The other day while cruising around HBO Max and had recently watched the new Mortal Kombat and the old one (still awesome) and saw this Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge movie and decided to check it out. I'm glad I did because this was pretty cool. Also, same with the latest MK movie the best parts were the ones involving Scorpion. We once again get to see his family slaughtered which is quickly becoming the new Bruce Wayne watching his parents get shot. He comes home with his son and notices that the city is too quiet. Next thing you know he is being chased by ninjas and after his son finds his mom dead Scorpion loses all of his shit! There is more violence in this scene than in all MK movies combined. He was slicing heads into threes! It was wild.
He runs into Sub-Zero who freezes him, super kills his son, and then kills Scorpion. He wakes up in hell prepared to be tortured for eternity, breaks free, kills a bunch of demons, and Quan Chi makes a deal for him to get his family back (somehow...) if he wins the Mortal Kombat tournament. Liu Kang is boring. Raiden is preparing him to win the tournament. Whatever. Sonya Blade is searching for Kano. This has a lot of random things like the first film. Johnny Cage thinks this is all fake and for a new movie. He and Scorpion carried this movie.
This movie ends pretty much how I expected it to. I liked the music and the story but it took me a while to get into the art. They use this heavy shading that was huge back in mid to late 90's cartoons. Like, their knuckles and elbows have pure black shadows. Johnny Cage ends up being cool but way too late. Sonya was cool. They gave her more of a backstory than they have in any of the live action films. Liu Kang is hard to make interesting it seems. Its like he's good at fighting and its his destiny to blah blah blah and that's it. The voices for this are good for the most part. If you're into Mortal Kombat check this out.
Jennifer Carpenter as Sonya Blade
Joel McHale as Johnny Cage
Ike Amadi as Jax Briggs
Steve Blum as Sub-Zero
Artt Butler as Shang Tsung
Darin De Paul as Quan Chi
Robin Atkin Downes as Kano/Shinnok
Dave B. Mitchell as Raiden
Kevin Michael Richardson as Goro
Jordan Rodrigues as Liu Kang
Patrick Seitz as Hanzo Hasashi/Scorpion
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