![]() Each realm sends its best fighters and goes into combat that only ends when an opponent dies. The whole basis of the tournament is to protect each realm from being invaded by other realms. With that, McQuoid has gone ahead to embrace the violence and gore that is a signature of the franchise. ![]() Not only does it have to be a good movie, it also has the added pressure of having to outperform the original film – which is essentially the essence of the franchise – a tournament held between different realms, to pick the winner.ĭirected by Simon McQuoid in his directorial debut, 2021 Mortal Kombat has the advantage of better special effects and over 30 years of history, video games, comics, and books to tap on. Which makes Mortal Kombat, the new reboot of the movie franchise based on the recent video games, somewhat of an oddity. Anderson’s biggest cinematic masterpiece, based on the highly successful fighting video game, might not be the best of the lot, but since its release in 1995, it has set the bar pretty high for adaptations that embrace and build upon its source material. Aside from the occasional Pokemon Detective Pikachu, possibly Tomb Raider (the reboot, not the terrible original) and the original Mortal Kombat that is. ![]() And the fact that movies based on video games are terrible. ![]()
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