Mortal Kombat (2021)
Johnny2Stripes 0 points 3 years ago.

Still using a mix of Martial artists that aren’t good actors and actors that aren’t martial artists. You’d think 26 years on from the original they’d have at least sorted that out. Where was the iconic soundtrack? Just didn’t do it for me. Liked Scorpion, Raiden & Sub Zero but everyone else was average. So many other good martial artists out there that could have done a better a job than this bunch.

Ashtré 0 points 3 years ago.

It definitely would have/could have been better if they had more actors who could both act and fight. BUT they prolly didn’t have the money to, say, cast Jason Statham as Kano (and would he have agreed?) and some possible choices, like Jason Scott Lee as Liu Kang, are too old now. And it was nice to see Hiroyuki Sanada—a competent swordsman—but he’s not exactly the gymnastically inclined sort of martial artist to play a ninja. But that’s the tradeoff. Most competent martial artists (with a few exceptions) aren’t very good actors and the majority of high-paid actors make the big bucks just to look pretty. This movie could have been far, far worse, though. It was okay, just not up to hype.