Mortal Kombat Annihilation Reaction 

My thoughts on this movie as a whole: “Too bad… YOU WILL DIE!!!”

The moment you realize that the only thing that can defeat Liu Kang is the Cameraman🤣

This is one of my favorite guilty pleasure movies. It's just so ridiculously bad it circles back around to amazing 😂

I can’t believe “bearded dude in dark robe” was supposed to be Shinnok. Not only is Shinnok NOT Raiden and Shao Kahn’s father in any other continuity, he’s also supposed to be TRAPPED IN THE NETHERREALM BY HIS FELLOW ELDER GODS FOR REBELLING AND TRYING TO KILL EVERYONE if MKX and the Classic continuity is anything to go by.

Smoke came to collect the Party City bill, but Scorpion ran away with the down payment. “SUCKERRRRRRRRRRS!!!”

Back when I saw this as a kid, I freaking LOVED it and it took me YEARS before I could comprehend why everyone said it was trash lol. I mean, I get it now. I do. But I just don't care lol. I freaking love this movie lmao. The writing is awful. The effects are generally pretty ridiculous even for the 90's. Most the actors are NOT putting out their finest showcasing of their talents, lol. And boy, were there some choices made lol. But I don't even give a crap lol. This movie is a legend in my heart, not just in spite of its shortcomings but made all the more dear because of them lol. And say what you will about so many of the less-inspiring costume design choices...some of these characters looked beyond dope for the time. Nightwolf was actually pretty sellable as the character, Cyrax and Smoke looked like they were lifted straight from the games (not saying a lot given the games at the time but still!), and Ermac while underutilized had a better costume/look than he does in MK1 lol. Even Sindel, while she looks like she just got out of shooting a soap opera, has a pretty sick costume (for the 90s lol). I just don't have it in my heart to harbor any hate for this movie lol. It makes me happy every time it swims back into my awareness, and seeing you guys watch it for the first time was a real treat for me! :)

Oof... Definitely remember this movie and it was just like... Yeah it was definitely a movie lol

Sindel: go meet new people Kitana Kitana: too bad…. I’m too shy!

20:22 i forgot that scene where baraka gets kicked into the fire pit, they reused the rain fall scene instead lol

This was a terrible sequel objectively, but subjectively if u turn off ur brain and let the cheesiness flow over u, u can still have a good time with it if u look at it thru the lense of it's so bad it's good lol

This was... one of the movies of all time

So yeah, for some reason they made Shao Kahn and Raiden brothers, and made Shinnok their dad.

This movie is why Paul W.S. Anderson. Never left the resident evil movies. He said he would always finish a franchise he started directing.

I remember getting the soundtrack for this movie when it came out. It was amazing

They were actually originally planning to do three Mortal Kombat movies but this one did so badly the thrid was cancelled. Probably would have been an attempt to adapt the fourth game, which would have been the latest game at the time. There actually wasn't much story for the setting or characters at the time the movies were made so they used both to experiment with ideas. Though clearly the first movies ideas were more accepted you can still see a lot of ideas they'd implement later on in this movie. Shao Khan being a godlike being started here, though being related to Raiden and Shinnok wasn't carried over. Kabal and Stryker being together would carry over to them being partners in MK9. You can see they were toying around with the idea of there being a twist with Sindel all thew way back here. Johnny's death happened in the games at the time, though there it's suggested it was Motaro that did it, and was the result of the creators being pissed at the actor who played Johnny in the first two games. The actor did a commercial for a rival game in full Johnny costume and MKs creators were so mad they killed Johnny off in MK3. the first movie's take on the character made them decide to bring him back as a funny character but it wasn't until Armeggedon/MK9 that they really started taking him seriously as a character again. Ermac randomly spraying out Noob Saibot in the final battle happened because Noob didn't actually have a backstory at the time, he was just a secret character that existed with no story. It wasn't until MK Deception that he was revealed to be an undead Bi-Han and gained a personality. So at the time him being one of Ermac's souls was plausible. Sheeva was originally supposed to fight Raiden when they run into Sindel but they had wasted too much of the budget elsewhere and couldn't afford to properly animate her, which is why Raiden instead fights the reptile ninjas and Sheeva is killed without a fight. It still bugs me to this day that they didn't have Jade and Mileena's roles switched. It makes FAR more sense for Mileena to be the mole in the hero group than Jade.

I love the mortal kombat movies

So far from what I gathered Johnny Cages Actor Linden Ashby was the only one who didnt like the script and didn't return, Brigitte Wilson went to film I know what you did last summer, so probably scheduling conflicts as well as christopher lambert but later said the script was poor

Well, you just have to watch the animated films of the "Mortal Kombat Legends" series sometime. The fourth one should be coming out soon.

This movie is such a guilty pleasure of mine. I love it lol. Is there any chance you'd watch the tv show Conquest? It was shot shortly after this. That'd be a fun watch seeing you guys react to it. Its only 1 season long.

What sucks is that the first one did well, but then some numpty/numpties decided to give this sequel less budget and very little time for the whole production.

Let the cringe begin god i love this movie ☺️

Shao Kahn's father is listed as Shinnok in this film. Yes, that threatening guy from the games has been turned into a grumbling man in a hoodie, who for some reason is still the wind god instead of Fujin.

"Raiden is Eminem now!" - nice punchline 🤣 On the one hand, terrifying (in a bad way🙂) the film turned the filmmakers away from "dubious game adaptations for screen" for quite a long time. This is later, we will wait for 2002, the same director, but with a different game franchise (yes, Resident Evil 😉) On the other hand, this part has contributed to the development of both the film industry and the gaming industry... at least - how not to do😄 In particular, it became quite clear that it is not enough to just take and stuff a bunch of familiar characters into the film on the principle of "fans will understand it anyway." Alas, but to this day a similar principle is used in many film adaptations...

Ok, I confess: this is one of my guilty pleasures, lol. I know the film is problematic, but it arrived at a good part of my adolescence, where I just wanted to see some fights. It is worth mentioning that it had a troubled production, so much so that it was finished in a hurry, damaging the editing and visual effects, not to mention the several reshoots that took place (in one of them, including, Sub-Zero has more scenes and Johnny Cage gets to be resurrected at the end). Well, it looks like we would have a good film, if there weren't any problems behind the cameras. Despite the disaster, there were plans for a new sequel called "Mortal Kombat: Devastation", but unlike its predecessor, it would be better produced and would reunite the original cast of the first film. Too bad it didn't happen.

*I saw this movie in the theatres as a child! The opening made me believe this was gonna be the greatest movie ever and boy was I let down. I should've known by Raiden and Shao's opening dialogue and flips* 😂

Bethany and ken shinnok is a elder god who wants to destroy everything

"Maybe Outworld doesn't good race relations right now." Me: "Earthrealm's never had it 😂."

Oh no I can't wait for both of your reaction to this movie, its so bad that it's almost good, can't wait and now on to watching

This movie was my JAM as a kid in the early-2000s watching it air on, I think, the Sci-Fi Channel? Anywhosits, I watched and liked y'all reaction to the first movie, I'll definitely watch this later when I get the time. 👀

You might not have noticed, but when Lu kicks Baraka in the fire pit; they used the footage of Rain being hit into the fire pit by Shao Kahn.

Back when I was in an elementary school it was a banger for me. Nowdays I dont wanna talk about it :D

There needs to be a new category in the MK games called a “cringetality” and have it be forcing the characters to watch this movie 😂

WHY YT, I have the bell clicked for a reason! How did I miss this upload? Love it! Keep it up you beautiful people.

I also love how Kahn's cape teleported itself back onto him after he threw it off...when Motaro rips off Jax's strength enhancer, and Kahn shouts "Yes!", his cape has returned to him. Lol

Aah yes the movie that killed the live action movies

At that time Game didn't have that much lore, so movie decides to insert lore from their ass like Raiden is brother of Shao Kahn and Son of a Elder God. Back when Johnny Cage wasn't consider to be that big of a character. And how tf Sonya (By herself) defeated Ermac, Jax (By himself) defeated Motaro and Kitana (By herself) defeated Sindel? Only logical battle and conclusion was between Shao Kahn and Liu Kang

You guys should watch the 2021 reboot. Also the Legends trilogy are awesome. Scorpion's Revenge. Battle of the Realms. And Snow Blind.

Yall, keep the great vids coming in both channels. I've had a rough go the last few years but I can count on you 2 to release great content to keep me smiling ❤

Fun fact “ the scene where Liu Kang did the Spinning Kick against Baraka the stunt double who does the Kick was Tony Jaa… “ found out about that from Readers Digest

"Ooh! They're breakdance fighting! That Hansel is so hot right now..."

Love this movie, all the sheep hate it gets is dumb. Both the original movies are good.

Out of curiosity are you guys going to react to Mk Conquest, the tv show that came on between the two movies, it's got some camp to it but it's definitely a grade higher then Annihilation

So there are videos of the cutscenes from the Mortal Kombat games and they are like 3 hours long and the games continue from where the last one ended. Not sure when this started tho, wanna MK 8 or 9

Mortal Kombat Defenders of the Realm is all on youtube. It has Ron Perlman as Stryker

This and Batman & Robin are 2 perfect examples of "so bad it's good" movies.

At 19:09 too answer your question Bethany the old dude in the black robe is supposed to be shinnok it's a bad adaptation of shinnok in my opinion 🤦

Yo this movie was awesome I love this one and the first movie Liu Kang is my boy I was sad that Johnny cage had to die in the first beginning of this movie

Shao Khan is played by one of the thugs from the beginning of Terminator.

Don't know if it is tru but heard that fights from this movie and the street fighter movie with van Damme, were cut due to budget or lack there of. Sheena had a better defeat so did most others but yeah that budget

You both are funny as hell LoL 😂🤣

Yay i was waiting for this my day is now complete flawless victory ken and Bethany 😈

Even when I was in elementary school I was like what piece of sh** lol

Also according to the credits, Shao Khans dad is Shinnok

This movie was crazy. I really wish this film was better but damn that script needed to be better written.

soo bad its good, after all these years, i keep coming back for the cheeseness, its million times better than 2021 shitty movie.

Ah yes.. Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, or as I call it, Mortal Kombat: Abomination, the first movie really gets your hopes up that the sequel will come in and kick as much, or even more ass, but really what it does is come in, slip on a banana peel and crack it's head open as you watch on in horror lol. The dude that plays Shao Kahn in this played Buffalo Bob in Joe Dirt lol.

Sonya is much better in this. Very badass. I love the fighting in this.

I loved this movie for what is. I loved all the action and more characters. Excellent video guys.

They recasted Sonya, Johnny Cage and Raiden

No matter how bad it is it will always be a classic.

"Who in Mortal Kombat is he?" "He's Shao Khan." "...............really?" yeah it's sort of a bizarre follow up to a relatively fine video game movie

Brian Thompson played Shao Kahn. He gave an interview a while back and said that he was trained in Hapkido and had earned his black belt when he did this movie. This movie suffered mainly in the writing. Roles were recast in part due to the terrible script. If I recall correctly, Christopher Lambert said he refused to return as Rayden for that reason.

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As a kid seeing the Elder Gods show up like that was pretty cool.

That movie’s pitch was “let’s put as many MK character as we can, and if there’s time before lunch, maybe let’s think of a story in between the fight scene, but no pressure”

"Elon Musk, trust fund baby, douche bag." 😅🤣😂🤣💀

Fun fact, the original Johnny Cage actor re wrote a lot of his lines in the og film and he thought the screenwriters were terrible. When he saw the script for the second he was like “this is a joke” and refused to do it. So the screen writers killed off his character out of spite.

The old games started modeling the characters after their movie counterparts starting from MK4.

Hope u react the the new mk movie

I instinctively said out loud “Oh NOOOOO! 😬” when I saw the thumbnail LOL!!

Shao Khan's dad is Shinnok.

Raiden's Stunt Double is Ray Park, who played Darth Maul. The character Motaro is played by Deron McBee, who played Malibu in the 1st season of American Gladiators. This Sub Zero is played by the actor who played Reptile in Mortal Kombat. Michael Jai White was slated to play Jax in Mortal Kombat Annihilation but ended up playing Spawn instead

27:57 that "soul" was actually Noob Saibot.

"That's Shao Khan." "...Really?!?" That about sums it up.

You brave souls. Probably one of the greatest travesties when it comes to video game films. Props to you for sitting down and going through it, though. Just remember, "You.........will die." Side note, I still find the Jade transition super bad ass, even if the fighting sucks balls afterward....lol.

jeeeeez as far as commentary goes......... (i watched games 20 years later and WE KNOW it.........)

Just a small movie trivia. This movie looks like a really bad step-down in quality because it was filmed by the same television company that made the 90's "Mortal kombat: Conquest" and the TV quality REALLY shows

Fun trivia! 1. They couldn't afford to pay the third ninja in the ninja-Raiden fight,and that's why he only ends up fighting two of them. 2. Scorpion cam be seen in the background, ducking and waiting for his cue, in the wide shot right before Liu reaches to help Sub Zero back up from falling. 3. When Baraka is kicked off the cage and into the fire, watch the footage again: They just re-used Rain's death footage from earlier. Also, how is Liu having his peyote dream and seeing Shao Kahn's face, when he doesnt know what Shao Kahn's face looks like at that point in the story? 🤔

As much as I wanted to rewatch the movie after a long break, I just couldn't continue after the Sonya vs Mileena fight. The plot is not only poorly adapted from MK3 rather than MK2, overly convoluted and needlessly confusing, but the fighting is also laughable with everyone jumping around and doing ballet flips. Also, way too many things are incorrect: - Jade is basically Tanya from MK4 - Shinnok doesn't look like himself at all and he should NOT be Raiden's father - Motaro should be the one to kill Cage, not Kahn - Stryker and Kabal are only mentioned in one sentence, they never appear - Baraka and Sheeva are taken down too easily - Smoke should've been Sub-Zero's ally despite being cyberized - he could still be fighting to retain his humanity and memories; that would've been a nice plot point. Also, he never fired rockets in games, Sektor did - one of the three ninjas that Raiden fights is supposed to be Noob Saibot, yet he's never named or given any backstory - Rain is killed off for no reason - Shao Kahn is seen without his mask for most of the movie Even the corny acting is not enjoyable. The only good things in this movie for me are the Sub-Zero vs Scorpion fight, Nightwolf and Jax beating Motaro without his cyber arms. Still, this movie holds no candle to either the original or the 2021 version.

Mr Ed was an old ass black and white show my 90 year old grandfather would watch where the titular character was a talking horse. Hence why Jax calls Motaro Mr Ed

Fun fact: two of the actors, Deron McBee and Lynn Red Williams, who played Motaro and Jax in this movie used to be American Gladiators. Deron McBee was called Malibu in 1989 and Lynn Red Williams was called Sabre from 1994 to 1997.

Ah Christ. THIS film. Still remember the "WTF"-ness of me going to go watch this in the cinema and realising in the first 5 minutes how HORRIBLE it was compared to the first movie. Just got worse after that. Soundtrack is FANTASTIC though.

Sonya and Liu Kang are the only really useful guys throughout this whole movie. Shao Kahn was not scary, he killed as many of his lieutenants as Sonya and Liu Kang did! Thanks, villain! This movie is just a hilarious tragedy. It’s so bad, that’s it’s good type shit. Lmao

4-40 I'm fairly certain while they're in the bowling balls riding around.. that song is the same song that Jim dances to for Nadia in the original American Pie LOL

Is that other dog's name Baaki? Was that a piece of cardboard? haha cute doggy. This movie is fun and ridiculous at the same time, it's not where near as good as the first movie but it's the same kind of fun like Street Fighter haha. A few things this movie does do well is the choreography and the music rocks! Nice reaction guys! And yes Ken is correct why Lambert, Wilson and Ashby didn't come back they all read the script and said screw this lol especially Lambert and Asbhy, they've said it in interviews lol.

Fun Fact: The actor who played ‘Shinnok’ _(a.k.a Raiden & Shao Khan’s father)_ is the German dub voice of Optimus Prime in the live action Transformers movies and Norman Osborn/Green Goblin in the Spider-Man movies.

bad movie...since sooooo many changes...but meh.....info......this sub-zero is the same actor who did Reptile fighter in previous movie

The tag line to this movie: "Destroy All Expectations!" You damn right it did! Killed off Johnny Cage right at the start.....my favorite character! Boooo!

To answer 2 of your questions, 1. Raiden and Shao Kahn's father was Shinnok, (the (fire) Elder God said it when they resurrected Raiden), and 2. Christopher Lambert didn't reprise the roll of Raiden because he was doing another film, (I think a Highlander movie I'm not sure), which is why the roll of Raiden was recasted. (And on a side note co-creator Ed Boon was so disappointed with this movie that he said it was the lowest point for Mortal Kombat.) While not the best movie, (in anyway), I don't mind watching it from time to time.

They had a scene where Quan chi comes in at the end of the movie to set up the 3rd. But it didn't get made because of this and hurricane Katrina tore the set up

You guys made me look at the IMDB page for this movie, and I had to learn that one of the Tarkatans, not even specifically Baraka, was Ray Park Darth. Fucking. Maul! I need to go lie down...

You guys shold check out mortal kombat conquest, it was good up to the final episode cliffhanger.

You dare compare Musk to Brian Thompson? Brian Thompson and his muscular face that appeared in COBRA?

That's no random soul... that's the original sub zero Bi Han who returned as Noob Saibot

That is shinok shak n raiden dad

The first movie was great. Unfortunately the 2nd one was a complete disaster. They took the 2nd and 3rd games and combined them into one movie. Poor acting and way to much green screen used. The actors for Sonya, Raiden, and Cage from the first movie read the script and wanted no part of the 2nd movie. Other movies based off of video games that were bad but can still be watched Street Fighter and Double Dragon. Just subscribed to channel. Good reaction so far. The elder God was Shinock Shao Khan's father

Dropped a like but I won't watch the reaction. Sorry, I can't put myself through this again LOL!

Was okay movie, effects were realli bad, nothing will beat the original 1995 mortal Kombat, Raiden and all the characters were better, was a disappointing sequel, lui Kang and reptile fight still the best fights scene ever :)

Johnny Cage was played a different actor. In Mortal Kombat Annihilation.

I remember thinking at 15/16 thinking this was the best movie. Now I can't watch it without cringing. Thanks for the laughs in the midst of such cringe.