That was the perfect cast for Shang Tsung

Linden Ashby really managed to assimilate Johnny Cage's personality,he practically lived the character ,its as if we here seeing Johnny Cage from video games on the big screen .

Dang, I feel like the casting was so perfect for this Mortal Kombat movie.

That "Liu Kang and Reptile fight was sick. Reptile was one of my favorites in MK2

Robin Shou (Liu Kang) is a very handsome man and a talented martial artist. He's in a bunch of martial arts and action movies, but never anything quite as big as Mortal Kombat. Definitely check out Beverly Hills Ninja for a hilarious comedy with him and Chris Farley.

After migrating from former USSR in 1994, this was the first film I saw in the American movie theaters. The soundtrack blew my mind. It sounded amazing in the theater. A M A Z I N G. 5 years later I started training in martial arts.

Cameron Diaz was supposed to be in this movie; however, she got injured. She was going to be portrayed as Sonya Blade, but they ended up casting Bridgette Wilson for Sonya Blade.

The guy who plays Liu Kang actually fractured a couple ribs during the reptile fight. He hit the wrong spot on one of the pillars. but still continued the movie

The movie and the soundtrack are just amazing. I still have my CD in my car.

Growing up every MK game I always played as Sub-Zero. He was always my favorite!

Fun facts: the actors who played Liu Kang, Sonia and Jhonny, actually suffered fractures during filming: Sonia dislocated her shoulder in the fight against Kano, Jhonny was hit by the scorpion and had trouble using the toilet for a few weeks. And Liu Kang had three fractured ribs (in the scene where he hits his back on the pillar there were two of them)

Mortal Kombat got it right, whether it's this movie, the series, or the remake. I'm glad you're doing this reaction.😊

Raiden is cool. 😎

Her reaction is golden..she has a beautiful soul 😊

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa is in a ton of stuff, usually as a villain. I've always enjoyed his performances, usually a bit over-the-top and such an expressive face. Try Showdown in Little Tokyo for another with him.

Emmi , you should watch Highlander, with Christopher Lambert ( who plays Rayden)

For me, this is the BEST videogame adaptation EVER! As someone connected to this game thus will ALWAYS have special s place in my heart! The fights, soundtrack, casting was epic! FLAWLESS VICTORY! 🐉 SUBBED!❤😊

EMMA WINS FLAWLESS VICTORY.

So far, the best video game adaptation of all. Tagawa and Lambert are great.

Люблю старые добрые фильмы 90х годов!

The most epic battle was LiuKang against Reptile. A combination of movements and music + camera work. By the way, the actor (Robin Shue) broke his rib while falling on this pyramid...

Nice reaction Emma, the first one has always been the best one. 🤔❤

Mortal Kombat is a flawless Victory! The special effects are well done and the fight choreography is well done! It is a movie worth seeing!

Mortal Kombat 1995 is the most successful video game movie ever made. Another great video game movie is Prince Of Persia 2010. The guy who plays Raiden Christopher Lambert also plays in another epic sword cult classic movie called Highlander you should see it,. Fyi Johnny Cage was the first character made for mortal Kombat and was Inspired by Van Damme and his famous movie Blood Sport which you should see. Another movie you should see that the game was inspired from Big Trouble in Little China

Very 90s...Best part about this Movie and MK in general, The Ninjas...Played By Real Life Martial Artist and Karate Champions..The Song with Scorpion vs Johnny Cage is called ..Zero Signal..by (FEAR FACTORY)

I KNEW KARL URBAN would be cast as johnny cage in the 2 reboot MK Movie and im so glad he was 😊😊😊

19:26 the song is called Zero Signal by Fear Factory, my favourite band of all time, coincidentally I first heard of them from this movie when I was like 5 been hooked ever since

Fun movie with a great soundtrack.

Get Over Here 😂

Check out the movies Enter The Dragon(1973) and Blood And Bone(2009).

Awesome reaction of my favorite sueprhero movie

The greeting signs with the hands just before the fight between Lui Kang and Shang Tsung was a nice touch. A former housemate of mine told me back then that Shang's flat hand under the fist meant '(for) the underworld', as an opposite version of what Liu Kang did and what seems to be done more often in martial arts tradition. I don't know what was really meant, but this explanation made some sense to me for this movie. The tricky thing here, however, is that there is a Netherrealm in the franchise already, and that this world is actually hostile to Shang Tsung's (Outworld). Fun fact: I don't know if it has been mentioned in the game franchise, but the tv series Mortal Kombat: Conquest revealed that Shang Tsung was actually a warrior fighting for Earth in his very first tournament, guided by Raiden, a tournament which he won. During that tournament, he was taken to an audience with Outworld's ruler, the self-claimed emperor Shao Kahn. Kahn saw potential in Shang Tsung's rather ruthless fighting methods and offered to teach him to become stronger and more skilled by extracting souls from the Outworldian victims during the fights in the tournament in exchange for his soul. Raiden saw dark influences in Shang Tsung and begged him not to use his new ability, because it would corrupt him and cost him his soul anyway, but it was in vain. When he almost lost the final fight, he countered by using the soul extraction. The result was that he won the tournament, but that it was counted as a win for Outworld instead of Earth. He didn't age during the next generation. One generation later he fought Kung Lao in the next tournament, and almost succeeded in extracting his soul, but Kung Lao defeated him. Shang Tsung was then completely enslaved and sent to the Kobalt mines by Shao Kahn as the punishment for his failure. He would be unable to defeat Kung Lao (who's aging process was on hold as a reward) in future tournaments and no other Outworld warrior would be able to defeat Kung Lao either, until Shang Tsung found the Shokan, an underground race of four-armed creatures. He selected their new prince, Goro, to participate in the next tournament after Goro killed his own brother, who was the old prince, in a battle for the Shokan throne, which was part of a plan which Shang Tsung orchestrated. I don't remember exactly what was the actual reason for that battle to take place, but I believe it was because of the Shokan's inferior position in comparison to their race's natural enemies, the centaurs, and in particular their leader and Shao Kahn's general, Motaro. Shang Tsung eventually convinced Kahn to send Goro into the tournament as his representative before Kung Lao could finish a streak of winning 10 tournaments by winning one more, which would be enough to successfully defend Earth and be protected from Outworld's forces by the tournament's rules of the Elder Gods for the rest of the world's existence. Goro defeated Kung Lao, ending the streak with only 9 victories. Goro kept winning tournaments, until he was on a 9 win streak. Then Raiden, thundergod and Earth's protector of the tournament rules, approached the best warriors by himself, which was unusual for a god, for one last chance to keep Outworld's forces from winning another tournament and gaining the right to invade Earth. Raiden then found Liu Kang, Johnny Cage and Sonya Blade. Are you going to watch and react to the sequel as well? I hope you enjoy it, because it wasn't as much of a success with either critics or fans as this one.

This stands as the best video game to movie ever. Linden Ashby IS Johnny Cage!

This film blurs the line of good film/ guilty pleasure - it should not be soo much fun! The Mortal Kombat theme was HUGE when this came out! Emma loved this - my crush on her is justified ... that and the whole music thing

I was 23 years old when this movie came out, my friends and myself went to the theater to see this. We were huge fans of the video game. We pumped so many quarters into this video game at our local arcade. My favorite character was Sub Zero his finish was to pull the head and spine out of his opponents. Another video game made to movie you should consider is Street Fighter. Thanks Emma 🎉🎉 🇨🇦

I watched this movie on VHS when I was 7 years old. I must've drove my dad crazy because I kept rewinding it and watched it like 10 times in a row haha

the only movie with a secret boss fight... Reptile!

I think this is your best reaction :)

great reaction to a 1995 classic love mk

Oh yes. Mortal Kombat!! . I've been playing it since I was little. I love the games and movies. Very happy to enjoy this with you! My favorites from the games are "Kiu Kang "Sub-Zero " Scorpion "Kitana and Sonya Blade. Let's go 🎉

Lmao sure. You should see him now. There’s a great video of Liu Kang and Johnny Cages’s actors playing a game of mortal kombat together and talking about the filming of this movie. You should look it up. They’re like great friends.

The stars are mostly perfect. Shang Tsung "and Sonya look just like they do in the game. And all they personalities are fantastic.

That Veronica Vaughn is one piece of ace

during the time this movie was in the theaters, the Scorpion vs Johnny Cage fight was a big highlight. everyone who watched this was loving it!

The best of Johnny Cash!!!

The track that ends this film is "Orbital - Halcyon And On And On", and this same title opens the 1995 film "Hakers". 🙂

I seen this at release....I was only 15 . It will always be a guilty pleasure of mine.

Legendary film 😎

MORTAL COMBAT! Song still jams! Love Your reaction Emma.

Unfortunately I didn't get to see this movie in 95 at the theater but sometime after i did and I've loved it ever since everyone was stellar and some injuries even happened mostly to linden ashby and robin shou

32:07 This was based on Enter the Dragon with Bruce Lee. So the sounds are necessary. :-)

Liu Lang was raised as a Shaolin Monk. They group of Buddhist monks who invented King Fu

Love your movie reactions!!! I started with your music reactions .great channel , 😎 cool material!! It's always a pleasure to hear that smoothing voice, seeing that gorgeous face and sweet smile!!! A very good sense of humor too.!!!🎉🎉🎉

I'm glad you enjoyed this movie. They remade/rebooted it recently (2021). You should react to that one. The fighting is next level and has some great actors in it you will recognize.

the most important movie scene she bluer or show her face...... damb decision

Yes during the reptile fight Robin broke 3 of his ribs while getting thrown at the pillar and landing on it

I love that fight between Liu Kang and Reptile, I watched it 7 times on KZfaq

That reptile theme still gets me hyped to this day. Fun fact the song was from an adult film star Traci Lords called Control

That’s still the best one!! You should watch the mortal Kombat 2021

Next video game movie you need to react to is the Street Fighter video game also from the 90s. It stars Jean Claude Van Damn and Raul Julia who you saw as Gomez Addams. It was his last role before he died unfortunately. He did the role because his kid's wanted him to.

Katana is a male gender name meaning sword in Japanese and honorable in Persian. Kitana is a female gender name meaning light in Lebanese.

28:45 Funny you say that. The actor playing Liu (Robin Shou) actually broke a rib during that fall while filming this stunt. If he looked like it was really painful, its bevause it was lol

Growing up with this game in the 90's at the arcades, this movie was amazing...my best friend and I would hide in the tree at the bus stop, just to run back home and play! ABACABB (Sorry Mom!)

How time has pasted! I had the privilege too see it in theaters in 95 at the age of 14 the theater was running a arcade tournament favorite character always Sub Zero!

That legendary soundtrack 🤩

Love mortal kombat😍😍

You have such pretty eyes! 👀 You'd actually make a great Sonya

Well, now I feel like you have to watch "Streetfighter" starring Jean-Claude Van Damme which some consider the the most successful fighting game to screen adaptation. It also stars Ming-Na Wen who gained recognition in Hollywood in the critically acclaimed "The Joy Luck Club" and is currently popular for her roles in "Agents of Shield," "The Mandalorian," and "The Book of Boba Fett."

12:10 "Fwee"

The character of Sonya Blade was inspired by American martial artist and actress Cynthia Rothrock. In fact, when the first _Mortal Kombat_ game was under production the creators were hoping that Cynthia would agree to be digitised and appear in the game but she turned out to be too expensive. Sonya in this movie was supposed to have been played by Cameron Diaz but she severely injured her wrist shortly before production began so Bridgette Wilson replaced her.

Awesome outro. I had a blast enjoying this with you "Emma.💋

Emma Awesome Video Today!!🔥🐐🐐💎

❤👍 I still love this movie, and i went to the cinema twice to see it with my friends back in -95 😊. Take Care ❤

Listen to Juke Joy jezebel MK soundtrack IS AWESOME

Shang Tsung has been my favorite since I was 5 years old. in love with him

Still adore this film. Mortal Kombat was the first game I ever beat. I was 8, and I used Sonya to beat it. Shang Tsung is the final boss. 🤣🤣🤣 Loved your reaction!

It;s funny. this is the first video game adaptation i can think of. saw it in theaters when i was five. my rating of the movie is "Flawless Victory". ps, if you want to cosplay Sonya or try out her hairstyle, you have my full support. haha

The game designed Johnny Cage in likeness of Jean Claude Van Damme

Great soundtrack!

You are absolutely phenomenal . ❤️

Loved your makeup today, Miss Emma! It really brought out your eyes and smile. ❤ This movie was good back in the day, and the cast is iconic, but you really should watch the most recent version sometime. It's much better. 😉

emma, Liu Kang said he was the descendant of Kung Lao , you can see his adventures in the tv show, Mortal Kombat : Conquest, it was on late night tv on uhf channels in the 90s, it is really cheesy and good

Raiden is a Highlander...

Please react to Showdown in Little Tokyo for more Cary Tagawa (Shang Tsung).

The person who remixed reptile's theme also did the music for that freeway Chase scene in the 2nd matrix movie. Go back and rewatch that scene and you'll totally hear the inspiration from this song.

This was the BEST REACTION to this movie I've ever seen. Really liked your reaction and glad you enjoyed the movie. And yes, Robin Shou has an amazing body ! Subscribed to your channel just now. I would also like for you to react to Rambo 3 next.

Great reaction as always. You’re really starting explore didn’t genres of movies. I like that. ❤😊

"The mule" with Clint Eastwood, reaction please🤧

As an MK fan, this movie was decent but Awesome at the same time, but there is a lot of oopsies in this movie when it comes to storyline from the game.

Love this classic

The 2021 version is still great as well. The next adaptation you should check out is Street Fighter Assassin's Fist and Street Fighter 1994

i love this one more then the remake, maybe because i was born in the 60s, and have lived and seen all those wonderful older movies and TV shows, certainly not comparable with the bad re-makes they make today, cheers Emma

Ypu should check out part 2 from 1997 really fun movie to watch as for my favorite character definitely Scorpion when the game came out for Sega genesis I played for hours as a kid

I'm so glad you watched this movie

I practiced martial arts for 25 years. Johnny Cage's fighting style was similar to mine.

Nice movie

32:18 MK game was "too bloody"... And this is the only blood in the movie :)

The actor who plays Kano (the guy with the metal ... thing on his face, with one red eye) was going to be James Bond. Daniel Craig's James Bond. But the actor overdosed RIP. True story.

I remember watching this in theaters when it first came out and I was always a Christopher Lambert fan from the Highlander films so as a kid I LOVED it!

great reaction Emma love it thank you try star trek the motion picture or a weird one, the loved one 1960s movie black and white one of the strangest movies you can watch or to live and die in la. or raising Arizona