Really all of the battle action sequences are exquisite and the comedy that has always been a part of the gaming franchise very much shines through here with the obvious nod going to Joel McHale with the best of the one-liners, though Fred Tatasciore’s “Shao Kahn” gets in some good licks as well. To be honest, the movie’s plot, I started to lose sight of at this juncture, but the actual battle sequences that happen here are borderline dazzling. The fatalities are very rewarding, and some are ripped straight from the bowels of the gaming franchise, most of which are doled out by Shao Kahn who goes nearly on a Thanos-level tear through the good-guy roster.
We also get a good amount of cameos from MK fighters we’ve seldom seen in the games including Li Mei, Reiko, Smoke, and Kintaro. The action sequences have also been greatly improved, clearly some influences from anime in both the execution of the combatants’ battles as well as the kaiju fight near the end. Instead of the ham-style slices that the previous entry in the MKL franchise exhibited, everything is silly brutal, which is just the kind of output we need from an animated feature adaptation. Even more, if you recall in my review of the previous film, I disliked a lot of the animation quality as it pertained to dismemberment and this go-round that appears to be very-much fixed. Fortunately for us, Mortal Kombat as a franchise has never been a bankable story-driven franchise in the same way as say Final Fantasy, what pays the bills around these parts is buckets of blood, bones, and guts by way of gratuitous action sequences that lead to mutilation.įans of Mortal Kombat will be happy to hear, you get plenty of that here. The other big plot is Sub Zero’s mission to kill Scorpion but also trying to stop Lin Kuei’s new robotic trio of warriors who have been paid to seek out a key that will turn Shinnok into a giant demon. Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms takes place after Scorpion’s Revenge and features multiple story arcs through the film’s which includes the heroes heading to Outworld to fight in a tournament to prevent the merging of the different realms. So, whether or not the powers at be give a shit about this franchise remains to be seen, but one thing’s for sure, the animated films are nuts. On the other, WB Games was up for sale last year before AT&T sold WarnerMedia to Discovery. I would love to know more.On one hand, WarnerMedia has produced two animated films and one live-action film of the storied Mortal Kombat franchise. Other realms like Zetarra(spelling), Nitaras realm and Quan Chi's realm, remain a big mystery. I would not be surprised if it was an alternate universe with the similar structure of ours. But I would also not be surprised if it were on supports and high above a body of mass. This universe revolves around that middle object. the red nucleus shooting upwards and downwards mean there is no solid planet really. I doubt it actually has a body of space that we know as "outer space" tho.Ĭhaosreal is clearly something of its own. A timeless palceless area of death, flames and pain.Įdenia seems to have waterfalls tha tjust lead nowhere. Netherealm to me, is a perception of what religious believers look at as hell. Its very possible that this varies in other realms. Our perception of earth and our universe require any sort of life to be on a planet. The netherealm may not even reside on a planet. I would think of them as completely alternate universes. Chaosreal is clearly something of its own. I doubt it actually has a body of space that we know as "outer space" tho. Edenia seems to have waterfalls tha tjust lead nowhere. A timeless palceless area of death, flames and pain.
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