Nessa Rolla

One of the best sequels I've ever played! I laughed. I cried. I felt emotions that no game has given me in a while. Fantastic voice actors, amazing visuals, great writing, style, it has it all! I could go on and on about this game. Going from 1 to 2 is seamless and I love the addition of all these new cast characters. It's perfect.

While I like the dive into Scorpian and Sub Zero's past, the point of Mortal Kombat is the tournament itself. There was talk and talk about the tournament and they used characters from (subjectively) the worst game in the series. I suspect it's to sequel bait for the next movie where they'll get more known characters but it was very disappointing to see Melina and Goro done in the first movie. Also what the hell is Arcana? Did they really think coming up with an explanation for Kano's laser eye had to be inner magic? It's cybernetic! Really dumb. And Cole was nice but he really, really had no reason to be there. I could have cared less for him and his family because most of the movie was the Kano show. The writers seemed to have just skimmed the story too. Very predictable and bad righting. I wish they would have gone all the way crazy with the tournament instead of trying to take Mortal Kombat seriously. Also gotta deduct points for no Mortal Kombat song during any fight. And the rendition they did doesn't count. I gotta say the cast was really well done for positives and everyone did what they could with their role, some better than others, but still good effort on their part. All the characters were pretty well done on the CGI side, but it still looked very weird in some places like Raidens eyes. Fight scenes were good but they really had to go hard or go home and they picked a middle road that was just okay. All in all the movie gets a 2/10 for me. The only reason I want to see the next one is to see who they pick for Jonny Cage and even then is a meandering hope they'll do it right.

As bad as the CGI is for this movie I actually had a ton of fun watching it. Anne Hathaways over the top preformance really adds to that fun as she is equally funny and scary at times. Olivia Spencer too was such a great grandma that I think we can all relate to time when things looked tough but grandma was there. On top of that, this movie is truer to the source material of the book with its honestly dark ending that really had me thinking about the movie a lot after it was over. Pretty good movie for kids and people with kids. A perfect silly movie to forget reality.