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Finally have the time to sit down and watch Mortal Kombat!
H A N Z O H A S A S H I C O M P O U N D
Shove that plot baby into the floorboards!
Scorpion’s clan is coming for Uncle Ben’s gig.
I’m gonna get hype over every single little reference they put in here no matter how forced it seems, I know it
These fight scenes make me wanna go beat someone’s ass
I’ve never seen such a lethal shoulder wound before.
Raiden!!!! Where was this casting for MK11.
What the fuck is a Cole Young
Cole Young twenty seconds after his debut
Eddie Tobias
Am I even doing this right, this is like the most I’ve ever tweeted anything.
Did Sub-Zero really have to knock that random man out?? How do you do all that and only hit one dude!?
Annhilation is the only MK media where Jax is actually allowed to keep his arms and be happy, isn’t it.
MILEENA
Now where’s Kitana
SONYA
Why is she breathing so hard
Well there’s Nightwolf. Nice thing about watching this is at home is that I can pause and read the article lol
I found so many typos and missing punctuations in this article lmao
Kotal Kahn on display too. And here’s Kano! Time for more fighting I guess!
That was such a bad joke, can Cole get fatalitied already please
*distant wamp wamp*
Lmfao
Lmfao
Reptile...okay, sure.
Lemme just google who plays Kano real quick...
Now why did Sonya dramatically flip(?) in slow motion just to get slapped into a wall
Me seeing Kano holding a still beating heart
Is that Liu Kang
Liu Kang has been on screen for less than a minute and is already way more interesting, and has so much more charisma than Cole. Why is the main character not the main character again?
Let’s travel down the hallway of shout outs
Now we’re in the chamber of references
Raiden looking at everyone like
KUNG LAO??
EX-FUCKING-SCUSE ME??????
Is Kitana’s fan really all we’re gonna see of Kitana in this movie...yet Mileena is standing right there? Make it make sense.
Sonya’s reaction everytime someone points out that she’s one of the champions kills me.
Their handling of Sonya so far is just so odd in this movie.
Whoever they cast as Kung Lao is playing him flawlessly.
Liu Kang murdered an orphan to gain their power? What? I like the concept of these arkana to explain the otherworldly abilities but...
Kano is being murdered by Kung Lao right now, and all he can do is sit there like
Sonya: “Whatchalookin’atthey’rebeautifulyou’realuckyman.”
If this is how Raiden acts normally, I wanna see how they handle Dark Raiden lmao
NITARA?????
Reiko....
I didn’t even have a chance to comment on how good Kabal looks, and actually had to pause the movie because of Reiko. Was the regular casting director out sick on this one? What even...
Like two days after I was slandering Shujinko, we get Cole Young who somehow manages to be even less of a character than he was.
How am I supposed to believe this man is about to survive an encounter with Goro.
That fatality looked cool as hell, but like...what was even the point of that character aside from this. Such a waste.
Cole’s wife has done more in one scene than he has in the entire movie so far.
So Cole’s arkana is... basically to become Jax. Ok.
They aren’t quite the same, but they really gave this nothing character Tanya’s weapons. Okay. Sure. And just that let him win this fight. Alright.
Is this a reference to how Sonya dies in MK11 lol
They just wasted one of the best characters. Do they not plan to have any sequels or something?
Why is Cole even here. Just go away. Now he’s telling Raiden and everyone what to do?
Cole sucks so bad at fighting that his power is literal plot armor.
They’re just killing off characters left and right now. Reveal of Sonya’s power was pretty cool, but at the same time...really?
Scorpion vs Sub-Zero is great, but it’s so obvious that they really wanted to have that Scorpion reveal moment, and wrote Cole in just to be a catalyst to get us to that moment.
Raiden vs Shang Tsung has the same energy as Storm vs Mystique.
Imagine actually using that character as a sequel hook. Lmao
The end was so abrupt...
Okay so now that it’s over! I honestly loved the movie. The visual effects were great, and I couldn’t get enough of all the references they sprinkled (forced) in everywhere. It did have a ton of problems though.
Characterization was so weird. All of the actors and actresses did amazing at portraying their respective characters. The one that was most off was Sonya for me, but it wasn’t because of the actress, but because that just wasn’t really Sonya?
She’s not a champion of Earthrealm, instead she’s a conspiracy theorist who just happened to be right. I know the game shave been bogged down with Special Forces, but did they get mentioned here more than once? They kept giving her Kano’s knife throwing move too.
And then there’s Cole. What even was that. He pretty much takes a backseat to everything until the final act kicks off, and then he’s in charge? He had no presence or personality. His whole thing was being related to Scorpion, so why not just use Takeda at that point?
He had no idea about his heritage, and even though he found out eventually, that still doesn’t mean anything at all. They wrote the most popular character in the franchise out of the story save for two fights, and replaced him with an OC that got no substantial growth.
Cole, a bit of the characterization, and the breakneck pace of the final act were the only bad parts for me. Well, and the fact they killed off several fan favorites kinda unceremoniously, and also Reiko too I guess.
The musical scores were really well done, but there’s just something about the old techno tracks that give the fights an extra ounce of excitement and oomph for me. The fights were really cool and well choreographed, but they weren’t necessarily hype.
I really, really enjoyed the movie though. It was worth the wait to me, and I’m definitely excited to see where they go with it since clearly they plan to make more. Please drop Cole though, or at least give him some kind of characterization in the next one.
Also still not over Liu Kang murdering a random orphan, wtf
