Mortal Kombat was only the fourth movie to be adapted from a. Princess Kitana is 10,000 years old but is considered young in her realm of Edenia and has the appearance of a young woman.

Is that enough to make up for not actually having the tournament occur within the film? Apparently fans both watching on HBO Max and in theaters seem to think so. The genre of video game movies was still in its infancy in 1995, with the billion-dollar Super Mario Bros. Kitana is a character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series who made her debut in Mortal Kombat II. (It also doesn't feature Johnny Cage!) But Joe Taslim and Hiroyuki Sanada's respective portrayals of Sub-Zero and Scorpion are immediately iconic, the fatalities are suitably brutal and the movie clearly sets up the potential for a sequel that's more in line with fan expectations. It's a little too cute at times and spends far too much time with training montages and watching characters unlock their 'arcana,' turning the diverse gifts of the mythology into a superpower stand-in that's easier for normies to understand. So when this film finally debuted and was clearly designed to set up the franchise as a bloody alternative to the MCU - a way to adapt the 'MK' lore to the language of corporate IP shared universes - people freaked. The initial trailers and marketing hyped fans up into a visible froth, suggesting its R rating, bigger budget and better CGI would mean they were finally going to get the 'Mortal Kombat' of their dreams. Is the new 'Mortal Kombat' underwhelming? Of course it is.

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