This is not going to be nominated for any awards, and that's okay. Not everything has to be high-brow. Sometimes you just want to watch people kick the shit out of each other for two hours. Cole Young (Lewis Tan) is a down-on-his-luck MMA fighter with a strange dragon-shaped birthmark. He's recovering from his latest loss when some psychopath tries to kill him by creating hail from nothing. Rescued by a former Special Forces officer named Jax (Mehcad Brooks), Cole is told to meet a woman named Sonya Blade (Jessica McNamee) to find out what's what. Sonya tells him he is a legacy descendent of one of Earth's chosen warriors, fated to duel in Mortal Kombat to protect his realm from Shang Tsung (Chin Han). Despite having won nine of ten combat (kombat?) rounds, Shang Tsung doesn't believe in leaving anything to chance, hence why he dispatched Sub-Zero (Joe Taslim) to kill Cole and his family.
Look, you're either going to be really excited about this movie or you're not. Pros: they totally say all the lines and you will feel a rush of dopamine every time they do like someone shot heroin between your toes.
Cons: the script is not any smarter than the 1995 version. Pros: They nailed the graphic violence of the fatalities. Just gratuitous amounts of blood and gore. Perfection. Cons: who are all these new people?? Who is Kabal? Nitara?! I am so old!
So, yeah. Mortal Kombat. Could it have been a better movie? Sure. Do I give a single shit about that? Nope. Do I kind of want to go back and watch all the other Mortal Kombat movies and *checks IMDb* TV shows I've never heard of? A little bit. It's currently streaming on HBO Max until May 23.
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