The Mortal Kombat Movie (2021) Is A TRAINWRECK | A Fan's HONEST Review 

HES ABOUT TO GET HIS SOUL SUCKED

imagine goro being respected in the game, then gets killed off in the movie by a made up character

Kano lost because his back hurt so much from actually carrying the movie.

The biggest mistakes they made in my opinion are: 1. They brought a non-existent character into this Movie and made him even the lead Character. 2. They made a Movie about a fighting tournament yet didn't include the actual tournament but a prequel before the tournament. 3. They had the choice to choose so many different locations from the MK series yet had them all stuck inside that temple for most of the time. 4. The continuous switching from one fight to another once Raiden teleported them to these different locations, why not show one fight at a time and then move to the next? 5. The CGI GORO that looked like a cheap rip-off from MKX Goro, I would have rather found a tall actor and Masked him to look like Goro rather than use CGI for him. 6. The location of the fight between Cole and Goro was so dull and boring why on earth would you have them fight inside a farm? 7. The absence of Johhny Cage why would you put someone like Reiko or Nitara and completely leave Cage out who was one of the main characters since the first game? 8. They messed up most of the characters, especially Liu Kang, how can you treat the Champion of Mortal Kombat like a complete Loser and side Character when he was actually supposed to be the lead character? 9. The plot armor that has been mentioned already made this whole movie look like a Superhero movie rather than a fighting movie, why the hell would you need Arcana to give Jax his metal arms or Coles's pathetic Aquaman suit? 10. They didn't stick to the actual story from MK but made up their own version of Mortal Kombat,

An accurate title for the movie is, Kano: With guests

"Do not treat named characters that fans care about as if they are not important." SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE NON FANS IN THE BACK!!!!!!!!

I hated that the opening scene with Scorpion and Bi Han looked so promising and made me excited for rest of the movie, but it was all downhill from there. Its just so frustrating that the movie could have been so much better.

The one thing I couldn't stand about this movie was how Sonya Blade investigated all the realms, characters and explained what Mortal Kombat was. Raiden is supposed to do that! Also, why is Sub-Zero working for Shang Tsung? And if this movie has everyone training to get their "arcana", how does Johnny Cage unlock his in the sequel?

Mk needs a series they litterly have so much source material.

It's ironic that Kitana is not there but Mileena exists. Damn.

Raiden not doing anything about Shang tsung's cheating is actually pretty accurate

After reading & hearing Cole Young's armor being called plot armor I've accepted that to be it's name

"The Mortal Kombat movie was not just a bad Mortal Kombat movie but it was just a bad movie." You said it in the first few seconds and I agree 100%.

The BIG problem is who the Hollywood studios hired to write the story and script. Apparently this was his first big studio movie. FIRST ONE. As in of all the writers in the industry they picked an inexperienced one.

its pretty sad that a movie from 95, that had only 2 games to work with, had better story and by far better characters, than this film that has 11+ games to work with.

As a new MK fan I feel like they focused wayyy more on the visuals than the actual scripts. Like I was like "wow cool outfits! I can't wait to get to- well. now they're dead"

Raiden: This is what I have to work with? Yea buddy we were all thinking the same thing when you appeared on screen.

Cole Young's special ability was plot armor 🤣🤣🤣

The biggest problem with this movie is that everyone plays second fiddle to Cole Young.

Man they did Reiko so bad, bruh literally got killed by Jax.

why does shang tsung look like an ancient chinese warlord/dynasty warrior character and not a sorcerer

I think the more ironic part is that every body loved kano, but usually he I'd hated😂

As a huge Mileena fan, i was really disappointed with how they treated Mileena's character. First of all she doesn't even use most of her iconic moves, her ball roll, her tele-kick, her sai throws. They made her seem so useless and just a skilled fighter that can teleport. We barley got to see her full character, such as her teeth. Half of what makes Mileena special is her teeth, and we didn't even get to properly see that. They also made her character seem so dumb. For example, After she revealed her tarkatan teeth she teleported to attack cole and ended up just chomping down on his weapon for like 10-20 seconds not even attempting to try and bite somewhere else or release herself. It's a shame to see such an amazing character with amazing potential go to waste.

I 100% agree as I felt the EXACT same way. I wanted to absolutely LOVE this movie, but I came away pretty disappointed. Hopefully, the sequel remedies the faults of this one.

I'm sure that "arcana concept" will ruin this movie's sequel. Arcana has a main point in this movie since it's the main power source for MK warriors. we know the characters need effort to awaken their arcana. and can you guess what will happen to the sequel? Yeah, we will see a lot of scenes how the new protagonist characters awaken their arcana. Boring.

Bruh I bet Raiden didnt do shit because he was "consulting with the elder gods"

Cole said it’s dangerous to be with my family in the first half snd then later goes to meet his family.

Thank you for an HONEST review, you actually sound like you truly CARE about the franchise! Respect

The reboot felt like a bootleg verison of the real one

One thing that really bothered me is that they made a big deal about unlocking your powers but sonya got them the second she got kano’s mark. Literally as soon as she got them raiden teleports her then she blast mileena. Your video was also great and took the words out my mouth.

The worst part is when Cole's daughter asked her dad to give a 4 armed monster uppercut after seeing her dad with some crazy super power. I don't know how anyone will see something like that happened and feel cool like it's the usual fight in the ring

The only thing I liked in this movie was Kabal, he's funny and they've killed him so quickly.

Lol this whole Arcana thing in the Mortal Kombat movies had me like “oh, so it seems they love the Persona game. I didn’t know I was watching a Persona and Mortal Kombat cross over”

Kano carried the whole movie until scorpion and sub zero showed up

Cole Young powers is literally “plot armor”

Imagine making a movie that gets less praised than it's 1995 counterpart...what a letdown and no offence to our Australian movie directors but they've always kinda been lacking and it was expected for me to say the least.... Lets be honest this director had so much potential to make it an amazing movie but he just wants it to go to waste and it really pisses me off to no ends!

I thought Cole Young's daughter looked more like Liu Kang than Liu Kang. 🤣

Sad to realize that the best scene in this movie is Kano wanting a ****ing Egg roll

"Imagine not liking the thing you love and breath." Oh I don't have to imagine, thanks to Michael Bay.

In short, the producers didn’t give a shit about the rich universe and story of mortal kombat. They only wanted to make a quick buck, trying to focus on the “gimmick” that MK has been known for: gory fatalities. So the movie was basically it: a chance to see gory fatalities in live action.

Wouldve been nice to get multiple character movies leading up to the “TOURNAMENT”!

They should've just had the story stay about Scorpion and Subzero. I was honestly waiting for the main character to turn into Scorpion for half of the movie. When Scorpion showed and fried subzero it made the main character feel very purposeless

I could have gone for an extra 30 minutes of backstory at the dinner table

I absolutely love how mad you sound! Speaking for all of us my man

They made a big ass deal that Cole Young is always quit at the last minute instead of keep fighting. So I thought oh well maybe at the final moment the movie will make him grow as a character but no, he just doesn’t have nothing to give.

Bruh, Cole Young gets his powers from seeing his family in danger ... that’s legit the same reason Johnny Cage gets his powers in MKX!! 😂😂

Personally as a big MK fan, it was a 3 or a4 for me. It felt like the pieces were there, but they chose not to make them fit. My Problems are. 1, The only characters they got barely/somewhat down was Kabal, Kano, and Kung Lao. 2, Cole and his family was a waste of time, if they wanted to do washed up fighter with a family, johnny was there for the taking, he has a wife and daughter in the actual source material. 3, Reiko And Nitara 4,Scorpion and Subzero are awesome AF, but it felt like the first 7 minutes and last ten minutes of their story, felt completely different to everything else in between. 5, The Quick Cuts 6, Not following any of the rules of the game and tournament

Damn, you are totally right bro.. I still prefer 1995's movie though.

I was thrilled at the beginning, then from the moment they entered the temple it all went downhill. At the end I wasn’t even caring anymore about anything.

the problem with the arcana is that it deletes the importance of factions and backstory... what made kano's implant special is that he got it from his Black Dragon's weapon traffik. Jax got his arms and Sonya his lasers from the Special Forces. Johnny got his powers from his ancient blood, etc... In this universe they all got their powers because the shaolin gave them to them. Condensing everything into one just makes everything feel weightless and childish. It's like if Captain America, Hulk and Tony Stark got their serum and armor from Asgard.

All facts. I really don’t understand why people are defending this movie like it was the best mk story ever or even those who thinks it’s ok enough for sequels. It was absolute shit and as a longtime fan, insulting tbh. I hope this gets another reboot.

I was mad asf when I didn’t see Johnny Cage

kitana has a giant "fan" (😏) base, but wasn't in the movie?!??!

Lui Kang should have 100% been protagonist

The opening 7mins was the best part

Honestly after watching the trailer I had high hopes of a deep storyline but, the movie turned out to be a "just for entertainment" kind of movie with an extreme predictable and linear flow with a super simple story yet questions on many places which made the characters and their decisions as dull as the writers.

THANK YOU!!! This movie literally had nothing to do with the storyline of the video game

An appropriate title for this movie: Scorpion V Sub-Zero, and Kano too.

Man this movie needs to fix alot of things... they need to release the snyder cut

The shang sun and raiden from the 1995 was better

Me at beginning: 😲 Middle: 😒 End:😧 Brain: mortal suck bat

MK had the potential to become the next MCU with more movies to come......now I just Idk anymore 🤷‍♂️

If anything, this movie made me laugh a lot, sometimes intentionally. Like I f****** loved it when Liu Kang was literally just spamming his down4

I will agree that leaving that Arcana part out of the story could have left room for more areas to focus on. Even the original 2 didn't go over this. As fans, it should be understood that we know what they can do. If they wanted to touch on this, it could be a flashback or a ritual on a character's introduction. Ex: Liu Kang meditating by a camp fire. Motions with his hands and small flames pop up on both hands. Done. I lover how they did Scorp and Sub at the beginning. We know what they can do.

Im Australian and thought that Kano's character was the most irritating one out of them. I agree that the character development was weak too and would have liked to see SubZero and Scorpion more in the story...liked the action...hated the aussie....wish Hiroyuki Sanada had more screen time as he is one of my favourite Japanese actors and should have been given more story.

People say its supposed to be cheesy, fun and that story doesnt matter, well if i wanted that i would just played the games, this is a MOVIE for elder gods sake

In this movie: - Sonya Blade and Kano are partners for a while - Shang Tsung never morphs - Goro looks like Mike Tyson

Can we please now have a movie explaining why a tree can talk, eat Smarties, play video games, and travel through space?

God I hate Cole in this movie so much, he does literally nothing in movie and then he can suddenly kick subzeros ass more than scorpion? Bruh

'Big Trouble in Little China' is still the best Mortal Kombat movie ever made.

When kano out of all the characters is carrying the whole entire movie you know it's bad.

My 10 year old even said this movie sucked... how tf do you disappoint a 10 year old?

I laughed my ass off when Shang Tsung admitted they were cheating since the beginning like seriously none took action?. It would've made more sense if they only decided to break the rules in the last tournament

Can't believe you put SUCKS™ in the thumbnail. You'll be hearing from my lawyers XD

I just finished watching the movie and immediately searched MK 2021 review 💀

Raider had several Mortal Kombat appointments and fan meet and greets to attend before making it to the end of the movie.

Damn, ya nailed it bro, I really like how detailed your review is, subscribing right away

I'm ready for zack synder's cut

They showed the best parts of the movie in the trailer

Mortal kombat was the biggest disappointment to come out in cinema since ghost rider

A Mortal Kombat without Liu Kang as its protagonist feels like a Street Fighter without Ryu, it feels empty and forced. This was fun but not Mortal Kombat they better fix it in the sequels.

The funniest thing about your review is that my mom had all the same complaints about the movie.

I noticed that Hollywood uses to belittle the fans as an whole,unless that ever changes we will continue to see this type of mistakes from them, we know way more of what they think of...😌

if you want to have the best fight scenes ever put on film then have the characters do their full arsenal of special moves and have them look cool while they are doing it, meaning have the characters look like they do on the game

Part of the reason the fight scenes suck is only like half the cast even knows any real martial arts. Ironically enough all the Asian actors know some form of martial arts, while the other actors are either models or just regular actors with no legit fighting experience.

Cole went from losing an amateur mma fight, to beating prince fucking goro..........okay then.

In my opinion this movie should have been a subzero and scorpion origin story showing there upbringing and introducing quan chi and leading to a special forces movie introducing Sonya, Jax and Kano then Shaolin Monks giving light to raiden, lui kang, and Kung Lao and then the actual mortal Kombat tournament where the villain characters could actually die in a respectable manner.

bait-and-switch trailer/first ~10 minutes ✔ generic main character ✔ uninspired, convoluted plot ✔ lack of character/world development ✔ stale acting and dialogue ✔ poorly choreographed quick-cut action scenes with minimal gore ✔ Raiden doesn't say "I must consult the Elder Gods." ✔ 4/10 Annihilation was better.....

It felt like a few episodes of a tv show compacted into a movie.

I was realy pissed how quick and easy Goro was killed.🙄

I'm so disappointed, i was expecting theyre gonna use the original background from the game, but they legit changed the important things that makes MK unique 😑

I feel like too many people went into this expecting MCU quality when Marvel is the only one who has made that work. The best parts of the movie were fatalities, easter eggs, accurate outfits and references which was all I was expecting out of it. Therefore I enjoyed it, but my brother and I were cracking jokes and having fun the whole time, just like you're supposed to do with bad movies.

Subbed. You didn't try to change my mind... but as a lifelong MK fan and skilled player, your video made total sense and it is time to face some realities (realms) lol. Cheers.

who even made the call to hire a first time writer and director 😐

Every time Raiden and Shang Tsung had to talk to each other was embarrassing. It sounded like they were just repeating lines phonetically. do they speak English?

I personally enjoyed this movie. Mainly because I already know the characters and I just love anything to do with martial arts. You mentioned some reasons why you didn't like it, that I didn't even pick up on while watching. I agree that some things were a little flat. Alot more could have been done to develop plot and characters. I agree with most of your points 🙏 let's hope for an improved sequel 👊💥

This mortal kombat movie deserves to be deleted at this point

Yea man. I can definitely see your points about this movie. I thought it was ok, a dumb and fun movie, but a missed opportunity. I would’ve been fine with the entire movie being about the Sub Zero Scorpion feud.

the arcana bs made my friend think that if someone with an arcana kills another person with an arcana they get their power

Would love to see your 8 hour MK movie.