Mortal Kombat 2021 - A Waste of an R Rating
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Josh Lawson (Kano) unfortunetly couldnt make the premiere screening of MK2021. Apparently he suffered a severe shoulder injury due to carrying the entire movie.
🤣🤣🤣
Easily my favorite part of the film.
Underrated comment lol
Read this in another video.
@@JoJoJoker yeah cant take credit for it
The dumbest thing the marketing did was spoil the outcome of nearly every major fight in the final trailer, the main reason most people would be seeing the film. Then the directors lied to the fans when they said the trailers were just a small part of the fights in the film, which was total BS.
What's more the fights (and music) are not even this film's selling point! That's insane, a fighting game based film has forgettable fight scenes!? First thing that comes into your head when the 1995 film is mentioned are fights and music then everything else! When MK 2021 is mentioned, you think - oh yeah Kano! You think about fight scenes and music in this film only when asking yourself what's missing from it.
Yes the movie was trash! Don't even know why it was rated "R" maybe just to hype people up that be dope.
For me, the biggest issue was making the main character Cole, I thought Cole was a very boring character and he has one of the dumbest powers I've ever seen in mortal kombat. It would have benefited from having Johnny Cage cause he's at least a fun character.
They gave the guy literal plot armor. The tattoos being a source of their powers was stupid. A MMA fighter with a losing record is the hero? Kole Young was to Mortal Kombat what Alice was to Resident Evil. Making him the hero was a Bad call. They should have killed him off introduced Johnny Cage and kept Kung Lao. I would have just followed the plot of one of the games. Raco was really bad. He look mentality retarded. Jax manifesting robot arms was just wrong. Sonia should have been crushed by the statue that collapsed on her. This movie was a huge waste of potential. Kano was awesome. He saved the film. Without him it would have been unwatchable. I could go on, but it was entertaining enough to give me hope that the next time they make a Mortal Kombat movie it will be good. I think they need Ed Boon to direct and use writers from the games.
@@jasonvoorhees1316 I absolutely agree with the last bit, cause even the story of everyone's least favorite Mortal kombat game is still pretty good, I'm really hoping they learn from their mistakes cause the pieces are there, they're just not in the right places
They didn't want johnny cage because they hate white men. Literally. They said they didn't want a white male good guy in the film because white people are disgusting and racist, so they made up Cole to replace him. They added the scene at the end hinting at cage for a sequel because test audiences where like "wtf, wheres johnny??""
But was it better than Mortal Kombat Annihilation? 😏
Kole is such a loser lmao
Comparing Raid to Mortal Kombat is a bit unfair. The Raid films were made by a filmmaker who wanted to make a movie. The Mortal Kombat films were made by studio execs who want money.
WB execs too dumb to realise that in order to make money they need to let filmmakers make a movie.
@@EndoScorpion Yes, the first Suicide Squad was fucked up in similar way. David Ayer had his vision, then execs said " put more humor here" and the result was movie which was not good in anything.
@@Endru85x It happened to all Zack Snyder's stuff too. They made him do Superman with a smiliar tone to the Nolan Batman movies. Then they forced him to introduce Batman, rather than doing a MoS2, because they thought Batman would sell better. And then just look at what they did with Josstice League.
Studio execs killing movie left and right by interfering with the filmmakers
I still surprising that they don't hire Gareth Evans to directed this film considering how freaking cool he make brutal action films.
My main gripe other than the random powers being granted is that Cole's power was literal plot armour.
You made a joke about James Wan directing MK, but I legit agree. The insane police station and jail cell sequence in Malignant were better than 80% of the fights in MK.
huh? Can I get some context on what the joke with Malignant was? I could watch the movie to understand it, but nah
@@jordangarcia465 watch the movie
@@spectre1004 aw man
@@spectre1004 oh my lord..it all makes sense now. What the FUCK was that, lmaoooo
That would be cool. If Malignant didn’t suck major balls
The finale right seen in the first Raid is hands down the best I’ve ever seen.
Without a question of a fucking doubt
Every fight in both Raid movies are superior to anything in this shitty Mortal Kombat adaptation
@@klaatunecktie7906 true
I heard it took them 8 days to film that one scene.
@@klaatunecktie7906 What is sad about Mk 2021 they hired talented people...and yet they failed. Mk 1995 was directed by guy with no experience in action cinema, he had rather small budget...and he gave us a memorable film with great soundtrack, scenography and actors who defined Raiden, Shang Tsung, Liu Kang for me :)
“It was aight”
Never has a sentence held so much power.
Plot armor??
Pathetic muahahahaha
You just unlocked some deep memories showing the covers for those 3 ninja movies
That Raid fight scene made me stop watching this, and watch Raid.
Oh boy, first time?
The first 15 minutes was the Mortal Kombat we wanted. Yet they gave us a crap movie
The first 15 was an actual movie like "wow they about to flip the whole video game adaptions outlook then...rest of the script said in big bold letters "Fan Service"
Totally agree!
I still have no idea the relationship of the main dude and the ladies. Is it his sister or daughter is the other lady his wife or mom? The age between them all seemed weird and there was zero chemistry
@@idiotidiot5821 Now that you mention it. I don't know what was their relationship 🙄 I'll hate to rewatch that garbage to find out.
@@idiotidiot5821 I had to watch it again and realize "oh that's his wife or gf? And daughter?" I thought he was a stepdad or uncle at first
6:35 That Pinocchio joke made me piss myself.😂
That and the Power Rangers parody at 13:29
16:21 Funnily enough, the design for Kabal's mask looks far more similar to MK3's Cyrax than Kabal's traditional mask.
This movie was such a big nothing. As a big MK fan I felt nothing but boredom and like I was wasting my time. Like you said, that 1995 film is cheesy and should be somewhat more violent but that film is such a good time I forget it’s PG-13 and just have a wonderful time. The games have this storytelling Trouble recently too. Gets things right but gets way more wrong. Scorpions revenge was a fun watch, moved kinda fast but I enjoyed it. Battle of the Relms moved way to fast for me though.
Good to see you once again. Always nice to hear your thoughts.
Mimimi
I actually enjoyed it(I think the nostalgia got me in my feelings)☺I've been playing MK for a while myself and I cried the first time I played with my kid. I cried when he invited me to the midnight release to get MK X. I was able to hold back the tears when we pre ordered MK 11, but that didn't last long🤣🤣I still have my VHS copies of the movies and remember watching them constantly. This movie felt like a little wink at the old heads, but it seemed exciting enough for someone not familiar with the game, too.
Sorry to say, but if you're watching any movie, you're pretty much wasting your time.
Dirte Kinte
Not if I’m enjoying myself, then I’m passing the time
I kept falling asleep when I tried to watch a second time.
Speaking of The Raid. . . for the cost of Mortal Kombat, you could make The Raid, 1 and 2, 25 times, and still have money left over for a massive cocaine yacht party.
Anyone talking shit about budget should know that Mk 95 was made with small budget and director had no experience in martial arts cinema. MCU movies, with all their moneys still give us a lot of awful CGI, boring final fights, with shaky editing etc. Fortunately,Shang Chi is better than this so its, not just about the money but who used them in creative way.
@@Endru85x
"It's not just about the money but who used them in creative way."
I assure you that was my sentiment, and I was talking about the 2021 Mortal Kombat. MK 95 indeed used it's budget better than this new one, and was worlds ahead in the creativity department for sure. Cheers.
@@SewerTapes that was my intent too, maybe did not put it well enough in words. MK 2021 wasted every opportunity to be great. Mk 95 did as much as it was possible for people making it. It holds nicely, MK 2021 will be forgotten quickly, maybe with exception of all reviews and rants explaining why it sucked.
I remember Sub Zero and Scorpion being huge characters in my childhood... It's a shame to see they were only promotion material...
Great video Cordery! Think I might binge on some Mortal Kombat lore now that you've brought this up
Totally, there's some good game series videos on here, nice and long
Well, in the story of the games they’re just background characters and promotional material, probably because they’re mascots, hell scorpion barely appears in scorpion’s revenge
@@Skallywag_ahh That's a real shame because of all the characters I remember, it's those two that always stand out the most.
They may not be the focus of the games, but their arcs are still fun to follow. Especially in the original timeline.
What these adaptions (including the animated ones) have done to these two characters is just outright appaulling.
It’s funny that the only good parts of the movie are the beginning and the end, the costumes, Josh Lawson’s Kano, Hiroyuki Sanada’s Scorpion, and Joe Taslim’s Sub-Zero. Everything else is forgettable, even the main character, who’s a block of wood.
the Ray Skywalker scene still gives me the Bad Chills. Its soo damn Cringe
When Shang Tsung and Raiden shared a scene I could feel all the energy just draining from the movie like Kung Laos soul
Odd since the 95 movie Shang Tsung and Raiden were the best characters in the movie. Lambert and Tagawa were both amazing in the original MK movie. The two in the 21 movie were so bland and forgettable.
I've been lobbying for a James Wan Power Rangers film ever since I saw the fight scenes in Aquaman that basically went full rubber suit tokusatsu whenever it wasn't giant cgi battles.
But yeah. I guess he could make a kick ass Mortal Kombat as well.
It's amazing, LITERALLY AMAZING, that this film had its fans and hopefuls. You'd think no video game movie ever sucked.
I called it though and I was right.
I dont think I have ever agreed with a review so hard before. Alot of love went into this video.
I feel like a lot of ppl would disagree with me on this but one minor detail which bugged me when watching this was how Sub Zero’s mask piece just looked too big for his face. I get that it was probably made that way so that the actor could be more comfortable/breathe better, but the size and loose fitting just made his face look fat the entire time. I reckon that if they shrunk it a bit and allowed it to hug his face more, his jaw would look more defined and it would be a much better fit.
Goro was terrible in this one. Many of my family asked me why a WoW orc was in Mortal Kombat. It wasn't just him being CGI, the face was entirely wrong.
Yes! Thank you. I was trying to pick what his look was like but couldn't figure it out. A bloody WoW orc.
A wow orc! 🤣👍
Greatly summed it up. Something was off with his face and could not find a word. Old Goro was waaay better, just like original Thing was more scary than CGI bullshit we got in this 2011 prequel or whatever it was.
Goro was so wasted in this movie and he gets killed by some newbie character that most people didn’t like. It completely ruins the character.
@@Endru85x have you seen the behind the scenes footage released by the practical fx team, for the 2011 Thing? It's a shame the studio forced the garbage cgi. The practical effects looked amazing.
Last year's animated film made good use of the R rating with all the cheesy gore the games are known for and 3 F-bombs. I enjoyed Scorpion's Revenge but it is hard to make a tournament-style game into a good linear narrative for a movie. I'm American BTW.
It seems that you hadn't watched Battle of the Realms, the Scorpion Revenge sequel, is a very good sequels, is everything that this movie is not, and actually close the arc of Scorpion, ending the cycle of revenge.
@@TheKeyser94 You are correct and as a matter of fact Scorpion's Revenge is the only Mortal Kombat movie I have seen.
@@pip5528 You should watch Battle of the Realms, is like the original movie with a mix of "buddy cop" between Scorpion and the brother of Subzero, at first they really not get along, Subzero want to kill Scorpion for killing his brother, but in the end they end working together, even that they effort are futile when they fight against a literal god, thankfully the Elder Gods granted that power to Liu Kang for being the victor of the tournament, the ending is similar to Annihilation but way more brutal and less stupid.
the problem with mortal kombat as a film is not that it is a tournament fighter. the problem is that the story is an afterthought, ed boon just came up with some characters by ripping off big trouble in little china, bruce lee and jean claude van damme. some of them have a backstory, but it originally didn't have much to do with the other characters.
when they take all of this and put it all together, only garbage comes out.
it won't matter how many times you make jax and sonia hunt down kano. it's always going to be stupid. they are early 90s bad movie tropes. all thrown in a blender.
likewise it won't matter how many times raiden chooses a clueless movie star as defender of the realm, it will always be stupid.
the whole concept of 1vs1 fighting to decide the fate of a universe. is dumb.
the fact that shao kahn can be defeated by a baseline human, when he is an interdimensional superhuman, is dumb.
it doesn't matter how many times you see the other realms, it will still be dumb that quan chi or shinnok are in charge instead of cheering up children in their clown makeup.
it's all remarkably stupid.
the real mortal kombat movie is called big trouble in little china.
Mortal Kombat didn't even show Mortal Kombat. The whole film and all the fights were pre-tournament. It was so annoying that the film never actually went to Mortal Kombat.
The main actor was so bland that I felt like I was watching a Tommy Wiseau if he was on anti-depressants and took up an addiction to mood blocking pills
He looks like a bargain bin version of Keanu Reeves from the first Matrix but with even less personality.
@@viscountrainbows6452 for real man has no personality what so ever I've seen better emotion being shown from p(0)rn actors and that's not a cap that's the actual truth at least for me it is
The most hearbreaking thing was not seeing anyone fall into the pit from a overcharged uppercut and it was tragic seeing that Jax was right there with his strong arms, the perfect candidate and he didn't do it.
This video is the best thing to happen to me all hour.
I agree with all your thoughts. It had alot of Good, but then alot of head-scratching choices as well... "Horror" SubZero was absolutely awesome. Would love to see him come back in a sequel as Noob Saibot.
Noob quit the MK universe to join Skynet for a Cyber upgrade to his Arcana and became a Terminator in Dark Fate
You gotta be one of the funniest TH-cam "reaction" guys I've seen/herd, love your perspective and your humour, probably biased also since I'm a 90's kid but man.
when i saw this in theaters, there were kids with grandparents, lots of singles etc, right after the goro scene half the people walked out, one guy was like fuck this movie......even the employees when the movie was over was like hey that movie sucked didn't it
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Kano was the only reason I kept watching this longer than 30 minutes
I’m hyped for the malignant review 😂
Same!!
I'll say this till the end of time: GARETH EVANS (Director of THE RAID movies) should have written and directed MORTAL KOMBAT (2021)... Such a wasted opportunity.
Yeah, the Raid movies are very well done, and the fight scenes are brutal, and never seen such brutal fight scenes since the Ip Man movies, but at difference from them, this movie not shy away from blood, at lot, a lot of blood. It made remember the movie from Jet Lee, The Dragon Kiss, with similar choreography, that is a french movie that come out in the 90'.
Cole was my biggest problem. Lewis Tan seems like a cool guy and can bring the martial arts but it should have been Liu Kang or even Johnny Cage as the lead. I have heard Cole will nor be as big of a presence in the sequel.
Casting Lewis Tan as a character that replaces Johnny is pointless anyways since Lewis is half-British.
i.e. Cole could've just been Johnny Cage but half-Asian.
@@genericweeb7300 I thought that too, but I don't think Lewis would be a good Johnny Cage. Never know though of course. They supposedly didn't use him because they didn't want a white guy as the lead. Which shows how dense they are since Liu Kang is Chinese and the franchise poster boy.
There is this trend that has been established the past decades of trying to take a franchise that was meant to have children or teenagers as an audience and try to make it serious and grounded to reality. And it simply cannot be done. Thats why the 1st MK movie was successful. It didnt pretend to be anything more than what its supposed to be. Also quite interesting, even though the story of MK is silly and superficial, the production of the first MK was really serious when it came to casting the right actors (with perhaps the exception of Christoph Lampert who they got just to include a famous actor in the movie). So not pretentious but made with love is what I am getting at.
Sure, the bloody fatalities were clearly for children, were so brutal that Nintendo changed the colour of the blood from red to green, and the games only become more brutal since then, and even mocked the censure with Babylaties and the Friendshiplities.
@@TheKeyser94 The fatalities were exagurated and that made them funny, but out of the whole MK package the fatalities are perhaps the only aspect that COULD actually be grounded and made more realistic in a movie. What I meant, was you have a ridiculous premice of wizards and ninjas, cyborgs and hollywood actors that compete in a martial arts tournament to save the "earth realm"! That cannot be made into a serious movie. The best attempt I ve see so far is MK11. I was surpised by both the acting level and the script it had.
Ok I had to stop in the middle of this video to comment... You just got a new subscriber as soon as I saw the Orgasmo scene.... I still yell KYOOOOO to this day. Thank you for making my week.
This movie was a huge wasted opportunity
Our thoughts on this stuff are basically twins 😆. Especially wanting more better stuff for Mortal Kombat and Power Rangers movies. They easily have potential comparable to the MCU and DCEU.
Kabal is literally just if Mandalorian talked like Deadpool. Also for Annihilation, Cryax had the most epic 90s back flip ever when Jax chucks the table at him.
I feel like when it comes to these movies, they feel like they have to put as many characters as they can into them. I feel like if they'd treat them similarly to the Marvel movies, where different characters get their own films building up to a bigger film it'd work better. Have A 8 movie set up. They'd have to make sure they got a set of writers who knew where the ending was going and how to get to that point. If we had something to build these characters for us, so when the one's we are rooting for die it has a real impact. I feel like making a one or two off only works because we know the games. It needs to assume we know absolutely nothing.
Honestly a high budget HBO series would’ve been such a better idea. Introduce characters in each episode follow their story for an hour each and the finale be the fights or something along those lines. 10 episodes of build up would be awesome. Sad how little energy and effort Hollywood puts into their product these days.
@@stephendoctor6941 Man I said the exact same thing.
That keyboard warrior moment was great. haha loved it.
The point u made about this film soundtrack is exactly how i feel about the scores from their last 3 games. This basic ass superhero movie vibe and i haaaate it cuz they’ve done so much better.
Did you just show a scen from "Orgazmo" 😂
That is hilarious! 😂
This movie was such a big letdown. When I first saw the trailer, and was like " who the hell is cole?" I saw that during interviews the actor was saying stuff like "He's important to the MK World, and has a connection with another character" as soon as I saw that, I was like "Oh, he's a descendent of Scorpion... just what we need, an OC, instead of the MANY MK characters that could fit that role".
IMO, They should have ditched Cole, and the whole Arcana crap. Made Johnny Cage as the audience stand-in. A washed-up actor, who is now doing pitty cage fights, Like Cole is.
No connection to Scorpion, but Sub-Zero thinks he is connected to him, thus hunts him down, gets saved by Liu Kang. They go to pick up Sonya, who has Kano, Rest of the movie plays like it did, just with Jax getting arm enhancements, Kano getting a laser eye implanted when he swaps teams, and Sonya's Sonic Ring thing is just Tech she invented while training with the other warriors to put her self on the same level as the others with Fireballs, and Lasers and the like.
Johnny Cage is a parody of Jean Claude Van Damme, that why he is a wash up actor to arrogant and narcissist, but fight with literally outer beings, making humble.
The movie should’ve been about The Great Kung laos defeat to Goro and the decendant taking revenge for his ancestor.
The beginning of the film could’ve been like the mountain vs oberyn with Raiden witnessing The Great Kung laos brutal death, could’ve been the perfect setup for Mortal Kombat.
Dude, I kept waiting for that old soundtrack to kick in and it never did.. It would have been a nostalgic blowout if the old music kicked in. The new music was like if someone who just got a keyboard tried to mimic the old soundtrack..lol
So far I watched this, Terminator, and your Freddy video… I think you’re my long lost Aussie twin. The points you make are my thoughts personified on each property. However, I was really disappointed with this MK because of how much they hyped it up to be like the web series. With Power rangers though, I knew going in they were going to mess it up. They drastically changed the suits for no good reason. If something is already great; enhance it, don’t fucking change it! Your Freddy list is also something I agree with so much that it’s scary (haha). They need to sit down with people like me and you before they try to remake MK,PR, etc. Hell, we should shadow the director during filming to give real time feedback. Looking forward to watching your other videos, keep up the great work!
Hey, love your videos, man, and I hope you keep pumping out more content regularly again. Just wanted to say that and also was wondering just wondering if you or anyone reading this could help me figure out what the name of the music is playing in the background during the runtime 20:07 - 23:00 of this video? Sorry for the random question. Just wouldn't mind adding that music to my playlist for work. 😅
What sucks is that the 2017 MMPR movie made an okay profit, but sold a metric fuck-ton of merchandise that netted it another several million dollars. The sequel got the green-light and theeeeeeen... Nothing. And I absolutely loved that movie because they actually took time to build the world and the characters in a very well-done way for a movie based on a 90s kids show. I really hope MK gets a sequel. The word-of-mouth was decent, it made a decent profit in theaters and apparently did crazy big numbers via HBO Max. Give them another $20M, do the tournament, more fight scenes, and then set-up the outworld invasion for MK3 and MK4, with Khan getting bested in MK4.
Love to exist in a world where the raid and the raid 2 get the recognition they deserve 👏
In an early version of the script, the prologue depicted the spine fatality but it involved two gladiators in the Coliseum. It also had one character saying: "Toasty!"
Source?
@@its_brodz The script I read.
@@its_brodz The script I read.
All I remember about Funny People is Eric Bana geeking out over an Essendon Bombers match while Adam Sandler and Seth Rogan stare in confusion. Great film. Also the fact that they cast Chin Han as Shang Tsung and not Bi Han/Sub Zero peeved me like having a random spider web stuck to your face that you can't wipe off.
I have no idea how anybody saw this film and genuinely enjoyed it. Pacing issues, long periods of absolutely nothing happening, and it went the completely wrong way with introducing a new character. The only person I knew who "liked" would have said he did even if it was just scorpion turning around and letting out a long wet fart for 90 mins.
I am terrified by amount of people defending this crap. They say something about nostalgia etc. and i reply - hey i grew up with both games and movies and i did not feel nothing watching Mk 2021. Absolute snoozefest with awful fights, characters, scenography. Only the beggining was promising, then it quickly went down the toilet.
I thought it was a good entertaining movie
@@derrikadams3375 That's good you enjoyed it, but a 73% drop-off at the box office in week 2 would vehemently disagree with you. *Ed Boon* doesn't even like the movie or the production team behind it, and you KNOW that's a problem.
(4:45 of the video, this interview was in 2019....)
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@@Endru85x I think it's a lot of newbies who weren't even born when Mortal Kombat first came out and think it's all about fighting and gore. A lot of people have very low standards when it comes to videogame based movies and when it comes to Mortal Kombat, which would be insulting to me if I was the creator of the franchise.
Cole Young really ruined this movie for me, other than Scorpion appearing for two minutes, I have no problem with OC characters, when they are done right, but Young was a troupe, not a character, his power was literally power armour. It was so hard to keep the original characters and not add not bullshit boring OC character? Maybe that why they release Battle of the Realms, to fix the cluster fuck of the release of this movie.
Cole's character should've been Johnny Cage, played by a different actor and without wife and kid bs
@ Yeah, I was thinking he same thing when I watched the movie, I was wondering why the hell Johnny Cage wasn't in the movie.
I find it ironic that Cole's power was an armor suit. He can't fight so they give him armor to allow him to get beaten up lol
@@tomwells8093 It literal plot armour.
Mk21 poster: guys it’s scorpion :)
Movie: guys it’s cole young :(
I still like the 90s version better. I’ve since watched it a couple times and the 90s version holds up better. Sub zeros portrait wasn’t enough to hold a whole movie of lame acting. Scrap this and make a sub zero movie. Then you have something
I was really hoping MK would just be the Raid with fatalities
Christ I lost it laughing when that Malignant cut of the crowd hit. Well played.
Lord zed, rita, and goldar are some of the most evil and awesome sounding voice acting...voices i've heard in a long time.
“Zack Snyder’s Power Rangers”. What a perfect way to put it. P.S. I apologize to all of Australia for liking Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang.
I'll be awesome a Zack Snyder's Power Ranger would be way better than the new Power Rangers we got
"Zack Snyder's Power Rangers" is a perfect description
Haha nice! You used my custom Kabal poster edit in your video! Thanks!
lol, oh really? The one at 15:59 ?
@@cordzfx that's the one!
I with I had a better image of the weapon but at the time I did the image, there wasn't any.
I also did a better poster for Cole too.
Ah right, well good job man. I had no idea it was a fan edit lol. Looked legit to me, lol.
@@cordzfx I try my best 😉
If you're still trying to see how this take on the MK live action could work, I have done a few livestreams that could interest you. Pull what you want from my streams to help you with anything MK movie related in future! 👍
Aw man, I think I'm all Mortal Kombated out, lol. For this video I watched the new movie 3 times, the first animated movie twice, the animated sequel, the original twice, and a few episodes of the web series. I think I'm full on MK for a while, haha.
Sadly I have to say that the MK 2021 film is terrible. While there are cool effects and two good fights (scorpion/subzero) the writing in the film is absolute trash. Too many plot holes, some of which completely break the film. Sadly, even the animated MK movies suffer from the same problems, so I can't reccommend them unless you can turn off every brain cell in your body and clap at the pretty colors and blood/gore.
Awful movie. I love MK, but this was rough. HARRY POTTER REFERENCE HAHAHAHA
Kano was insufferable. I was SO excited for this, and forgot all about it right after I watched it.
Hit the nail on the head especially with the raid being being the standard now for me and its yet to be beat
Have you watched the night comes for us on Netflix yet? Amazing Indonesian fighting film! Just perfect
😍 Man, this movie is awesome 😍 also
I have seen the raid and raid 2. A long time ago actually, great fight movies.
You mentioned "get to the top of the building trope" in movies, don't forget the dredd remake, which was fucking awesome!
Holy shit I was trying so hard to figure out what the villains reminded me of ever since I saw it, and of course, it was Power Rangers lmao
"...and f*** me dead was I missing out." Hahahahaha *Subscribed*
I feel like here in Australia Kano's language isn't as much of a problem since we tend to throw around that kind of thing in casual conversation. It's insane that it got an R18+.
I honestly can not understand how they managed to make such a mediocre movie when the MK franchise has proven that it can deliver!
The last video game of the franchise was a much more well made production than this movie, which felt as if hollywood funded an amateur group of MK fans.
Casting was terrible for Liu Kang, Shang Chung, Reiko and ESPECIALLY Raiden!
Outworld was literally a mining site with a giant Goro statue,
Raiden's "temple" was another mining site,
fights were taking places in completely boring sites including a parking garage building,
outside a barn
and (my personal favourite), in a kitchen and a bathroom !!????
The actor that played Kano was spot on, but god damn, did he talk too much!
The MK quotes felt forced and it had too many 90's references and cringy humour...
And somehow even though they showed gruesome fatalities,
I didn't feel the fatalities added anything to the film...
Honestly I feel the MK 11 game's plot, settings, character's facial likeness to the original games(with the exception of Raiden, Scorpion and Sheeva) and even the actor's performances, are far superior to this movie!
When did hating Australians in movies start?🤯
In most movies I've seen with any Australians in them were quite joyful characters..🤔
I didn't mind it...
But then again Crocodile Dundee was the shit for me so..😅
He was like a Texan but from Australia...
I'd rather watch Quan Chi and the Legend of a Better Movie.
Shang-Chi was a million times better than mortal kombat with better action and it was pg13 lol
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I didn't watch Mortal Kombat (2021). I do find it peculiar both Shang and Chi are in this series, though. Maybe John Tobias and Ed Boon saw the writing on the wall.
@@Elfrunner wait, I think we're talking about 2 different characters from 2 different universes
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Three, actually, though two are from the same universe as each other. It was a fun reference, is all. SHANG Tsung and Quan CHI. John and Ed could have been fans of the comic.
@@Elfrunner oh lmaoooo, I never got that lol, but yeah ik about Shang Tsung and Quan Chi lol
Lawson's portrayal of Kano kinda sucks tho. Compared to Trevor Goddard's.
Yeah, that's why I stated a special mention NOT for his portrayal of Kano, but for being an natural Aussie. I still think Trevor Goddard's Kano is superior portrayal, but I just had so much fun watching Josh Lawson being so many people I know.
Hey Cordery, I noticed you didn't say much about the quality of the writing in either MK film. Is your channel focused more on the effects and designs rather than writing in films?
I just realized Goldar and Kuwabara has the same voice actor !!! Dope video brodie
They should have left the outworld stuff off screen, keep us in the dark like the heroes. I doubt any of them apart from Raiden ever been there... Keep it & Tsung a mystery... Maybe expand on the journey to Raiden's temple. Maybe have them spied on & followed from distance by Kabal or someone, Mileena? Reiko? So there a reason for Tsung to know where they gone & a way to show off character without the cut aways. Also builds on the cat & mouse iniated by Subzero earlier in the film. (Apart from split second psychic flashes it not like we see Scorpion trudging through the Neather Realm) save the other dimensions for sequel when have more budget & less to establish.... Heck use the time to build up some of the weaker character's.
OH MY GOSH “ZACK SYNDERS POWER RANGERS” should be the title of this vid 🎯🎯the accuracy
I enjoyed this incredibly flawed film but the things it got right were great and the things it got wrong was bad. I like the fight scenes for the most part and the actors did a good job considering the material was fine but incredibly flawed. I would love to see sequels to this reboot series because this was a decent start for the most part. It’s funny how you mentioned James Wan because he was a producer on the film but I am glad he choose to make Malignant because that film was amazing.
I get that everyone is entitled to their own opinion and if you liked it, thats great but people saying they like this movie, shows that people will LITERALLY ACCEPT ANYTHING as long as it has "MK" in the title and to me that is so sad because we will never get a good MK movie *IMHO* , because that's giving studios the sign they can do whatever they want and fans will bow down to it. 73% drop-off at the box office during its 2nd week would be a huge disagreement saying the material was fine. It wasn't. And when *ED BOON* doesn't even like the movie, you KNOW thats a problem and I wish I saw THIS interview that I'm linking next because had I seen this, I would have immediately knew not to waste my time and money on this rubbish. I didn't even know the movie was coming out till the trailer dropped and I'm a die-hard MK fan....
2019 interview with Ed Boon and 4:45 of the video is what you're looking for. The script is HORRIBLE.
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It was literally like a four year old wrote the movie and a commercial director directed it. Greg Russo is that four year old, and Simon Mcquoid is the commercial director. I literally was thinking "why TF did it feel like I just got done watching a 2 hr commercial?" And a couple days later after watching reviews of people absolutely thrashing this movie, I did some research that I wish I would have done before going, because it turned out that this movie WAS in fact done by a commercial director. It was so ironic, I thought the world was done because I couldn't even make this up. The movie was basically a commercial for Cole Young and not Mortal Kombat.
When a studio (WB) hires the Wonder Woman 1984 writer (Greg Russo) and a commercial director to direct MK *as his 1st movie* , along with MANDATING they do a Resident Evil (making Alice aka Cole Young the main character over EVERYONE'S lifelong established fan favorites) in front of the arcs of OG characters, thats a sign the studio does not give a F about the source material nor the fans, and it 100% showed in the "final product" that was this travesty of an excuse for a Mortal Kombat movie. They should have titled it "Mortal Combat" and I probably would have liked it better knowing I was only getting a spoof of the real MK.
After watching this I'm now more convinced that Mortal Kombat 2021 was nothing more than a parody of Power Rangers.
Lol you def got my sub for those power ranger ref those was perf keep up the good work bro I enjoyed this video
Your videos are cracking me up. Subscribed
I still can’t get over the fact that Suicide Squd has more Gore, not to mention Rick Flags death was MK X Ray worthy
The worst The Suicide Squad had was King Shark ripping the soldier in half, which was in the trailer. Mortal Kombat had someone getting sawed in half, a heart getting ripped out, intestines spilling out, a head getting crushed with bare hands, and a hole in the chest showing a spinal cord. But The Suicide Squad was more gory?
The Web series absolutely demolishes this.
Liu Kang is channelling Captain Kirk. Lewis Tan looks too young, I thought that was his younger sister and he was kissing his Mom for a minute! The Arcana is a terrible waste of time and the Mileena vs Sonya fight was a slow God awful atrocity.
After watching this I'm donating my copy watched 1 time to the library down the road. Sad could have been sooo much better. Still got the original one on bluray.
My biggest complain was that it's a Mortal Kombat movie without Mortal Kombat tournament. They spent the whole movie avoiding it. It's just so apparent they plan this as series of films and thus cut a lot of the content for future entrances and this is what's the worst about such projects. I wish studios tried to make a GOOD self-sufficient movie above all and think about franchise as a secondary thing. I bet there would be much more chances to get one then like this.
One of the most successful franchise MCU started with independent movies that are connected only slightly to keep things consistent. And Lucas's Star Wars become a franchise only because they put their souls into the first movie without even thinking about making it a series.
"goddmn Pinocchio that's who"
It took me 3 seconds to register, then I laughed really hard, at the joke, then at me saying internally "wait what?" To the joke.
I’m still pissed that A-TEAM didn’t get any sequels
Try being irish....my god the attempts at our accents...tis hard to hear but i love it i love the effort bring on the cringe ;)
10:27 Tell me why the reptile theme fit perfectly for that part dude right we need techno music
Lol the cuts to Power Ranger scenes were the funniest parts of this video.
i feel like this movie has a couple of issues for me specifically
1. The fight choreography although higher than the regular standard for hollywood, was lacking and shot badly, and in some cases, the sound design for the fights was lackluster
2. The characters just didnt standout at all...(except kano obviously)
Movie damn sucked. It opened up making us think that Sub Zero and Scorpian were gonna be the primary focus but they barely had any screen time at all. The story felt like it went nowhere and just a setup for Johnney Cage in the sequel teaser at the end, but they should have just had him in the flick the whole time!!! Plus couldn't they get someone else to play Sheng Tsung?? I mean this actor looks like such a nice guy! The original was that same dude from Showdown in Little Tokyo. That guy just LOOKS super evil! And Lu Kang?? He was like a sweet little college boy! Dear Lord!
The Australian R 18+ rating is really a combination of Hard R and NC-17. There are so movies that get just an R here in the US and some that release as unrated directors cuts.
The fact ppl lie to themselves by trying to say this movie isn't insulting to MK fans just so they can get more product is hilarious, especially after you literally pointed out how they dumb it down like we're children. I'd rather have nothing than to get trash like this.
The guy who played Cole should've played Scorpion. The guy who played Scorpion should've played Shang Tsung.
Also, this first movie should've been solely about Scorpion vs Sub Zero.
It would've been really cool if the plot had centered around Scorpion dying at the beginning of the movie (with the opening scene being exactly what we got), and going to the Netherrealm (MK's version of the underworld).
Once there, he learns of a tournament made for the amusement of the ruler of the Netherrealm, Shinnock, who promises that whoever wins the tournament, wins back their life and can return to Earth.
And thus, the movie centers around Scorpion brutalizing a bunch of D List (because you want to leave the good characters for the sequels) MK characters and committing unspeakable acts of violent, gory cinematic glory as he showcases a plethora of different fatalities that he's had throughout the games.
He wins the tournament and thus gets to go back to Earth. However, Shinnock never intended for this to happen. It's revealed that he's working with Shao Kahn, the ruler of another realm called Outworld. They're plotting together to find the greatest warriors that can be used for an invasion of Earthrealm.
The movie would end with Scorpion (who's been enslaved and is controlled by Shao Kahn) indeed being returned to Earth, only several hundred years into the future. There, he assassinates Bo' Rai Cho, one of Shao Kahn's major rivals. And thus setting up the sequel involving a revenge quest of Bo' Rai Cho's students: Liu Kang and Kung Lao.
I think that would have been good. It has a nice little "tournament style" fighting system in the Netherrealm and could also have a sub plot involving the sorcerer Quan Chi, who exploits Sub Zero into destroying the rest of Scorpion's clan, the Shirai Ryu.
Any thoughts?
Mortal Kombat 2021 was great. People can disagree, but this isn't a knee jerk opinion from watching it on TV at night. I saw it on opening night, then had to see it again. Been a fan of MK since MK 1 arcade, before the console ports, and I gotta say they NAILED a lot of things. The costumes, the Sub-Zero scenes, the casting. Kano, Scorpion, Mileena. Kung Lao doing weird shit. The Beastmaster-esque Outworld scenes shot in an old desert in Australia with cool CGI planets in the sky. The opening scene in Feudal Japan with Hanzo and Bi-han. Loved it.
I payed 20 bucks fo it to see it at the start online(it never came to cinema here, because it was in the middle of corona-lockdown) and i never wanted my money back so much.
I definitly disagree.
It was shit, in every aspect.
The only good thing was the beginning in japan.
After that it went to the shitter.
Yes Annihilation! That one line is iconic 💅 also they did Nitara so dirty in this movie 😅