Mortal Kombat 2021

[Hand Banana]

I found this film to be underwhelming.

 

[Detective Conan]

Better luck next time. See y’all in the next twenty five years it takes to make another Mortal Kombat movie.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Thank goodness we got that amazing audience surrogate Cole Young to help the box office.

 

[The Infernal]

Thank goodness we got that amazing audience surrogate Cole Young to help the box office.

 

[Mani-Man]

Let me see if i get this straight:

WB would have liked to see a Video Game Adaptation of Mortal Kombat, Targeted towards adults, done as more of prologue movie, during a Pandemic...to make more than 100 million dollar?

I mean i like that they had this much faith and i honestly enjoyed the movie enough to want a sequel...but they are way too optimistic given those points.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Judging by the opening weekend, 100M wasn’t unrealistic. It dropped like a rock cause people didn’t like what they saw.

 

[Primal Slayer]

It definitely could've hit at least 100 if it were better. Though I imagine if blu/dvd sales are good enough, they'll greenlight a sequel as a MAX film.

 

[KaijuDude1992]

Yeah this ain't rocket science. If the movie was actually good it would have had legs, but it wasn't and I wouldn't be suprised if they aren't super confident in doing another one.

Maybe they will get it right next time, but I hope that isn't another 15 or 20 years from now, because this is such an easy property to get right, but they need to start hiring the right people for it.

Just gets some actual good writers and a director that can do action and your set and please no more stupid, made up, waste of space characters like Cole Young.

 

[TheVileOne]

Centering it around Cole Young is the movie's biggest achilles heel. It literally makes no sense.

 

[OutOfBoose]

They claimed they looked at MCU. I don't remember any Cole-Youngs there.

 

[TheVileOne]

They claimed they looked at MCU. I don't remember any Cole-Youngs there.

I got that from watching the movie. Parts of the movie felt like they were trying to evoke Avengers and MCU-style but only in the most superficial and surface-level of ways.

And I'm sorry but that's not Mortal Kombat.

 

[Deck Rickard]

They claimed they looked at MCU. I don't remember any Cole-Youngs there.

Maybe they looked to the Iron Fist TV show for inspiration.

 

[DarkKnight]

I watched this movie finally. I went into it with low expectations so here are my final thoughts.

Mortal Kombat 1995 is a gem in my opinion and still enjoy watching that occasionally.

Mortal Kombat 2021 gave me very similar feels to the GI Joe films...... What do I mean by that? In GI Joe, the saving grace in my opinion was the Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow scenes. They stole the show, they kept me entertained in what would have been otherwise a lackluster film without them.
Subzero and Scorpion stole the show! Even with Scorpion barely in the film, his presence was known and that opening was FIRE as was the final battle.
However, I was hopeful after the epic opening it was going to carry the film but I was let down after discovering it was going to take while for the film to pick back up again.
While watching the film I felt it was very easy to pick out where they spent large amounts of budget and where they were either running low on budget or had to move money over to other areas.
The dragon mark as the "chosen one" was a cool new idea but lacked making any real sense..... Cole was born with it because of his link to Scorpion, ok cool. Scorpion also had the mark... ok cool. But then they say if you kill someone with the mark you get the mark, yet, Scorpions mark never left him, perhaps because Bi-Han already had a mark perhaps? But Kano killed someone for his mark, Sonya killed him for her mark........ The idea is there but seemed to be confusing as to how it actually works.
Sonya getting her powers instantly? made no sense... Girl Power? ok cool, but still made no sense.
Didn't care much for Shang Tsung. This actor didn't have the charisma that the 1995 actor had.
Goro went out like a B!tch (I guess he kind of did in the 1995 film as well but he felt more threatening in that film after squashing other fighters). I was annoyed at this Liu Kang... I didn't find him likeable and in fact found him a bit annoying.
Cole Young. I know there was a lot of negative comments on this new character. For me, I actually liked him. I liked the Scorpion connection, I liked the power, I just liked him in general. Perhaps it was made easier for me to accept and like him when I quickly realized that the Liu Kang in this film was going to be nothing like Robin Shou was in the 1995 film.
Pre-tournament.... ok cool. Shang Tsung wants to cheat... ok cool. Raiden " I cannot interfere" then later, "I'm interfering" ok cool..... A lot of out and back things didnt make much sense to me.

Overall, yes I enjoyed the film. It had several things I really enjoyed and several things I was not a fan of. I enjoyed the film enough to hope it gets the franchise that its hopeful for as I'd definitely like to see more and where the story and characters go from here. Hope they are able to clean up the story telling more and give some clarity to some of the very confusing plot points from this film.

 

[Detective Conan]

Unless this is nothing more than a PR spin to save face then I guess we might be getting a sequel as an HBO Max exclusive.

 

[Luigi]

Hopefully the next one actually looks like a movie and not a dimly lit TV show.

 

[TheVileOne]

Sounds like corporate spin, but whatever. But yeah the movie did look cheap, and the sets looked cheap.

 

[The Infernal]

Hopefully the next one actually looks like a movie and not a dimly lit TV show.

Or have fights that aren't edited badly. Why hire martial artists if you're going to make them unskilled?

 

[TheVileOne]

I think that's one of the cons of hiring lesser known, inexperienced talent to helm a movie like this. Sometimes that inexperience can be a boon because they are bringing fresh, unique ideas to the table and they can somehow get it done. Other times they can't really rise to the occasion and bring it home.

 

[Da-Scribe]

Even though I disliked the flick, I have still been rooting for it. That said, I have zero idea if this was a success or not. Please confirm.

 

[Primal Slayer]

Even though I disliked the flick, I have still been rooting for it. That said, I have zero idea if this was a success or not. Please confirm.

It made $79mill on a $55mill budget. Not exactly great but of course it was COVID but considering it opened behind GvK which made more, WB probably sees it as a failure. I think streaming numbers probably would determine its fate.

 

[TheVileOne]

Yeah but they released it straight to HBO Max same day, which was dumb.

 

[lespaul59]

Yeah but they released it straight to HBO Max same day, which was dumb.

I still think of anything this helped this movie. I would not have watch it in a theater and probably would have skipped buying this on 4K ,which is more than likely still gonna happen. Maybe I'm wrong but after the way Godzilla vs Kong performed under the circumstances I just don't think people cared enough to go see the movie.

 

[TheVileOne]

I still think of anything this helped this movie. I would not have watch it in a theater and probably would have skipped buying this on 4K ,which is more than likely still gonna happen. Maybe I'm wrong but after the way Godzilla vs Kong performed under the circumstances I just don't think people cared enough to go see the movie.

I'm not convinced it did. Unless there's data out there proving people were subbing to HBO Max just to watch the movie.

 

[Sithborg]

I mean, its all spin. We do not have third party reliable data to look at ourselves. I don't take any of the "analysis" from these random sites about streaming data seriously. And a generic "success" can mean different things to different companies, hell, even different executives.

 

[Prison Mike]

They should make a sequel but have it be HBO Max exclusive.