Review of Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997) by Russ V — 04 Apr 2015

After watching the first Mortal Kombat movie, there is a sequel that no one asked for. But we got it anyway. And it is no directed by Paul W.S. Anderson.

Lui Kang (Robin Shou) and the crew (except Johnny Cage because he died in the first few minutes) has get to victory before Shao-Kahn (Brian Thompson), the evil Emperor of the Outerworld, who has a new plan to overtake planet Earth. He has also discovered a portal between Earth and Outerworld. If it stays open for seven days (which I do not understand why), the two worlds will merge, and Shao-Kahn taking control both planets. Rayden (not played by Christopher Lambert) and Sonya (Sandra Hess) set to find his colleague Jax (Lynn Red Williams) while Liu Kang and Kitana (Talisa Soto) are on the trail of Nightwolf/ Litefoot as they race against time to defeat Shao-Kahn, who has brought Queen Sindel (Musetta Vander), who is Katana's mother, back from the dead to aid his evil scheme.

The sequel to Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation is an unnecessary sequel in every way. If you did not see the first film, you will not know what is going on because I did not. You will wonder who these people are, where they are going, what is their motivation, and most of all what the hell is going on. There are twists and turns during the movie (for example Rayden mentions that Shao-Kahn is his brother) but I either did not care, I really saw it coming, or both.

The acting for the most part is pretty bad. I think it is because they got a new cast. While the cast for the first movie was not perfect, but atleast have better acting than the new cast in Moral Kombat: Annihilation. I will say: the new cast try to give good to decent performances but they unfortunately they have to do what the script and the direction tell them to do (which are both equally bad).

The special effects in this movie are really horrendous. They look a Saturday morning cartoon special. In fact, they are the some of the worst special effects I have ever watched. If the special effects are this bad, then this movie should went straight to video.

Lastly, the only people see a movie like Mortal Kombat: Annihilation is to see some fights. They are decent to downright bad. After watching the fight scenes, they get repetitive and old real fast.

At the end, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation is a joke. It is incredibly bad in every way. The fight scenes might be decent to bad but that does not save the movie from been a failure or the fact that they are repetivite, consists of characters dodging each other by kicking over and over again or doing somersaults over and over again. This is a guilty pleasure because you can watch how bad the acting is, how laughable the dialogue is, and how horrendous the effects are.

If can see it, especially if you not a fan of bad movies, then you might need to avoid this movie and see the first one, which is so much better than this.