Mortal Kombat Movie Reboot: 8 Things We Need To See

Adapted movies and ill-fated TV shows alike have missed the mark by failing to acknowledge one crucial factor of Mortal Kombat: the violence.

That's right, Mortal Kombat is violent (duh). It has blood, gore and death in spades. No self-respecting MK video game has shied away from it (well, except Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe), and players have come to expect it in hearty abundance.

In this day and age, a movie interpretation which is as clean and blood-free as the 1995 original will come across as, if nothing else, kind of strange. After all, the R-rated movie adaptations of Deadpool exceeded the coarse content of its X-Men cousins, and anything that was ever done in the MCU. And this was a success, because it was appropriate to the source material.

Anything less than an R-rating for the 2021 reboot will surely be a bad move. Warner Bros. are much better off finding their fangs and raising the graphic content bar. Otherwise, the movie will turn out to misrepresent the franchise and will ultimately not be accepted by fans as a faithful addition to the MK canon.