Mortal Kombat

[Lucky Planet]

My review is the *complete* opposite of this. I personally thought the fights were better, and the lead character was *much* better (Cole Young was a square and the worst part about MK1 to me). I thought it improved on the 1st one in basically every way and my only real complaint (if I had to pick one) is how death continues to mean absolutely nothing LOL

I gotta go into spoilers on why I had problems
and why it's messy for me.

Spoiler

not only does death mean nothing, but there are 3 fights in a mortal Kombat movie without any deaths, that was ridiculous to me lol. I could not believe it,
might as well just be street fighter at this point,

sindel was wasted on a very short fight. raiden was wasted, scorpion was shoehorn in just for the fight shown in the trailer, shang tsung kinda wasted, just really bad writing.

shao kahn having an invincible cheat code was such a horrible cope out. just awful. why do that why? it diminishes any suspense because you know he can't die. that was so dumb.

the whole amulet plot was nonsense. just awful writing. it wasn't needed

 

[mccgavin]

I thought it was a very significant improvement over the first film. It felt a lot more accurate to the world and story of the games. The fights were a lot better, and there were many more of them. Death not mattering kind of comes with the territory of this series, there's no way of really getting around it.