Mortal Kombat Makes No Sense
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 พ.ย. 2024
- Mortal Kombat is one of my favorite movies of all time. Now here is a video where I rip it apart for all the things that don't make sense! Let me know if you want more videos like this.
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i messed up and said Shang was "de-aged" instead of "aged" I acknowledge this mistake. Please don't leave comments about it.
Tony is a Gangsta !!! Mortal kombat
Down forward back back c !! There now i tured into a drangon and ate anyone one says tony is not a Gangsta!!
I always thought the fireball part was all his anger built up coming out at once !!
I always thought the jonnycage friendship that he always keep an pre sighn autograph on him cause he is busy and when he jump it feel out his pockect. Lol
Why did you say Shang was de-aged, he clearly wasn't.
I always assumed scorpion was a fan and the picture was his.
I thought he had them pre signed for fans. And one just so happens to fall out his pocket 😂
Me 2😆😂😆😂
I thought scorpion was a fan too!
@@genevalong8383 it was only when I was older(20 years later) that the picture was a nod to Johnny cages' "friendship")
Yea I thought scorpion had it inside him or something and came out when he blew up
Reptile wasn't originally in the film, he was added after test audiences complained there weren't enough fights in a movie called Mortal Kombat, that's why he feels rushed and disconnected from the rest of the film.
I like that part
@@ashleyp3662 it saved the movie for me and the reptile fight theme is a bonus
i'm 29 years old, and today is the day i learned that the Kung Lao they're referring to is another guy-and that it wasn't some mystical time travel thing that brought Kung Lao into Mortal Kombat 2. Thank you Tony!
I think you missed a very important and very obvious aspect of this movie. Shang Tsung tries to manipulate the best fighters to come to the tournament because he is using Goro to kill them so that he can capture their souls. The souls of great fighters will make Tsung more powerful.
Or use against in the final combat like the one's summoned to fight Liu.
I assume there's a scene we don't get to see where Scorpion and Sub Zero hand out rule books to all the fighters, and Shang Tsung gives a power point presentation explaining everything.
LOL! Ikr?
The mental picture of this just made me laugh 😄
Robot Chicken basically did that but it was Ryu organizing Street Fighter.
lololololololol!!!! Yeah im so confused at this bracket system.
There needs to be a spoof of this now lol
It’s dumb, it’s fun, and it’s fun because it doesn’t take itself seriously.
The fireball was spontaneous, the culmination of the fight and tournament helped bring his abilities out.
Liu Kang scored the flawless on the 3rd round
Lmao that’s what i was thinking too 🤣🤣
LOL
To bad fights dont have rounds
When I was a kid the reptile scene looked cool like some kind of heavy metal music video
Hell yeah, still awesome now
@@dumahdrummer654 this movie is great
best fight in the movie
4:30 "Flawles victory" quote should be "fatality"...
in the italian dub he actually says "fatality", i was surprised he didn't say it in the original as it would have made a lot more sense lol
*stage fatality*
maybe Rd1 was down in the pit, Rd 2 going up the stairs, Rd3 balcony for the flawless
I always thought since watching as a kid that Shang tsung deteriorated at the end because he's so much older than he looks and when he died all those souls left that sustained his appearance and youth.
Same. I liked they left somethings to your imagination or whatnot.
That reptile fight was the best fight in the movie though.
Also best song !
Why couldn't Reptile have just been in the human green ninja uniform the whole time?
Reptile isn't Kitana's body guard he is stalking her like pray.
Lui Kang isn’t the only liar, Shang Tsung is ALSO a liar, he said Goro beat Art with a flawless victory.
I assumed Shang Tsung's "Flawless" meant that Art could Could not make Goro fall down...evening with the punches and combo...now Lui Kang, failed miserably because he was getting knocked all over that place lol
Shang tsung:
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My favourite part is when Johnny Cage does the nut shot on Goro
@@markpugh6808 which is odd as you can’t do that to Goro in the game
@@DW3010 yeah the bosses in MK are always overpowered
With Johnny cage though, Master Boyd a.k.a. Shang Tsung in disguise, influences Johnny’s decision to enter the tournament. He’s trusting the word of his master who he respects and trusts his advice.
The theatre went bananas when that statue turned into reptile. That scene and Cage V Scorpion were the best in the film
Ok, had To stop the vid a 2:36, when the guy said game kung lao isnt great kung lao descendant. Get your facts straight.
Okay look I pause the video 5 minutes and 33 seconds in to inform you Johnny Cage was based off of Jean-Claude Van Damme and one of John Claude Van Damme's biggest pet peeves was the people did not think he was an actual martial artist it made perfect sense to me that the character in the movie had this issue it was honestly the issue of many 80s action Stars people thought and still think that he was never a real martial artist nowadays you can check facts to a degree that is absolutely unheard of or at least was unheard of back when Mortal Kombat the movie came out yes nowadays you can check and see that he won multiple World Championships in actual martial arts tournaments back then all you had was the word of the person talking possibly an old black-and-white photo and nobody wanted to believe a guy that pretty with obvious background in ballet was a world-class martial artist... Mortal Kombat was originally supposed to be the Bloodsport video game but Van Damme didn't want any part of it so they made their own version of a Bloodsport game with no Bloodsport that kept them from getting sued by the people that made Bloodsport the final move in the movie Bloodsport is the split nut punch which was one of Johnny cages original from the first game special moves and the movie used in the movie to defeat Goro
I always wondered how Johnny got out of the NetherRealm!
Most likely Raiden would go and teleport him out of there
5:15 This was based on real life. In the 80s and 90s, many people claimed Van Damme was not a real martial artist and was in actuality a Ballet Dancer who was faking it.
Great movie essay, loved it -- you raise a lot of good points. I did want to share some insight into some of your qualms.
There's a reason Shang Tsung has to seek out the best of the best (and by that I mean, Liu Kang). They are chosen by the Elder Gods as the best representatives of their realms. As host of the tournament, it is Shang Tsung's responsibility to seek out these chosen warriors and extend the tournament invitation to them.
How did they know Liu Kang could defeat Shang Tsung but Johnny and Sonya couldn't? They weren't just making brass assumptions. Raiden specifically mentioned, when asked why he wasn't talking to Earthrealm's fighters, "I have looked into their souls, and into yours. One of you three will decide the outcome of the tournament." You can tell he knew which of the three would win, but wasn't ready to disclose that yet. Shang Tsung looked into their souls as well -- and knew which one of them stood a chance of winning (i.e., Liu Kang). So when he challenges Sonya and Johnny, it really is an act of cowardice.
Most of this can be inferred from the subtext of the film itself, but it's reinforced elsewhere (i.e., the film's novelization, statements by the film's cast and crew, stuff from the original games, etc.). As your resident MK lore expert I'll by happy to go into more detail about any of this -- any time, anywhere!
This movie was awesome when I was growing up
Still is
Liu Kang was always kinda pushed as the MK Protag character. At least until they killed him off and made him a zombie.
I never thought that Reptile was thrown into a statue. Seems kinda obvious that it was the corpse of an Outworld casualty that Reptile used as a 'host'. Which would also explain the bugs.... js
This was my all-time favorite movie when I was a kid. So it'll always have a special place in my heart. But all of your criticisms are spot-on. Let's hope some of these mistakes are fixed in the reboot next month.
One month later: this movie fixed a few mistakes from 1995, and made a whole bunch of new ones.
Christopher Lambert was actually born in America grew up in France I thought he was French national. Anyways he played a Scottish man in the Highlander. He playing Raiden makes sense I suppose 😅😉
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Tony clown for for dry humourfunny
@ihate names if real 😎
A lot more charisma than the new one
I loved Christopher Lambert as raiden!
I really lol at apologize to dead shang tsung
12:01 FYI: In the 3.0 version of MK arcade, where Reptile was introduced, a double flawless with fatality and no blocks at The Pit was all that was required to get to Reptile. The problem was that it was impossible to get to him as Sonya because her fatality involved using the block button. In the 4.0 version they reworked the code so that one could push block during the match and still get to Reptile just as long as their life bar isn't damaged. But they also added the detail of it only working if a random silhouette travels across the moon.
I kinda remember something like that that moon part anyway
Maybe that’s why I couldn’t get reptile with scorpion his Fatallty requires a block button also
Rayden told Liu Kang that Sonya has to accept his challenge or it doesn’t count. That’s why when she said “no”, it wasn’t a forfeit for earth realm.
That is also when Sonya had faced her fear, which Raiden mentioned earlier, trust issues. It was her trust that Liu Kang and Johnny will come and save her, that made her not accept Shang Tsung's challenge. Had she continue to believe that everyone was only going to get in her way then she would've accepted and lost.
This still one of my favorite movie of all time
Same
Wow
I've decided that liu isn't a liar because they had their fight and made it up to the balcony and then round 2 starts when liu is by that light and goes ham on shang. So technically that final bout where liu kang goes ham is a flawless victory.
When I was a kid playing MK I always thought that sub zero was the good guy and scorpio the bad one
Subzero mythologies kinda had that sort of perspective...
Just came across your channel, love the vibes bud.
"you must kill Sub Zero with that which brings life" my favorite line in the movie. I love how Kitana goes out of her way to not just say water but still basically said water.
Her line actually was "to defeat your next opponent use the element which brings life"
You were close though.
That was one of my favorite lines as well.
That and johnny cage saying: "huh,thank God I didn't ask him to park the car" 😆
Re edit: lol I was slightly wrong too. I looked it up after post.
She actually says "to win your next match use the element which brings life"
Lol
Who bumbed that theme song wem they was a kid. I remember going to roller land and wen that mkb theme song came out every kid would freak out
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*MORTAL KOMBAT!*
Too me this is without a doubt the best live action movie based on a video game. The best overall film best on a video game is the street fighter 2 the anime movie
I saw Mortal Kombat at a drive in movie theater....on acid.
It was awesome.
i like this, its informative AND entertaining, ur personality shows alot in this, great video hope to see more!!
Man, I got left out. I only got the cartridge and not the box or manual. Back in the day, you could get the games cheaper without the box and that's what most of my family did when they bought me games back in the Genesis era.
In the 90's: this movie is sick
2021: let's make a video about how bad this movie was
Didn't aged well indeed
In defense of the shapeshift thing that would be one hell of a mind fuck. Imagine;seeing someone transform right in front of your eyes, Not just into someone else but someone that you once knew and cared about that is now dead. The pure shock of seeing that alone would make anyone freeze and question things.
It just never made sense to me that scorpion had a snake coming out his palm when CLEALRY the game shows an arrowhead attached to rope as his spear, but I was a kid at the time so it didn’t really matter to me back then the way it bothers me now
What doesn’t make sense is the length of Goro’s torso relative to his legs. Who approved that design? He looks like the world’s tallest midget.
"Flawless victory" in the 3rd round, yeah. Fans of mk (real fans) would know this by now.
Kitana was so hot in the movie!
Agreed and that's why she was in the movie.
@Seth Hultkrantz
I was rushing, to the bathroom. Thanks. 🕹️
Liu not a liar, that was a different round lol.
Don't understand why ppl would call johnny fake? Do some research about Steven Seagal lol.
Reptile becoming "human" to fight Lu Kang didnt make sense, but a tournament between two realms one of which has magic ninjas and monsters makes perfect sense..👌🏽
from what I understand the Reptile and Scorpion fight were added after test audiences complained that the movie didn't have enough fights, which is why the Reptile fight feels shoehorned in. I could have done without the CG Reptile, but having Shang Tsung have the Humanoid Reptile ambush the heroes in Outworld would have been fine. But, the reptile fight imo, is one of the best fights in the movie, the actors put a lot of hard work into it. The actor who played Liu Kang broke his ribs when he gets thrown into the pillar in that scene.
The Shang Tsung fight is actually structured like a 3 round fight from the game and in the 3rd round he does achieve a flawless victory
Not statues... Those are mummified bodies of previous souls consumed by Shang Tsung, reptile which is a generic term to classify a species is actually a chameleon which assumes the body it mimics... No... Wait... That doesn't make sense either... 🤷♂️😅
Or does it?
#becausemortalkombat
Scorpion and Sub Zero were revenants in the 1st movie...did you not see the story from MK11?
Go old 90's nostalgia 😊
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Liu Kang was my brother's favorite character in the game, DEBUNKED
Fake news! Everyone's favorite character is mokap!
@@HackTheMovies idk I was more of kobra guy i love mk ken
I like Street Fighter over Mortal Kombat, but Liu Kang was my favorite character of the MK franchise.
Liu Kang is the chosen one. I resent this claim he was no one's favorite. I challenge you to Mortal Kombat, Tony!
This movie needed the 50 year old Karateman from the animated movie.
it had plaid shirt guy instead!
I would have addee a sentient wheel of cheese into the third act.
This basically became the model for the characters personalities. Carrie Hiroyuki Tagawa is still voicing Shang Tsung in the games. He has such a great voice. I will say Sonya was on a team,but she did leave them and went off on her own. So she hadn't quite learned teamwork though she really should have by then
did it bug you to see the soul going into Shang Tsung's eye ball? lol
Bro I know you do short little skits but this was awesome. Hope to see you do more of the longer videos. #✊🏻
I totally agree. It's a terrible film, makes no sense, really half arsed story.....but I still love it. And that Reptile fight is my favourite. Lol
Remove reptile? That scene was the only redeeming quality about that movie.
Johnny Cage wanting to prove he's a legitimate martial artist makes sense. In reality martial arts movie stars are always being called out as fake. Even Bruce Lee himself was. Anyone can be a bad ass in a fight choreographed for their victory. The question is can they defeat an opponent in actual combat.
I didn't even know this guy had his own channel. Neat.
Its why I always say Tony from Hack The Movies!
MY ASS has it's own channel to
Great video!
One thing I always mention about Kano from the movie influencing the games, is that they made him Australian in them rather than a cockney/Londoner like the actor RIP
My headcanon for the reptile thing (when I was a kid) was that the statue was an artificial outworld footsoldier. That in this instance, Subzero and Scorpion were made the same way with abilities dependent on whatever was placed inside the statues that made them (say, some sort of ice spirit and a demon as an example). This is why they have the same uniforms (but with the color swap) because they are all made from the same base form.
18:10 he's fighting for Pearl Jamrealm
I don't know... I don't see any problems in this movie. But yes, you are right.
agree basically with all of this,with this type of analysing everything-- you could have found some obvious flaws and stupidity in GOTR later seasons,but casual viewers would just slept on it.Anyway,for me main problems are Sub Zero and Scorpion being slaves of Shang Tsung's power,Shang Tsung not showing us at all why is even Goro scared of him,Liu Kang was too much for him with Shang Tsung not showing sorcery, except that stupid shapeshifting and couple of fighters from which he captured souls fighting in some moment against Liu Kang... That didn't convince me that Shang Tsung is more powerful than Sub Zero,Scorpion,and Goro,yet first 2 being slaves of his power,and Goro being scared od him...Still,it's a solid movie.with all those flaws...
I assumed Scorpion had the Johnny Cage Autograph on him and Cage gave it to him in a scene that I forgot (or that got cut), but did not recognize him.
Liu believed he can later cuz he believed his destiny, and that confidence built up in his Chi energy and tapped it
I remember always thinking how cool it was to hear "Reptile" when he becomes human. For some reason it always felt like it was just supposed to be there.
I like to think Reptile’s random fight scene was added as a little fanservice moment referencing when he was an unlockable hidden character in the first game. Still awesome either way.
The nitpicking is a bit much here. The film is far from perfect just like this video essay.
Its for fun. I thought moslty the same things while watching in the cinema back in the day having read the character profiles, comics and playing the the games the movie had so many weird flaws and plot holes to even a casual 90's mk fan. I still like it then and now. But it is what is and criticism is legit.
Mortal Combat is a great B movie!
man I cant believe you dont recognize, plaid shirt guy was John Rambo lol
Nice to see your branching off and doing your own thing. Ill sub and see whats going on here! I remember the games then movies. Never read the comic books though.
Kitana was included because it was too much of a sausage fest.
as a kid I always just assumed the picture came from Scorpion upon his explosion and had it on him because he was tracking him.
Raiden was played by Christopher Lambert who was also Connor MacLeod in Highlander the greatest movie of all time according to Ricky Bobby!
Also Johnny Cage very much wanted to prove he was a martial artist to other martial artists and what better martial artists to prove himself to then the best in the world ... that were involved in the Mortal Kombat tournament ... to be fair, the fact that he got to be involved in the Mortal Kombat tournament at all means he proved his point before he even fought his first fight the looks he got from the people on the boat were the only reason he involved himself in that tournament...
Great vid, Tony! I just subscribed after watching you on Cinemassacre for like a year. Your reactions to stuff when playing with Mike are hilarious!
Hey lu kang was my fav still is today...remember he is an adapttation of bruce lee
This was funny and cool. Good job!
In this same spirit I would love to see a video analyzing how the opening of GoldenEye doesn't make any sense. What was Trevelyan's plan exactly? Did he want the chemical weapons facility to be destroyed? Did he want Bond to be killed? He could have easily had Bond killed, or captured without giving away that he was a double agent. Make it make sense.
Why am always the awkward friend that shows up way too early for the party haha.
It always felt like some stuff involving Liu Kang was cut out of the film. A training montage or something where someone explains who he's descended from and that he too has the "power" or something. Maybe if you ever meet Robin Shou, you can ask him.
Great review, I enjoyed it and agree.
I have a theory that once they are in the Netherrealm, Outworld or whatever where "supernaturalism" exists, some of our protagonists obtain and display supernatural abilities simply because being in that Realm allows them to manifest. Some do, some don't. For example Sonya, Kano and Art Lean do not, while Liu kang, Johnny Cage and the ninjas do (and the ninja specifically because)...
...part of that theory includes the idea that Scorpion and Sub-Zero are under Shang Tsung's control because he defeated them either in an earlier tournament or at some point on Earth. Similar to how he controlled the warriors that popped out from underground against Liu Kang, he can control those fighters and the ninjas because he possesses their souls. Yes, Scorpion and Sub-Zero are formidable fighters...but Shang Tsung is a boss...
Earth realm doesn't have supernatural abilities in the Mortal Kombat universe, unless someone from a different realm comes here already having supernatural powers... Or if someone from Earth realm goes to outworld, then they may manifest supernatural abilities.
Further, I think Scorpion's harpoon creature is simply a supernatural manifestation of his iconic weapon he wielded as a human...because he's dead now and has been augmented with Tsung's power... We see other inanimate objects come to life- the statue thing when Rrrreptile gets trapped inside of it... So perhaps Scorpion's harpoon comes to life with the power that exists in Out World...
Reptile/Liu Kang fight was the best fight in the movie, though.
But what if we got a Scorpion and sub Zero fight instead?!
@@HackTheMovies if we got still got the tight enziguri kick
I just think that Liu knew that wasn't his brother, but he just got emotional seeing the "ghost" of his brother. I think that when Raiden talked to Sonya about teamwork, he was referring to Sonya constantly saying to Liu and Johnny that she's fine on her own. For Johnny Cage, I can see him needing to prove himself. He does look like a pretty boy. Kitana isn't a waste to me. Since she is the emperor's adoptive, I guess it would just look weird if she was just following Liu. Also, Shang Shung did order Kitana to fight Liu. Shang Shung is a bad guy. He thinks the rules don't apply to him. I have nothing else.
"Not really using twitter at the moment"...... suuuuure.
Somehow I recall as a kid accidentally unlocking the Reptile fight even with how convoluted that shit is.
Yeah, no set tournament brackets is the only problem I have watching MK
Main scene that stuck out to me was when they follow reptile or whoever and the they say he went a certain way but there’s huge cobwebs that have been undisturbed
Didn't Liu's brother seek out Shang Tsung?
I love how Kano in the film has a cockney accent (a specific London accent) but Ed Boon thought it was Australian LOL
It’s campy fun but yeah the script is trash
First good video I've seen on this channel. Been subbed for months, too.
The “flawless victory” line from Kang is just him copying Shang Tsung as he said it earlier, basically mocking him.
The Johnny Cage friendship thing is incredibly nitpicky to the point where it’s laughable.
Sonya being kidnapped is basically the story of MK2, she’s kidnapped to bribe the earth realm fighters in to accepting another tournament that takes place in Outworld. So this film loosely follows and references both games.
Again, the Scoprion and Sub Zero thing is just nitpicky.
Kitana is playing the part she played in the game. You reference Scorpion’s Revenge earlier, and she does the exact same thing in that movie. Be consistent.
Reptile is sent to keep an eye on things and is in the shadows throughout the first game, the film follows that. The fight is one of the best in the film, so the statue thing is forgivable. And drop the boner for Scorpion and Sub Zero, you didn’t get what you wanted, get over it.
Raiden, nitpicking again.
The aged Shang Tsung thing, again, they are loosely following both games. Shang Tsung doesn’t have to fight, he has people to do that for him, and Goro is a fucking beast, what reason does he have to fight when you’ve got a henchman like that? He recruits people so the tournament can happen. It has to happen. He picks Sonya because that’s the story of MK2 as I’ve said earlier. The deal is not void either, as Shang Tsung is still active in the tournament, he just hasn’t had to fight because Goro has been taking care of everyone, now Goro has been defeated, he can’t just go back to Kahn and be like “yo bro, Goro died and I didn’t wanna get ma hands dirty so I just left lol”
Tony using a Tony t-shirt. What a legend!
you are really talented, you write you edit you are front row center during videos! 100% awesome good sir.
The Reptile and Scorpion fight scenes were added after test audiences complained there wasn't enough fights. They shoehorned the CG Reptile and fight in to pad out the movie more, as well as extend the Scorpion fight. I really wish they didn't add the CG Reptile and just had a Human Reptile randomly follow and attack the heroes in Outworld.
This is actually the movie that i saw more times in my life, i saw it 25 times because it was allways at the same hour in cinema channel on tv jaja so much fun, it's bad ok, but so funny too!
normally games made to a movie doesn't make any sense. example: dragon ball, double dragon, street fighter, cobra ect.
I always assumed that Shang Tsung summoned the souls of previous fighters for continuity purposes. Earlier in the movie, Raiden said that to face Shang Tsung is to face not one, but a legion of adversaries, (or however he phrased that). I enjoyed watching your video though!