Genuinely, how many other pictures have the soundtrack scream the title of the movie over and over again, and it seems like a good idea? That ’95 movie holds the dubious honor of being generally considered the best video game movie adaptation of all-time, thanks to a tongue-in-cheek tone perfect for its mid-‘90s moment and maybe the greatest use of techno music in film. It’s the third Mortal Kombat movie released under the New Line banner, but let’s just call it the second serious attempt at putting this universe on screen after the 1995 cult classic directed by Paul W.S. and New Line Cinema’s hotly anticipated Mortal Kombat reboot opening in theaters and premiering on HBO Max. This weekend marks another milestone in that history, too, with Warner Bros.
More than any other video game series, Mortal Kombat has seen a plethora of live-action adaptations, from Hollywood movies to syndicated television. The phrase is also a pretty apt description for the various filmmakers who’ve attempted the challenge of taming this crazy dragon on screen. Yet they’ve also become synonymous with a franchise that’s arguably the most popular video game fighter of all-time. They were meant to signal an interlude between the simple pleasures of digitized sprites spilling buckets of blood. “Test your might.” These are the words of a minigame in the original Mortal Kombat arcade fighter from 1992. This article contains Mortal Kombat (2021) spoilers.
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