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By Mitchell Saltzman (2) for IGN (1,013) on 22 Apr 2021

It may not be a flawless victory but the new Mortal Kombat movie is a fun time for fans of the game franchise…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 22 Apr 2021

True to the game, the violence is both ghoulishly creative and gratuitously extreme…

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By Matt Singer (625) for ScreenCrush (954) on 22 Apr 2021

Frankly, the original Mortal Kombat arcade game had a better sense of narrative momentum; at least there the fights progressed toward a final…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 22 Apr 2021

Viewers interested in martial-arts action are bound to find the combat-with-a-C to be lackluster in that way that hand-to-hand fighting tends…

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By Christian Holub (57) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 22 Apr 2021

Fatalities are the closest we get to the fun of playing a Mortal Kombat game, but future adapters would be better off realizing that video…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 22 Apr 2021

Hardcore fans and gamers will thrill to the contractually required scene where a fighter has his still-beating heart ripped out of his chest…

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By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 22 Apr 2021

A B-movie that would benefit immensely from some wit in the script and charisma in the cast, it’s not as aggressively hacky as P.W.S.A.’s…

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By Ethan Vestby (87) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 22 Apr 2021

The film lacks real formal verve, neither depicting the fights in super-coherent long-takes or frenetically edited chaos cinema; it strikes…

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By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 22 Apr 2021

Those who just want to watch a cool, competent and only semi-dumb action movie, though, can thank god for small favors like that…

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By Chris Evangelista (306) for Slashfilm (971) on 22 Apr 2021

And to cap it all off, Mortal Kombat commits the sin that so many recent Hollywood adaptations of existing properties make these days – it’s…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 22 Apr 2021

This is an unapologetically violent video-game-turned-movie, filled with gore and also brimming with flat dialogue, whether it’s big-picture…

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By Andrew Crump (271) for The Playlist (3,871) on 22 Apr 2021

Ultimately the film resembles cosplay with an expansive budget…

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By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN (497) on 22 Apr 2021

Mortal Kombat is within its rights taking the material semi-seriously, but does so by taking itself a little too seriously, given the rote…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 22 Apr 2021

Bloodier but not better, the rebooted Mortal Kombat is a far more violent affair than the 1995 original, hewing closer in spirit to the gory…

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By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 22 Apr 2021

Mortal Kombat commits the unforgivable sin of actually being boring duing the middle hour of training and exposition…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 22 Apr 2021

The craven commitment to fan service that has long afflicted big-budget adaptations is still in evidence…

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By Benjamin Lee (469) for The Guardian (2,969) on 22 Apr 2021

A silly and dated new attempt to transport the classic fighting game to the big screen is a late-night drunk watch at best…

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By Ben Kenigsberg (863) for The New York Times (9,847) on 22 Apr 2021

While the carnage demonstrates some imagination (can ice cauterize wounds? Did a hat just turn into a table saw…

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By Barry Hertz (792) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 22 Apr 2021

It is all very, very stupid, But first-time director Simon McQuoid regrettably refuses to embrace that stupidity…

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By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 Apr 2021

In spite of its occasionally engaging displays of gnarly brutality, the film too often feels like an adaptation of a player select screen…

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