Review of Mortal Kombat (2021) by Theryanflaherty — 24 May 2021

Any criticisms you read are likely valid, but despite that, I found myself enjoying the movie.

The first act did a good job of hooking me, which made me more forgiving as it fell apart later on, but at under two hours it’s over before it over stays it’s welcome and it’s only thinking about the movie after the fact where I realized what a mess it was. While watching it was fun.

I recently criticized “Army of the dead” for just being dumb without the fun, but this movie is an example of dumb fun being accurate.

I actually think the creation of Cole Young to ground the movie was a good decision. I just wish they grounded things with more than exposition dumps and that Young turned out to be a cooler character once he found his powers. So a wise decision that could have been executed better....which probably could be said for much of the movie.