The movie starts with a strong, emotional entrance and a great fight scene. A rivalry between two clans grabs your attention. Following this, there is no substance. The middle (from about 30 minutes to 20 minutes before the end) is full of nonsense and quick interchanging fight scenes where it's impossible to focus on the action. The best costumes are those of Sub-Zero and Scorpion - The latter may make a brief appearance. Raiden is Asian with black hair, Goro still looks like a puppet and lives in Coles garage, and Shang Tsung looks like a character from Rui Paul. A massive missed opportunity for a gripping story, where the limited epic scenes were released as part of trailers or sneak peak previews. What you didn't see before release, you wouldn't have paid to see upon.