8. Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
Anything with 'final' in the title we automatically know is a lie. The 'Legend of' and the 'Rise of' are often to used to make a movie sound like it should be narrated by a man with a deep, gravelly voice and - prepare yourself - the following two hours will be a rush of explosive mindless energy. It's just something to sound cool. So what movie can be blamed more than one that attempts to sound cool than a film that uses a 'K' to spell combat? This filmmakers behind this adaptation never set out to make an Oscar-winning masterpiece, but whatever it is they planned on doing, it had to be done with the kind of adrenaline that rivalled the blood-spewing, bone-crunching realm of the Mortal Kombat video game series. So a word has to be chosen to mark the return of this action-fighter flick. How about 'annihilation'? That conjures up images of death and destruction, doesn't it? It does? Good. I have no intentions on bashing the film, but to be honest, any word could have been placed here. Does the one they went with have to do anything with the plot? Nope. Not really. It could have gone with a reference from the game like 'fatality' or 'Shao Khan's Reign'. But why not a pointless word the does not necessarily means the annihilation of anyone or anything in particular (although things do get annihilated). Just a vague use of the word should do the trick, as awful CG-graphics flank fight scenes for an hour or two...