Mortal Kombat Continues the trend of videogame movies being bad 

You should look for TRT

I actually have the original mortal Kombat DVD. Never sent it back to my ex.

Mama Susan won't demonitize you if you're a corporate shill, Papa Gundam.

I want to see Reptile and Cyber Ninjas. Noob will happen later.

Cam anyone tell me why they didn't make the one from 2010 trailer?

Again with diverse agenda these guys at WB🙄

Bruh

The main character was white. Johnny Cage wasn't in it because he will be in the sequel it shows that at the end.

Don't worry Johnny Cage is coming in the second movie.

@@theend2574 Untrue, Lewis Tan is Asian.

He killed Goro ? I liked the movie personally

@@BIGBADSPARTAN217 read the comment again " On his own". He got help killing goro from his wife who seemed to have bigger balls then him. And his ARCANA was literal plot armour, shit didn't make sense how can he get armour that let's him take no damage and then slice through Goro like cheese lol? Who thought this was a good idea??

Goro was his only win. Which was fucking stupid because... HES GORO. Otherwise he got his ass kicked unless he had help

@@BIGBADSPARTAN217 Evidently we can all see why you enjoyed the movie...

You know it’s bad when his ancestor can still kick more ass than him.

Right? I hate stupid people involve on the adaptation of any media to another. And Hollywood is one of champion of screwing up adaptations. Why they need to try hard to be "original". When they aren't? How complicate is to follow the source material to the letter? In their quest to make the movie adaptation their own, they end up screwing the original story completely, until they manage to do it. The thing is.. Instead of owning a masterpiece they own a pile-of-shit! If they are making a movie from scratch they can do whatever they want, since they are paying for it. But in the case of a adaptation the one paying for it are the fans of the original source material. They are basically SCAM.

@@KamuiPan It's a cruel joke at this point that Sonic has the only decent vg-movie.

@@OuhPii add Detective Pikachu

That was actually the Studio's fault. They gave the director an old script to work with.

Is pretty funny the writers probably think they are been clever "We gonna show those gamer what a cool character looks like" and it happens to be the most lames characters on any movie and the ones nobody cares about if they die.😆

That seems to be a reoccurring trend when it comes to Warner Bros and animated adaptations vs big blockbuster disappointments.

Heck the 1995 version is still superior

Money well spend

the cut scene movies from the video games are better than this garbage

@@thewordwithperd1563 Exactly! It's one of the reason why video game movies have become such a redundant concept nowadays, because most modern video games practically ARE movies. They are interactive movies which honestly just makes all of these Hollywood adaptations completely pointless.

Why are there quotes for her name when that is her name?

Yeah I pissed me off

@@thetonybones because her real name is "You Wish".

It's very very trash!

@@cactusmalone I like that it's called white washing when a white role is clumped in a pre determined non white character, but we don't have a term for a black role doing this to a pre determined non black character... Lmfao. Double standards racism at it's finest in America.

" Johnny KKKage"

@@datsunracer9378 🤣🤣

My favorite fighters were Johnny Cage and the lightning dude, forgot his name, but I found the dude cool cause he shot lightning through his hands when he wins

Oh there, his name was Raiden, I'm kinda stupid lol

I mean you KNOW what's going to happen, right? They're going to role reverse them so that Johnny is the jackass that just walks out on his family, instead of Sonya.

It's a video game movie.... Literally all of them are the same.... Am I the only person here who remembers they weren't born yesterday?

@@raymondjames57 They have a story in the game. The gameplay is practically the same but is build around a story that people enjoy. I recommend you play the Mortal Kombat from 2011, for me that one has the best story.

@@raymondjames57 Not all. Silent Hill and Warcraft were good.

@@ArmeniusLOD The first one was okay but still spat on the game pretty heavily, from screwing up the main character to including Pyramid Head in a story he wasn't in because he was popular. We just don't talk about the second movie. And Warcraft was god awful, even more so if you know the original lore and not the WoW rewrites that turn the orcs into green saviors and anti-heroes all around. Okay that started in Warcraft 3 but you get the point.

No that arc has been done to death

You mean like the box art suggests?

They should have done a solo Bi-Han Sub-Zero movie with that Kratos knockoff setting up him killed Scorpions family and having Sub-Zero die at the end of the next movie (that would be an actual Mortal Kombat movie because Bi-Han had ties to the earth realm fighters before dying). It would have been a thousand times better and it would make Sub-Zero's death more sad and Scorpion's revenge more satisfying

@@SuperDababy2 I really cant agree. Personally there are a lot of Mileena fans out there I believe she would have made a far better addition as a solo film. But again its hollywood, they ruin every intellectual property they get a hold of.

@@rickybandit2 yeah, but Sub-Zero is more marketable and would set up a dark tone for the series if they focused on that one Sub-Zero game

What was even the point of him speaking Japanese?

It sounded like shit too

@@cactusmalone or any non-native speaker?

I understood that reference

But it did have Dante from the Devil May Cry series !

😂🤣

Rushink ... 👍 great reference

You sir nailed it.

you right, that sums it up pretty well

and Josh Lawson as kano.

I don’t know I loved Sonya Blade and omg what a babe!!! I also enjoy Liu Kang and Kung Lao.

@@patatofred9079 to me, Liu Kang looks like a teenager geek trying to be accepted by his older brother (or cousin, I don't care). The worst part: the actor apparently is only 8 months younger than me... man, people had said me I look like a 25 years old man, but he looks like a 16 years old boy. I don't know if that's good or not because Liu Kang is the "one", while here is portrayed as a possible sidekick of "Plotarmorman".

@@cambat11 yup, he did his part super well.

They set him up for the second movie.

Wait, this movie doesn't have Johnny Cage? No wonder people hate it.

He will be in the next one.

Kano was the Johnny Cage of this movie tho.

Kano stole that movie.

That's a pathetic excuse (not to mention racist), if they didn't want Johnny Cage to be the "hero of the story" they could have just made Liu Kang the hero...you know, Like In The Games!

I wanted that theme in the final battle!!!

@Mcheetah ONLY?

@@Ramsey276one Ignore the troll. Street Fighter is literally a globe trotting series. The arcade screen is literally you fighting people in their home countries.

@@charltonheston8525 I am not watching this movie so I ask for answers instead XD

@Cooper ROBINSON bruh fr Hess weirdos wont even follow the source material and the plot is so bad Cole should not have been in the movie Johnny cafe should of been in there as comic relief and a love interest for Soyna and the character you follow for most of the movie or scorpion would be the lead reptile should of been a ninja I have a lot more to say lol

Lots of "literally" in here

LEL

@Noneya Business this is why I’ll not watch Monster Hunter just RE clone but more lore breaking BS for the sake of the Movie

under rated comment right there, hollywood needs to just get out of my childhood and stay out, come up with their own ideas and stop ruining established IPs

@@BobSmith-ly7fz in general, they need to stop giving these established IPs to people who don't know jackshit and care little about them.

Yul Brynner key word. “One”

@@sparkrock9134 The flood of Transformers video games was the best part.

Mortal Kombat Fans from the 90s: *sigh* no, but I hoped it would be different this time....

Just bad. Like why? Who made that decision!?

Lmfao literally

@@soundwavesuperior6761 Shao Kahn out here flaming the movie like: "It's official, you suck!"

Can't believe they actually did that!

Well done sir 👏🏻

The writing for the script and the characters lines feel so out of place or cringe with most scenes. Like the actors are not even all on the same page in certain scenes - Lu Kang conveying to the sonya in a deep serious tone how much is at stake"". Others staring at him like ehhh okay man cool😂

Why the fuck did they give a person with 0 experience the rains to the movie 💀

It's a fan service video game movie... There's been tons of these made, they are all the same, hello? Am I the only non retarded person here who wasn't born yesterday?

David Callaham has written, rewritten, and supplemented scripts since 2005 with his first film being the epically trashy Doom film. Greg Russo is the newbie for sure and they hired him and McQuiod to force changes and mandates from the studio into this film. That's why it's such a mess to begin with.

And the director made his career doing commercials. He's the epitome of a "yes man."

People can't identify with law enforcement in current year.

@@dizasteroid7 Military isn’t law enforcement 🤦‍♂️

@@TheNamesRJ stryker worked for the NYPD 🤦‍♂️

@@TheNamesRJ Stryker is NYPD

@@dizasteroid7 only morons who want criminals to own the streets are anti police. All the defund the police crap did was lead to higher spikes in crime. All because the media needs a new thing to lie about. Trumps gone so the police are now mass murdering black people, yeah right.

Because apparently "white washing" is "problematic" and wrong, but flip flopped "black buffing" or what have you is considered to be progressive and good.

Cole should have been johnny cage and Kano was my favorite, his dialogue was GOLD

That's literally it. Even the ending bit which *should* have been epic seemed like a bunch of random scenes edited together to try and force an ending. And fuck Cole. So wooden I was expecting them to count his rings when he got cut.

The best part is they gave it to someone with no previous credits to his name to write this piece of shit.

Once that happens ill only be happy when the ItsACriticalGundam channel launches

I found myself wondering if my 2 favorite youtubers would ever cross paths. This is enough for me

i will spam drinker with superchats to make this happend... i did with Friday Nigt Tights and EFAP an it worked both times, heh

EZ PZ, e;r, and Mauler also have some good critiques of movies/shows. Especially dissecting a lot of the propaganda in most media today.

@@ConnortheCanaanite i might add heelvsbabyface, nerdrotic, doomcock, robothead and a few more to it...

That was cut up like that for the trailer, the actual exchange in the movie is even more cringe worthy.

@@ApolloMcrib .... Wow.

Was Leslie Nielsen on the movie?

@@annatardlordofderps9181 "That dragon logo you got there, I dig that man. It's unique. Where'd you get it from?" "He was born with it." "What do you mean?" "It's a birth mark." "You serious?"

Hollywood just needs to stop making movies period! and let us do it😂💁‍♂️😏

*Talk Rapidly

Action in an Action movie!?

Its mortal kombat. A movie based of fighting games stfu

Have you played any of the last 4 mortal kombat games?

@Cristo Alba first of all you don't have to pretend it's a video game film. It is one. Second, its a mortal kombat movie. Given that knowledge, I don't know what anyone was expecting. Because I expected cheesy dialogue, cheesy acting, over the top violence, and a streamlined plot. Because let's face it. The game lore is convoluted as hell. I honestly don't know what expectations people had. Because I got exactly what I wanted.

...or any source material for that matter?

I give them just a sliver of leeway since they have to cram tons of lore within 2 hours, and they want to make this movie for anyone to watch and enjoy and not just fans of the games. They are trying to make money, after all. Frankly, if someone is going to make a movie based on a video game or book, it should have the intention of appealing to the core fans. That's where the money will be made. Not from general audiences.

That's good. I'm sick of the lore.

@@dizzydial8081 you don't really need to cram a ton of lore into 2 hours. look at the Middle Earth franchise: three LotR movies, three Hobbit movies, and they've STILL barely dipped into the complete lore you can do it right, it just takes being a good writer/being an actual admirer of the source material, both of which frankly are a rare breed in modern hollywood

YEEEES! THAT HURT WHEN I SAW THAT SHIT

So messed up bro.

That was the producer.

Both Cage and cole suck and they would be better dead like in the main continuity aka MK and also MK movie from the 90's an MK from 2011

Actually the reason he wasn't in the movie is because they're saving him up for the sequel if it ever gets made

Gotta fight racismz by being racist to huwhyte men- nerdy huwhyte men willing to spend maga bucks on their nerdy interests, that's who they want to exclude as customers ._.'

LITERAL PLOT ARMOR XD

It's so on the nose you have to wonder if it wasn't intentional.

Damn right!

They had a unproper tournament. So what does it matter? Why does every Deathmatch need to be official?

@@minakohiashi8882 Because the tournament is central to the lore and rules of invasion for Outworld? It's the entire point. If you fuck that up, nothing else matters.

@@ForeverLaxx yup.

@@minakohiashi8882 adds and air of levity when its official. Makes it actually important

@@ForeverLaxx Are you saying OutWorld has never invaded Earth in the games? With out wining Mortal Kombat? Like the bad guys are honorable and have never cheated before

He was the AVGN of this movie.

WAKANDA FOREVAR!! XD

Lots of things in fiction do that not just black panther

You know that isn't a black panther exclusive ability right?

I mean yeah but it wasn't only black panther ability though I do actually wish they did more with the power

Is it? Wow i didn't know about it. Sorry which characters use that?

But it was better than the 90s movies by like a landslide lol. Acting while not great was still thousands of times better, cgi thousands of times better, the story overall was better. Literally the movie was better than the originals in every way.

@@DarthRane113 wow it's better because its 30 years later still awful writing awful plot awful dialogue. Not even remotely impressive

@@DarthRane113 nah, the cheese makes the old ones great, it didnt even take itself seriously. This movie is serious and stupid

@@DarthRane113 It was better than Annihilation but it wasn't anywhere close to the 95 MK movie.

@@Rov-Nihil bruh. They reference superpowers and that kombat is spelled wrong. How is that taking it too seriously?

@Matt Murdock Don't Forget MK: Conquest The most Underrated MK show ever

it's this stupid mentality of directors being like 'imma do my own spin (even if it shits on the actual lore) and hey imma set this up for the next generation of youngsters (even tho most revenue comes from the older generation).'

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I swear, if they just deleted Cole it would've been a lot better. I hated Cole more and more throughout the movie. He's the worst self insert I've ever seen, because he's a complete wimp even at the end and just bland as oatmeal. Heck, Sonya is stronger than he is even without any powers. He's a joke.

It's to the point where even Annihilation is better than this, and everyone knows Annihilation is bad, like really bad.

@@SaikouShiva Annihilation wasn't as bad as people made it out to be in my opinion.

@@Valaso-Osalav For its time, I'd say it's an okay movie, though the thing I'll never get tired of is the Cyrax fight.

I agree

@@SaikouShiva are you high. I l'm not saying this movie is great but christ it's not that bad.

Makes sense.

no wonder. sheesh.

@@johnjackson9767 He also wrote the 2005 Doom movie

@@Ichi.Capeta He also wrote the 2005 Doom movie and is now going to write Spider-Man no way home which will be releasing December 17th of this year

@@naquingreen1603 Good lord...

mortal kombat always was fan fic since the first video game.

The thing is his power seems like he could have so much more and to be completely honest I wouldn't mind to see him in a game and I would have been completely fine with them but he's just so boring I really do like his power but other than that the characters kind of just standard protagonist also the whole dragonmark power thing is stupid

@@stinkfinga4918 well excuussee me.

@Jinxed Swashbuckler pears are better than apples. Change my mind (you can’t)

It actually makes sense considering Mortal Kombat 11 has a custom character creator. 😂😂😂

Star Wars sequel trilogy flashbacks

Always has been.

Pretty much

Detective Pikachu.

Silent Hill for sure.

You must not have watched this then lol

@@realsgtstupid ok normie

@@GMOTP5738 anyone using normie as an insult feels like a fake nerd to me repeating what youngrippa and the youtubers say...

I wouldn't. Most DLC characters are actually good.

@@dhantefranklin336 hence the joke 🤣

He was your little brothers Kreate-A-fighter from Armageddon

@@cormoran2303 🤣🤣

@@cormoran2303 Yes.

Definitely not. Was not that bad.

Let's not get to crazy now. They at least tried here.

He is also going to be a woke simp that respects women, mark my words.

On the head my dude.

He's going to kiss a dude. Calling it.

Yup like last of us ii, but bring back joel, make him dirty and destroy the character.

@@stinkfinga4918 kinda like real life ( jk)

Because Hollywood loves trilogies...and yeah, apparently the director of this movie has plans to make this into a trilogy.

Yea but its kinda unfair ,you know. Donnie makes movies since 30 years and made a lot of movies in Hong Kong . And the biggest most important point is that Western movies tend to not have a position for "Fight Director" . They have a stun co-ordinator or as it comes "action director" but this is infortunately very uncommon to change. ---- Fight/Action-director in HK has the same power as the movie-director . --- Bruce Lee had very much control of his choreography because he was a superstar. Other examples are Jackie Chan or maybe jet Li . Normal us movies will never come close to asian Martial Arts movie jsut because they dont focus and rely on it. The poor result you can see in the movie :/ Dont even the mention the action cut . My fan-hearts bleeds everytime I dont see the impact and transition a few frames for it on every punch kick.

Yeah those Ip Man movies are great, some of the best martial arts movies that I've seen

Actually Joe Taslim the guy who played Subzero had good gore martial movies previously than this garbage he's kinda wasted in this movie

AY

in Armageddon

I understand why people bash Cole but he does have a lot of potential to be a great character in the sequel and you can make his character almost anything sense he’s such a blank slate in this movie

@@edgycuckboi35 and no one wants him cause he is just a character that came out of nowhere to replace an actual liked character johnny cage and the fact the movie is so bad makes people saying no to any idea of a sequel

Also the only time he actually used the armor. It basically was just for looks for the rest of the movie.

That armor looked like one of those inflatable muscle shirts kids use for costumes.

Yeah I was busting up laughing when I realized that 🤣

i wish he was johnny cage

Was the writers trying to be funny? Cause I nearly puked from how stupid it was, I was laughing so hard.

Exactly. That movie was actually very well done. And it stayed true to the games.

Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children has entered the chat. Granted, it wasn't friendly for casual viewers who didn't play the game. But for fans of the game it was a really well done continuation of the story.

Postal ...also Sonic 2020

Honestly, it was such a good movie, better than expected from a movie about big lizard vs monke, dumb fun

Glad not the only one here that thought so. I mean even ignoring being a fan of the monsters the movie still offers exactly what it promises to you without overdoing it on either side while actually doing most elements better the previous films. Could've easily been just another dumb action film but actually delivered in other departments

Why are you apologizing? It was good. I just didn't care about the human scenes.

You know grandma cleaned out scrubs in the 90s

I still remember they didn't implyied he lost his arms, in the animated series an episodd was about him fighting without his prostetics. I know the series was bad, but it was supervised by the creators and the animations were used in official art.

@@MrlspPrt I think in the 1995 MK movie they said that the US government gave him state of the art prosthetics because... super soldier reasons? and Rayden said that his arms were a weakness because he depended on them for his strength. Then in the final tournament he pulled off his prosthetics because they were being a weakness to him, and the moral of the story was be true to yourself, then we all laugh and smile and go home

I honestly don't get why people care about the movie lining up with the "canon" of MK, after mk9-11 not even NRS cares about the "canon". I really can't believe that the main complaint of MK media has been the CONSTANT rehash of the first tournament, then we finally get a decent movie with an actual unique take and everyone's losing their shit because "omg this isn't like the main story!". I get the complaints over the new character, he was so bland I don't even remember his name, but the rest was pretty good if you're not expecting a 10/10 movie lol

@@rdowg bruh your an idiot...the entire movie was 1 massive shit show, the props and set looked like something straight out of the 90s, the writing was god awful, the only reason Johnny cage wasn’t in the movie was due to SJW politics, the main character is a nobody who was just retconned in and given actual plot armor which he barely even uses...you’re delusional to how awful this movie legitimately is.

@@BerryMckHawkener the fact your claiming SJW nonsense as the reason cage wasn't in the movie is just cute. Why the hell would they tease him heavily for movie 2 if they couldn't use him? And yea, if you're expecting a solid gold plot out of a video game movie, let alone one based on the shitshow that is the MK storyline, you're fucking nutty. I get the main character sucked, but at least the rest was entertaining to watch

MK's Elder Gods are lazy and inept at best, but usually just seem disinterested and inattentive. In MK9 when Shao Kahn breaks the rules and invades Earth Raiden alerts the Elder Gods and they basically tell him "lol the tournament was all a joke anyways later bro".

It's because Sonia can't even talk with kano without punching him and in the movie they were kind of working together

@@jtc620 Circumstances that force people to work together is a farcry from being buddy buddy. Sonya mentioned how Kano had killed the champion they were sent to find, so that is why he was there in the first place. Sonya already knew from the start that the guy was a murderer and no good. She did not like him at all. Edit: She also punched Kano in the beginning after he said something.

They were too comfy around each other when compared to the first movie they would kill each other at first sight.

wait what, Kano is Sonya worst enemy, he try to murder her, in MK 10, if her dream was true, he try to murder her daugther, what, i think J Cage not being in the movie is dumb because J kage is Sonyas husbound and now these,

@@deathsdoor07 the original movies were all screwed up. they did good to not mix that in here.

The 2000's one or the newer one?

hitman has a movie? shiiit.

@@lilbladeknight 2 now

@@PotionOfProof The newer on. I actually forgot about the one with Timothy Olyphant lol

At this point, Mortal Kombat Annihilation was a better movie than this new Mortal Kombat movie. At least the writers there seemed to follow the lore...to a better degree than this movie did.

i kinda liked it,but as far as mk movies go,scorpions revenge was the best

@@UsernamesHandle at least that's in line with the modern mk dialogue

Hopefully it has a use and actually helped you get to sleep.

Oh God was it really that awful!?

@@Ninnjette- It was about on part with maybe "Jason X" or "Sharknado", but without the campiness that made those movies fun.

Sharktopus x Mortal Kombat when?

I mean trailers were just bad (and they usually show everything a movie has to ofer these days because reasons...), there was no redeeming factor to them. Literally the best scene of the entire movie was intro where Scorpion's family dies...

@@Micromation and even tht they got wrong and that's what really turned me off like as a kid I had figures of em and to see how they do em in like....naaaaahhh

LMAO that was the moment i mentally tapped out

FOR REAL-!?

@@chelsthegameruiner8669 yep

Yeah, the intro feels like a proof-of-concept or pilot episode for a much, much better production.

yeah, that was for the old ones, these are apparently based on the new ones

@@christophermonteith2774 which one The somehow seemed to forget what happened in the previous one CONSTANTLY XD

I played the original on a girlfriend's kid's system way back when. Then I got MK X on sale and thought okay - let's play. Now that was funny. I just wasn't interested in spending the next 3 or more months of my life memorizing and practicing move and combo sequences. It's like being forced to learn every locker combination in a school and keep a working knowledge of them.

And yet the original series had lore there and you liked the characters, their abilities, their designs... You know how you get that? CHARACTERISATION and how do you get that? STORY. You can deny it all you want but a certain amount of story goes into making a Fighting Game it's not all code and lines.

@@terrylandess6072 I agree with you on the new games. The old games have 3-4 special moves tops for a character and maybe a couple different combo patterns. In these newer games I have to keep pausing the damn game just to try to learn a couple basic moves and combos with characters and that gets boring real quick especially since everyone has 100 moves. I still like the older ones these new ones suck

And 1000 times better than THAT MOVIE XD

Fr I can't stand all these brain dead idiots thinking this movie is great its annoying

He's a new Yorker they hate everything even if it's good

Gross

Same

@@FQP-7024 so basically they only like a city that they possibly also hate?

Im right there with you

Hollywood sure loves Joseph Campbell, don't they?

I thought Tron was a good movie.

Those boomer execs forced them to add an OC actually. Idk why but they insisted they want Cole rofl.

He was not a a actor

It's almost always totally unnecessary, too. They always claim that they need to radically change things for the movie adaptation, but 99% of the time it's a bogus excuse for the screenwriter or director to egotistically put his own spin on the property.

I watched this in theaters and I absolutely loved it, what are you on about?

I just rewatched Big Trouble in Little China instead.

@@ryugekiken I don’t know why people wanted this to be an exact recreation of the games when they could tell a whole new story, cause why would you watch a movie when you already know how everything goes. Plus I like to see a spin on a already existing property. (Also I’m not saying that what I said protects this movie from criticism cause it doesn’t there are a lot of problems with this movie)

I feel sorry for the people that didn't like this movie. I saw it in theatres and loved the crap out of it. I would have preferred to see Demon Slayer too though but that isn't on Dominican theatres because the world isn't fair.

@@alejandrogomez1698 Fellow Dominican here, too bad we don't get good Anime movies in this country unless is a Dragon Ball or Saint Seiya movie :(

It makes the Mugello pile up look tame.