I am a HUGE MK fan, have been playing mortal combat since MK 4, and was looking forward to this movie so much.
I would love to give this movie more stars, but I found so many problems with the movie!
1. This new character Cole Young, why on earth did they try to bring in someone that isn't even part of the franchise at all? It just ruined the movie for me, just stick to the main story! IT'S NOT SO HARD. There is literally a story in Mortal Kombat if people didn't know.
2. The history between Bi-Han and Scorpion was changed! Scorpion didn't know it was Bi-Han that killed his clan and family after he was resurrected by Quan Chi (in later games he is brought back by Raiden), he thought it was Sub-Zero (Bi-Han's brother) and was promised by Quan Chi that he would bring back Scorpion's family and clan if he killed Sub-Zero.
3. First earth realm defenders were:
Liu Kang, Kung Lao, Raiden, Johnny Cage, Jax, Sonya Blade, Sub-Zero, Night Wolf, Kitana, and Striker
vs
Kano, Noob Saibot (Bi-Han when he was brought back to life), Scorpion, Goro, Kabal, Shang Tsung, Reptile, Baraka, Mileena, and Shao Kahn as the last opponent.
4. Jax lost his arms to Ermac and not Sub-Zero and Goro was killed by Johnny Cage.
5. Won't even start with the Mileena character in this movie...
I know that you can't bring a game into a real-life film at 100% accuracy, but there are some core points that just need to be there to satisfy us MK fans.
I understand that bringing in so many characters into one movie will lengthen out the movie, but I don't care if I need to watch a 3-hour movie! I love the MK series!
But I will say, I did love the story between Sonya and Kano.