Welcome back everyone this is going to be my mortal kombat review for the new movie they'd also
drop the opening scene so i'll talk about that in what's going on with this movie how it's different
from the original mortal kombat movie and how it adapts some of the story line from the games
and what their plans are for future mortal kombat movies so if you're new to the channel be sure to
subscribe to get all the videos the movie is going to be up pretty much everywhere later this week if
you haven't seen it already i believe it's already dropped in a couple countries internationally
if you have seen it please don't post really huge spoilers in the comments yet but i will explain
some of the changes they made from the original movie because you come into a mortal kombat movie
with certain expectations for what they're going to be doing with the story with the characters i
know there's a lot of questions about characters that you did not see in any of the trailer footage
for the most part they are pretty authentic to the games in the video game story really
funny detail a lot of you may not have realized that louis tan who plays the main character cole
actually said he auditioned for the title role of shang chi marvel just dropped their
shang chi trailer so a whole lot of martial arts related movies coming out right now are dropping
trailers right now all of his fight scenes in the mortal kombat movie are great but i think
the reason why he lost out on the shang chi role is because they wanted more of a comedic spin
and he didn't really have the comedic background that cemu liu has who comes from sitcoms
so it'll be fun to compare shang chi and the legend of the 10 rings in the marvel universe to
mortal kombat just in terms of the way they plot their fight scenes out mortal kombat is
a little more mma shang chi looks like it's going to be more of a traditional kung fu type of movie
but i'll just start with the opening scene here obviously this is meant to be the origin story of
hanzo hasashi becoming the scorpion that you know and love from the mortal kombat video game series
and beyond the original version of sub zero there's only one scorpion in the
video game series but there have been a couple different people to bear the mantle of sub-zero
they don't totally cover why bihan wanted to kill hanzo in this opening scene in his entire clan
they do actually cover that story in the later video games it gets way more cosmic and twisty
than you would ever expect with elder gods and titans manipulating events on this grand
cosmic scale in the mortal kombat multiverse of realms but this first new rebooted mortal kombat
movie is mostly meant to be an origin story and they're sort of using the scorpion character
and his family line is the introduction to that that's why he has the opening scene here
like this is the first chapter a prequel of sorts to the traditional mortal kombat story
of the tournament that you would normally expect so that was probably my biggest surprise with this
movie in particular is that the tournament is very important to the story of course
but the tournament itself doesn't happen during this film it won't happen until the sequel movie
is all set up for the tournament like the whole plot of this movie is mostly just world building
and origin stories for all the main characters in a soft introduction to some of the lore and
the backstory of the story universe because like i said it gets way more cosmic than you would ever
expect based on the original games if you only played the original games and you haven't been
playing some of the more recent ones the story has gotten really really deep and really crazy they've
gone full marvel cinematic universe with the mortal kombat story i'll talk about that too as
i get deeper into my review because it does seem like they're trying to plot this out the same way
they plot out the marvel movies the same way that legendary with the monster verse the godzilla and
the kong movies are trying to plot their movies out in a very marvel cinematic universe type of
way but in this first new rebooted movie you do get a little bit of that multiverse storytelling
through the raiden character in shang tsung as they explain the tournament of realms setting up
the sequel where earthrealm the main universe of champions battle the champions of outworld
so that is probably the biggest difference between this rebooted movie and the original mortal kombat
movie from the 90s in that movie they really just do the quick character intros for all the mains
then boom you're in outworld and they're having that first tournament they did make a sequel to
that movie called mortal kombat annihilation but i can't stress this enough you do not have to watch
that it's a rite of passage for hardcore fans but it is an endurance test it is not a great film
so you don't have to see it if you're not a big super fan the other really big change from the
original movie just in terms of the way they plot the story out is that in the original movie it's
mostly built around lou kang's story trying to get revenge for the death of his brother then
he learns about the tournament and gets swept up in this big fight against shang tsung in the
new movie the main character is cole lewis tan's character and they use him as a pov character to
sort of reintroduce you to the new version of the mortal kombat story universe but like i said it's
mostly framed through this historic war between bihan sub-zero and his ancestor hanzo scorpion so
if you saw that mortal kombat scorpion's revenge movie some of this movie feels a little bit like
it borrows from that storyline the plot is very different but the energy is a little bit the same
like give me the original mortal kombat movie but make it scorpion's revenge some of the complaints
about the movie that i've seen and i do think that they're warranted is that the plot gets a
little out of control early on there's some pacing issues with the way it sets up the main characters
and gets them to raiden who in the mortal kombat story is a full-blown god tasked by the elder gods
with guiding the champions of earth realm during each tournament's period so if you're a long time
mortal kombat fan you might be a little frustrated with how long they take to set things up like okay
give us the tournament arc we're here for the tournament we just want to see some fighting
there is a lot of fighting so i feel like the one misleading thing about the trailers is that
you do see the characters fighting each other a lot so you kind of assume that they're doing the
tournament but really like i said they're not going to do the actual tournament to the sequel
they have a very twisty way of explaining how they kind of have a tournament before they have
the tournament but the whole idea is that there have been many many mortal kombat tournaments
between the realms over thousands and thousands of years and the one that they're prepping for
in this movie for the sequel is just the most recent version of the tournament but the movie
isn't four hours long so they only cover a little of that history with the idea i think that they'll
dig deeper in the sequels obviously they have to do the tournament so i think we'll get at least
one sequel it would be too weird for them to do a whole movie just setting up the classic tournament
that everybody loves from the games and then never actually do the proper tournament arc it would be
like them doing godzilla vs kong only just setting up the idea that they eventually fight in a future
sequel and never actually seeing them fight they would just piss too many people off if they did
something like that if you've been following the video game series for a good long while the one
brand new thing the one thing that stands out is the coal character he is not from the video
game series like i said they sort of invented him for this movie as a pov character to reintroduce
non-mortal kombat fans to the mythology like if you've never played the games you never saw the
original movie the story of his character is basically meant to be the introduction to this
world there were way more characters from the classic games than i expected i really went into
this expecting a similar roster from the first mortal kombat movie just like the classic og
characters and yes by far the biggest thing people commented about the biggest missing og character
was johnny cage they do have an explanation for what's going on with him during the movie he is
referenced during the film so he does exist within the universe and he has already been
confirmed for the sequel movie the director said the only reason why they wanted to wait on doing
him was just because the way his personality like his self-aggrandizing nature shifted the
tone of the story in the way his character is written to be very attention seeking
just fits better into a classic tournament arc which they're doing in the sequel like even though
he's not the main character of that original 1990s film he does dominate most of the plot and one of
the other differences with this film is i think they're trying to be a little bit more serious
with the tone like it's a hard r like really good example that opening scene with hanzo just going
at it with all of bihan's men that's actually pretty tame compared to some of the level of
fatalities that they get to later in the film they take it pretty far with the fatalities like even
the actors said that they were surprised with how graphic they got during parts of the film but like
i said if you've been following the games for a long time you will spot all the video game moments
they are pretty faithful to the way a lot of these things go down a lot of the fatalities like a lot
of the minor details but i know earlier i made that godzilla versus kong reference this does feel
like a very godzilla vs kong type of film like you go into that movie knowing exactly what kind
of movie it's going to be not expecting them to start quoting shakespeare to each other just let
them fight let them fight so if you haven't already seen the movie you should go into this
new mortal kombat movie with those same levels of expectation like let them fight this is all about
them just beating the crap out of each other the difference there though is that godzilla vs kong
is more like going to see a giant boxing match and going to a mortal kombat movie is more like seeing
a giant mma fight just on a practical level the mortal kombat movie was way more low budget than
i expected i think they did that so that they could keep it hard r the fight choreography was
actually pretty solid obviously way better than the original film special effects visual effects
have also come so far in the last 25 years since that original film that everything just looks a
lot better they do get way crazier with a lot of their special abilities and their powers in a way
that they did not during that original 1990s movie but because i haven't talked about the music music
also a big deal in the mortal kombat video game series they didn't really use the original theme
music in the trailer videos i know people were wondering like what about the classic theme song
if you're a long time fan and you saw the original movie you will be happy to know that they do
incorporate that classic theme music into the movie at some point but just in general i would
say the film is okay like it's a fun time but in the same way that godzilla vs kong has a bit of a
silly story with a lot of cool stuff that happens during it like the actual plot itself is a little
ridiculous but the movie itself is a lot of fun so just make sure you go into mortal kombat with that
level of expectation once you do have a chance to see the movie just post all your reactions in the
comments below and let me know what you want them to do with the sequels if they get multiple films
later this week after the movie comes out i will do a full video on the ending and how they set up
the sequel and exactly what's happening i've also got a new falcon and winter soldier dark avengers
video that i'm working on in my full falcon and winter soldier episode 6 finale video we'll post
friday just like normal so while you wait for everything everyone click here for my new marvel
shang chi trailer video and click here for my falcon and winter soldier episode 6 finale trailer
thank you so much for watching everyone stay safe and i'll see you guys tonight!