Hey Jeremy did i ask you to give the mortal kombat movie the sentence to hell? How about u rethink ur decision in solitary take him away *the **m.ps** arrested Jeremy from cinema sins* I apologize On behalf of that asshole he really screwed the pooch on this one all of you had been pardoned * i retracted the sins and give the correct sentence: HEAVEN* thats all dismissed.
that move got me out of a tough spot when my nephew who actually knew how to play didnt give me time to remember the controls, i just started spamming it after the tenth round where he beat me with no opposition and i swear ive never seen a 9 yr old get so mad so fast, he never won a single game against me after that
You missed out on the "Cole left his family to protect them because his proximity put them in danger, but decided to go back to his family, putting them in danger."
Don't forget that he then left them _again_ so they would be put back in danger of being frozen and abducted by SubZero, after which they were promptly frozen and abducted by SubZero, waiting for Cole to return and save them from danger. Again.
The biggest sin of this whole movie, besides not being a full Mortal Kombat tournament, was not giving us the 2 hour Scorpion Samurai Revenge Epic we deserved.
@Rodolfo Ramos Even that cartoon Mortal Kombat "movie" we got on VHS before the release of the '95 movie had a better representation of the rivalry... and better CGI.
Biggest sin of this movie is talking about a tournament all the time and never actually having a tournament. The tournament never happens. Other than that though, I enjoyed the shit out of it.
The closest you'll probably get is 'Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge', and even then, more time is spent on developing Liu Kang, Sonya, and Johnny Cage instead of Scorpion.
Mortal Kombat is just about Scorpion. Last I check the games have more than one character in them. Tf wants to watch a MK movie about solely one character who isn’t even the main character (Liu Kang) anyway
Sadly...... This video was VERY accurate. Only correction I have is the Raiden from 1995 actually protected the fighters everytime they got attacked before the tournament started. This guy did squat.
The problem is that so much of the movie just lacks the proper exposition to explain the events of the first tournament and would’ve been better off if Cole Young was replaced by Johnny Cage, I think Louis Tan would’ve played him pretty well and there wouldn’t be any confusion as to who Cole is and what his role in the series is. In addition to this, they don’t explain the proper rules of the tournament well or any of their powers, it would’ve been better to explain that Earth risks being overrun by Outworld if they lose a consecutive amount of tournaments which motivates them to fight. In addition to that, they should’ve better developed Raiden’s character and given him better reasons for being so cynical compared to his video game counterpart. Maybe showcase how he’s been weathered over time by seeing countless Earthrealm kombatants lose, so he’s trying with all he’s got with the current lot. The mark for kombatants is also stupid, they should just make them chosen and have their reasons for Raiden drawing them to fight in the tournament, just like in the animated movie. Plus, on top of this, they keep killing people off before the tournament begins and don’t articulate the actual rules behind it. It makes sense that Shang Tsung would try to kill people off before the tournament begins but I’m pretty sure the game forbade him from doing so, which is why he usually tries stuff like this when people are in different realms.
@@rafrivera7883 It's a rope dart, which means it CAN be used that way, in addition to throwing it and yanking it back, both as a ranged stabby thing and as a hook.
To be fair, at least initially, he was using it kind of as a meteor hammer which is a real weapon style that's cool to watch. However, I'm reaching to find praises to this movie, hehe. Apparently when you use a hook/spear point attached to a rope though, it's called kusari-fundo/kusari-gama.
As silly as it seemed, Kunai (like many eastern martial arts weapons) are actually originally a gardening/agricultural tool, so it was completely acceptable that she was using it to garden.
Coach Ramsey watches these, sorta laughing because the last video i was watching a minute ago was your explanation about the internet backlash about the toes in the cage
I'm calling a sin on CinemaSins, you completely skipped over the fact that Sub-Zero apparently waited hundreds of years, then randomly told Shang Tsung for no reason, "I am no longer Bi-Han...I am Sub Zero!".
Not necessarily, Johnny Cage is a step up from the generic action MC, and just the writing in general hurt the character not really Cole himself, like for example when you write that your character loses every single fight but then conveniently beats someone way stronger than him it’s the writing, in reality Cole should’ve just been Takeda and then said his adopted father or his moms husband was Kenshi
@@DrippleDragon I completely agree that its the writers fault. I get that they wanted someone the audience could relate to and follow on there journey. That role could have gone to any number of MK characters. I just said Johnny because he has been with the series from the beginning. But i also like your idea as well. On a side note I would love to see the MK Legacy expanded and continued
@@ndcp2379 Cage is supposed to be the GOAT. Hence the tease at the end. Have you played the recent games? Cage is actually a BIG deal later on in the stoyline
@@AFZ6767 I haven't played them but that's what UA-cam is for. I actually think the Movie should use more story elements from the games. To me the ideal movie aside from a straight adaptation of the Game would be a combination of MK1 movie, MK Legacy and Scorpions Revenge and stay rated R
@@AFZ6767 Since ever, i don't know why people never bring that up. A lot of followers seem to forget that in MK 4 lore, the elder gods bringed Cage to life again in the war against Shinnok, is not like he was a pushover, ever.
Bold of them to release a Mortal Kombat movie all about the lore a year after the last game pretty much went "You know all that lore we built in the last 25 years? Yeah, none of it matters anymore and we can make up as much as we want from here on."
Which sucks and explains why mk9 to mk11 aftermath are a disgrace to what fans know. They should have continue Taven's story but then again they would fuck it up and can care less what we think and know what they were supposed to do.
I'm pretty sure MK11 is a direct follow up to MK10, which itself was a follow up to MK9. Love it or hate it, the story is objectively tied together with the past several titles. I don't know how anyone could think MK11 was some type of hard reboot.
@@ShlomoMetzenbaum There were so many sins in this movie. Retconning itself, making a new character no one gives a flying fuck about, introducing that arcana bullshit, and absolutely riddled with continuity errors!
Idk why but at the end when he says "No Raiden why can't YOOOOU FIND THEM?" Legit made me laugh out loud, I swear if Cole or somebody said that in the movie I would've legit died. Lmao
Arcana and dragon markings. The games have been around since '92, but all of a sudden we need a name for these powers and tattoos to distinguish who's worthy or not. Writers just can't help themselves
In mortal kombat 3 kahn and his minions invaded earthrealm, and most of the population's souls were claimed. A few, like your normal heroes and kabal and striker survived. They were seen as chosen or worthy. I like that reasoning much better than tattoos lol
Shit's like the chi level bullshit in the mulan remake. Why can't someone just be good at fighting? who cares about all this mystical bullshit learn to write a naturally occuring conflict with cool fight scenes
Nothing worse than the what the movie did to him by calling him Syzoth when literally most MK fans have no idea that's his name, and left the movie either thinking it wasn't Reptile or didn't know if it was him or not.
I just want to know how they teach cyber-prosthetics surgery at raiden's temple. Is there a scholarship or is it that whichever asshole shows up gets magic medical skills in service of the weakest plot imaginable
@@steik6414 honestly bro this is one of the dumbest moments in the movie, there is a little thing called the cyber initiative in the game just link that to how Jax got his arms, Kano got his cybernetic laser eye and Sonya her hi- tech gadgets.
Honestly, the best part of this movie was the start. Hanzo’s beginning arc was awesome; the other main characters were dry as hell. I didn’t expect a GOOD movie, but I expected it to at least be entertaining. Should’ve just been about Hanzo himself.
The beginning of the movie felt like a different director which should of kept it that way unless it was just they hired a good fight choreographer and then switched it. Opening was Excellent.
Yeah I wanted to see a Scorpion original story where he fights through literal hell and at the climax of the film he has a choice to resurrect his family or get revenge and he chooses vengeance... Cue the music and the Johnny Cage solo film tease in the end credits... MKCU is born.
There’s nothing wrong with shark boy and lava girl. A truly perfect film. Mr electric send this commenter to the principles office and have him expelled!
biggest flaws of this movie: 1.- birthmarks to show you're worthy to enter the turnament 2.- Arcanas 3.- F*CKING COLE 4.- Sub-zero actually being called the strongest of the netherealm faction 5.- F*CKING GORO REDUCED TO TYPICAL HENCHMAN!!! HE'S THE F*CKING SUB-BOSS OF THE ORIGINAL GAME!! 6.- NO F*CKING JHONNY CAGE!!!!!
7- Shafting Liu Kang the actual hero 8- Raiden and Shang Tsung are bland as hell compared to 90s film 9- Godly teleportation is only used to have seperate fights and not to effectively take the villains out 10- No actual tournament
Agree with all points, and would like to add a couple rather underwhelming performances from shang tsung and liu kang, at least in comparison to their 1995 counterparts. Cary tagawa and robin shou owned that film. This time the characters were just like cosplayers or charicatures
@@shadowbladeandlightin8889 for the film. I don't think anyone would have cared had he been a side character, but to be the defacto lead was a questionable choice
"I'm not allowed to get involved because I'm a god, but the other gods are too lazy to enforce the rules so I'll just sit here watching you die" *Raiden in the games* "You *knew* they broke the rules and still we as the overseeing deities won't do anything? Well, f you too. I revoke my godhood and am going to do what you refuse to."
Not really? Unless you mean the original timeline Raiden in MK9 was the Elder God's bitch, in MKX he was absent for most of it, and in MK11 he died instantly and when the past one came be he did was MK9 Raiden did mostly.
@@NadoKahn in the midway timeline it’s a bit different, The Elder Gods did a shit ton more in the original timeline than in any other, but at a point they allowed Raiden to participate because they called out Outworld on cheating, it wasn’t until Armageddon where he said fuck the elder gods and then goes Dark Raiden for the first time
@@NadoKahn He's not their bitch, he just respects and fears their power unlike Shao Kahn who learned the hard way. Besides, Raiden made up for it in MK 11 by turning LK into a freaking new Protector of Earthrealm, Fire Thunder God and new keeper of time which LK wouldn't have been able to do without Raiden. Besides that's the second timeline, original timeline EG got way more involved and Raiden turned dark and did what he wanted anyway including defying the EG's as both light and Dark Raiden. Raiden also took out Shinnok when unbound by dumb rules centuries ago the first time banishing his ass, Raiden is definitely not a bitch he's just got Superman's nerfing syndrome, he holds back and is way too merciful so the bad guys take advantage of it.
@@MKF30 I think the plot and terrible story of the reboot and movie is what left a bad taste of Raiden and the Elder Gods in everyone’s mouths, not saying they don’t have their flaws, and I remember a lot of the problems from the original timeline was that when Raiden killed someone it bit him in the ass, and by the time he was allowed to participate there were a shit ton of more powerful foes, like no one expected Quan Chi and Shang Tsung to ally, and then Onaga is a whole ass elder god, Shinnok is just as powerful if not more with his amulet, and I wouldn’t say he lost to Taven I do agree he held back against the son of Argus
@@DrippleDragon I wouldn't say terrible just had some flaws which let's be honest every franchise has some DC, Marvel etc but still for a video game and by far for a fighting game MK is by far the best hands down. Raidens one mistake in the old timeline was killing Quan chi and Shang resulting in onaga getting the amulet on top of all the kamidogu but he planned to wipe them all out the only reason onaga survived was due to shujinkos incompetence and getting duped by Damashi who is also Onaga give him the kamidogo all of them which will make anyone insanely op, one is enough to give someone insane power since its literally the essence and power of the one being an omnipresent, eternal deity over the entire universe that nobody can kill but can be defeated as the Elder Gods did eons ago. They trapped its essence in the kamidogu old timeline amulets, new one in daggers and shattered its body turning it into the realms which is insane power its just they tend to be neutral and not want to get involved ever... Shinnok with his amulet is powerful but so is Raiden, he justbholds back. When he doesn't hes arguably more powrrful than both Shao Kahn and Shinnok. I mean Raiden has effected time itself so yeah...lol but anyone also with the amulet is a high level threat especially Shinnok or Raiden. The new mk9 story was solid honestly with a few exceptions it is 9ne reason mk got put back on the map bigtime and attracted new fans even every other fighter said nrs redefined the story for fgs as they too now have a story like mode. Between mk and injustice this is pretty obvious. The new movie I feltnhad more positives than negatives but could have been better I have no issues with it being a prequel but more so with cole being there. I get why for the genera audience to latch onto but didn't feel necessary. I have no issues with the Raiden stuff if people knew mk lore they'd know why he didn't do more allnill say on that. I think considering the fact that keep in mind this movie was one of the first to release in theatres dueing a pandemic, rated R and video game movie a stigma against it alone and competition against itself via streaming on HBO it still was number 1 opening weekend at 23 mill and 30 mill streaming. Not too shabby considering. Was it perfect no, but as bad as some people said hell no. On RT the "professional critics" gave it 55% vs audience who gave it 86% nuff said. It'll get 4 more sequels. I still consider the original to be the best video game movie ever but I enjoyed this one and was way better than annihilation. Scorpions revenge is also solid even if it goes off canon too but most like that movie alot too and end of this month the sequel battle for the realms hits. Looks fun.
Besides Cole and the stupid “dragon birthmark that’s never been a thing” I liked it. Get rid of Cole, resurrect my boy, make him and Liu Kang the MCs for the next movie.
Oh and also the scene where Kung Lao gets his soul sucked, there where a lot of things wrong with that. First off they did Kung Lao dirty, second off Kabal's stupid ass commentary, third off I know damn well everyone there could've ran and saved him or Raiden could've teleported him like he always does.
Actually, Kano actor apparently came up with many of his own lines so you can't even credit the script even a tiny bit, which just makes the writer even worse.
2:11 Actually, that isnt the only weapon he uses. Him being the leader of the Shirai Ryu also makes him an excellent swordsman, not to mention hand-to-hand fighter. Plus, as Scorpion, he also opts to use his fire-breathing skull and his hand from hell. He never just sticks to his kunai, even tho theyre his most iconic weapons. It just happens that this movie only showed the kunai and not much else.
"Is he dead? I'm pretty sure he's dead! Let's check again... let's see it again.. this is getting sad now.. one more time!! HE TOTALLY dead!"🤣🤣 I can't breathe, I'm laughing so hard
Lol, reminded me of the guy in dodgeball : a true underdog story that gets hit by the russian chick and falls against the jukebox. ''I think that guy might really be dead.''
Remind me of the Monsters vs Aliens video when he keeps replaying the protagonist getting smashed by a big building or something and she voiced by Reese Witherspoon. Just check it, it's funny AF.
This movie did everything that you're not supposed to do with making a video game movie adaption. Making it's about a character that was not in the original games, pushing all the old characters to the side, we didn't get much of Scorpion versus Sub-Zero, it's a mess.
@@waleuska Are you saying that Tom was in the games or that Tails/Knuckles/Metal Sonic/etc. weren't pushed to the side? Sonic was enjoyable, but saying Mortal Kombat "did everything that you're not supposed to do with making a video game adaptation" and then listing 2 things that a "successful" video game movie already did doesn't seem quite right.
It makes sense to me, i just hate how cliche it is. An orphan would have pretty low opinions about their biological family so to suddenly be told you are special when you thought you were tossed is jarring i guess.
@@krimsonk-9478 i can see that, but you could also say the opposite. An orphan wpuld also want to be special and dream of their family finding them. (Which is actually another cliche that is also very over done.)
@@jedh3721 Great point. Not to mention I find it weird that he ended up as an Orphan instead of Raiden keeping an eye on him and have his family line trained like Liu Kang & Kung Lao.
My head still hurts from all that arcana bs and Jax getting magic arms and Sonya getting superpowers. Just give them hi tech gadgets and cybernetic arms.
It's actually a VERY realistic depiction of ninja weapons, which were whatever relatively sharp gardening/home improvement tools they had on hand. Easy to hide your weapon in plain sight.
@@Khrn-lk4mf "Bat chick" is the vampire Nitara from the 3Ds starting with Deadly Alliance and Armageddon dummy....it wouldve helped you so much to use the very tool you using to comment your ignorance to also do your research clown
This movie eviscerates Mortal Kombat lore. The MK tournaments were designed to assemble the greatest fighters across multiple worlds. Some were "chosen ones" like Liu Kang since he was chosen by Raiden to defend Earthrealm but a lot were kind just roped into the tournament for various reasons, often personal reasons. I hate how Jax gets his arms ripped off by Sub-Zero and not Ermac. Ermac would have been a much better villain, would have made sense given the MK9 canon, and would have given Shang Tsung a proper ally given Ermac was literally made by Shang to begin with. Also Jax's arms are cybernetic not magic. Cybernetics is pretty common in the MK universe through Kano and the Cyber Lin Kuei. The fact Jax goes from having literal chicken feet for arms to "magical" robot arms because he saved Sonya is utter bullshit. Also Kano's a member of the Black Dragon along with Kabal. The fact Kabal knows Kano's on Earth implies the Black Dragon is a thing so Sonya not immediately wanting to kill Kano despite him being involved in the tournament is also bullshit. It's also bullshit that Kano even bothers with the tournament and Kabal sides with Shang Tsung - their roles are literally REVERSED in the MK9 canon! Kano is a selfish prick who sides with Shang and Kabal leaves the Black Dragon but gets immolated by Kintaro which is why he has the suit. The speed was given by Shang Tsung, who tried to revive him. Obviously Shang gave Kabal the suit and the magic in the movie but I don't get why Kabal would side with Shang since that's literally not what the MK9 canon is. Also Raiden cannot interfere with Mortal Kombat once the tournament has started. He cannon participate and nobody can challenge him. But when Shao Khan and Shang Tsung invade Earth, violating the terms of Mortal Kombat, he is allowed to engage. So Raiden claiming he can't engage even when Shang Tsung clearly is violating the terms of Kombat is 200% bullshit. Also Mileena being in the movie despite Shao Khan not having been introduced. It makes zero sense for Mileena to be in the movie if Shao Khan isn't the movie's antagonist. Why Sub-Zero though? Bi-Han wasn't even the one who killed Hanzo's clan in the MK9 canon, it was Kuai Liang. Bi-Han is killed by Scorpion in Mortal Kombat in revenge but returns as Noob Saibot. It would have been much better for Scorpion to kill Bi-Han only to realize he killed the wrong person half-way through and use that as a plot-twist.
Nice one. I'm sure that the writers didn't even play at least one of the games before coming with this script. And to think that they scrapped Johnny Cage for a Mary-Sue... The best live-action adaptations of MK are the 1995 first movie and MK Legacy.
@@Requiem_2803 I do remember though when they rebooted the series and Raiden did his time travel stuff the first sub-zero we see, who later is killed by Scorpion and becomes Noob Saibot, expresses he wasn't the one who killed the Shirai Ryu. Unless that was later retconned or he lied when he was fried. Ill go over MKM: Sub-Zero to make sure.
"Handled that task like a sloth blowing itself on a merry-go-round." Well, that's a phrase I didn't know existed until this moment, and I'm going to be using this whenever possible.
Im glad im not the only one who loved that line I just cant tell if its used to denote incompetence, something futile, or something that's going to take forever. Funny enough I think its could be used for all three
Did you forget to sin the whole Sonya can just use her Arcana without having to do anything to unlock it? She just gets the mark and bam shows up with power rings!
Kano was awesome because he was the only one that didn't give a crap! Everyone else tried to play their role 'so serious' but Kano knew how bad the script really was and acted accordingly.
25:40 No he wont be returning. He’ll just be replaced by his younger brother who has the exact same powers and outfit, and decides to refer to himself with the exact same moniker.
After finished watching this movie, I'm starting to think that the screen writer and director of this movie, tried to compete with Dragon Ball evolution and the Last Airbender for the "Worst plot of live action adaptation" in movie awards.
@@jd50053 Or we can stop making animated masterpieces live action because they almost never translate well as both have their strong points that don't work in the other.
CinemaSins: “It’s fair to share, if you care, that they had a spare flare over there to spare” Me: +1 sin to CinemaSins for using “spare” twice in your rhyme
If I was Scorpion, i'd be pretty embarrassed if a crap fighter like Cole with literal plot armor was my descendant. Movie was rubbish and disappointing.
Actually Tshang Sung using SZ to kill the marked earth realmers is GENIUS! there is no second best for erath realm because the mark can only be transferred to someone who kills the barrer if they dont have one. SZ had a mark so the transfer cancels out and keeps other earthrealm fighters from being chosen.
Though the argument could be made that if a marked person kills another person with a mark it transfers to another living relative. After all Bi-Han who most likely had a mark killed Hanzo and it transferred to Hanzos baby that was rescued by Raiden.
We didn't see a whole lot of him, but Kabal was my favorite from the movie. The voice actor somehow made Kabal having a Brooklyn dialect sound amazing and the sarcastic humor was perfect
@@TwilitLugia Kabal was actually a decent standard for a minor villain in this movie. Both of his fights were flashy and had fewer camera edits. He actually had some personality and the tiniest bit of background. The rest of the minor villains didn't even meet the minimum standard.
That was actually one of the worst parts of the movie lmao Kano was never that important to the story line lmfao. Hes just a side villain who gets killed by Sonya. They did way to much with a character no one cares about. It would be like a Batman and Robin movie dedicated to "Commissioner Gordans wife" where she saves the day and has more important roles and back story than Batman & Robin themselves lmfao thats stupid smh
@@jace8706 Yeah. Avoid this movie if you are a hardcore fan. The fact that a fanfic original character is the main character itself is already a big warning. The whole movie focuses on "unlocking your inner power" aspect just to make the main character looks cool when he gets his power. Some minor villains might as well have been just tarkatan soldiers with their zero personality and some with even zero power to show off as they are only there to die (Reiko & Nitara).
Yeah but gotta wonder would Sub Zero get the markings if he killed them? Maybe it was to make sure Earthrealm had no fighters to work with while Sub Zero ends up with all these crazy powers.
killing the fighters would refill the roster immediately but it would also give them less time to train and find their arcana, which means at the time of the tournament, earthrealm fighters wouldnt win because they are untrained or lack their arcana.
5:22 Clever referencing the Creatores of Mortal Kombat here, Eddie Boon and John Tobias.....who are famously know for their both last names in reverse make up the character of "Noob Saibot". Guess "Noob" wasn't a good pick for a first name for a fictional Champion, so they had to switch at least one of them for his first instead of his last name. And that isn't a Sin?
Well his "Special Power" was also completely reliant on the fact that he would Lose his arms AND get them replaced with robot arms soo........i don't think anyone really gave a crap about the logic behind that
It's so clear that they spent the most time on the First Fight with Hanzo and Bi-Han along with the Final Fight between them. The rest of the fights have so many awkward camera angles & editing that just looks really incompetent. If every fight looked mediocre/bad, then I could have just said "well it's first time director" but the first and final fight shows that the Director is capable of delivering a decent fight scene. The rest just felt like a filler to pass the time to get to the big final fight.
Fr! All they had to do was make an actual mortal kombat tournament and show the characters stories as they like like real life record of Ragnarok it would've been much better than this shit
17:15 Knowing a thing or two about the lore might help you out a bit. The character you claim "...lives in Outworld and just happens to know Kano who is from Earth..." actually just happens to be a former member of Kano's Black Dragon clan and is also actually from Earthrealm. They even touch on their past in their dialogue later, when he goads Kano into taking down the force field. However, the jab about how he could possibly know Kano might be among the very rare 'marked' fighters is quite appropriate and annoyed me when I first saw the scene.
There used to be a show on Discovery Channel or The History Channel that brokedown weapons throughout history and how they are used. The weapon that the rope and spade creates, that is designed to engage multiple attackers simultaneously and keep them outside of melee range. So, probably, by accident... That was the appropriate weapon to choose over a sword. As you know, because if more than one enemy attacks you in melee at the same time, it rapidly becomes a problem. You can't always assume the baddies will attack you one at a time... wait a minute.
You missed the sin of Jax mentioning the name, "Eddie Tobias". That is a mash up of the names "Ed Boon" and "John Tobias", the creators of Mortal Kombat. Also a potential nod to the character "Noob Saibot"?
I watched this film with honestly, neutral expectations about whether or not it'd be good. And after I watched it, I have one word to use and describe it. HOLLOW. Everything felt hollow. The plot, characters, the very limited development. EVERYTHING FELT HOLLOW. The only upsides I could find were the fights, and that was only two of them. The one at the start and at the end with Sub Zero and Scorpion. One other thing I can give this movie props for, was the cast. They did pretty well when they picked the cast for the OG characters, especially Kano. I honestly would have preferred a movie that had Takeda as the MC over this new guy who has as much character as a cardboard box.
Agree with your whole comment, except for the casting. Raiden, Shang Tsung, Liu Kang, Sonya, and Jax (not OG if you're talking about "1st game OG" but if you mean established characters, then yeah) were all poorly casted imho. Looks wise, I'll only give Sonya a pass but Liu Kang looked like a discount Chinese Michael Jackson and was too skinny despite being shredded (yes you can be skinny and shredded at the same time. Just look at Robin Shou Liu Kang compared to Ludi Lin). Other than that, they should have cast Ken Watanabe as Shang Tsung, Marko Zaror as Raiden, Tiger Chen as Liu Kang, Emily Blunt as Sonya and Michael Jai White as Jax. I know they couldn't afford a few of these actors, but maybe if they didn't spend their money on Goros horrible inclusion to the movie and "Outworld" that shouldn't have been shown in the movie much, only glimpses, then maybe they would have been able to afford actors who fit the roles better acting wise and fighting wise.
@@MrMJmusicLover I didn't even notice someone had laughed at his comment of the casting lol. Maybe he was just talking about "looks" and not how good they actually were in the roles, which even then he'd only be right about Sonya as far as looks 😂 but I'm with you, the cast was shit. After the movie, I only liked the casting choices of Kung Lao, Kano, Scorpion and Sub Zero.
Yeah the movie was trash but kinda fun to watch at some points, who the fuck isn't about to cheer when scorpion says he has risen from hell to kill sub-zero
I like cinema sins but this video made its clear he doesn't know much about MK lol. I like all the details he made about the movie itself but it seemed like he didn't know cole was made only for this movie so his abilities were definitely stolen from black panther. Also it seems like he didn't know that the "beloved character" wasn't our beloved character, sort of. Bi Han died but the famous Sub Zero is his Brother Kuai Liang. Bi Han does comeback when he is resureccted as a spectre, similar to scorpion, dawning the name Noob Saibot. So his death isn't going to be retconned but was a tease for 2 extremely beloved characters. Our Sub-Zero and Noob Saibot.
The best thing about these videos is that you dont realize how much they have been sinned until you look up at the sin counter and see its at, like, 50 sins 9 minutes into the video
I also don't think he knew that this Sub-Zero was suppose to die so he could come back as Noob Saibot and be replaced by the much better Sub-Zero, Kuai Liang.
@@StephonZeno no, but you’d think the guy that’s known for shitting on movies would call the movie out for creating a protagonist that doesn’t exist in the game it’s based on.
@@merskyman2449 I’m not that disappointed. I loved a lot of things about the movie, the casting, the fighting, the CGI, the first and last ten minutes were the best. What I hate is that this is a Mortal Kombat movie, without a mortal kombat. Well Shang Tsung said it himself in the movie :”there will be no tournament because there will be no tournament”
Best parts of this movie: Kano & the Special Effects. Scorpion and Sub Zero's actors are great too but wasted after the first 6 minutes of this film. The 1995 film is still better in my humble opinion...
See the problem is… you have 20+ year martial art veterans trying to play with and opposite to first degreee black belts and some pretty faces (talking about Mehcad Brooks. I love him but like… come on lol). They had no choice but to pretty much waste them. They can only dumb it down so much.
@@thomashajicek2747 yeah they had tournament but it didn't make sense. They invited too many people for that tournament that was not skilled enough to participate. Case and point the dude named Art. I can say at least they tried though.
Outtakes are here: ua-cam.com/video/bjiqA1htw-c/v-deo.html
Ok
I really with the BTS podcast would explain why this was done.
You should sin whiplash
Noice, made the day great🍻
Hey Jeremy did i ask you to give the mortal kombat movie the sentence to hell? How about u rethink ur decision in solitary take him away
*the **m.ps** arrested Jeremy from cinema sins* I apologize On behalf of that asshole he really screwed the pooch on this one all of you had been pardoned * i retracted the sins and give the correct sentence: HEAVEN*
thats all dismissed.
Totally missed the opportunity to remove a sin when Liu Kang repeats the low kick sweep on Kano. That part was absolutely hysterical
Ha! I loved that they included that Spammer move in the movie...it helped me win a few games back when I was a kid 😂
that move got me out of a tough spot when my nephew who actually knew how to play didnt give me time to remember the controls, i just started spamming it after the tenth round where he beat me with no opposition and i swear ive never seen a 9 yr old get so mad so fast, he never won a single game against me after that
It was cringe as fuck.
Kano was the only good part in this dumpster fire
@@ptlovelight2971 Ah, so you were one of _those_ guys. 😆
Raiden isn't allowed to interfere in Mortal Kombat, however, the tournament hasn't started yet, so Kung Lao should've been saved. Such Bullshit.
I bet you 100 that they want to make him a revenant and "hate Raiden for not saving him"
Cole: I thought you couldn't interfere?
Raiden: 😁
Kung Lao: What. The. Fu-
Even 1995's Mk got that right when Raiden protected his fighters on the ship.
@@Wolfcub23 It was fun, it's just that the self-insert or whoever the fuck Cole was supposed to be was pretty bland.
@@Wolfcub23 Yeah, and the tournament could've been a sequel.
This whole movie happens because the good guys are incompetent, and the good guys win because the bad guys were ultimately MORE incompetent.
Which makes the movie even more incompetent.
Aka every single movie ever
@@prestonlogan3808 aka every MK plot ever
You missed out on the "Cole left his family to protect them because his proximity put them in danger, but decided to go back to his family, putting them in danger."
Don't forget that he then left them _again_ so they would be put back in danger of being frozen and abducted by SubZero, after which they were promptly frozen and abducted by SubZero, waiting for Cole to return and save them from danger. Again.
Ok but who the hell is Cole?
The biggest sin of this whole movie, besides not being a full Mortal Kombat tournament, was not giving us the 2 hour Scorpion Samurai Revenge Epic we deserved.
@Rodolfo Ramos Even that cartoon Mortal Kombat "movie" we got on VHS before the release of the '95 movie had a better representation of the rivalry... and better CGI.
The 90s film is somehow much better than this.
Biggest sin of this movie is talking about a tournament all the time and never actually having a tournament. The tournament never happens. Other than that though, I enjoyed the shit out of it.
The closest you'll probably get is 'Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge', and even then, more time is spent on developing Liu Kang, Sonya, and Johnny Cage instead of Scorpion.
Mortal Kombat is just about Scorpion. Last I check the games have more than one character in them. Tf wants to watch a MK movie about solely one character who isn’t even the main character (Liu Kang) anyway
Sadly...... This video was VERY accurate. Only correction I have is the Raiden from 1995 actually protected the fighters everytime they got attacked before the tournament started. This guy did squat.
Agreed. Its sad to say, but the original movie was/ is still the best one. And that movie only cost $ 1 million to make...
Dude has no idea what he's talking about. He said Kabal was from out world. He clearly knows nothing about mk except this movie.
@@sugadaddy7050 I seen it years ago, The original is better than this.....disappointment.
Lol I just watched the movie and laughed at your comment lol 😂
“And that’s all the movie has to say about that” The tag line for the movie
The problem is that so much of the movie just lacks the proper exposition to explain the events of the first tournament and would’ve been better off if Cole Young was replaced by Johnny Cage, I think Louis Tan would’ve played him pretty well and there wouldn’t be any confusion as to who Cole is and what his role in the series is. In addition to this, they don’t explain the proper rules of the tournament well or any of their powers, it would’ve been better to explain that Earth risks being overrun by Outworld if they lose a consecutive amount of tournaments which motivates them to fight. In addition to that, they should’ve better developed Raiden’s character and given him better reasons for being so cynical compared to his video game counterpart. Maybe showcase how he’s been weathered over time by seeing countless Earthrealm kombatants lose, so he’s trying with all he’s got with the current lot. The mark for kombatants is also stupid, they should just make them chosen and have their reasons for Raiden drawing them to fight in the tournament, just like in the animated movie. Plus, on top of this, they keep killing people off before the tournament begins and don’t articulate the actual rules behind it. It makes sense that Shang Tsung would try to kill people off before the tournament begins but I’m pretty sure the game forbade him from doing so, which is why he usually tries stuff like this when people are in different realms.
Stabby yo-yo is the best description of Scorpion's kunai I've ever heard.
Lowkey i always thought he used it like a kusarigama
@@rafrivera7883 It's a rope dart, which means it CAN be used that way, in addition to throwing it and yanking it back, both as a ranged stabby thing and as a hook.
It did sound kinda funny though. LoL
To be fair, at least initially, he was using it kind of as a meteor hammer which is a real weapon style that's cool to watch. However, I'm reaching to find praises to this movie, hehe. Apparently when you use a hook/spear point attached to a rope though, it's called kusari-fundo/kusari-gama.
Hahahahahaha
As silly as it seemed, Kunai (like many eastern martial arts weapons) are actually originally a gardening/agricultural tool, so it was completely acceptable that she was using it to garden.
You missed the fact that Cole's arcana is literally plot armor during the Goro fight. That woulda been a great sin.
I remember laughing so hard when it came to me. "Wait... Is that LITERAL PLOT--"
Finally someone noticed that
Maybe he doesn't know that joke
@Jonathan Perez Cole did stab Sub-Zero in the chest with his Tonfa, which is technically connected to his armour.
The Pitch Meeting guy said exactly that
The one sink of Sauron… mwahahahahaha!!!
One sink to rule them all,
One sink to find them,
One sink to bring them all,
And in the Darkness bind them
Also conveniently happens right before everything pops off lol
Coach Ramsey watches these, sorta laughing because the last video i was watching a minute ago was your explanation about the internet backlash about the toes in the cage
I died laughing 🤣
I'm calling a sin on CinemaSins, you completely skipped over the fact that Sub-Zero apparently waited hundreds of years, then randomly told Shang Tsung for no reason, "I am no longer Bi-Han...I am Sub Zero!".
Wait was the implication that Sub Zero knew Shang Tsung when he killed scorpion.
@@seanthomas1552it should be that way if they want to stick to the source material, but given how far they've strayed already, who knows
Also. Bigger sin. Bi Han is a mortal. How did he live from the time he killed Scorpion to the Modern Day??
@@leonarddement3432shang tsung slowed his aging like erron black is 150 cuz of shang he probably also used his ice to slow his aging
I am disappointed there wasn't an observation that Cole was saved by his Arcana; which was LITERALLY plot armor.
AH HA!!! 🤣🤣🤣Hahahaha!! That would've been amazing if the sin was "LITERAL PLOT ARMOR EX-MACHINA!!"
HAHAHAHAHA! My friend and I said the exact same thing when we first watched the movie!
I told my family that his Arcana was "Plot Armor" and they legit thought I made up that phrase 😂
an arcana is literally an ex-machina
@@bommer5750 no it's not
5:50 showing the guy getting his dome piece rocked 3 times had me crying laughing
"Sorry, I'm not allowed to interfere. I can't save everyone."
YOU LITERALLY JUST INTERFERED AND SAVED ALMOST EVERYONE.
So, Scorpion learned how to say "get over here" in English but didn't have time to learn more English?
Haha
Exactly🤣🤣🤣
Hell doesn't have the best learning annex
Used Google Translate Speech.
That is all that is inportant
The sad thing is most of the issues could have been fixed if cole was replaced with Johny Cage.
Not necessarily, Johnny Cage is a step up from the generic action MC, and just the writing in general hurt the character not really Cole himself, like for example when you write that your character loses every single fight but then conveniently beats someone way stronger than him it’s the writing, in reality Cole should’ve just been Takeda and then said his adopted father or his moms husband was Kenshi
@@DrippleDragon I completely agree that its the writers fault. I get that they wanted someone the audience could relate to and follow on there journey. That role could have gone to any number of MK characters. I just said Johnny because he has been with the series from the beginning. But i also like your idea as well. On a side note I would love to see the MK Legacy expanded and continued
@@ndcp2379 Cage is supposed to be the GOAT. Hence the tease at the end. Have you played the recent games? Cage is actually a BIG deal later on in the stoyline
@@AFZ6767 I haven't played them but that's what UA-cam is for. I actually think the Movie should use more story elements from the games. To me the ideal movie aside from a straight adaptation of the Game would be a combination of MK1 movie, MK Legacy and Scorpions Revenge and stay rated R
@@AFZ6767 Since ever, i don't know why people never bring that up. A lot of followers seem to forget that in MK 4 lore, the elder gods bringed Cage to life again in the war against Shinnok, is not like he was a pushover, ever.
You forgot to call Cole's arcana: a literal plot armor.
Bold of them to release a Mortal Kombat movie all about the lore a year after the last game pretty much went "You know all that lore we built in the last 25 years? Yeah, none of it matters anymore and we can make up as much as we want from here on."
Which sucks and explains why mk9 to mk11 aftermath are a disgrace to what fans know. They should have continue Taven's story but then again they would fuck it up and can care less what we think and know what they were supposed to do.
I'm pretty sure MK11 is a direct follow up to MK10, which itself was a follow up to MK9. Love it or hate it, the story is objectively tied together with the past several titles. I don't know how anyone could think MK11 was some type of hard reboot.
I mean the movie didn’t stick to the lore either
@@justinlacek1481 maybe but it was poorly execute tho.
@@tempusername-l5d which begs the question why. Why do that instead of continuing Taven's story (which is cannon)?
ESL classes in hell… man this one had the best lines!
I wish I could dislike Jeremy's videos more than once. Just a bunch of really really bad jokes haha no sins
@@ShlomoMetzenbaum There were so many sins in this movie. Retconning itself, making a new character no one gives a flying fuck about, introducing that arcana bullshit, and absolutely riddled with continuity errors!
@@plagueman049 yeah but Jeremey glossed over those to get to his dumb fucking jokes
@@ShlomoMetzenbaum No, he really didn't.
Too bad we heard that joke over a month ago when Ryan George wrote it
Idk why but at the end when he says "No Raiden why can't YOOOOU FIND THEM?" Legit made me laugh out loud, I swear if Cole or somebody said that in the movie I would've legit died. Lmao
"Cole Young. The character that ruined the story by Eddie Tobias."
the day that sub-zero was defeated was the most important day of your life, but for me, it was tuesday.
Who goes to cinema on Tuesdays?!
Unimportant but you remember it was a Tuesday
@@Raximus3000 you idiots do realize it's a joke right?
@@Raximus3000 Tuesdays are cheap days, at least at my local cinema
M. Bison 😀
Anyone notice how jax getting super strong robot arms also made his legs able to stand with the weight of a huge Boulder?
Arcana and dragon markings. The games have been around since '92, but all of a sudden we need a name for these powers and tattoos to distinguish who's worthy or not. Writers just can't help themselves
Yeah I hate that part the most
They should have just had the Elder Gods and Raiden foresee and decide.
In mortal kombat 3 kahn and his minions invaded earthrealm, and most of the population's souls were claimed. A few, like your normal heroes and kabal and striker survived. They were seen as chosen or worthy. I like that reasoning much better than tattoos lol
Shit's like the chi level bullshit in the mulan remake. Why can't someone just be good at fighting? who cares about all this mystical bullshit learn to write a naturally occuring conflict with cool fight scenes
Ikr? Also...who the fuck is Cole?
"What kind of monster doesn't punctuate their subtitles?!"
I'm dead 🤣
Lol
How is this comment 3hours ago &this video has only been uploaded for 10min... WTF 🤯😳😳
As he then proceeds to not punctuate his own subtitles 😂
The fact you called Reptile “the lizard” is slander I refuse to stand for 😂
Discount killer croc was hilarious though 🤣
Nothing worse than the what the movie did to him by calling him Syzoth when literally most MK fans have no idea that's his name, and left the movie either thinking it wasn't Reptile or didn't know if it was him or not.
That and saying that kabal is from outworld
Jax's magical power of destiny is growing cybernetic prosthetic arms.
That's all I have to say about this movie.
Yeah I hate that arcane crap doesn’t have anything to do with the actual games
Exactly. Question is, what the hell would have happened if his arms didn’t get froze off???
@@Fendaxis cybernetic strengh enhancers
I just want to know how they teach cyber-prosthetics surgery at raiden's temple. Is there a scholarship or is it that whichever asshole shows up gets magic medical skills in service of the weakest plot imaginable
@@steik6414 honestly bro this is one of the dumbest moments in the movie, there is a little thing called the cyber initiative in the game just link that to how Jax got his arms, Kano got his cybernetic laser eye and Sonya her hi- tech gadgets.
Honestly, the best part of this movie was the start. Hanzo’s beginning arc was awesome; the other main characters were dry as hell. I didn’t expect a GOOD movie, but I expected it to at least be entertaining. Should’ve just been about Hanzo himself.
The beginning of the movie felt like a different director which should of kept it that way unless it was just they hired a good fight choreographer and then switched it. Opening was Excellent.
Yeah I wanted to see a Scorpion original story where he fights through literal hell and at the climax of the film he has a choice to resurrect his family or get revenge and he chooses vengeance... Cue the music and the Johnny Cage solo film tease in the end credits... MKCU is born.
You should've screamed "Plot armor" when you got to his arcana coming out xD
Two requests: Sharkboy and Lavagirl, and The Cat in the Hat (2003)
Already done a cat in the hat one
There’s nothing wrong with shark boy and lava girl. A truly perfect film. Mr electric send this commenter to the principles office and have him expelled!
Can you sin perfection?
Both movies are shit lmaoo
@SummerSapphireYT Because they're kids movies and you're not the target audience. Dumb arse.
biggest flaws of this movie:
1.- birthmarks to show you're worthy to enter the turnament
2.- Arcanas
3.- F*CKING COLE
4.- Sub-zero actually being called the strongest of the netherealm faction
5.- F*CKING GORO REDUCED TO TYPICAL HENCHMAN!!! HE'S THE F*CKING SUB-BOSS OF THE ORIGINAL GAME!!
6.- NO F*CKING JHONNY CAGE!!!!!
7- Shafting Liu Kang the actual hero
8- Raiden and Shang Tsung are bland as hell compared to 90s film
9- Godly teleportation is only used to have seperate fights and not to effectively take the villains out
10- No actual tournament
@@li-limandragon9287 subboss IS a henchman😂
Agree with all points, and would like to add a couple rather underwhelming performances from shang tsung and liu kang, at least in comparison to their 1995 counterparts. Cary tagawa and robin shou owned that film. This time the characters were just like cosplayers or charicatures
@@pamoweiberezi5315 I know that, take it up with Omar.
@@pamoweiberezi5315 even among henchman there are ranks, hence I use the term typical, gotta learn to read buddy.
"what kind of monster doesn't punctuate their subtitles"
I adore that you deliberately didn't punctuate that particular set of subtitles
Thank you for addressing Scorpion removing his mask again and again. I remember seeing it being like.."Why?"
I kept telling my firends that Cole super power is literally plot armor, try to tell me I am wrong.
Is cole an actual character in the game? Or was he made up specifically for this movie
@@shadowbladeandlightin8889 for the film. I don't think anyone would have cared had he been a side character, but to be the defacto lead was a questionable choice
You are not
Plot armor and still couldn't win a single fight without help. That shows how terrible he is.
@Rodolfo Ramos He’s the Alice of Mortal Kombat
60 more sins for the animated movie that came out right next to this one being 10 times better
Kano's back must have hurt for carrying the movie.
And Kung Lao's up til what happened to him. 😔
Sub-zero did his part too.
💯💯💯💯 3 of the best characters in the movie was killed. I wanted more Scorpion.
@@UltimateBallaPOM he was a one note villain. No depth at ALL 😂
@@coldermusic2729
The actor and his special effects.
The story was hot garbage.
"I'm not allowed to get involved because I'm a god, but the other gods are too lazy to enforce the rules so I'll just sit here watching you die" *Raiden in the games* "You *knew* they broke the rules and still we as the overseeing deities won't do anything? Well, f you too. I revoke my godhood and am going to do what you refuse to."
Not really? Unless you mean the original timeline Raiden in MK9 was the Elder God's bitch, in MKX he was absent for most of it, and in MK11 he died instantly and when the past one came be he did was MK9 Raiden did mostly.
@@NadoKahn in the midway timeline it’s a bit different, The Elder Gods did a shit ton more in the original timeline than in any other, but at a point they allowed Raiden to participate because they called out Outworld on cheating, it wasn’t until Armageddon where he said fuck the elder gods and then goes Dark Raiden for the first time
@@NadoKahn He's not their bitch, he just respects and fears their power unlike Shao Kahn who learned the hard way. Besides, Raiden made up for it in MK 11 by turning LK into a freaking new Protector of Earthrealm, Fire Thunder God and new keeper of time which LK wouldn't have been able to do without Raiden. Besides that's the second timeline, original timeline EG got way more involved and Raiden turned dark and did what he wanted anyway including defying the EG's as both light and Dark Raiden. Raiden also took out Shinnok when unbound by dumb rules centuries ago the first time banishing his ass, Raiden is definitely not a bitch he's just got Superman's nerfing syndrome, he holds back and is way too merciful so the bad guys take advantage of it.
@@MKF30 I think the plot and terrible story of the reboot and movie is what left a bad taste of Raiden and the Elder Gods in everyone’s mouths, not saying they don’t have their flaws, and I remember a lot of the problems from the original timeline was that when Raiden killed someone it bit him in the ass, and by the time he was allowed to participate there were a shit ton of more powerful foes, like no one expected Quan Chi and Shang Tsung to ally, and then Onaga is a whole ass elder god, Shinnok is just as powerful if not more with his amulet, and I wouldn’t say he lost to Taven I do agree he held back against the son of Argus
@@DrippleDragon I wouldn't say terrible just had some flaws which let's be honest every franchise has some DC, Marvel etc but still for a video game and by far for a fighting game MK is by far the best hands down. Raidens one mistake in the old timeline was killing Quan chi and Shang resulting in onaga getting the amulet on top of all the kamidogu but he planned to wipe them all out the only reason onaga survived was due to shujinkos incompetence and getting duped by Damashi who is also Onaga give him the kamidogo all of them which will make anyone insanely op, one is enough to give someone insane power since its literally the essence and power of the one being an omnipresent, eternal deity over the entire universe that nobody can kill but can be defeated as the Elder Gods did eons ago. They trapped its essence in the kamidogu old timeline amulets, new one in daggers and shattered its body turning it into the realms which is insane power its just they tend to be neutral and not want to get involved ever...
Shinnok with his amulet is powerful but so is Raiden, he justbholds back. When he doesn't hes arguably more powrrful than both Shao Kahn and Shinnok. I mean Raiden has effected time itself so yeah...lol but anyone also with the amulet is a high level threat especially Shinnok or Raiden.
The new mk9 story was solid honestly with a few exceptions it is 9ne reason mk got put back on the map bigtime and attracted new fans even every other fighter said nrs redefined the story for fgs as they too now have a story like mode. Between mk and injustice this is pretty obvious. The new movie I feltnhad more positives than negatives but could have been better I have no issues with it being a prequel but more so with cole being there. I get why for the genera audience to latch onto but didn't feel necessary. I have no issues with the Raiden stuff if people knew mk lore they'd know why he didn't do more allnill say on that. I think considering the fact that keep in mind this movie was one of the first to release in theatres dueing a pandemic, rated R and video game movie a stigma against it alone and competition against itself via streaming on HBO it still was number 1 opening weekend at 23 mill and 30 mill streaming. Not too shabby considering. Was it perfect no, but as bad as some people said hell no. On RT the "professional critics" gave it 55% vs audience who gave it 86% nuff said. It'll get 4 more sequels. I still consider the original to be the best video game movie ever but I enjoyed this one and was way better than annihilation.
Scorpions revenge is also solid even if it goes off canon too but most like that movie alot too and end of this month the sequel battle for the realms hits. Looks fun.
This was easily far more entertaining than the actual movie
Besides Cole and the stupid “dragon birthmark that’s never been a thing” I liked it.
Get rid of Cole, resurrect my boy, make him and Liu Kang the MCs for the next movie.
What I don't get is why didn't they get the dude who plays cole to play kenshi instead?
@@Gamingchairenthusiast122 that would’ve been perfect!
I know, those two elements were dumb.
I hated the stupid power things too.
Oh and also the scene where Kung Lao gets his soul sucked, there where a lot of things wrong with that. First off they did Kung Lao dirty, second off Kabal's stupid ass commentary, third off I know damn well everyone there could've ran and saved him or Raiden could've teleported him like he always does.
Props to Kano’s actor who managed to scrounge some entertainment value out of this god awful script.
Actually, Kano actor apparently came up with many of his own lines so you can't even credit the script even a tiny bit, which just makes the writer even worse.
2:11 Actually, that isnt the only weapon he uses. Him being the leader of the Shirai Ryu also makes him an excellent swordsman, not to mention hand-to-hand fighter. Plus, as Scorpion, he also opts to use his fire-breathing skull and his hand from hell. He never just sticks to his kunai, even tho theyre his most iconic weapons. It just happens that this movie only showed the kunai and not much else.
"Is he dead? I'm pretty sure he's dead! Let's check again... let's see it again.. this is getting sad now.. one more time!! HE TOTALLY dead!"🤣🤣 I can't breathe, I'm laughing so hard
Lol, reminded me of the guy in dodgeball : a true underdog story that gets hit by the russian chick and falls against the jukebox. ''I think that guy might really be dead.''
Remind me of the Monsters vs Aliens video when he keeps replaying the protagonist getting smashed by a big building or something and she voiced by Reese Witherspoon. Just check it, it's funny AF.
This movie did everything that you're not supposed to do with making a video game movie adaption. Making it's about a character that was not in the original games, pushing all the old characters to the side, we didn't get much of Scorpion versus Sub-Zero, it's a mess.
On top of a contrived power system.....fucking arcana....
I dunno, people seem to have enjoyed Sonic despite all that.
And once again Kung Lao is dead and I’m sick of it.
@@ndubitably sonic didn't do all of those things. Sonic was the MC in his movie. And eggman vs sonic was nice.
@@waleuska Are you saying that Tom was in the games or that Tails/Knuckles/Metal Sonic/etc. weren't pushed to the side?
Sonic was enjoyable, but saying Mortal Kombat "did everything that you're not supposed to do with making a video game adaptation" and then listing 2 things that a "successful" video game movie already did doesn't seem quite right.
@ 20:26..."Jax...trying to get that nut out" 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I really hate the whole "I can't have a special family, I'm just an orphan" cliche. It doesn't make any sense at all.
It makes sense to me, i just hate how cliche it is.
An orphan would have pretty low opinions about their biological family so to suddenly be told you are special when you thought you were tossed is jarring i guess.
@@krimsonk-9478 i can see that, but you could also say the opposite. An orphan wpuld also want to be special and dream of their family finding them. (Which is actually another cliche that is also very over done.)
Yeah, that trope's been done to death
@@jedh3721 Great point.
Not to mention I find it weird that he ended up as an Orphan instead of Raiden keeping an eye on him and have his family line trained like Liu Kang & Kung Lao.
He was born from an egg laid by a space monster. She went back to space giving him no parents. Now it makes more sense, you're welcome.
Josh Lawson as Kano is definitely the best part of the movie.
His back hurts from carrying that movie.
He was really great. He just looked like he was having the time of his life. Scorpion and Sub-Zero were fucking perfect too
My head still hurts from all that arcana bs and Jax getting magic arms and Sonya getting superpowers. Just give them hi tech gadgets and cybernetic arms.
@@ardent835The filmmakers clearly thought a cyborg laser eye and a energy blast wrist weapons would be too hard to for audiences to believe.
You fucking beauty
It's actually a VERY realistic depiction of ninja weapons, which were whatever relatively sharp gardening/home improvement tools they had on hand. Easy to hide your weapon in plain sight.
There was a cpl things he said that made me think he didn’t watch the movie at all but I also do agree that the movie sucks azz
But there are enought swords lying around so why use a gardentool.@@bryceharper5748
"So it's all downhill from here"
That basically sums up every Mortal Kombat adaptation after the first movie.
Eh I disagree the second MK movie was ok. Ill take that than this garbage they gave us.
@@zamasu9396 Annihilation was "ok?"
OK???
Annihilation was def better than this
@william knox no, just no
@@khankake9576 yes!!!! If you think otherwise get your brain checked this movie was utter chaos shit!!!!
Cole isn't even a character in the games. *ding*
Yup, same goes for bat chick and hammer boi *ding ding*
@@Khrn-lk4mf Bat chick is Onaga, but this one is WEAK AS HELL, and Reiko was never that dumb hammer guy
@@Khrn-lk4mf Nitara was in the games but I don’t remember if they ever gave her any relevance as a character
The fight choreography was really bad
@@Khrn-lk4mf "Bat chick" is the vampire Nitara from the 3Ds starting with Deadly Alliance and Armageddon dummy....it wouldve helped you so much to use the very tool you using to comment your ignorance to also do your research clown
This movie eviscerates Mortal Kombat lore.
The MK tournaments were designed to assemble the greatest fighters across multiple worlds. Some were "chosen ones" like Liu Kang since he was chosen by Raiden to defend Earthrealm but a lot were kind just roped into the tournament for various reasons, often personal reasons. I hate how Jax gets his arms ripped off by Sub-Zero and not Ermac. Ermac would have been a much better villain, would have made sense given the MK9 canon, and would have given Shang Tsung a proper ally given Ermac was literally made by Shang to begin with. Also Jax's arms are cybernetic not magic. Cybernetics is pretty common in the MK universe through Kano and the Cyber Lin Kuei. The fact Jax goes from having literal chicken feet for arms to "magical" robot arms because he saved Sonya is utter bullshit. Also Kano's a member of the Black Dragon along with Kabal. The fact Kabal knows Kano's on Earth implies the Black Dragon is a thing so Sonya not immediately wanting to kill Kano despite him being involved in the tournament is also bullshit. It's also bullshit that Kano even bothers with the tournament and Kabal sides with Shang Tsung - their roles are literally REVERSED in the MK9 canon! Kano is a selfish prick who sides with Shang and Kabal leaves the Black Dragon but gets immolated by Kintaro which is why he has the suit. The speed was given by Shang Tsung, who tried to revive him. Obviously Shang gave Kabal the suit and the magic in the movie but I don't get why Kabal would side with Shang since that's literally not what the MK9 canon is.
Also Raiden cannot interfere with Mortal Kombat once the tournament has started. He cannon participate and nobody can challenge him. But when Shao Khan and Shang Tsung invade Earth, violating the terms of Mortal Kombat, he is allowed to engage. So Raiden claiming he can't engage even when Shang Tsung clearly is violating the terms of Kombat is 200% bullshit.
Also Mileena being in the movie despite Shao Khan not having been introduced. It makes zero sense for Mileena to be in the movie if Shao Khan isn't the movie's antagonist. Why Sub-Zero though? Bi-Han wasn't even the one who killed Hanzo's clan in the MK9 canon, it was Kuai Liang. Bi-Han is killed by Scorpion in Mortal Kombat in revenge but returns as Noob Saibot.
It would have been much better for Scorpion to kill Bi-Han only to realize he killed the wrong person half-way through and use that as a plot-twist.
Nice one. I'm sure that the writers didn't even play at least one of the games before coming with this script. And to think that they scrapped Johnny Cage for a Mary-Sue... The best live-action adaptations of MK are the 1995 first movie and MK Legacy.
Kuai Liang didn't kill the Shirai Ryu, it was Bi-Han, play MKM: Sub-Zero
I know right! All they had to do is follow the script from the original and this movie would have been pure gold. Its sad...
@@Requiem_2803 I do remember though when they rebooted the series and Raiden did his time travel stuff the first sub-zero we see, who later is killed by Scorpion and becomes Noob Saibot, expresses he wasn't the one who killed the Shirai Ryu. Unless that was later retconned or he lied when he was fried. Ill go over MKM: Sub-Zero to make sure.
@@thestellarvoid9529 then it was quan-chi. Kuai Liang had nothing to do with the death of the Shirai Ryu
"Handled that task like a sloth blowing itself on a merry-go-round."
Well, that's a phrase I didn't know existed until this moment, and I'm going to be using this whenever possible.
Im glad im not the only one who loved that line
I just cant tell if its used to denote incompetence, something futile, or something that's going to take forever. Funny enough I think its could be used for all three
"When you sent Alligator Loki to Sonya's compound." I laughed so much 🤣🤣
this entire video shouts ive played mortal kombat once with friends and then left.
Did you forget to sin the whole Sonya can just use her Arcana without having to do anything to unlock it? She just gets the mark and bam shows up with power rings!
I much prefer the explanation for the game where are there like gauntlet/glovesz
Aside from all the criticism, can we just for a sec and appreciate how badass Sub-zero was? He looked like a horror movie villain.
@Weegie Squeegee Okay...
Pretty sad that Kano made a better Mortal Kombat protagonist than a made up character.
He’s the only interesting and believable character in the film, he’s more of a audience surrogate than Cole OC dude.
A lot of movies/tv shows/video games/etc. have a villain that would make a better protagonist than the plain hero.
Kano was awesome because he was the only one that didn't give a crap! Everyone else tried to play their role 'so serious' but Kano knew how bad the script really was and acted accordingly.
@@strawhat9023 And that way, Kano's portrayal was spot on. Kabal's was pretty good too
Kano was far far the best part of this piece of shit movie, and his total one-dimensional character wasn't good at all.
25:40 No he wont be returning. He’ll just be replaced by his younger brother who has the exact same powers and outfit, and decides to refer to himself with the exact same moniker.
Well its sarcasm, its obvious they gonna bring back noob and goro since shao kahn took back their bodies
I was scrolling for so long to see someone mention that this sz comes back as noob
After finished watching this movie, I'm starting to think that the screen writer and director of this movie, tried to compete with Dragon Ball evolution and the Last Airbender for the "Worst plot of live action adaptation" in movie awards.
At least the action and costumes are better than those two.
"Everything wrong with Mortal Konbat"
Well yes, but actually yes.
They forgot the is between Everything and wrong.
@@3xavior17 no
@@TheCrazyfighter19 Yes.
@@joecraven2712 nah
@@TheCrazyfighter19 Yehh
I feel like this movie was just a worse version of Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge
What do you mean Mortal Kombat: Legends was great not perfected but great. But hey, everyone has a right to their opinions I guess.
With an oc for a protagonist.
@@maninthecamohat2735 everyone just loves to hate
Literally could’ve made that live action instead of this and it would’ve been good
@@jd50053 Or we can stop making animated masterpieces live action because they almost never translate well as both have their strong points that don't work in the other.
CinemaSins: “It’s fair to share, if you care, that they had a spare flare over there to spare”
Me: +1 sin to CinemaSins for using “spare” twice in your rhyme
Raiden: I MUST CONSULT WITH THE ELDER GODS
Me: but in this movie you are an elder god, Raiden
Raiden: 😁
*spin around full 360*
"Nah bruh you good"
Raiden consults the Elder Gods before deciding whether to go to toilet or not.
"I'm pretty sure there are fewer heroes and villains in all the actual video games iterations COMBINED."
Mortal Kombat Armageddon: haha how adorable.
Sin for Scorpian's weapon not coming out of his god damn hand like its supposed to.
"Just like it promised in the brochure!" 🤣
Shit was hilarious 😂
If I was Scorpion, i'd be pretty embarrassed if a crap fighter like Cole with literal plot armor was my descendant. Movie was rubbish and disappointing.
i was expecting a lot from the trailer and the first minutes of the movies, then i want to burn the director alive after watching the movie.
"literal plot armor" 🤣👏
It was pretty damn fun though. A great popcorn movie
What did you people expect from a video game movie? We all know video game movies are never good, but Mortal Kombat was decent.
whell what do you expect tit was a movie based on a video game
Actually Tshang Sung using SZ to kill the marked earth realmers is GENIUS! there is no second best for erath realm because the mark can only be transferred to someone who kills the barrer if they dont have one. SZ had a mark so the transfer cancels out and keeps other earthrealm fighters from being chosen.
Though the argument could be made that if a marked person kills another person with a mark it transfers to another living relative. After all Bi-Han who most likely had a mark killed Hanzo and it transferred to Hanzos baby that was rescued by Raiden.
Like a sloth blowing himself on a merry go round is absolutely one of the best lines you guys have ever created. Bravo.
"I'm pretty sure there are fewer heroes and villains in all the actual video game iterations combined"
MK Armageddon: Sup
He obviously doesn’t play mk
Ah yes, Armageddon. The entry in the series that *everyone* loves...
@@StephonZeno you don’t have to love MK Armageddon to know that it had a roster of over 50 characters
@@BBBachon And how many of those character were actually good or memorable in anyway? Oh yeah, I can't wait to see Movado and Mocap in MK 12...
@@StephonZeno I loved it but I feel like I'm in the minority. There's just something goofy about it that appealed to me.
Dude I love your videos 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Kano is absolutely the best part in this movie he's so precious.
At least Josh Lawson was having fun in the role, everyone else was just phoning it in.
His back hurts carrying the whole movie. Although, the actor who played Scorpion and Sub-Zero are good too and they should just focus on them!
We didn't see a whole lot of him, but Kabal was my favorite from the movie. The voice actor somehow made Kabal having a Brooklyn dialect sound amazing and the sarcastic humor was perfect
@@TwilitLugia Kabal was actually a decent standard for a minor villain in this movie.
Both of his fights were flashy and had fewer camera edits.
He actually had some personality and the tiniest bit of background.
The rest of the minor villains didn't even meet the minimum standard.
That was actually one of the worst parts of the movie lmao Kano was never that important to the story line lmfao. Hes just a side villain who gets killed by Sonya. They did way to much with a character no one cares about. It would be like a Batman and Robin movie dedicated to "Commissioner Gordans wife" where she saves the day and has more important roles and back story than Batman & Robin themselves lmfao thats stupid smh
I actually liked this movie. Defiantly a few issues, manly Cole being beyond pointless as a character. and he kills Goro! WHAT! yeah ok.
thank you, I ALMOST watched this movie.
Just watch the fighting scenes on UA-cam and not the whole thing if you are curious.
Though even most of the fights were underwhelming as hell
@@WoodSageSeaSalt my best friend also told me to stay away from this movie because he knows I'm a diehard fan of the first MK movies
@@jace8706 Yeah. Avoid this movie if you are a hardcore fan.
The fact that a fanfic original character is the main character itself is already a big warning.
The whole movie focuses on "unlocking your inner power" aspect just to make the main character looks cool when he gets his power.
Some minor villains might as well have been just tarkatan soldiers with their zero personality and some with even zero power to show off as they are only there to die (Reiko & Nitara).
@@WoodSageSeaSalt and a goro that looks and moves worse than the goro from the first GAME, not even the goro from the first movie
"now I eat this poutine"
itis only now that I realise that my boi is a fellow Canadian, awesome
Another fellow Canadian to join the YT Canadian Gang!
Thanks for clarifying us Americans dont know what that is😃
The marks stupidity.
Even if they managed to kill all the ones with marks. They'd just go to someone else. The roster would refill immediately.
Yeah but gotta wonder would Sub Zero get the markings if he killed them? Maybe it was to make sure Earthrealm had no fighters to work with while Sub Zero ends up with all these crazy powers.
@@NadoKahn But Sonya doesn't get Kano's eye laser, it doesnt seem like they absorb abilities from each other.
@@steik6414 Sonya gets arm lasers though. It’s the same Arcana, just manifested in a different area. It’s why she says it’s a “parting gift from Kano”
killing the fighters would refill the roster immediately but it would also give them less time to train and find their arcana, which means at the time of the tournament, earthrealm fighters wouldnt win because they are untrained or lack their arcana.
The mark is supposed to go to the person that kills them isn't it
5:22 Clever referencing the Creatores of Mortal Kombat here, Eddie Boon and John Tobias.....who are famously know for their both last names in reverse make up the character of "Noob Saibot".
Guess "Noob" wasn't a good pick for a first name for a fictional Champion, so they had to switch at least one of them for his first instead of his last name.
And that isn't a Sin?
No mention of how an ancient order of monks living in an old stone temple have enough knowledge of advanced cybernetics to give Jax new robot arms?
Well his "Special Power" was also completely reliant on the fact that he would Lose his arms AND get them replaced with robot arms soo........i don't think anyone really gave a crap about the logic behind that
Those monks make Elon Musk look like a IT guy.
@@li-limandragon9287 Elon Munk
"We are looking for solution on every realm"Liu Kang said it himself.....
Biggest sin is that the first 7 and last 7 minutes of this movie, are not the same movie as everything else.
Somehow everything else was so bad.
A purely Scorpion and Sub-Zero martial arts murder film would be rad. Don’t also shove in the rest of the characters as well as lame OCs.
"Video Games add new characters all the time right? We'll add our own cool new character."
Warner Bros, probably.
It's so clear that they spent the most time on the First Fight with Hanzo and Bi-Han along with the Final Fight between them.
The rest of the fights have so many awkward camera angles & editing that just looks really incompetent.
If every fight looked mediocre/bad, then I could have just said "well it's first time director" but the first and final fight shows that the Director is capable of delivering a decent fight scene.
The rest just felt like a filler to pass the time to get to the big final fight.
@@krimsonk-9478 IF he was a side character, Cole might have worked.
The movie focusing on him while being the blandest character just hurts the movie.
Fr! All they had to do was make an actual mortal kombat tournament and show the characters stories as they like like real life record of Ragnarok it would've been much better than this shit
17:15 Knowing a thing or two about the lore might help you out a bit.
The character you claim "...lives in Outworld and just happens to know Kano who is from Earth..." actually just happens to be a former member of Kano's Black Dragon clan and is also actually from Earthrealm. They even touch on their past in their dialogue later, when he goads Kano into taking down the force field.
However, the jab about how he could possibly know Kano might be among the very rare 'marked' fighters is quite appropriate and annoyed me when I first saw the scene.
Thank you for saying it. Oh and since I'm posting. Fuck this movie. This movie couldn't be any further from the source material if they tried.
He also didn’t know reptile
Kabal, yeah they could've done a lot more with that backstory
@@Native_Creation This is True. Like Hinted at his actual backstory. This movie has taken Annihilations place as the worst Mortal Kombat film.
There used to be a show on Discovery Channel or The History Channel that brokedown weapons throughout history and how they are used.
The weapon that the rope and spade creates, that is designed to engage multiple attackers simultaneously and keep them outside of melee range.
So, probably, by accident... That was the appropriate weapon to choose over a sword. As you know, because if more than one enemy attacks you in melee at the same time, it rapidly becomes a problem. You can't always assume the baddies will attack you one at a time... wait a minute.
I don't know if you forgot the name but it's called a rope dart
Arkana means family…
Family means nobody gets left behind!
Dominic toretto's motto
I love this guys commentary hahahaha! Amazing! Has me in stitches!
That smug look Raiden gave when Cole said "I thought you couldn't get involved made me fucking FURIOUS! I HATE him so fucking much.
That shit was so ass, why did they make him such a detestable piece of shit in this movie? They did get that he's supposed to be a good guy, right?
4:29 In the context of Mortal Kombat, it really is. Winning ten Mortal Kombat tournaments in a row allows for one realm to invade another.
That's also mentioned in the movie
You missed the sin of Jax mentioning the name, "Eddie Tobias". That is a mash up of the names "Ed Boon" and "John Tobias", the creators of Mortal Kombat.
Also a potential nod to the character "Noob Saibot"?
When Mileena lets off that battle cry, and he says, "SHIT"!!!! That was fucking hilarious. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I watched this film with honestly, neutral expectations about whether or not it'd be good. And after I watched it, I have one word to use and describe it. HOLLOW. Everything felt hollow. The plot, characters, the very limited development. EVERYTHING FELT HOLLOW.
The only upsides I could find were the fights, and that was only two of them. The one at the start and at the end with Sub Zero and Scorpion. One other thing I can give this movie props for, was the cast. They did pretty well when they picked the cast for the OG characters, especially Kano.
I honestly would have preferred a movie that had Takeda as the MC over this new guy who has as much character as a cardboard box.
The cast? Ahahahahahahaha....the cast....Ahahahahahahaha.
Agree with your whole comment, except for the casting. Raiden, Shang Tsung, Liu Kang, Sonya, and Jax (not OG if you're talking about "1st game OG" but if you mean established characters, then yeah) were all poorly casted imho. Looks wise, I'll only give Sonya a pass but Liu Kang looked like a discount Chinese Michael Jackson and was too skinny despite being shredded (yes you can be skinny and shredded at the same time. Just look at Robin Shou Liu Kang compared to Ludi Lin). Other than that, they should have cast Ken Watanabe as Shang Tsung, Marko Zaror as Raiden, Tiger Chen as Liu Kang, Emily Blunt as Sonya and Michael Jai White as Jax. I know they couldn't afford a few of these actors, but maybe if they didn't spend their money on Goros horrible inclusion to the movie and "Outworld" that shouldn't have been shown in the movie much, only glimpses, then maybe they would have been able to afford actors who fit the roles better acting wise and fighting wise.
@@MrMJmusicLover I didn't even notice someone had laughed at his comment of the casting lol. Maybe he was just talking about "looks" and not how good they actually were in the roles, which even then he'd only be right about Sonya as far as looks 😂 but I'm with you, the cast was shit. After the movie, I only liked the casting choices of Kung Lao, Kano, Scorpion and Sub Zero.
Yeah the movie was trash but kinda fun to watch at some points, who the fuck isn't about to cheer when scorpion says he has risen from hell to kill sub-zero
Well, it is an Obvious cash grab, as they all are these days
I like cinema sins but this video made its clear he doesn't know much about MK lol. I like all the details he made about the movie itself but it seemed like he didn't know cole was made only for this movie so his abilities were definitely stolen from black panther. Also it seems like he didn't know that the "beloved character" wasn't our beloved character, sort of. Bi Han died but the famous Sub Zero is his Brother Kuai Liang. Bi Han does comeback when he is resureccted as a spectre, similar to scorpion, dawning the name Noob Saibot. So his death isn't going to be retconned but was a tease for 2 extremely beloved characters. Our Sub-Zero and Noob Saibot.
Can't help but wonder how this movie would've been if they shot it as a horror film with Subzero hunting down Earth's champions like a Terminator.
24:33 He’s even standing like a slasher villain here.
While making ice puns
The best thing about these videos is that you dont realize how much they have been sinned until you look up at the sin counter and see its at, like, 50 sins 9 minutes into the video
@ren2250, ive seen the old videos. 50 was an example
7:40 Jax can’t radio sonya if his freaking arms are ripped off and he’s gone missing and presumably dead 😂✌️
I've never seen a movie where the ending is them just literally giving up and throwing in the towel, but here we are!
I’m starting to think Jeremy has no idea that Cole’s not from the games
Or that Kabal's originally from Earthrealm
Does it really fucking matter? This movie blows...
I also don't think he knew that this Sub-Zero was suppose to die so he could come back as Noob Saibot and be replaced by the much better Sub-Zero, Kuai Liang.
@@StephonZeno no, but you’d think the guy that’s known for shitting on movies would call the movie out for creating a protagonist that doesn’t exist in the game it’s based on.
Literally my friend was asking who the hell is Cole and I'm just like , "I have no idea he's new to me too."
"It's like peeing after sex!" Yup, I actually laughed out loud on that one!
As a mortal kombat fan for the past 7 years, can’t wait for him to sin the fuck out of this movie
😂😂😂😂😂
Same, really disappointed
@@merskyman2449 I’m not that disappointed. I loved a lot of things about the movie, the casting, the fighting, the CGI, the first and last ten minutes were the best. What I hate is that this is a Mortal Kombat movie, without a mortal kombat. Well Shang Tsung said it himself in the movie :”there will be no tournament because there will be no tournament”
@@ryanshaw4623 which makes u ask yourself why is the movie then since there is no tournament?
@@osirisjojo6876 it would make more sense if we got a movie with a tournament, then got this movie as a prequel
"This ain't a freeze, it's a god damned arm break" was the line of the fucking year dude. I laughed so hard I cried. Thank you for that.
fall out boy
-1 Sin for no MORTAL KOMBATTTTTTTTTTT in the beginning title or end credits.
Best parts of this movie: Kano & the Special Effects. Scorpion and Sub Zero's actors are great too but wasted after the first 6 minutes of this film. The 1995 film is still better in my humble opinion...
See the problem is… you have 20+ year martial art veterans trying to play with and opposite to first degreee black belts and some pretty faces (talking about Mehcad Brooks. I love him but like… come on lol). They had no choice but to pretty much waste them. They can only dumb it down so much.
If nothing else, the 1995 had an actual game character as the protagonist, and had the actual fucking tournament.
@@thomashajicek2747 yeah they had tournament but it didn't make sense. They invited too many people for that tournament that was not skilled enough to participate. Case and point the dude named Art. I can say at least they tried though.
@@omanjackson17 Would of made much more sence if they had Jax follow Sonya on the boat and remove the Art character entirely.