An average movie

When I was a kid, the first Mortal Kombat was huge when I came out in arcade. Like all the over kids, I thought it was awesome and it is rather surprising that it took me almost 20 years to see the movie version. When it was released, the video games adaptations were really new and after the abysmal failures of the Super Marios Bros and Street Fighter movies, some wonder if this genre will even make any money. Eventually, this flick was a box-office hit, pretty much single-handheldly launched the genre and it is pretty much one of the reasons why we get nowadays all those dreadful adaptations. Anyway, how was the damned thing after all? To be fair enough, it was quite faithful to the game which was the huge mistake they made with the Street Fighter adaptation but it was still not really good, I'm afraid. I mean, the whole thing looked terribly cheesy, the acting was laughable (Christopher Lambert was once again pretty embarrassing) and even the fights were not convincing. Eventually, 7 years later, Paul W.S. Anderson would direct another even better video game adaptation called 'Resident Evil' and, to this day, there is still making some sequels more awful than the one that came before. To conclude, even though there were many things to enjoy in this adaptation, it was still pretty weak and I don't think it is really worth a look, even if you like the genre.

5/10