Mortal Kombat
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Features
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Dolby
• DVD-Video
• Full Screen
• Letterboxed
• Live
• Widescreen
• NTSC
In Theaters : 18 August, 1995
DVD Release : 26 March, 1997 |
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Mortal Kombat Customer Reviews
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Flawless Victory
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In 1992, Mortal Kombat debuted, and it took no prisoners. Within three years, the original game had spawned to sequels, and Paul W.S. Anderson had produced this live-action martial arts fantasy adventure based on the game.
MORTAL KOMBAT is currently the second most succesful movie based on a video game (the most successful being LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER), and it's not hard to understand why. The movie is really a supernatural version of Bruce Lee's ENTER THE DRAGON; three martial arts masters travel to an island fortress to compete in a clandestine martial arts tournament, one of them a (former) Shaolin Monk seeking to avenge the murder of a family member and restore honor to the perverted tournament.
All the great characters from the game are here: Lord Raiden (Christopher Lambert), Liu Kang (Wushu champion Robin Shou), who was modeled after the immortal Bruce Lee, Johnny Cage (Linden Ashby, in a role that was originally to be played by the great Brandon Lee), who was modeled after Jean-Claude Van Damme, Sonya Blade (Bridgette Wilson, who seriously needs to work on her kicking), Princess Kitana (the vuluptuous Talisa Soto), Shang Tsung (Quintessential Asian Villian Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa), Scorpion (Chris Cassamassa), Sub-Zero (Francois Petit), Reptile (Keith H. Cooke), and of course, Goro.
The story is the same premise as the game: Earth-Realm Protector Lord Raiden selects a handful of warriors from Earth-Realm to fight in the supernatural trounament of Mortal Kombat, in order to protect the realm from Shang Tsung and the horde's of the realm of Outworld, who will be able to conquer the world if they should win Mortal Kombat.
One can only imagine how fantastic MORTAL KOMBAT would have been if Brandon Lee had lived to play Johnny Cage, but even still, MORTAL KOMBAT is non-stop action. The choreography, which occasionally adds the neccessary pre-CROUCHING TIGER flying, emphasizes flow, adaptation, and power, something often lacking in American martial arts movies. Every punch and kick is felt rather than seen (but, within the PG-13 parameters, of course; the movie is far less gory than the game.)
It's also refreshing to see an Asian hero in an American martial arts movie (in the age preceding Jackie Chan and Jet Li's migration to American action flicks.) Liu Kang is the heart and soul of the game and the movie, and his final showdown with Shang Tsung to determine the fate of Earth-Realm has all to impact of the game.
MORTAL KOMBAT has begun, and will remain a flawless American Martial Arts movies for years to come (and hopefully, MORTAL KOMBAT 3 will be out before the end of this decade.)
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