Blog:2021 Mortal Kombat movie on this wiki?

Hey everyone, Ennard here. Its been a while since I’ve been active on the reception wikis, but here I am. As a long-time Mortal Kombat fan who’s played almost every game in the series, knows a lot about the lore to a massive extent, and knows about this movie..

Yeah, its actually just as bad as Annihilation. It may be objectively better (Better CGI, lighting, etc.), but it seems more careless about Mortal Kombat’s universe and characters than Annihilation does. The movie feels like the director cared about adapting a game’s gimmick instead of its universe, characters, and the story that the franchise built.

Anyway, here are some reasons for why this movie deserves to be on this specific wiki;


 * 1) The characters are bland. While hardcore Mortal Kombat fans would already care about the characters, a casual viewer who doesn’t know much about MK would not care for them. Barely anyone has any depth to them, with the exception of Kano.
 * 2) Cole Young, the main protagonist of the movie, is so boring. He’s literally just Johnny Cage but less interesting, and his powers are basically just plot armour. This guy is also a complete jobber, and gets his ass kicked in almost every fight he’s in, so how are we able to even care for him? He barely has any personality or any traits that are even interesting.
 * 3) A lot of plot holes/plot devices, such as the tattoos and the fact that Raiden zapped Shang Tsung at the end of the movie, even though that was something he could’ve done at any given time.
 * 4) The antagonists are pathetic. Sub-Zero was the only antagonist/villain who was actually threatening, the rest are glorified jobbers. This is a problem that the NetherRealm Studios games have: Villains who rarely (if not, at all) pick up any victories in the story. A villain/antagonist needs to be a threat, unless they are intentionally weak. Mileena, Kabal, Nitara, and even Goro are done dirty in this movie.
 * 5) While I did say some of the CGI was good, the special effects are not too good. Raiden’s lightning effect literally looks like it was ripped straight from TikTok.
 * 6) False Advertising: They advertise the film like its gonna be the most gruesome Mortal Kombat film to be released, however, that’s not the case; Scorpion’s Revenge had more gore than this. Also, the fact that they advertise the film this way also proves my point that the director cared more about the franchise’s gimmick than the actual universe that it built. (Moral of the story: don’t adapt a franchise for its gimmick; adapt it for the story and universe that it built.)
 * 7) A lot of characters were wasted in this film. Liu Kang and Scorpion barely do much in the movie either, and these two are very important to the games.

Anyway, these are some of the reasons why the movie is ass. I’d insert more, but I barely ever have time on my hands. I apologise if I seem like I’m ranting, these bad qualities will be rewritten if a page for the movie is approved.