Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

GazerRise Fantastic!

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

bkoganbing With the newest toy of the 90s the personal computer that also spawned another industry the video game. Although God knows they can become addictive they do sharpen up reflexes if played enough. One of the most popular seems to be Mortal Kombat and got so popular someone decided a movie could be made from the game characters.The best martial artists in the world are recruited by a Shao Lin master Christopher Lambert for a tournament that will decide the fate of the planet. This is held periodically it seems with alien races. You've got to win 10 contests in a row and if you do you can plunder the loser's planet.Earth's lost 9 in a row when help arrives in the form of Robin Shou, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras and Linden Ashby. Lambert's all star team is up against wizard Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa's crowd that includes a really ugly four arm creature looking like the Incredible Hulk. He does however have a weakness common to the males of the species.Mortal Kombat is not the kind of film you take too seriously, just relax and enjoyed the skill of the martial artists.

adonis98-743-186503 Three unknowing martial artists are summoned to a mysterious island to compete in a tournament whose outcome will decide the fate of the world. If you count out the fact that some special effects hold up well and the soundtrack is alright, Mortal Kombat is a giant mess of a film and the most boring i've ever seen i mean how can you screw up this? This is far from being a great film and even more far from being a great video game one personally i like Hit-man, Prince of Persia and Tomb Raider way more and as much as i think that Paul W.S. Anderson is an alright filmmaker cause i enjoyed his Resident Evil Movies and Alien v.s Predator this one not even one bit not even the actors or the cast it self can save this. I found it super slow and boring and most of all just not a good movie at all and without a doubt the worst video game film ever made. (F)

Eric Stevenson Having just seen that horrendous "Street Fighter" movie, I was eager to see a movie that was nowhere near as bad, but it still wasn't good. As someone who's very familiar with "Mortal Kombat" it was nice to know all of these characters. There are a lot of faults with this movie, especially with Johnny Cage's lame lines. Interestingly enough, Johnny Cage actually does have some really good moments here and there. The scene where he defeats Scorpion is probably the best part of the whole movie. It's weird to actually see him kill Goro and that does seem pretty forced, but at least he's useful.Some of the special effects are good, especially Goro. Unfortunately, they have this really lame CGI with Reptile, especially when he initially appears as this well, reptilian creature. The bits with Scorpion are fine. They do manage to keep the awesome music from the games! Remember how I said that "Street Fighter" would have worked better as a short film? Well, this probably would have worked better as an episode of a TV show. That's much less of an insult, but it's still something. I guess there's some effort, but it's still predictable with the fighting and Raiden talking. **

Paul Magne Haakonsen Granted with the success of the arcade game that spans over multiple platforms and is readily available in many versions, that the transition to the big screen would eventually spawn an adaptation of the "Mortal Kombat" franchise. And the world was introduced to that back in 1995.Now, I have seen "Mortal Kombat" about three or four times since then, and I can't really claim that it improves with each viewing. In fact, the movie clings on to the mediocre end result that turned out to be this 1995 movie.The storyline in "Mortal Kombat" was as weak as Budweiser Light, so don't expect anything much of a kick here, pardon the pun. But then again, what could you expect from a movie that is based on a game that is solely fighting and nothing else? It felt like they were trying to jam backstories into the movie from way too many characters, but failed at each and every one of them, and with no real solid storyline, it was just hard to center the storytelling on something concrete. And what was even more bizarre was that there was little concern about killing off established characters from the game left and right.The costumes and wardrobe definitely could have used a bigger budget. While the outfits do look much like they did back in the mid-1990's, there was just something too plain and low budget about them. There were not much details and such."Mortal Kombat" actually had decent enough acting for what it turned out to be, especially since the actors and actresses had very, very little to work with in terms of script and storyline. Of course, this is not Shakespearian performances in any way, and you pretty much know what you are in for with a movie of this caliber.Robin Shou, Linden Ashby and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa carried the movie well enough, given the fact that they had very little to work with. But why they opted for Christopher Lambert to portray Rayden was just beyond me, especially since he semi-whispers all of his dialogue.As for the dialogue in "Mortal Kombat", well, let's just say that it was as corny and flawed as you would expect from a movie based on a weak storyline and one-dimensional characters. One might actually go as far as saying, in that classic voice used in the game, this: "flawed dialogue".The special effects in "Mortal Kombat" was not impressive either. And it was a rather bitter pill to swallow to witness that ropy grabber that came out of Scorpions hand as it flew about. It looked so fake that it didn't even do the arcade game any justice. As for Goro, well, he was well-enough intended, but the animation and CGI just was too synthetic.All in all, "Mortal Kombat" is a generic movie adaptation of a good enough fighting game. But there was very little of a storyline here, and the movie constitutes little more than just being an hour and a half of fighting.