Mortal Kombat

    Mortal Kombat
    1995

    Synopsis

    For nine generations an evil sorcerer has been victorious in hand-to-hand battle against his mortal enemies. If he wins a tenth Mortal Kombat tournament, desolation and evil will reign over the multiverse forever. To save Earth, three warriors must overcome seemingly insurmountable odds, their own inner demons, and superhuman foes in this action/adventure movie based on one of the most popular video games of all time.

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    Cast

    • Robin ShouLiu Kang
    • Linden AshbyJohnny Cage
    • Cary-Hiroyuki TagawaShang Tsung
    • Christophe LambertLord Raiden
    • Bridgette Wilson-SamprasSonya Blade
    • Talisa SotoPrincess Kitana
    • Trevor GoddardKano
    • Chris CasamassaScorpion
    • Ed BoonScorpion (voice)
    • François PetitSub-Zero

    Recommendations

    • 75

      Christian Science Monitor

      It is one continuous fight sequence from opening scene to final credits, but lacks the blood, profanity, and gore that would have merited a more adult rating.
    • 70

      The New York Times

      The movie's extensive martial arts sequences, in which combatants bounce off each other doing triple handsprings, suggest a slightly more earthbound version of the aerial ballets in Hong Kong action-adventure films.
    • 70

      Variety

      But where others have sunk in the mire of imitation, director Paul Anderson and writer Kevin Droney effect a viable balance between exquisitely choreographed action and ironic visual and verbal counterpoint.
    • 63

      TV Guide Magazine

      Expect lots of earsplitting music, garish visuals and badly staged martial arts action.
    • 60

      Washington Post

      A mix of martial-arts and special-effects magic, the film serves its nonstop confrontations either straight up or with a twist (as when they involve Kombatants with special powers, like Sub-Zero, Reptile and Scorpion).
    • 60

      Empire

      The filmmakers try to solve the problem of turning an experience which merely consists of a series of fights into a story by... ignoring it, presenting a film which merely consists of a series of fights.
    • 58

      Entertainment Weekly

      And although director Paul Anderson treats the story with appropriate deadpan respect, there are enough sparks of humor (particularly generated by Linden Ashby as a shallow martial-arts actor who worries that he's a fake, with good reason) to amuse the adults accompanying the 10-year-old boys in the audience.
    • 50

      Austin Chronicle

      It is, in essence, the video game transferred part and parcel to the screen, and very well at that.

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