I just watched this movie again last night and it wasn't so bad. Some parts are cringe worthy but overall its entertaining, if you're a real MK fan and not really picky. The acting needed more work and fight choreography, but other than that it was alright.. not all crap like everyone says. We have to appreciate all the hard work that went into making it, also to Robin Shou and Talisa Soto for returning and making it what it was.. also the guy who played Shao Kahn did a tremendous job
This movie was not it lol and they could’ve found a better Shao Khan and raider at least taller and bigger guys. Raiden was damn near the same size as Liu
I've read some interesting (and often conflicting) reports about the film. This is what I've gleaned from them: -Evidently it was a nightmare to shoot due to a rushed schedule, and the director (who worked on the first film as the cinematographer) was overwhelmed by the whole experience. Lead actor Robin Shou also wasn't even able to film all of his fight scenes because he was being stretched so thin on-set. (In certain scenes, Liu is actually played by Tony Jaa in wideshots, with Shou just shooting closeups.) -At the tail end of post-production, the producers realized that the film just didn't work. They wanted to delay the release by six months to comprehensively re-edited the movie from the ground up (plus, they didn't have enough time to finish most of the special effects, and the extra six months would have helped them tremendously), but rather than delay the film, the studio vetoed the decision and made them release it as it was. -There were also several major deleted scenes, and even an alternate ending that all got cut for different reasons. The main producer wanted to put some of them back into the film, but they just couldn't due to the strict deadlines set by the studio. Would it have saved the film if they had postponed the release to re-edit the film, fix the effects and put the deleted scenes back in? I don't know. It probably still wouldn't have been a good movie, but it might have at least been more coherent. Still, as bad as it is, I've got a bit of nostalgic love for _Annihilation._ It's silly and ridiculous, but it's fun to watch just for how bat-shit crazy it is.
Actually, it's not such a bad movie. But I was frustrated with the work on the image of Shao-Kann, who they turned into a hysterical jerk who makes the wrong decisions. They should have made him like we saw him in mortal kombat: conquest. They also badly spelled out Johnny Cage's death - he should have died at the end of the movie after the epic battle with the fighter squad at the hands of Motaro. Also, they should have spelled out exactly in the script what-what right did Shao-Kann invade Earth in the first place, rather than making the audience listen to nonsense from the elder gods. All in all, there was a lot to work on.
so true. I'm sure the first one was the same way, which is probably why most of the cast from the first film were replaced with new actors/actresses. Because they didn't want to work hard again to have a movie come out cheesy
You can tell that people are passionate about what they do, that they are trying hard, despite the lack of budget required to make something of better quality. I can see it and, as a fan, I appreciate it. All I see now is actors and film-makers either not caring or openly hating the source material, so no amount of modern (but soulless) CGI impresses me.
The actors for Shao Kahn and Raiden both have been in Van Damme movies. Brian Thompson played evil henchman "Russell" in Lionheart, and James Remar played heavyweight boxer "Maxie Devine" in The Quest.
I have legit been looking for some kind of behind the scenes footage for this movie for years now and none of the DVDs I've bought have had anything other the movie and subtitle options and I found nothing online. I don't know why I wasn't able to find this video until now but I'm glad I did. This video made me so happy seeing how much they put their all into this movie. I love this movie even more now
Its great to see Ray Park in action as Raiden double, that fight was actually pretty sweet, i know it was overdone but its actual people doing the stunts.
I didn't care what anyone said I loved both of the mortal kombat movies from my childhood when I was 7 or 8 years old the one who played Jax was a little funny, though I didn't like how Johnny cage died, or there wasn't much sub-zero in it, and scorpion not appearing again but nevertheless the action and soundtrack to the movie was my favorite and worth it.
It legitimately baffles me to see how much hate this movie gets. It wasn't perfect by any means but it definitely isn't anywhere near as bad as people make it out to be. I'll always enjoy watching this movie no matter how much time goes by or how much critics dislike it.
I was a kid when that movie came out... I loved it. my only problem was that sonya was too much of a jerk to jax,not enough sub-zero, and raiden's haircut.
This mortal kombat movie is a masterpiece it features more action more character development and a lot of adventure,more cool characters with cool costumes and better dialogue ,mk annihilation is way more better than that first mk film, the first one was ridiculous. this was the mortal kombat movie i was looking for all these years.😁👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Finally i saw the shooting of my most favourite movie Mortal Kombat i rememver in my childhood my deep fantasy was to do a time travel and go back to that time and watch and feel the shooting of mortal kombat but that was not possible but now finally i watched this...
If you're learning Spanish from this video; take note, some of the subtitles are technically correct but they do not always translate what the people are saying in the footage probably because the translator misheard the audio.
@@tiiito1988 No kidding? I doubt if it even exists anymore but if it does, it would be an absolute treasure and might sell for very high depending on who has the rights to it.
From 5:40 and 6:41, In the words of the Nostalgia Critic, (He remembers it so YOU don’t have to) “For crying out loud...! This isn’t Mortal Kombat! It’s Mortal Ballet!” (Waltz of the Flowers by Tchaikovsky plays)
Honestly think the two lead actors or Robin Shou & Talisa Soto (Liu Kang & Kitana, respectively) tried their hardest. But the films final shooting script, the super fuckin' horrid lead baddie from Cobra playing a _TRULY FUCKIN' AWFUL_ over-acting big time Shao Khan with totally the wrong kind of on screen energy and also the film's budget _HAD_ to be funneled as well too. There is no two ways about it.
Waiting so long for that Producers Cut so much I'm wanting to get that pop again. Don't care what those fools say this film still is incredible today! Give the middle finger to the haters and just release the Ultimate Cut already!!!
That is true, one of the few good things about this cinematic abortion: Her fatality, as super ridiculous as it was noted by Cinema Sins on their video on here recently, and then of course Cyrax's self-destruct fatality, which was sort of cool. Sindel's "demonic wind scream" as well, too.
I love this film, and I don't give a damn that it's bad (the only thing I can't forgive is Johnny Cage). It's still better than many much more successful films nowadays that look soulless. Filmmaking, in general, has gone to the dogs in recent years.
Whenever I watch Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, I feel bad for the rushed production... Because in a few words, The movie was rushed out, The visuals remained unfinished, It failed, And it also holds 4% on Rotten Tomatoes, And everyone considers this movie to be the worst sequel ever made! 😔😔😔😔😔😔😡😡😡😡😡😡
Yeah strangely the film had an under-budgeted, like under $8 million shooting looking like it was one of FOX KIDS/Saban's late '90s straight to VHS tape releases. Though strangely enough the budget was over THREE TIMES that of the first film. Adjusted for inflation, the budget of this film was closer to $40 million U.S. dollars in 2016 money! So yeah, I personally believe that New Line Cinema must've funneled the money into another feature & a possible second one as they were shooting & also doing post-production work. There is no other excuse for how "dead-on-arrival" Superman IV: The Quest For Peace style the CGI F/X looked even back then. I saw this legendary cinematic shit-sandwich opening night as a (very disappointed) middle schooler in 7th grade. As well as I know what it looks like in high-definition (super sadly) since it game in a two pack with the first 1995 film on blu ray. Even in high def it doesn't help much. So yeah, the studio most definitely handled this one piss poorly. Alas the actors tried but you cannot made filet mignon like four star restaurant meat with store-bought $4 regular cheap-o ground chunk that is of a whole different meat now lol ;-)
Well as we all know the second film had a nearly three times as bigger budget, and yet looks _MUCH_ cheaper. Roughly straight to VHS styled as we can all see, like a FOX KIDS production around that time of a Power Rangers original first three seasons or a Los Luchadores or the like (ect). And so yeah I've _ALWAYS_ been under the impression that New Line Cinema funneled some of its production budget money into other projects. They simply _HAD_ to. I mean look at the dead on arrival CGI FX used in the film, for starters.
Mr. Psychobilly [Brandon] I thought the budget for the first movie was about $22 millions and for the second was $30 millions. Even on an interview producer Larry Kasanoff said they had around 30% more money for the sequel.
But yeah go back and see what I wrote. I was talking a _vastly_ under-budgeted look for the film. It really has a horrendous look. But yeah as we all know the budget was tripled so it was quite odd in retrospect, ya know?
Annihilation was not as good as the first movie but still I liked it as I am a big fan of the games. Comparing to the new version that was released recently, first two original movies were awsome, a litlle cringy but the games also were like that.
Larry Kasanoff finally spoke about it: "There were so many things that had been cut from the film and so many things that had been shot in a different way than they were written. Honestly, the final movie that's out there is not the final movie. There was supposed to be an entire second pass of visual effects, post-production, editing. But New Line said 'You know what? It's testing so well, it doesn't fucking matter. It still gonna be a hit. And by the way, it was."
I just watched this movie again last night and it wasn't so bad. Some parts are cringe worthy but overall its entertaining, if you're a real MK fan and not really picky. The acting needed more work and fight choreography, but other than that it was alright.. not all crap like everyone says. We have to appreciate all the hard work that went into making it, also to Robin Shou and Talisa Soto for returning and making it what it was.. also the guy who played Shao Kahn did a tremendous job
This movie was not it lol and they could’ve found a better Shao Khan and raider at least taller and bigger guys. Raiden was damn near the same size as Liu
Compared to the 2021 reboot, this sequel has better editing and pacing than the 2021 version
I dont care what yall say i still like the movie
This movie is definitely a guilty pleasure, something I can turn on anyday and let it play
I've read some interesting (and often conflicting) reports about the film. This is what I've gleaned from them:
-Evidently it was a nightmare to shoot due to a rushed schedule, and the director (who worked on the first film as the cinematographer) was overwhelmed by the whole experience. Lead actor Robin Shou also wasn't even able to film all of his fight scenes because he was being stretched so thin on-set. (In certain scenes, Liu is actually played by Tony Jaa in wideshots, with Shou just shooting closeups.)
-At the tail end of post-production, the producers realized that the film just didn't work. They wanted to delay the release by six months to comprehensively re-edited the movie from the ground up (plus, they didn't have enough time to finish most of the special effects, and the extra six months would have helped them tremendously), but rather than delay the film, the studio vetoed the decision and made them release it as it was.
-There were also several major deleted scenes, and even an alternate ending that all got cut for different reasons. The main producer wanted to put some of them back into the film, but they just couldn't due to the strict deadlines set by the studio.
Would it have saved the film if they had postponed the release to re-edit the film, fix the effects and put the deleted scenes back in? I don't know. It probably still wouldn't have been a good movie, but it might have at least been more coherent. Still, as bad as it is, I've got a bit of nostalgic love for _Annihilation._ It's silly and ridiculous, but it's fun to watch just for how bat-shit crazy it is.
Fingers crossed we get an extended addition released one day by Arrow Video or something.
Actually, it's not such a bad movie. But I was frustrated with the work on the image of Shao-Kann, who they turned into a hysterical jerk who makes the wrong decisions. They should have made him like we saw him in mortal kombat: conquest. They also badly spelled out Johnny Cage's death - he should have died at the end of the movie after the epic battle with the fighter squad at the hands of Motaro. Also, they should have spelled out exactly in the script what-what right did Shao-Kann invade Earth in the first place, rather than making the audience listen to nonsense from the elder gods. All in all, there was a lot to work on.
@@MURAT_OLEGOVICH Uh yes it is a BAD movie I'm sorry
Man, so many people working hard behind the scenes for a film that was totally bunk.
so true. I'm sure the first one was the same way, which is probably why most of the cast from the first film were replaced with new actors/actresses. Because they didn't want to work hard again to have a movie come out cheesy
You can tell that people are passionate about what they do, that they are trying hard, despite the lack of budget required to make something of better quality. I can see it and, as a fan, I appreciate it. All I see now is actors and film-makers either not caring or openly hating the source material, so no amount of modern (but soulless) CGI impresses me.
Thanks a lot. Raiden Vs. Reptiles scene, is one of the best in the world.
It originally was supposed to be Shiva and Raiden, and she was supposed to be knocked off the roof by Raiden
thanks for posting. this movie is ridiculous and i love it. it's great to see all this stuff that they didn't put on the dvd release.
The actors for Shao Kahn and Raiden both have been in Van Damme movies. Brian Thompson played evil henchman "Russell" in Lionheart, and James Remar played heavyweight boxer "Maxie Devine" in The Quest.
And Johnny Cage was inspired from Van Damme! It sure is a small world! Haha
“I don’t care how you do it”. That was basically the mentality of everyone making this movie.
I have legit been looking for some kind of behind the scenes footage for this movie for years now and none of the DVDs I've bought have had anything other the movie and subtitle options and I found nothing online. I don't know why I wasn't able to find this video until now but I'm glad I did. This video made me so happy seeing how much they put their all into this movie. I love this movie even more now
Its great to see Ray Park in action as Raiden double, that fight was actually pretty sweet, i know it was overdone but its actual people doing the stunts.
That fight scene really sucked it was only jumps and flips
I didn't care what anyone said I loved both of the mortal kombat movies from my childhood when I was 7 or 8 years old the one who played Jax was a little funny, though I didn't like how Johnny cage died, or there wasn't much sub-zero in it, and scorpion not appearing again but nevertheless the action and soundtrack to the movie was my favorite and worth it.
It legitimately baffles me to see how much hate this movie gets. It wasn't perfect by any means but it definitely isn't anywhere near as bad as people make it out to be. I'll always enjoy watching this movie no matter how much time goes by or how much critics dislike it.
I was a kid when that movie came out... I loved it. my only problem was that sonya was too much of a jerk to jax,not enough sub-zero, and raiden's haircut.
In my opinion, I think that's the perfect Raiden actor and Jax
I feel bad for Raiden his mom Force his to get their haircut
Where can I find the deleted scene with Quan Chi?
This mortal kombat movie is a masterpiece it features more action more character development and a lot of adventure,more cool characters with cool costumes and better dialogue ,mk annihilation is way more better than that first mk film, the first one was ridiculous. this was the mortal kombat movie i was looking for all these years.😁👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Eat 💩
Yeah eat 💩
Finally i saw the shooting of my most favourite movie Mortal Kombat i rememver in my childhood my deep fantasy was to do a time travel and go back to that time and watch and feel the shooting of mortal kombat but that was not possible but now finally i watched this...
If you're learning Spanish from this video; take note, some of the subtitles are technically correct but they do not always translate what the people are saying in the footage probably because the translator misheard the audio.
The best actors in this movie were the horses
6:12 - I don't have more questions, you honor ... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The only reason to rewatch sometimes this film is Sandra Hess.
damn the other Baraka mask not being worked on looks better
I hope the new Mortal Kombat movie remake will have the Asian elents from the game to be put into the film
Darth Maul is Raiden
Darth maul is my daddy raiden is my sugar puff daddy! 😂🤣😅😄😆
10:40 Sonya had a line here which did not make it into the final movie; "your judgment sucks!" Also Jax saying "crap" was changed to "stuff".
Indeed, and Jax also says to Cyrax "not today"
@@tiiito1988 Interesting. I love this movie and love learning about it.
@@miesvaillanykyisyytta3252 i dont like it much, but i would love to see a director's cut with more scenes added
I heard that the workprint copy is way longer but its hard to find
@@tiiito1988 No kidding? I doubt if it even exists anymore but if it does, it would be an absolute treasure and might sell for very high depending on who has the rights to it.
at least we know how much effort was put into that, shame that the battle scenes wasn't scripted so well and script in general was bad
From 5:40 and 6:41,
In the words of the Nostalgia Critic,
(He remembers it so YOU don’t have to)
“For crying out loud...!
This isn’t Mortal Kombat!
It’s Mortal Ballet!”
(Waltz of the Flowers by Tchaikovsky plays)
Very bad fight choreography
And Ray (Darth Maul) Park as Rayden's stunt doyble!
A great film, more 'comic book' than any comic book movie even now.
where did all this footage come from?
5:40 niceee love the efforts
This was meant to be a bigger and better film and so many things got in the way during production.
13:58 Sindel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
great video! thanks!
where do you get this? i have the blu-ray edition of this movie and had no extras
4:16 oh my... (Look at liu kang doing.) 😳😳
Imagine we can have movie "cuts and retakes" in life!
4:06 "is that in the script"?
I noticed that too haha
lol
all this behind the scenes footage really shouldve been added to the bluray. my only disappointment with my mortal kombat blu ray collection :(
true they should have along with MK 1
Kitana is so beautifull
A film bad on technical and non-technical levels. You can feel the professionalism on show here!
Honestly think the two lead actors or Robin Shou & Talisa Soto (Liu Kang & Kitana, respectively) tried their hardest. But the films final shooting script, the super fuckin' horrid lead baddie from Cobra playing a _TRULY FUCKIN' AWFUL_ over-acting big time Shao Khan with totally the wrong kind of on screen energy and also the film's budget _HAD_ to be funneled as well too. There is no two ways about it.
Waiting so long for that Producers Cut so much I'm wanting to get that pop again. Don't care what those fools say this film still is incredible today! Give the middle finger to the haters and just release the Ultimate Cut already!!!
All that technology wow
Lmfao the one shot they had to start the scene literally mid kick cause Jax actor can't actually fight
I was today years old before I learned raiden and noob were kicking randomly.😆
12:16 Toad from X-men
Ray Park
Love it!!!!
That's why it is called annihilation. It annihilated the first installment.
Cyrax was barbecued by Sonya before exploding into a fire blast. This can be a video game adaptation (her Fatality).
That is true, one of the few good things about this cinematic abortion: Her fatality, as super ridiculous as it was noted by Cinema Sins on their video on here recently, and then of course Cyrax's self-destruct fatality, which was sort of cool. Sindel's "demonic wind scream" as well, too.
The best fight cena!
I love this film, and I don't give a damn that it's bad (the only thing I can't forgive is Johnny Cage). It's still better than many much more successful films nowadays that look soulless. Filmmaking, in general, has gone to the dogs in recent years.
6:59 cool
Did you have any more behind the scenes of this film
That's all i got
@@tiiito1988 where did you get that?
Cool
yesss.. that means the jax arms do exist!!!! can somebody tell me where I can buy that? am rich
Whenever I watch Mortal Kombat: Annihilation,
I feel bad for the rushed production...
Because in a few words,
The movie was rushed out,
The visuals remained unfinished,
It failed,
And it also holds 4% on Rotten Tomatoes,
And everyone considers this movie
to be the worst sequel ever made!
😔😔😔😔😔😔😡😡😡😡😡😡
where you get this? i have the blu-ray and don`t have any aditional content
If I remember I found it in a MK forum.
@6:08 reptiles hand stand kicks lmfao!
Why they shoot the whole scene in once?
They tried...
I always loved that Raiden vs noob Saibot fight scene. I thought it was very well choreographed.
Those are Reptile-like ninjas, not Noob.
And what about the third one? Did he stay to protect Sindel and was also beaten?
They should all be fired for this garbage of a movie wow raiden has a stunt double
why are there stupid Spanish subtitles?
maybe because its a Spanish TH-cam's channel
some scenes is awesome. Movie should be ended after Raiden kills reptiles
Director, producer & studio made this movie a disaster
They tried to hard to make this movie look good. Thats why it looked so bad. It looked like a power rangers movie lol.
Yeah strangely the film had an under-budgeted, like under $8 million shooting looking like it was one of FOX KIDS/Saban's late '90s straight to VHS tape releases. Though strangely enough the budget was over THREE TIMES that of the first film. Adjusted for inflation, the budget of this film was closer to $40 million U.S. dollars in 2016 money! So yeah, I personally believe that New Line Cinema must've funneled the money into another feature & a possible second one as they were shooting & also doing post-production work. There is no other excuse for how "dead-on-arrival" Superman IV: The Quest For Peace style the CGI F/X looked even back then. I saw this legendary cinematic shit-sandwich opening night as a (very disappointed) middle schooler in 7th grade. As well as I know what it looks like in high-definition (super sadly) since it game in a two pack with the first 1995 film on blu ray. Even in high def it doesn't help much. So yeah, the studio most definitely handled this one piss poorly. Alas the actors tried but you cannot made filet mignon like four star restaurant meat with store-bought $4 regular cheap-o ground chunk that is of a whole different meat now lol ;-)
where did you read that it was under-budgeted?
Well as we all know the second film had a nearly three times as bigger budget, and yet looks _MUCH_ cheaper. Roughly straight to VHS styled as we can all see, like a FOX KIDS production around that time of a Power Rangers original first three seasons or a Los Luchadores or the like (ect). And so yeah I've _ALWAYS_ been under the impression that New Line Cinema funneled some of its production budget money into other projects. They simply _HAD_ to. I mean look at the dead on arrival CGI FX used in the film, for starters.
Mr. Psychobilly [Brandon] I thought the budget for the first movie was about $22 millions and for the second was $30 millions.
Even on an interview producer Larry Kasanoff said they had around 30% more money for the sequel.
But yeah go back and see what I wrote. I was talking a _vastly_ under-budgeted look for the film. It really has a horrendous look. But yeah as we all know the budget was tripled so it was quite odd in retrospect, ya know?
2018 here
Annihilation was not as good as the first movie but still I liked it as I am a big fan of the games.
Comparing to the new version that was released recently, first two original movies were awsome, a litlle cringy but the games also were like that.
This movie had so many mistakes and takes no wonder it was the worst movie smh 🤦🏻♂️
film in 1996
Thanks for that crucial but incorrect information
kooooool
Mucho mejor quedo la película "animada" de Mortal Kombat 9
1:52 What a waste of film XD
this movie was absolute trash
Larry Kasanoff finally spoke about it: "There were so many things that had been cut from the film and so many things that had been shot in a different way than they were written. Honestly, the final movie that's out there is not the final movie. There was supposed to be an entire second pass of visual effects, post-production, editing. But New Line said 'You know what? It's testing so well, it doesn't fucking matter. It still gonna be a hit. And by the way, it was."
They should've kept the sounds those ninjas fighting kitana were making in the final cut lol
13:04 they shouldve kept thier marching sounds