How Mortal Kombat 2021 Gets EVERYTHING Wrong
How do you squander this much potential?!?
One of the weirdest things about Simon McQuoid's Mortal Kombat is that it's not so bad it's good. It's not a laughing stock that fumbles in ways you might find endearing (like the campy, cheesy 1995 MK).
No, this is that weird hodgepodge of half-baked ideas that doesn't even come out resembling anything charming.
You don't finish Mortal Kombat 2021 with a sense of appreciation for what a team of well-meaning individuals have put together.
Instead, you see nothing but wasted potential. One of the best casts for a martial arts flick arguably in Hollywood history, utterly squandered by horrific editing, a slipshod sense of pacing, empty storytelling, bizarre characterisations and a story that feels like a Youtube short stretched into two hours.
Mortal Kombat 2021 has literal seconds of brilliance, it has great ideas in theory, but none are capitalised on or appear for longer than a couple of scenes.
It's straight-up an achievement to miss this many open goals, and when you've had this long to plan Mortal Kombat's return to the big screen, missing that mark is nothing short of tragic.