd round starts where Liu states he is the chosen one. If you watch he never takes a hit in that round so it was a flawless victory.

That Reptile fight theme music had me and my friends dancing in the theater when we were kids! 😂

I love how they knew the mk theme that they made was soo good that it's literally the first thing they show to the audience

My childhood movie. Looove the theme song 🎶🎵 And I had a crush on Johnny Cage 😘

You know the excited sound that Goku makes in DBZA? That just came out of my mouth haha

Other underrated thing in this movie, is the work of Kano's actor. He really set the standard for the character! Wish he could have more time

I laughed way too hard at the MP and the Holy Grail monks reference. Well done 👏🏻👏🏻

Aaron has some of the wittiest comments while also sounding like every 5-year-old watching a movie... "What's that? Why did he do that? Who's that guy?"

Johnny Cage vs Scorpion fight was awesome. The fight, music, setting, and Scorpion voice saying Get Over Here and Get Down Here

Man, if the studio hadn't forced them to leave all the gory goodness out of the movie, this could've been the perfect cinematic Mortal Kombat experience.

19:48 "Get over here! Give me an authograph, please?" Poor Scorpion.

"do you think they got someone that looks like Steven Spielberg?" Actually he was suppose to play a comical version of himself in that shot, but they could not get scedules to line up to make it happen, so they used someone that looked a little like him and the costume SS was going to wear in the movie.

Liu Kang says "Flawless Victory" in the final fight because the fight actually consisted of 3 rounds, Lou Kang won the 1st after making Shang Tsung bleed, Shang Tsung won the 2nd after knocking Liu Kang down and Liu wins the 3rd without getting hit throwing Shang Tsung through the stage

I saw this movie in theaters. I showed this to my daughter 2 yrs ago. She thought she was going to hate it, but loved so much. We can wait for the new one.

Anyone else want them to react to street fighter? Just to watch it with them.

How did I know I was going to hear "no one makes me bleed my own blood" as Shang wiped his lip. TELL ME HOW I KNEW?? 😆😆 So good.

Man, I saw this back when it came out with friends. Theater was Packed, everyone was clapping and yelling. The scene that had the most Pop was when Liu Kang fought Reptile. When he turned into the Ninja and it said Reptile, everyone stood up and yelled. Then Liu Kang did the Bicyle Kick and everyone went nuts!!! The Music was so Good! Ah, Those were the Days!!!

I hate how people say there’s never been a good video game movie, this movies amazing

This is an amazing movie, I highlight the performances of Robin Shou as Liu Kang, Linden Ahsbey as Johnny Cage, Christopher Lambert as Raiden and of course Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Shang Tsung.

Next we HAVE to see you react to annihilation, it would be devastating to leave it incomplete!

“What is that?” “SHUT UP!”

My favourite part of this movie is the reptile fight, since he was a hidden character you had to do a bunch of random stuff to fight, so they had Liu Kang do some random stuff then fight him, its probably the most game accurate part of the movie lmao

Calvin - *I like Ryu.* Me - *U F00L.!* 🤣

The Jay and Silent Bob bit on the Cage vs Scorpion fight. 😂

We need some classic kung-fu movies or like Rumble in the Bronx or anything of that nature on a poll sometime!! I’ll definitely vote for that!

17:36 My man asked "Is that a body?" in a room of bodies and the Jay reference. I can't even LMAO

The soundtrack for this movie was literally the first CD I bought as a kid

Some of the best casting in any movie!!

Robin Shou is amazing, he's in a movie with Donnie Yen called Tiger Cage 2 and they both had 1 of the best fight scenes of the 90s.

18:07 The stuntman's shins were actually f**ked up after that.

Best line: “this is where you fall down” 25:15

By being a lucky one who already saw new "Mortal Kombat" I can guarantee that they will like it

36:00 that theme song was made before this movie. For video game soundtrack

After watching Dead Meat's video on MK, I just found out that the 2 of the best scenes (Scorpion vs Johnny and Liu vs Reptile) were RESHOOTS that were added because test audiences wanted more action sequences. Imagine seeing the original cut with those two scenes missing!

That director looks like Spielberg, because originally it was going to be Steven Spielberg in the movie.

I’ve seen this movie at least 15 times. I used to also record the entire movie with my flip video camera in 480p. Epic childhood

Scorpion vs Cage fight is the best one in the movie. Sonya actress later married Pete Sampras, damm haha. Line delivery from Shang Tsung is incredible. I hope at least Robin Shou makes a cameo in the new movie, but I think that won't happen.

Aaron: "Why-" Eric: *"Shut up!"*

anyone else find it odd that johnny cage had the toughest fights outside of the final battle of the movie? dude had scorpion and goro lol

That "Halcyon On and On" song must have been huge back then because I swear I also heard it in Hackers (1995).

I don’t think it matters how good the new one is, I suspect the original will always be the more loved of the two.

Here’s a tragic fact: There has yet to be a single adaptation where Liu Kang Defeats Goro one-on-one. Let’s run through shall we? The first movie: It’s Johnny Cage that defeats Goro. The live action legacy series: Apparently they cut out Goro for budget reason when depicting the first tournament. The animated Scorpion’s revenge movie: It’s the title character that deals the killing blow(all the while Liu was getting his ass handed to him) The new upcoming movie: The verdict it still out but it’s probably gonna be Cole Young. I’ll edit this comment if I’m wrong. Still assuming I’m wrong about the newest installment It’s bad it took over 25 years for Liu Kang who is the main hero of the franchise to achieve one of his most important victories in the video games(even gets rag dolled in the Scorpion’s revenge), even ONCE is just plain sad.

This is one of my 90's childhood favorites and I for sure played the old video game back then.

this movie was so damn good lol, i miss the 90s. simple times when everything would impress us. Now everybody is a snob when it comes to movies.

This was freaking awesome! This brought back so many memories that I was smiling the whole time! I love this movie!

Speaking of Paul WS Anderson, the guy who played Johnny Cage, Linden Ashby here was in Resident Evil Extinction. And I just found out that Linden does the vocal performance for Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat XI. Great to see both he and Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa reprised their roles as Johnny Cage and Shang Tsung, respectively. Bridgette Wilson's martial arts moves looked more convincing in the brawl with the masked thugs than the fight with Kano.

I’ve probably watched/ listened to this reaction 50 or so times. I love this film and it’s awesome to share the experience with awesome dudes like you guys. Thanks for everything you do

I love how hyped Eric was throughout the reaction. Reminded me of how I felt the first time I watched this movie when it came out back in 1995 in theaters.

Love this reaction guys. Never seen Aaron and Eric so damn joyful 😁

26:07 the Best fight scene of the entire movie

Holy shiitake mushroom is feels like CHRISTMASS THIS MORNING !!!!!!!!!!!😄😄😄😄😄😄 man this upload made my day. Couldn't help but to jam at every music transition scene with Eric and Aaron 😂 man this movie aged SO WELLLLLLL holy he'll!!!

I had a big smiles the whole time and got chills everytime the song started. I can't wait for the new movie.

Eric’s reactions to this movie are amazing

This movie is my childhood.

Eric: I'm about blow out your left speaker.

AYE!!! Liden Ashby really killed it as Johnny Cage, and the intro never failed to hype us up!

Found myself enjoying the movie in a new light with this reaction 😅😂

26:08 i love this song too, the sound effects & shouting noises go with the music! It's so f'n cool! (From a nostalgic pov, as well as the execution of this movie, i have to say i think it's pretty well done on almost all fronts especially for its time, besides story, but even the story is "something" compared to the game & it is just simple enough to get by imo, for a fun action flick)

The 2 best laughs in the movie industry for me. Eddie Murphy and Christoph Lambert.

I love that the modern Mortal Kombat games use the actor for Shang Tsung from this movie as the character now. He is both the model and the voice for current Shang Tsung and he still nails it.

Paul WS Anderson has some really good stuff if you dig into his early work, MK being one I always had a soft spot for. Event Horizon is still one of my favorite movies, the absolute best sci-fi space horror ever made. Soldier with Kurt Russel is also pretty enjoyable.

I've recently re-watched this and Annihilation. These effects were good, story executed well on a 18 million budget. Annihilation had 30 million and wasted it trying to throw in every character and a lot more fights that the effects and story really suffered. Should have did less and save animality for a later movie.

That was actually going to be Spielberg as the director. He wanted to do it but was busy so they got someone who looked like him 👍🏻

Eric’s enthusiasm is ridiculous. I wish I could watch movies with this group. Love their comments and reactions.