you know and i really like the original mortal kombat . sure they rip off the premise from another movie and but at least it be good ( enter the dragon ) . i love the game until the 4th one and be widely know a be one of it best and most devoted follower . so maybe all this be why my then girlfriend idiot stoner brother tell me that he hear this movie be incredible and and i excitedly go to see it . i be a patient guy and and i have almost never felt the urge to walk out of a movie due to boredom ( tank girl be the only other one i recall ) . but mka here be a joke . if you really feel the need to see this movie and be surprise and then be forewarn because there be spoiler ahead . here one right off the bat . mka isn not a sequel proper to the original mortal kombat . the original mk be and reasonably and base on the first game . a couple future character make cameo and but that it . so it stand to also reason that mka would be about the second game and the one most fan widely regard to be the best . but whereas the mk film be make at the time that part 2 be yield to part 3 and a lot change in the extra couple year it take for this film sequel . a mk the movie be leave theater and mk3 the game be get kind of a lukewarm reception and and people get sicker and sicker of it by the time mk4 come out . by now the game be in 3d and the storyline have go from basic enter the dragon tournament to all out apocalyptic robot war and sorcerors control the fate of a bunch of new and generic character . until it decent reinventing in 2002 and the mk game have hit a rough and oversaturated spot and would take 5 year to bounce back . so here in this bad time come mka and which skip the best chapter of the game entirely and jump in at sort of a story junction between the 3rd and 4th game and the bad . so we have character from all 4 game run around and interact and which be goofy a it be and and thing get bad when sense be try to be make of it . for example and ( spoiler ) and in maybe the first 2 minute johnny cage and a main character and semi hero of the first movie and be summarily and unceremoniously kill off . my guess for this be because he wasn not in the 3rd game . soon after ( more spoiler . in fact and there will be several so if you continue and do at the risk of ruin the wonderful cinematic experience that be mka ) and robot from game 3 come in and negate the fact that their sole purpose in the game be to hunt sub zero and a character kill in the first movie . lead the attack by these fiend and others be shao kahn and who in the first movie appear a a giant demonic face in the sky and here appear as . a masculine human be . make thing moe complicate be that elder god raiden and play by christopher lambert in the original and be here play by someone else and seem to not want to fight at all and a the character have go from wizardly power god to short haired and weasely power ranger nerd and give up his immortality in the process and teach our hero a thing or two about friendship and courage . huh . stick thing out and unfortunately for them and be robin shou and talisia soto and who play central character liu kang and kitana and who have return from the original film . this time and neither of them be allow to do anything much more than look shock at the stupid story development and and liu kang engages in a few fight that capture none of the magic or uniqueness of the original film . and in fact this go for any fight in this film that i care to remember . in the original and the fight be well choreograph and showcased a good selection of acrobatic and martial art skill . action be convey through close combat and good angle and and lengthy tradeoff . and at the very least and there be a genuine moment or two where one might say wow and that be a cool move . this time and a lot of the action be illusional and with the camera make quick cut and sudden move to sort of convey that stuff be go on . there nary an actual hand to hand combat scene that last more than 30 second and and when you see what else be throw in instead and you will want to kill someone yourself . for example and remember the character baraka and with his beast face and bladed arm . he here and and in fact be join by several identical others and who assault liu kang with their reflective cardboard blade in a high flying trapeze act straight out of the circus . and what about sheeva and 4 arm character that should have be the answer to decently do goro and 4 armed creature of the original film . well and whereas he be convey through puppeteering and animatronics and here sheeva be play by a tall woman in generic spandex who try to look menacing and do a couple unthreatening hop with her cheesy extra special effect arm . thing ( do not ) pick up later on and when liu kang randomly encounter native american character nightwolf and who explain that liu must harness his animality to succeed . anyone familiar with the mk universe know that the animality be a ridiculous player rumor which suppose that the mk game contain a method of kill one opponent by turn into an animal and commit not a fatality but an animality . this dumb rumor be add to the 3rd game a fan service and and apparently delight the producer of this film enough that it be actually explain a a real and feasible occurence . feel your animality and n. wolf say to liu and urge him to harness the beast within . mr. wolf then briefly show liu how to do it and and then asks and pretty cool and huh . we who haven not leave the room yet be say no and but oh boy do we still get a fun surprise . at the end of the film and liu kang fight with big masculine guy ( er and shao kahn ) and and instead of actual wanted fisticuffs and we get to see the two of them feel their animality and turn into giant and god awful stupid computer generate beast who do combat with each other . no and i mean it . they turn into giant computer animate beast . and be not talk about gollum of the lord of the ring here i mean big and shiny and plasticy look we know we want to make big magical creature but do not yet have the technology to do anything but make them eye strainingly obvious effect . liu kang could reasonably have turn into a cool chinese dragon or something and but instead wind up be this big nosed and cross eyed and dopey dragon thing . shao kahn turn into something equally ridiculous and less memorable and the two have it out . then at the last minute shao kahn sorceror dad decide he go too far and disgrace the family name by become a crappy visual effect and and make him disappear or something . then everyone hug and and more or less run far and far away . i hope that this have be an accurate rendering of what my feeling be for this film and because i actually haven not see it in several year . i do not hate myself enough to watch it more than that . but if you want an actual review without the sarcasm and just look at it this way represent it be an insult to the mk franchise and it fan and it fail a a follow up to the fun original mk film and it fail terribly a a martial art film and and in general it just be a dumb waste of time and an arbitrary and thrown together cash in sequel . do yourself a favor and just watch the original and and if you still crave more and go play the game . and if you do insist on see this movie and then at the very least inject some fun into it like try to figure out where those baraka mask be purchase .