I think Street fighter was worse, a terrible movie nightmare that insulted many respected characters.

MK was just bad.

MK deserves a major backhand just for the fact that all the non terrible parts were blatantly plagiarized from Enter the Dragon.

Wholesale thievery is the only reason the first movie didn't turn out like the second. (Where they just flipped a lot and stole scenes rather than taking story and plot too.)

I actually thought MK was true to the games, when compared to a lot of other movies based on video games, but the PG-13 thing did suck.

Street Fighter was just plain awful.

The first Mortal Kombat movie was pretty amusing. Let's not talk about the second one, though. Ugh.

I have to disagree.Granted the storyline is shit but some action sequenses were quite likable.

Someone fights...Raiden Talks...Someone FIghts...Raiden Talks

THE EMPORORS ASSHOLE....???
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
hilarius :D ;D ;D ;D

I gotta disagree. AS FOR ME, it was a good movie. after this review I thought like maybe I was a kid and stuff but I watched irt again and... its still a good movie.

the plot - meh... but cmon, you don't expect that much of a scenario from an MK movie WITH PG-13. and after all it was'nt too boring or something. moreover it served as a good link between the action sequences, which were VERY good for the time.
Cage's jokes? yeah they don't make you roll on the floor but they amuse and give that something to Johnny's character. besides, it aint a comedy so what did you expect?

so F all, i still like the movie

Dylan: I think he's referring more to significant dialogue, not dubbed one-liners.

But seriously the second Mortal Kombat was muuuuuuuuuuuuch worse than the first one

Unlike most movies I thought were cool as a kid when I rewatched this one it was still pretty entertaining. Johnny cage has a lot of cheesy lines but I never cringed like I do in lets say uh.. Batman & Robin.
The fight scenes are pointless at times but I still think some are pretty good and the characters were not butchered like in the Street fighter movie.
and when I say characters I mean Sub-Zero and Scorpion who were cool in the games and yeah cool in this movie.

If the movie wasn't about a martial arts tournament, the fight scenes WOULD be pointless. But the whole point of a MARTIAL ARTS tournament is to, indeed, fight. Granted, some fights are unnecessary (the fight in Kano's dining room), but really, as soon as you find out it's a fighting tournament, you should have expected as much. On a side note: Who the hell did Liu fight at the beginning? Couldn't they have put in an actual character from the games?

Cage's antics and lines were perfectly set. I actually think the NC makes worse ones in this review.

It is undeniable though: The PG-13 rating sucked ASS. Hopefully Mortal Kombat 3 won't make that mistake.

I'd like to see NC do Mortal Kombat: Annihilation...but I dun't want him to waste his time, he should be presented with a challenge. The 2nd Mortal Kombat is too easy to make fun of.

I Thought this was a pretty good video game adaptation. I mean its about a fighting game, so you have to exspect alot of fighting.

Oh I'm also a fan of one liners, so johnny cage did not bother me. I bet you were pretty happy when he was killed in the second movie, huh. lol

Mortal Kombat may well have been a PG-13, but like Resident Evil, the only reason it got a '15' certificate in the UK was because the games carried that certificate too.

ugh....This movie was horrible. Id rather watch the Mortal Kombat cartoon instead of this, which I cant remember.

I wonder if the cartoon was worse or not.

Whats up with the long black screen at the end, and the End of Part 1 screen at the very end of this video?

Zwarrior4life, I'm pretty sure (ie, 100% certain) that Sonya's character is in the 2nd one, but the actress is different. The character is not only written differently, but interpreted differently. Do your homework before being a d-bag.

Mortal Kombat was good, for its time.

Looking back it had alot of flaws, other then the ones mentioned here.
I love Christopher Lambert, but he is NOT Raiden, which of course leads to the question, 'well, who would YOU cast as Raiden?' and honestly... I got nothing.

Reptile was one of my favorites in the game serries, back when he looked the same as Sub-Zero and Scorpion, must have had something to do with the color green and my class' pet iguana. Point being, his fight, though entertaining cause he seems to be the only character keeping the generic Liu-Kang on his toes, (seriously, am I the only one who rejoiced when he met his supposed end in MK:DA?) was, indeed VERY pointless.

And Anialation was even worse. I would love to see the Critic be driven insnae by that movie, they tried to cram all the MK3 characters in, then killed them off after a few seconds(Johnny Cage?), or just ignored them, Nightwolf anyone?

Very funny, as always

"THE EMPEROR'S ASSHOLE?!?!" - LMAO!!!

Street Figher the movie pissed me right off!!!! >:( Talk about a disgrace to Street Figter fans everywhere!!!! They got a chinese guy to play Ryu!!!!! How fucked up can a movie be?! And Honda is like a fat Hawaiian dude?!! Hell NO!! And how low can you go when Guile is played by Jean Claude Van Damme?!! That movie make my top 5 of shittiest movies ever made!!! At least MK was better by a LONGSHOT! MK was okay, but not the greatest either.

I hope he does MK: Anniahilation (i THINK that's how u spell it :'( ) Now THAT was pretty bad, especially how they ruined some of my fav. characters DAMMIT!!!! Especially how they did Motaro and how Sheeva got crushed by a cage! I mean how fucked up was that?! The REAL Sheeva would've picked that cage up and tossed it at Liu Kang!!!

Even though I like MK, that was still a great review. NC, please review Mortal Kombat: Annihilation! MK:A is a horrible movie, and I would love to see you rip it apart in your inimitable style. :)

Personally, I liked Mortal Kombat. Granted, it wasn't as gory as the games, but it followed what little story the games had. And besides, Mortal Kombat is a fighting game, so why would the movie be based around anything but fighting? Put simply, Mortal Kombat is probably the best video game movie made to date. Still...that's not saying a lot.

As movie first MK was actually rather watchable back then unlike otherly crappy ST movie. They actually made sequals to this so it was clearly some success unlike ST movie. But what can you say, this was better of two in many ways.

what about mortal kombat:annihalation that was a shitty sequel to a shitty movie

One thing interesting about this movie is that Cameron Diaz and BRANDON LEE were originally cast as Sonya and Johnny Cage. Diaz broke her wrist and had to drop out and we all know what happened to Lee.
It's weird to think what would have happened if Lee survived to star in this movie. It may have destroyed all the credibility he got from the Crow. Or maybe he would have played the part more serious and it wouldn't suck so much. oh well. Lee kicked ass

scorpion does talk in the movie and he has a pretty cool sounding voice. but i did find it funny with the accents. i wish i had cold balls of fury.

HOW DARE YOU >:(

LOL "What kind of Highlander are you?!" I was hoping for more Highlander references