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Mortal Kombat: The Game: The Movie (2021) Quick Review

Like a regular, not flawless victory where someone messed up the fatality input so the round just kind of ends. Yeah. That’s a comparison.

This’ll be a relatively quick one, since I neither have much to say on the topic, nor is there honestly that much worth dissecting here. I also have no images or screenshots because, well, it’s a movie I watched and not a game. Best I can offer is a trailer. For those who don’t care for anything resembling a wall of text, you’ve been warned. 

In short: the new Mortal Kombat movie was garbage and I loved it.

This is a film for a very specific demographic. If you’re familiar with Mortal Kombat games, whether casual or hardcore, then you’ll probably find something to like here. Everyone else? Don’t even bother. It won’t make you a game fan, it won’t introduce a world or characters that you particularly care for, and it probably won’t even impress with strong action scenes and choreography. It’s not a plea to be taken seriously, no matter what the opening scene might have you believe.

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