Sub Zero being the originals younger brother (older brother becomes Noob Saibot) and Jade as the green female ninja are well established MK characters 🤔
Yes, Sub-Zero in this film is Grandmaster Kuai Liang and he seek a revenge just because his elder brother (the former Sub-Zero a.k.a Grandmaster Bi Han) was died and accidentally resurrected by Quan Chi as a corrupted ninja named Noob Saibot, yeah, I wish I was right but, maybe the others has another opinion about that..
@@rubenpatrickwilsonlumaless4571 Pretty sure only Kuai Liang was Grandmaster of the Lin Kuei and that was after he destroyed the old regime and rebuilt it
In the book 'Lights, Camera, Game Over!' author Luke Owen interviewed some of the cast & and crew involved in this. Apparently New Line took the unfinished movie from them and said 'it's good enough, we don't care if it's unfinished'. Kasanoff says: "I'm telling you the effects in that movie are not the final effects. I never anticipated that someone would take the movie go, 'it's good enough'. We weren't done. We never finished that movie. But the studio said, 'we don't care'. We sacrificed quality for business. What we should have done is say 'let's go back to Thailand for a week, go back to Jordan for a week and then shoot in the studio for two weeks and add this much in effects. No problem. But the studio had release date and they promised theaters they can have the Mortal Kombat movie. And at this point I realized we'd come too far. But the business thought was it's going to work anyway. I should have insisted that we wait. Not wait years, but six months later. I mean, we would have missed the media bump off the TV series, but we could have Christopher back, we would have a lot of people back whose schedules didn't permit them coming back and it would have been a much better movie."
There you go , its amazing whats going on behind scenes. Same thing with 007 Golden Gun , it only came out 1.5 yrs after LALD , meaning shorter production time...hell even John Barry admitted it was too short time to compose for it
Fun fact; the same guy who directed this movie, was also the cinematographer for that Lindsay Lohan slasher movie “I know who killed me”.(yeah he was the guy probably responsible for all that red and blue lighting).He also directed the first “Annabelle” movie and the most recent “Wish Upon” movie, both of which have been considered terrible horror movies. How this guy keeps managing to find work in Hollywood I will never know.
I actually went to the mortal kombat live tour. It wasnt that bad ( I was around 7yrs old). the worst part was Scorpion. We were all waiting for his signature "Get Over Here" and when the time came ,you clearly see the actor go into his pocket and pull out one of those KOOSH bungee balls. the koosh ball and cord lit up up so they turned of the lights. then scorpion yells "get over here" throws his Koosh and then proceeds to spin it over his head as if were a lasso
I am totally convinced they gave up on the idea of creating an actual movie halfway trhough production and instead just put in all the fanservice they could slabbed some final bossfight onto the end to wrap it up.
A few things about this movie that killed it for me were Johnny Cage gets killed too early We see Khans face Sub-Zero wasnt used that much Rain gets killed for a dumb reason We dont see Kabal and Stryker Shinnok is Khan & Raiden's Father Jade is played by a Chinese woman instead of a Black woman This movie was based on MK3 so we also dont see Sektor, Kung Lao, Kano (I know he died in the first film)
This guy clearly doesn't understand mortal Kombat. Scorpion is a hellspawn. He comes back from the dead. But this narrator dude thinks it makes no sense. Subzero is a brother of the first one. But narrator dude thinks subzero ploy was stolen from City slickers two. I give up
Come on, its a movie based on a fighting game from the 90's, what do u expect. Just give me people dressed like the characters and good fight scenes where they use there special abilities and I'm happy. That's exactly what we got.😁
Dude, I know this movie is literally AIDS the Movie, but everybody nitpicks Scorpion being back even though he was killed by Johnny Cage.... HE’S A FUCKING SPIRIT!! No shit he’s back from the dead, he was back from the dead the first damn time. Once more and he gets a free sno-cone.
The first MK movie was ok for what it was, while the sequel sucked bad. However, fame is fleeting while infamy is forever as my friends and I have watched it at least 20X as the original. We watch it in a double feature with Street Fighter.
i think so too for the most of the fight scenes, it was pretty well shot and choreographed. bad script, bad special effect, and many of the actors/actresses here are pretty bad at acting too. Except for like a few where its pretty decent to good like the person that played kitana is like B list actress, so it the guy the played raiden who i think its like B list actor too. he doesn't have the charisma as the first guy that played raiden in the first movie but i thought his voice acting is good enough. i think other b list casts beside them are sonya, sub-zero, and possibly jax. i give the woman that played sindel B- for voice acting. C list casts are Liu Kang who i think is like C-, shao kahn is a firm C for me. sheeva and motaro is like C+. i think the worst voice acting cast is jade. her facial expression is decent but her voice acting is really bad. i think she is like a D list actress, her acting was bad enough that i almost wanted to give her D- for that. there are other too that i can't remember. oh yeah, i thought the guy that played shinnok is quite good i give him B- for the acting in this movie. he has some charisma too. this movie has potential to be decent to pretty good mostly if only the script is good. i can somewhat overlook the bad special effects and many bad acting but the story is laughable like the reviewer of this video said.
I'm not going to defend this movie too much, because it certainly wasn't good. But the guy narrating and who I presume made this movie clearly isn't a MK fan. He sarcastically comments about Jax having metal arms, even though Jax has metal arms in the game. Then he craps on the fact that sub-zero's younger brother is there to avenge his brothers death, even though that is canon in the games. And then he calls Jade an unexisting character... I'm not totally opposed to some cynical criticism, but it would be nice if the person doing the critiquing actually put some research in.
Isn't it funny how a bunch of arcade nerds managed to create iconic costumes for their characters on a shoestring budget but those hollywood clowns couldn't make anyone other than liu kang look presentable in this?
Honestly, the MK movie doesn't hold up. I rewatched it not too long ago and all I could think was "Why did I think this bad film was so good?" But, yeah, I have to agree on Uwe Boll's Postal movie. It was surprisingly self-aware, considering Boll's other films.
Games Played Badly I never understood the people who think Mortal Kombat is a good movie. It's like, if like if you want to play that game, play it but--why would you just want to watch the game instead of actually playing it? That's what I equate that movie to--it''s just fight scene after fight scene, little if anything else. That's not a movie.
hmmm, I don't think you've seen any Uwe Boll films if you think this is the worst adaption. also if you wanna compare and adaption to the source, maybe research the source...
Fun fact: The Sub-Zero character in this god-awful movie, is named Kuai Liang. His older brother, the first Sub-Zero in the 1995 movie is named, Bi-Han. Just tl avoid any confusion, if you had played any of the more current Mortal Kombat video games or if you had seen the recent animated Mortal Kombat movie, "Scorpion's Revenge".
This movie had its CGI all redone after it was finished production. For whatever reason, it was decided the existing CGI was not right. They then farmed it out to artists with not a lot of experience and did not give them a lot of time. It is why the budget is so bloated. When I was following the production of this movie while waiting for it to come out, this was really confusing. Also; all the ninjas overperform and gesture like Power Rangers whenever they talk. In fact...the whole movie seems to flip flop back and fourth between trying to he MK, and trying to be PR.
The only good thing this film ever did was at least cast a real Native American Actor to play Nightwolf. Also, Sub-Zero really did have a brother but their real names were not fleshed out until MK9. (The one who died was Bi Han and his brother who becomes the current Sub-Zero after his death is Kuai Liang.)
Scorpion is a spectre and therefore very hard to kill and subzero did have a younger brother who inherited his codename after his death in game lore soooooo......... you should probably check the lore before blaming the movie. Not that i'm implying that its even close to a good film.
Mortal Kombat 1 the movie was great in my opinion as a kid and its still pretty good for the time it was made in, it had good actors ect.... now Mortal Kombat Analpenetration was just a pain in the ass
I also saw the live tour, it was ok, i was kinda far away cause we didnt have money for front row tickets. I couldnt even get one of the flashing mortal kombat things with the dragon symbol on it :(
Sorry, but the CGI in this film beats the Ninja Megazord from the first Power Rangers movie hands down. I think the Megazord only used about eight polygons.
If Sindel had successfully killed Kitana at the end of this movie before Shao Kahn and Shinnok were killed and her killing Kitana resulted in the spell not breaking at all, how would that have affected the ending of this movie?
Does anyone else know what would have happened if Sindel had successfully killed Kitana at the end of this movie before Shao Kahn and Shinnok were killed and her killing Kitana resulted in the spell not breaking at all and how the ending would have been affected?
What would the third Mortal Kombat movie have looked like if Sindel had remained brainwashed and evil all because she killed Kitana before Shao Kahn and Shinnok could be killed had it been made and would there be any hope of freeing Sindel from the brainwashing at this point or not and who would she have sided with in the meantime while still under Shao Kahn's spell even though he is dead?
Chris Conrad/ Johnny Cage has been in two of my favorite recent series (both written and directed by his brother) Patriot on Amazon and Perpetual Grace. He got to play two pretty great characters.
Lmfaooo this video is hilarious afff. I saw this movie as a kid and loved it. Even if I go back and watch it today, its ultra cheesy af but still enjoyable to me being a life long fan of the mk series
If this had a better plot,actors, and gave certain characters more screen time it would of been dope only good actors on this film was Robin Shou and the one that played Kitana
Do us all a favor... if you don't know the story from the game, don't make comments on it when reviewing the movie adaptation. The movie sucks is about all you got right.
1:46 "So this sequel picks UP immediately UP from where the first movie left off." Did the repetition there bother anyone else? I don't know why but that kind of stuff just sticks out to me in a major way.
Was $30m a lot of money for a movie budget back then? Kinda... but not really... maybe? ... depends on the genre, the ambition of the producers and the goal of the studio If this was meant to be a massive summer blockbuster then maybe they thought $30m was a lot back then... but they also had so many characters to cast (badly), costumes/makeup to design/apply (hit and miss) and a metric ton of varying levels of early-ish CGI to apply throughout, that I dare say that it could been even worse. I mean, imagine if they had cast a really young Nicolas Cage as Johnny Cage... would I openly want to see that??? No. Would I secretly want to? Sort of? I don’t know know how long the production took, but if the studio demanded that the movie get pushed out on a short-window of time, plus the plethora of CG, plus the sheer amount of “story” to try to focus on, it’s no wonder that it turned out as bad as it did Still objectively better than Super Mario Bro’s IMO and Masters of the Universe... at least MK tried to stick to the (slim) amount of lore that exists in the MK games and keep most all the characters accurate in their appearances... main exception being Rayden To its credit, it actually put forth a good budget, but technology couldn’t meet expectation... or maybe they outsourced their effects to studios that have zero sh*ts and just ran off with the money... The terrible Ghost-Rider sequel (Nicolas Cage name drop #2 🤢) had a $50m budget and while I know movie effects/CGI is far more cost effective and has tremendously higher quality because there are just so many more studios creating it, let it sink in that MK: Annihilation came out almost 2 decades before Ghost-Rider 2, had vastly more characters to work with, has better actors... yes I said it; Ghost Riders acting was worse to me than MK: Annihilation, come at me!... and even a better plot than Ghost-Rider If they had made Mortal Kombat: Annihilation the same year as Ghost-Ride: Spirit of Vengeance and kept the movie exactly the same in terms of desired visuals, Annihilation would have looked amazing... but still would have ended up with sub-par/terrible acting... but it would’ve been a visual wonder nonetheless! That’s how much further VFX/CGI dollars go nowadays compared to back then Sh*t movies are still sh*t, but at least they generally still LOOK good I’ll still claim and stand by said claim that MOST of the practical effects costumes from Annihilation looked good then and could still be made as practical costumes today (with a sprinkle of CGI to accentuate) Obviously they’d look different/better than they did in Annihilation, but they wouldn’t necessarily need to make all the costumes 75% digital
30 mil was a decent budget back then. The film didn't use it all though, closer to 20 mil. Director was a rookie and blew the production budget early on. Special effects were supposed to be finalised but New Line didn't want to spend any more money as they thought the movie was awful. They just said, the unfinished effects will do. So they released it with temporary effects.
Lol I love Annihilation. It's cheesy, ridiculous, and over the top, but that's what I love about it. It almost feels like an edgy Power Rangers or something
Uhmmm Street Fighter has its hits and misses. On the misses side, i'd count JCVD, who can kick and punch, but every time he says something, you're like WTF dude? On the hits side vaguely cohesive plot, except when it's not really, cute but perhaps misplaced Kylie, and bloody awesome Raul Julia, who was waaaay waaay awesome. Does MK2 have any hits, anything it does well at all?
Love nerds freaking out in the comments over jade he literally said it’s been a while since he’s played the mk games, probably very casually played them as a kid
Everything wrong with this movie Smoke has sektors missiles Jax had plastic arm coverings and not metal implants Raiden does CAPOEIRA 3 Chameleons Sheeva killed instantly Rain killed instantly Striker & Kabal killed (off screen) Jade was trash Nightwolf didn't fight and was trash Ermac has noobs clone move Ermac was trash Shitty CGI Shitty actors
Look at the Screen Rant's pitch meeting video on the live-action Super Mario Bros. Movie or a youtube video on five reasons why video game movies suck. You'll understand why people labeled these movies' history as a curse.
Seriously, like I get the movie's horrible, but to knock it down due to it's 1997 graphics it's just making it too obvious you're trying to shit on it.
@@Seth-ng5oy Terminator 2 set the standard for CGI in big budget movies and blending CGI with practical effects...it came out in 1991. The Abyss came out in 1989. Jurassic Park came out in 1993. Toy Story came out in 1995. All of those were before this film and had far more realistic CGI (yes, bigger budgets, but after other movies innovate, these effects become cheaper to reproduce). Hell, Star Wars Episode I and the Matrix were both 1999 just a couple of years after this movie...the CGI, even by 1997 standards, was not very good.
@@tannermilo Check again. According to Wikipedia, opening weekend was $16 million (enough for the #1 spot at the box office) and it made over $51 million worldwide. This movie, unfortunately, was NOT direct to video (though should have been).
@@tannermilo Also, I'm surprised you'd ever call a $30 million dollar picture anything BUT a "big budget movie" (John Wick had a budget of that btw). Sure it didn't spend what Titantic did (also 1997 btw), but it still had a decent budget for the time (though was arguably too ambitious with special effects). Compare it to Spawn (also 1997) which had about $40 million budget instead (arguably they were a little ambitious with some of their effects as well but many of them worked out okay). Budget though is no excuse for poor choreography in fight scenes, bad dialogue/plot lines/etc., and atrocious acting/casting, which were all criticized by the video. This is clearly not JUST about "bad CGI" (even though the CGI was subpar for the time).
Sub Zero being the originals younger brother (older brother becomes Noob Saibot) and Jade as the green female ninja are well established MK characters 🤔
Too bad this shity-ass sequel couldn't get their characters right.
Yes, Sub-Zero in this film is Grandmaster Kuai Liang and he seek a revenge just because his elder brother (the former Sub-Zero a.k.a Grandmaster Bi Han) was died and accidentally resurrected by Quan Chi as a corrupted ninja named Noob Saibot, yeah, I wish I was right but, maybe the others has another opinion about that..
@@rubenpatrickwilsonlumaless4571 Pretty sure only Kuai Liang was Grandmaster of the Lin Kuei and that was after he destroyed the old regime and rebuilt it
@@bucky90269 is it including his ally with Grandmaster Hasashi in Mortal Kombat 11??
Shame they don't really explain any of this in the movie. On the good side, the actress who played Jade was really hot.
the 95 mortal combat movie is my guilty pleasure and i watch it completely unironically
The first one, great movie, the second one, horrendous
*Kombat
Liked it idk why but I liked it
I hated that movie so much then one day I watched it on edibles and had the time of my life and now I love it.
I remember seeing it as a kid in a small theater. Great memories
“Non existent characters.”
*proceeds to show Jade who’s literally been in the series since MK2* XD
Talking about the movie series...
My guy are you actually defending this shitty ass movie???
The CGI was bad, but when I was 8 years old, it looked very real. I loved this movie, but not as much as the first.
I enjoyed the 2nd movie
Why would you review a movie when you know nothing of the characters involved?
ch1nny1 seems like he’s just reviewing awful movies in general
The answer is "Thinking they know more than they do"
Ignorance of ignorance
Best line came from Jade. ''Fools you've been tricked'' and ''It was sooo easy''.
In the book 'Lights, Camera, Game Over!' author Luke Owen interviewed some of the cast & and crew involved in this. Apparently New Line took the unfinished movie from them and said 'it's good enough, we don't care if it's unfinished'. Kasanoff says: "I'm telling you the effects in that movie are not the final effects. I never anticipated that
someone would take the movie go, 'it's good enough'. We weren't done. We never finished that movie. But the studio said, 'we don't care'. We sacrificed quality for business.
What we should have done is say 'let's go back to Thailand for a week, go back to Jordan for a week and then shoot in the studio for two weeks and add this much in effects. No problem. But the studio had release date and they promised theaters they can have the Mortal Kombat movie. And at this point I realized we'd come too far. But the business thought was it's going to work anyway. I should have insisted that we wait. Not wait years, but six months later. I mean, we would have missed the media bump off the TV series, but we could have Christopher back, we would have a lot of people back whose schedules didn't permit them coming back and it would have been a much better movie."
There you go , its amazing whats going on behind scenes. Same thing with 007 Golden Gun , it only came out 1.5 yrs after LALD , meaning shorter production time...hell even John Barry admitted it was too short time to compose for it
the older sub zero was literally in the 2nd movie as noob saibot 💀💀 come on man !
Fun fact; the same guy who directed this movie, was also the cinematographer for that Lindsay Lohan slasher movie “I know who killed me”.(yeah he was the guy probably responsible for all that red and blue lighting).He also directed the first “Annabelle” movie and the most recent “Wish Upon” movie, both of which have been considered terrible horror movies. How this guy keeps managing to find work in Hollywood I will never know.
I actually went to the mortal kombat live tour. It wasnt that bad ( I was around 7yrs old). the worst part was Scorpion. We were all waiting for his signature "Get Over Here" and when the time came ,you clearly see the actor go into his pocket and pull out one of those KOOSH bungee balls. the koosh ball and cord lit up up so they turned of the lights. then scorpion yells "get over here" throws his Koosh and then proceeds to spin it over his head as if were a lasso
Ben Alexander I'm sorry to hear that 😂😂😂
I am totally convinced they gave up on the idea of creating an actual movie halfway trhough production and instead just put in all the fanservice they could slabbed some final bossfight onto the end to wrap it up.
I went to the live tour when I was a kid and it was dope from childhood nostalgia perspective!
I hunted through this playlist specifically for this film. My favorite bad movie of all time.
This is highly entertaining movie and very rewatchable
"Your brother's soul's mine!"
"Hoorayyyy!!!"
Lol that's the best part.
When they replace that many lead actors from the original, you know that's your cue to "abandon movie while you still can".
Doesnt bother me significantly.....the plot however just wasnt good enough imo
A few things about this movie that killed it for me were
Johnny Cage gets killed too early
We see Khans face
Sub-Zero wasnt used that much
Rain gets killed for a dumb reason
We dont see Kabal and Stryker
Shinnok is Khan & Raiden's Father
Jade is played by a Chinese woman instead of a Black woman
This movie was based on MK3 so we also dont see Sektor, Kung Lao, Kano (I know he died in the first film)
Jade was NEVER black. Where the fuck did you get that from?
In ultimate MK3 her bio picture showed she had dark skin tone.
I could be wrong I havent played UMK3 in years
Jax was played by Lynn 'Red' Williams he was SABRE on American Gladiators
Looked like Wolf was in this as well
Also, not the same actor from the first one either 😁
This guy clearly doesn't understand mortal Kombat. Scorpion is a hellspawn. He comes back from the dead. But this narrator dude thinks it makes no sense. Subzero is a brother of the first one. But narrator dude thinks subzero ploy was stolen from City slickers two. I give up
traveling zeus lover He clearly doesn’t know anything about the games. But he did state that in the video so it’s no big deal.
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Honestly i loved this movie as a kid. And still enjoy it now. Sindel was hella fine
Oh gawd yess
Lmao you should’ve showed the fight where the 2 actors are just spinning in circles with one of their legs out.
Come on, its a movie based on a fighting game from the 90's, what do u expect. Just give me people dressed like the characters and good fight scenes where they use there special abilities and I'm happy. That's exactly what we got.😁
Cool, so you have extremely low standards.
the way you put this vid together is just amazingly funny, great work
Dude, I know this movie is literally AIDS the Movie, but everybody nitpicks Scorpion being back even though he was killed by Johnny Cage....
HE’S A FUCKING SPIRIT!! No shit he’s back from the dead, he was back from the dead the first damn time. Once more and he gets a free sno-cone.
The Silent Hill Movie was great in my opinion!
This reviewer clearly knows nothing about the Mk characters
The creators of this movie totally gave up at the end.
I mean c'mon. Look at that CGI.
The first MK movie was ok for what it was, while the sequel sucked bad. However, fame is fleeting while infamy is forever as my friends and I have watched it at least 20X as the original. We watch it in a double feature with Street Fighter.
8:15 who is this guy...i think i've seen him before...he looks so familiar ...
One thing is for certain is the fight scenes in this movie a very well shot and are actually well choreographed.
i think so too for the most of the fight scenes, it was pretty well shot and choreographed. bad script, bad special effect, and many of the actors/actresses here are pretty bad at acting too. Except for like a few where its pretty decent to good like the person that played kitana is like B list actress, so it the guy the played raiden who i think its like B list actor too. he doesn't have the charisma as the first guy that played raiden in the first movie but i thought his voice acting is good enough. i think other b list casts beside them are sonya, sub-zero, and possibly jax. i give the woman that played sindel B- for voice acting. C list casts are Liu Kang who i think is like C-, shao kahn is a firm C for me. sheeva and motaro is like C+. i think the worst voice acting cast is jade. her facial expression is decent but her voice acting is really bad. i think she is like a D list actress, her acting was bad enough that i almost wanted to give her D- for that. there are other too that i can't remember. oh yeah, i thought the guy that played shinnok is quite good i give him B- for the acting in this movie. he has some charisma too. this movie has potential to be decent to pretty good mostly if only the script is good. i can somewhat overlook the bad special effects and many bad acting but the story is laughable like the reviewer of this video said.
I'm not going to defend this movie too much, because it certainly wasn't good. But the guy narrating and who I presume made this movie clearly isn't a MK fan. He sarcastically comments about Jax having metal arms, even though Jax has metal arms in the game. Then he craps on the fact that sub-zero's younger brother is there to avenge his brothers death, even though that is canon in the games. And then he calls Jade an unexisting character... I'm not totally opposed to some cynical criticism, but it would be nice if the person doing the critiquing actually put some research in.
This movie makes super Mario brother's look like a Shakespearean work of art
I still don't understand why they didn't even try with Raiden's look
3:32 i died when you said Rayden got his haircut like Sting 😂
Both Sting and Bowie couldve been Max Zorin in 007
Isn't it funny how a bunch of arcade nerds managed to create iconic costumes for their characters on a shoestring budget but those hollywood clowns couldn't make anyone other than liu kang look presentable in this?
I actually really liked this movie. I just hate that Johnny dies in the beginning and Raiden dies in the end.
This movie is so bad, it is almost breathtaking.
Actually, I think the first MK movie was the best video game based movie ever! SMB and Street Fighters are just good for nostalgia purpose.
I think Uwe Boll's Postal is the best videogame movie ever. I mean... it does match the game surprisingly well.
I don't want to watch a video game, I'd rather play it. So--no. Mortal Kombat sucked, too. People refuse to accept it.
Honestly, the MK movie doesn't hold up. I rewatched it not too long ago and all I could think was "Why did I think this bad film was so good?"
But, yeah, I have to agree on Uwe Boll's Postal movie. It was surprisingly self-aware, considering Boll's other films.
Games Played Badly I never understood the people who think Mortal Kombat is a good movie. It's like, if like if you want to play that game, play it but--why would you just want to watch the game instead of actually playing it? That's what I equate that movie to--it''s just fight scene after fight scene, little if anything else. That's not a movie.
@@joelbaldwin4051 I never said it was a great movie, I'm saying that it's the best of the video game best movies.
Doing backflips always works in deadly street fights 🤣🤣🤣
I hope the new movie is just the original '95 movie all over again, but like... fucking amazing looking and as violent as the games. 👍🏼
I grew up with those movies and I loved them and even now I don't see them as bad movies at all
Frfr we thought this was the shit😂😂😂
I think Resident Evil was a good video game movie, if you ignore how much it actually changed from the games.
Agreed, but just the first Resident Evil, and maybe Apocalypse if you take out the cheese.
This film is awesome. I will be lieing on my deathbed sobbing that I couldn't watch this film one more time.
*lying
hmmm, I don't think you've seen any Uwe Boll films if you think this is the worst adaption. also if you wanna compare and adaption to the source, maybe research the source...
"this movie picks up immediately up"
Fun fact: The Sub-Zero character in this god-awful movie, is named Kuai Liang. His older brother, the first Sub-Zero in the 1995 movie is named, Bi-Han. Just tl avoid any confusion, if you had played any of the more current Mortal Kombat video games or if you had seen the recent animated Mortal Kombat movie, "Scorpion's Revenge".
Vin Diesel Jr. lol No it’s the just the guy who played the crappy villain in “Cobra” which was one of Sylvester Stallone’s masterpieces.
The guy who played the Alien bounty hunter in The X files
@@StevenQ74 Arnie kills him in T1
If anything, Vin Diesel is Brian Thompson Jnr! I thought you knew movies!
This movie had its CGI all redone after it was finished production. For whatever reason, it was decided the existing CGI was not right. They then farmed it out to artists with not a lot of experience and did not give them a lot of time.
It is why the budget is so bloated.
When I was following the production of this movie while waiting for it to come out, this was really confusing.
Also; all the ninjas overperform and gesture like Power Rangers whenever they talk. In fact...the whole movie seems to flip flop back and fourth between trying to he MK, and trying to be PR.
I quite enjoyed both Movies, especially the first one. Also bought both Soundtracks on CD and never regrettet it :)
The only good thing this film ever did was at least cast a real Native American Actor to play Nightwolf. Also, Sub-Zero really did have a brother but their real names were not fleshed out until MK9. (The one who died was Bi Han and his brother who becomes the current Sub-Zero after his death is Kuai Liang.)
Strider Reborn good thing it wasn't a great movie that didnt cast night wolf as non native american.
take a shot for every flip. A double flip = 2 shots. 2 people flipping = 2 shots and so on. This rule is all you need.
Shao Kahn is buffalo Bill from Joe Dirt lol
He also played two different characters in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Mortal Kombat Humiliation
Bro, your channel is awesome! Hilarious.....great editing!!!
It may be bad in many ways but it’ll always have a special place in my heart
Scorpion is a spectre and therefore very hard to kill and subzero did have a younger brother who inherited his codename after his death in game lore soooooo......... you should probably check the lore before blaming the movie. Not that i'm implying that its even close to a good film.
O. M. F. Gaaaaaaawd! Not Christopher Lambert! _Again_ ! Hasn't he learnt ANYthing from the sinking of the Highlander franchise..?!?
It was'nt Chris Lamb in MK Humiliation
Mortal Kombat 1 the movie was great in my opinion as a kid and its still pretty good for the time it was made in, it had good actors ect.... now Mortal Kombat Analpenetration was just a pain in the ass
I also saw the live tour, it was ok, i was kinda far away cause we didnt have money for front row tickets. I couldnt even get one of the flashing mortal kombat things with the dragon symbol on it :(
Sorry, but the CGI in this film beats the Ninja Megazord from the first Power Rangers movie hands down. I think the Megazord only used about eight polygons.
Don't know what movie were you watching but the Scorpion vs Sub Zero fight was pretty good.
If Sindel had successfully killed Kitana at the end of this movie before Shao Kahn and Shinnok were killed and her killing Kitana resulted in the spell not breaking at all, how would that have affected the ending of this movie?
Jac2Mac I don't know. It would result to a sequel that will like never happen due to this movie's failed box-office results.
Does anyone else know what would have happened if Sindel had successfully killed Kitana at the end of this movie before Shao Kahn and Shinnok were killed and her killing Kitana resulted in the spell not breaking at all and how the ending would have been affected?
What would the third Mortal Kombat movie have looked like if Sindel had remained brainwashed and evil all because she killed Kitana before Shao Kahn and Shinnok could be killed had it been made and would there be any hope of freeing Sindel from the brainwashing at this point or not and who would she have sided with in the meantime while still under Shao Kahn's spell even though he is dead?
Chris Conrad/ Johnny Cage has been in two of my favorite recent series (both written and directed by his brother) Patriot on Amazon and Perpetual Grace. He got to play two pretty great characters.
The first one was at least entertaining. Annihilation was just trash
The erotic music followed by "...I'm not afraid." 😂💀😂💀
4:14 You killed my older brother. Prepare to die.
My name is Sub Zero, you killed my brother. Prepare to die
Lmfaooo this video is hilarious afff. I saw this movie as a kid and loved it. Even if I go back and watch it today, its ultra cheesy af but still enjoyable to me being a life long fan of the mk series
If this had a better plot,actors, and gave certain characters more screen time it would of been dope only good actors on this film was Robin Shou and the one that played Kitana
haha oh my god shang tsung talks about being a good person
Movie Number 2 WAS number 2. I cant argue with that, but the first movie was awesome!
They better make the new Mortal Kombat movie more darker with better costumes and fight scenes.
6:48 😂
Do us all a favor... if you don't know the story from the game, don't make comments on it when reviewing the movie adaptation. The movie sucks is about all you got right.
1:46
"So this sequel picks UP immediately UP from where the first movie left off."
Did the repetition there bother anyone else? I don't know why but that kind of stuff just sticks out to me in a major way.
"But it's too bad that UUUUU ...will die" That delivery lmaoo
Scorpion died in the last movie, HELLO?!
I take it you are unaware of what being an immortal hellspawn means
hopefully simon mcquoid will do a good job directing new the mk movie in 2021
Was $30m a lot of money for a movie budget back then? Kinda... but not really... maybe? ... depends on the genre, the ambition of the producers and the goal of the studio
If this was meant to be a massive summer blockbuster then maybe they thought $30m was a lot back then... but they also had so many characters to cast (badly), costumes/makeup to design/apply (hit and miss) and a metric ton of varying levels of early-ish CGI to apply throughout, that I dare say that it could been even worse.
I mean, imagine if they had cast a really young Nicolas Cage as Johnny Cage... would I openly want to see that??? No. Would I secretly want to? Sort of?
I don’t know know how long the production took, but if the studio demanded that the movie get pushed out on a short-window of time, plus the plethora of CG, plus the sheer amount of “story” to try to focus on, it’s no wonder that it turned out as bad as it did
Still objectively better than Super Mario Bro’s IMO and Masters of the Universe... at least MK tried to stick to the (slim) amount of lore that exists in the MK games and keep most all the characters accurate in their appearances... main exception being Rayden
To its credit, it actually put forth a good budget, but technology couldn’t meet expectation... or maybe they outsourced their effects to studios that have zero sh*ts and just ran off with the money...
The terrible Ghost-Rider sequel (Nicolas Cage name drop #2 🤢) had a $50m budget and while I know movie effects/CGI is far more cost effective and has tremendously higher quality because there are just so many more studios creating it, let it sink in that MK: Annihilation came out almost 2 decades before Ghost-Rider 2, had vastly more characters to work with, has better actors... yes I said it; Ghost Riders acting was worse to me than MK: Annihilation, come at me!... and even a better plot than Ghost-Rider
If they had made Mortal Kombat: Annihilation the same year as Ghost-Ride: Spirit of Vengeance and kept the movie exactly the same in terms of desired visuals, Annihilation would have looked amazing... but still would have ended up with sub-par/terrible acting... but it would’ve been a visual wonder nonetheless! That’s how much further VFX/CGI dollars go nowadays compared to back then
Sh*t movies are still sh*t, but at least they generally still LOOK good
I’ll still claim and stand by said claim that MOST of the practical effects costumes from Annihilation looked good then and could still be made as practical costumes today (with a sprinkle of CGI to accentuate) Obviously they’d look different/better than they did in Annihilation, but they wouldn’t necessarily need to make all the costumes 75% digital
30 mil was a decent budget back then. The film didn't use it all though, closer to 20 mil. Director was a rookie and blew the production budget early on. Special effects were supposed to be finalised but New Line didn't want to spend any more money as they thought the movie was awful. They just said, the unfinished effects will do. So they released it with temporary effects.
Let me get this straight the guy who wrote The Empire Strikes Back AND Raiders of the Lost Ark wrote both Foodfight AND MK: Annihilation?!!
David Jensen no
Ok, it's not 'Citizen Kane'; but I still don't think the first one is a bad movie! =)
But it is much more watchable and memorable than its' sequel.
@@xgray2012 Right. I just thought that goes without saying. ; )
10 games... oh there been way more than that!
At the time of this video, there were 10 main entries to the Mortal Kombat series. As why the most recent game was called Mortal Kombat X. Dumbass.
Omit "ly" and Good and you've accurately described this movie. Oh--Mortal Kombat sucked too but people don't like to admit it.
These movies might not be the greatest but they are entertaining. Also it is possible to make a good video game movie.... Resident Evil anyone????
Saw one of those , i was bored honestly
Lol I love Annihilation. It's cheesy, ridiculous, and over the top, but that's what I love about it. It almost feels like an edgy Power Rangers or something
F it they were both good movies, just wish rain and Johnny would've been in the movie longer.
First movie I ever bought a ticket for and wanted to leave the theater WAAAAY before the credits rolled.
It's so bad it's good
At the 90s people cheered this and liked the movie
What do you expect from 90s fan and director
this is a fuckin masterpiece compaired to the street fighter movie
Uhmmm Street Fighter has its hits and misses. On the misses side, i'd count JCVD, who can kick and punch, but every time he says something, you're like WTF dude? On the hits side vaguely cohesive plot, except when it's not really, cute but perhaps misplaced Kylie, and bloody awesome Raul Julia, who was waaaay waaay awesome.
Does MK2 have any hits, anything it does well at all?
Oh hell no, Street Fighter is class compared to this film.
sideways thumbs up
Love nerds freaking out in the comments over jade he literally said it’s been a while since he’s played the mk games, probably very casually played them as a kid
if the star wars movies never existed, this would be my favorite movie
This dude knows nothing about MortalKombat
Wha? Vin diesel jr? Are you serious , schoolboy?
Brian Thompson is a natural treasure smh my head
This piece of mega-crap makes Super Mario Bros. look like Ben-Hur.
Street fighter the movie was way worse
Anyone notice Raiden is Dexters' dad?
Everything wrong with this movie
Smoke has sektors missiles
Jax had plastic arm coverings and not metal implants
Raiden does CAPOEIRA
3 Chameleons
Sheeva killed instantly
Rain killed instantly
Striker & Kabal killed (off screen)
Jade was trash
Nightwolf didn't fight and was trash
Ermac has noobs clone move
Ermac was trash
Shitty CGI
Shitty actors
Shitty choreography shitty writing shitty story
yea yea, but did u hear the intro? atleast that was right lol
What is the video games movie curse ?
Please tell me
Look at the Screen Rant's pitch meeting video on the live-action Super Mario Bros. Movie or a youtube video on five reasons why video game movies suck. You'll understand why people labeled these movies' history as a curse.
JoBlo: Worst CGI every!
Me: bruh it was 1997 chill!
Seriously, like I get the movie's horrible, but to knock it down due to it's 1997 graphics it's just making it too obvious you're trying to shit on it.
@@Seth-ng5oy Terminator 2 set the standard for CGI in big budget movies and blending CGI with practical effects...it came out in 1991. The Abyss came out in 1989. Jurassic Park came out in 1993. Toy Story came out in 1995. All of those were before this film and had far more realistic CGI (yes, bigger budgets, but after other movies innovate, these effects become cheaper to reproduce). Hell, Star Wars Episode I and the Matrix were both 1999 just a couple of years after this movie...the CGI, even by 1997 standards, was not very good.
@@mrobviousj1989 yeah pretty sure this was a direct too video release not by any means a big budget movie
@@tannermilo Check again. According to Wikipedia, opening weekend was $16 million (enough for the #1 spot at the box office) and it made over $51 million worldwide. This movie, unfortunately, was NOT direct to video (though should have been).
@@tannermilo Also, I'm surprised you'd ever call a $30 million dollar picture anything BUT a "big budget movie" (John Wick had a budget of that btw). Sure it didn't spend what Titantic did (also 1997 btw), but it still had a decent budget for the time (though was arguably too ambitious with special effects). Compare it to Spawn (also 1997) which had about $40 million budget instead (arguably they were a little ambitious with some of their effects as well but many of them worked out okay). Budget though is no excuse for poor choreography in fight scenes, bad dialogue/plot lines/etc., and atrocious acting/casting, which were all criticized by the video. This is clearly not JUST about "bad CGI" (even though the CGI was subpar for the time).
I dont care i loved this movie
This movie is just guilty pleasure pure. The first one was actually pretty good, though.