Here's How The New Mortal Kombat Movie Stacks Up Against The 1995 Original

@prydonian: OH I'm not disputing that.

Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice was also a hit, didn't mean he didn't rip off Another One Bites the Dust from Queen.

All I am saying is that the song was a hit way before it was ripped off by the Mortal Kombat team and Twilight Zone by 2 Unlimited is a much better song.

@FuBi2k: You can have Bruce Lee vs Jet Li in a scene. If the director is bad, the scene is going to look like crap.

Some of those actors were really good fighters, but the Direction killed it. If you think this film had some of the best fight choreography you could see in a movie, then you obviously didn't grow up in the 80s.

The saving grace on this movie was Subzero and Scorpion.

But again, I blame Paul W S Anderson. He was the director. Are you going to tell me that watching Sonya Blade vs Kano wasn't painful? How about Johnny Cage vs Goro? Not to mention that some of the names you threw down barely got to fight. Liu Kang vs Shang Tsung wasn't a fight. It was a series of camera tricks that didn't showcase anything that was fun about the game.

Christopher Lambert as Raiden is a joke. Raiden was tied down from the get go and we didn't get to see any fights involving the God of Lightning due to some made-up rule created for the movie because they found out midway that "Highlander" didn't actually know how to fight.

Raiden was an homage to "Lightning" which was a character in Wes Craven's "Big Trouble in Little China". If you look at the first mortal kombat game, Raiden's lightning mimicked Big Trouble in Little China, perfectly. Paul W S Anderson was such a bad director that a movie that came out 10 years before Mortal Kombat had better lightning effects.

Again. This is not a commentary on the talent. This is a commentary on the director. Paul W S Anderson has ruined everything he touched.

Was Mortal Kombat the worst video game adaptation? Nope. We've seen some absolute disasters with Street Fighter, Bloodraine, House of the Dead, Dead or Alive... I mean, the list is extensive. That's a very low bar.

Next to Enter the Dragon, Clan of the White Lotus, Big Trouble in Little China and even Bloodsport (Just to name a few, because the list is extensive), Mortal Kombat is a let down and I am being nice here because I know you're sensitive to harsh criticisms.

Now, as far as everyone being a critic. Yes we are, we all are. You wouldn't be here arguing this if your "expert opinion" wasn't different than mine.

But then again, you think "this film had some of the best fight choreography you could see in a movie", so there's really no point in arguing.

@kstaggs87: You are correct there. TO be fair thou, we could take a dump on our pants, smear it on the camera and it would still be a better movie than Annihilation.

@miguelgreene: I mean to be fair, ALOT of 90's techno tracks ripped or borrowed beats off one another.

@miguelgreene: Go to youtube, listen to the Mortal Kombat theme song from the 1995 movie. I think the song is called Techno Syndrome.

Then search for "2 unlimited Twilight Zone" .

Listen to both, and it should be clear.

This was a big thing back in the 90s with MTV News covering it like it was their "Watergate" and New Line Cinema settled it quietly with the original band.