This movie wasn't the greatest but frankly it was fun to watch, IMO. I'd like to point out that Itchy and Scratchy can be made funny without the blood and gore. It's called Tom and Jerry.

Even though I agree that Mortal Kombat should've been R rated in order to better reflect the original material, no one would've been able to make it an R rated movie in that time period. Very few adults played video games back then, and no matter what the film was rated, it would've been primarily kids that would've wanted to see the film. So because of that, no production company would've signed off on an R-rated version.

6:34 say what you what about Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa, but he’s practically Shang Tsung incarnated

this movie had decapattacks, impalement, falling to your death, soul death and neck snaps. Pretty graphic for a pg 13

Halfway through this video I paused it and went to listen to that awesome theme song again for a few times and then came back to finish the video hahahaha MORTAL KOMBAT!

I got it on VHS when I was about 7. To this day, I still think it is one of the best video game film adaptations.

I really disagree about the guy who plays Shang Tsung. I know he doesn't look much like the character in the game but I think he was probably the most memorable thing about that movie. Whenever I see him in other movies now, all I can think is Shang Tsung.

Fun Fact: NetherRealm Studios loved the Kano in the movie so much they changed the actual character's appearance to look more like Trevor Goddard (the actor) and made him australian.

To be fair, Ed Boon, the creator of Mortal Kombat was involved in this film (providing the voice of Scorpion like he did in the games).

i cant stand rob sometimes... and i hate how doug is constantly lookin at him for approval for what hes saying... anyone else notice that?

Real thoughts on Doug.

I'd like to share a bit from the "Dethroning Moment of Suck" page of the That Guy With the Glasses section of TV Tropes, courtesy of Kevin Klawitter. *_In his reviews of the Mortal Kombat movies, he completely ignores two important subplots in the first movie. Now, this might seem reasonable if it were simply for brevity's sake, but then he claims their absence to be plot holes. One of these subplots involves Shang Tsung killing Liu Kang's little brother. This is the reason Liu Kang enters the tournament; he wants revenge. This plot point is made incredibly obvious by the second act, and even comes back in the end. But why does the Critic say he entered the tournament? "Because he's... Asian". There's no way the critic could not have known Liu Kang's motives, but yet, he still ignored them so he could make a race-based joke._* Has anyone ever called Doug out on this?

Somebody needs to take Mortal Kombat, make it super gory, and get really good actors so people can take it seriously again.

6:40 The best part is: That actor is Shang Tsung in the GAMES now.

Sheng Tsung was a great bad guy in this movie.

I've studied all your moves.

1. It wasn't PG13, it was a 15 2. Christopher Lambert was great as Raiden and had one of the best lines in movie history. 3. Kano never use to look like that before that film. The game literally adopted that look and the way he talk in to future games becuase they liked it so much. 4. Cast was actually really good but it WAS a B movie.

Mortal kombat is still the best video game movie of all time, there's nothing wrong with space jam

Almost all the "bad guys" die in the movie. Reptile, Sub-Zero, Scorpion, Kano, Goro, Shang Tsung all die. plus three others. Almost every serious battle had a death in it. So what makes you say there isn't a big death count?

Shit all over Johnny Cage all you want, but he was the most Mortal Kombat-y character in the whole fucking movie. He had an actor who looked the part, he busted out both of his signature moves against Goro and Scorpion, his Fatality got referenced against Scorpion, and he actually murdered everybody he fought.

I find more and more that people are disliking the stories in Mortal Kombat. Most people did not like the Konquest or Story Modes in the games and just want more violence and fatalities. These guys, while I respect them, just want violence and no story. You can't have unmotivated violence, you need a story first. And the Mortal Kombat games all have stories to them that are more important than the violence or the many ways to kill a person. I liked the first film because it had an interesting story and was fun. The 2nd film had no story or a plot that made sense and it was bad. I just think that people need to realize that character comes before action. You had to create the character of Scorpion and Sub-Zero BEFORE you gave them fatalities.

They should do a movie adaptation for the last 2 games, the story would work well and they could go with a whole lot of gore and fatalities.

Johnny Cage was awesome! I have no idea what you guys are smoking! LOL

"the soundtrack was good" hey, that's what I say about Jonah Hex

Digimon the Movie, Shrek, and Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius have great soundtracks too

Well the difference between an Itchy And Scratchy cartoon vs Mortal Kombat is Mortal Kombat actually has a story, a very basic easy to follow story...but It's there. I&S has NO story, they just kill each other. I think thats where you guys don't seem to understand thats why MK fans like this it had decent fights, cool costumes, kick ass soundtrack and great effects they did a great job bringing a game to the screen. I think if they had a do over for it I would suggest adding a little more gore to keep people like you guys happy who want to see some of that come to the big screen, but I would only suggest adding a little as to not be distracting from the story.

I just think the movie has really well-choreographed fight scenes.

what if Animalality was called Beastiality :P

There was deaths in the movie, they just weren't blood gushing everywhere All villains in the movie were killed

You didn't like Johnny Cage? Different strokes I spose

“People” love Mortal Kombat. Critics hate it right along with ya.

I really can't stand this logic "if you know the original, you'll see how terrible the adaptation is", Can't you just see a movie as it is instead of a imperfect copy of another product ? Shining and dark knight would've been bad movies, based on this logic.

Movie is awesome and still holds up 20 years later. And remember, the Walkers liked Amazing Spiderman 2.

Dude the fighting was great in that movie.

it's not just better than street fighter, or better than mortal kombat: annihilation... no. it's the best game-themed movie in history.

Sorry guys but MK Annihilation isn't so awful that you get enjoyment out of it, it is just AWFUL.

Cary Hiroyuki-Tagawa was loved by fans. And now he's playing Shang Tsung in MK11

I actually have respect for Paul Anderson with this movie, since he purposely avoided making it as gory as the games. Instead, he was very wise to place the actual story first, because that matters a whole lot more in a feature film. If people just wanted to see heads roll and torsos blown up, they'd stay home with the games. The sequel film was much closer to the games' tone, with tons of over-the-top craziness...and people fled like the plague. How do you guys respond to that?

Heh, it would no doubt be easier to make a MK movie now since it DOES have a storyline. I mean, MKX's story mode was kinda a movie already. And also....CGI would help....

I always thought the main reason the movie was rated PG-13 because the original game came out two years before the video game system in North America came into play and a lot of the game's audience are kids and teenagers, not just adults.

2 guys died in this movie?......... what movie were you guys watching? Death toll. Lu kangs brother, Fighter 1, Ninja fighter killed by Sub Zero, Johnnys black friend killed by Goro. Kano, Sub Zero, Scorpion, Reptile, Goro, Shang Tsung, thats like half the main kombatant cast. nuff said .

Johnny Cage was based off of John Claude Van Dam. Yet, he didn't wanna act as him. He took his talents to Street Fighter......probably the worst move ever.

The Johnny Cage/ Scorpion fight with Fear Factory playing in the background got me high.

I really enjoyed this movie. I remember seeing it 5 times in the theatres back in the day. And I agree with you, some like it and others hate it. Just like you have lists of movies you love but everyone else hates and vise versa. I loved this then and still do. Now the sequel. That was crap. It made my brain hurt. But again, to each their own.

I love MK. The first movie is Paul W. Anderson's first movie...and ONLY good one...but they got all the characters spot on. And as far as video game movies go...its STILL one of the best..

no 8 people die in the movie, two black guys, goro, scorpion, sub-zero, shang tsung, kano, & a guard.

We talked to Mr. Lambert ("lamb-BEAR," he's French) just before the film premièred. He had a blast and enjoyed making the film. "Johnny Cage" and his real-life wife are now on "Teen Wolf."

everyone keeps saying "story doesn't matter in fighting games, MK's plot is weak, etc", and I really don't agree. the fact is, unlike the Walker brothers here, what sucked me into MK was not the gore, it was the plot. and it was excellent, especially for its genre, it was unique, by MK2 there was a universe where all the characters were distinct if not in the look, but in the backstory and motivation (all that died after MK4, but the original trilogy is still great) and none seemed out of place (unlike Tekken imo). sure, the only way to write an MK movie is to write it as a B-movie (look at story-modes of MK9 and MKX, great examples of that). you either go over the top, or you go hyper-realistic, like MK Legacy1 tried to, and that can also be a lot of fun. but I don't get when people dismiss the rich lore of MK and say "gimme gore, gimme fatalities, they're the only thing that matters!" now, and even back then, in 1995, there was no way to incorporate so many characters and stories into 1 movie (they tried - we got Annihilation), that's why I see MK on screen only as a trilogy of movies, or as a series. here's to hoping that one day this new MK movie that K. Tancharoen wrote will be made, and we'll get the MK movie this franchise deserves.

Regarding the games, MK has gone to a point when it's more a cartoon than... well... Mortal Kombat, if you know what I mean. MKX had the capability of modern technology to look pretty realistic but they pretty much threw it away. MK's trademark, besides the gore, of course, was also that it wanted to look more realistic as opposed to cartoony Street Fighter.

I loved Mortal Kombat. I don't think the critics know what they want. In the other review he complains about how formulaic the movie gets towards the end. "Fight scene Raiden talks, fight scene Raiden talks, fight scene Raiden talks..." and here they say "oh just give us 12 cage matches and we'd be fine with that." I agree some more gore would have been nice but that would have seriously cut back on who would have been able to see the movie. Let's face it, your target audience for it was a great many video game playing kids, and the demographic for video game players back there was a much younger age. It had good CGI for it's time, a passable story, and a lot of action sequences, and that's what you kind of expected going into the movie. It was pretty damned good.

I didn't see it until it was on VHS, so a big part of not realizing how much it lacked was that I was busy living-room fighting my friend through at least half of it.

I liked the movie back then because the only movie based on a videogame that was more or less faithful to the game's story. And MK had a complex story for a 90's fighting game (apart from KOF). But it didn't age well. NOW Annihilation was a disaster!

That must explain why I enjoyed the movie so much, I was really young when I watched it.

Do you think you guys could to your real thoughts on The Room? I partly ask this because I'd like to hear your take on all the drama that went down with that review and it'd also be nice to hear what Greg Sestero is like. He seems pretty cool.

This review makes me ask the question: what would they think of the MK9 and X storylines?

I think Doug should do a DVD/Blu-Ray Collection Video.

Do you guys even watch these movies when you do these real thoughts? I have a feeling you don't and if you don't you should, maybe your thoughts have changed over the years, specially if ya haven't seen the movie in a long time

btw I heard James Wan is producing a Mortal Kombat reboot in I think 2016

This movie was enjoyable, but I want a legitimately good MK movie just so I can call it in IMDB "Flawless Victory".

What is everyones thoughts on mortal kombat conquest, or the soundtrack to the 1st 2nd and more kombat which feature music from conquest and defenders of the real animated series?

As a huge fan of MK games, I still consider this movie to be quite good. Fatalities, blood and gore are great, but I never really focused on them while playing, they were a fun addition. The movie lacked this addition, yet it had some good atmosphere, really cool soundtrack, the story was alright and faithful to the source material. Also, kudos to them for not screwing up the character designs! Everyone is easily recognizible, they wear the same / very similar costumes and act as you'd expect them to based on the games. They could've used some random guy, dress him up in a jacket with a scorpion image on his back and say: "This is Scorpion!", but no, they actually tried and did good in my opinion. As to what's important in the games... I cared more about which character to select, what moves to try out, how to beat the boss, what's the story behind all this, etc. I remember playing Ultimate MK3, and I actually wanted to know what happens to my character in the end, I wanted to unlock the emperor's treasures and see the bonuses, and later on, I was legitimately interested in the story of MK4. So, I guess it's different for everybody, but please don't think that blood and gore is ALL that matters in a MK game. You simply can't have a good MK game if you replace / take away everything but blood and gore, it won't feel or play the same no matter how much blood is splattered across your screen.

Wow. Just wow. I idolize these 2 (and James Rolfe) but I've NEVER EVER had as opposite an opinion of a movie as this one. I know they say that they like to let people like what they like but you guys were a little harsh toward the fans of this movie. Just let us like it. Rob proved that they don't get it. He say he has a personal vendetta against this movie. That might mean that he's kind of biased. I love you Rob, but calm down. They acted like the movie was REALLY offensive and people defend it. It's a harmless fun movie. To me, this movie is one of the only good examples of a good video game movie adaptation. All the actors were perfect for their roles. How could he not like one actor? Not all of them may have been the greatest actors but they got the job done. They were all defined characters with personalities. It may have been PG-13 (just so the teens could see it, who were the majority of the demographic for the games), but as long as the fights were good, AND THEY WERE. The sets were great. Rob is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY too hard on this movie. It wasn't trying to be a masterpiece. It was just trying to give fans the same feeling that the original Ninja Turtles movie gave that fanbase. If they don't like it fine (I wouldn't have treated Rob like a freak), but let let us like it. I don't think they really get this movie b/c they were probably not that big of fans of the games. That is the the main focus for this movie. Am I the only one who's not surprised that Doug brought up a sexist argument again. Hey Doug guess what? I'm NOT in denial. I know what I'm saying. I genuinely think this is a fun, entertaining movie (not perfect though). Mortal Kombat was never really dark and gritty. It always had a humorous edge to it. So why were they wanting, no, demanding it to be dark and gritty? A dark and gritty Mortal Kombat could work, but it's not a MUST. Trust me, this movie is not NEARLY as bad as they made it out to be. But if they don't care for it, then I'm find with that. They just sounded a little hostile.

Well, this is the same generation that likes Tim Burton's deadly dull Alice in Wonderland. It's probably because these loved franchises are made into movies so these movies are loved out of obligation because they exist. Unless its Last Airbender bad, people will go nuts if you say you don't like these movies even though you have a reasonable and logical explanation for it.

I think Doug and Rob were the only guys who didnt like Johnny Cage in this movie.

I love this movie, but I will admit that it is nowhere near perfect. And yes, the pg-13 rating is the main problem. Still, I consider this one of the best video game movies ever.

Could you do your real thoughts on "Temple of Doom"?

I've played the games ever since the N-64 and grew up with the Mortal Kombat movie to me it isn't the greatest movie in the world but at least it's one of the best video game adapted movies we have so far.

The reason I liked the first one more is because it felt more like a Mortal Kombat movie than the second one.

Real thoughts on "last action hero"

I was 6 when the Movie came out. I was also really into power rangers at the time, so this movie was amazing to me. The soundtrack was even the first CD I ever owned. Lots of Nostalgia for me with the MK movie.

Hey I picked Sonya in the original MK

Can someone find that Mario trailer? I keep finding "The power" one.

Okay, I'm I the only person who never found Chris Evans as the Human Torch to be annoying? Cause these two and Rifftrax seem fixated on him being some kind of measuring bar for obnoxious characters, and he never bothered me. The movie's not great, but I never had a problem with the Human Torch specifically.

I wonder if they realize that the Mortal Kombat movie has a higher body count than the game it was based on.

I started here, and 3 hours later, from this to the trailer to a bunch of Legacy clips, I'm back. That trailer IS fucking awesome.

Will you review "Dead or Alive"?, its a other bad (but kind of like it) fighting movie

I always dug the heck out of this movie. I thought Linden Ashby and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa were both great. Didn't think any of the performances were lacking. Sure, the movie was silly, but I think it knew that about itself. And yes, the soundtrack was phenomenal. Even Gene Siskel liked the movie.

There are so many fatalities in this film.. starting with shang tsung defeating lui kang"s brother , crushing his spine " pre mk 9 x ray move" and taking his soul.. Subzero gets impaled by a huge sharp chunk of ice. Scorpion gets brutally murdered by Johnny cage.. with his half his head being cut off and his body exploding.. Goro breaks art"s neck and shang tsung takes his soul.. lui kang crushes a mans sternum with a devastating drop kick to the chest leaving him critically injured and shang tsung finshes him by taking his soul.. Johnny cage kills goro by knocking him off a cliff to fall to his death " mk 4 reference".. . After defeating reptiles human form the creature changes back and tries to flee. not before lui kang the winner walks up and crushes his skull and kills reptile.. and finally lui kang defeats Shang tsung and knocks him off a balcony thus having him fall to his death on sharp iron spikes on the floor" mk 1 reference".. so when guys say" there where no deaths and/ or fatalities. you would be mistaken..

My Tae Kwon Do instructor would play the Mortal Kombat theme over the speakers while we were doing warm ups to get us all pumped.

Why weren't there fatalities in the movie? Let me give you the short answer. The director tried to put it a fatality. But he messed up the input.

Real thoughts on Casper! That was an interesting review, for me anyway, because it is a movie I watched and enjoyed as a child, and I want to know what you really thought about it.

My favorite thing from your MK review was the "wah wah" sound and shoulder shrug at Cage's one liners.

Once again, NC proves he is not to be taken seriously. The fact that people are still watching and talking about this movie proves there is in fact pretty good. It is flawed, true, but it is generally quite enjoyable. OK, Christopher Lambert has clearly not taken his role seriously, but I found his goofiness actually pretty fun. Johnny Cage is insufferable because he's supposed to be insufferable, that's his character in the games too. Robin Shou was perfect as Liu Kang, and saying he's "just some random Chinese guy" is borderline racist. I stopped watching after this part. NC should stick to comedy, when he tries to be a serious critic he always ends up looking like an ass.

The trailer to this movie is the best, especially with Jim Cummings narrating. I think he might have also done one of the TV spots for the recent game too.

I would like to see their thoughts on the new games story. MKX has a pretty entertaining story from what I have played.

This review needed an opposing opinion to counter their points. I dont necessarily disagree with them, I just dont think it makes it as bad as they say.

I think the plot of Mortal Kombat is good. It's basic but it's good and there's not too much of it on the movie. And the body is pretty plentiful and even though it wasn't gory add it should have been, it had some good action scenes and it did have good fatalities like Scorpion's death, Sub Zero's death, Shang Tsung's death and Shang Tsung's kill. And I think the look is absolutely great. There were mistakes but the feel was totally right. And i do still find it to be very entertaining. I have to disagree with 90% of your opinions. But I do respect them.

To watch a film only to see if its got blood and guts is like saying I only watch a film if its only got cgi in it. I find that MK Movie is a lot like and Im sure it was Inspiring Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon

I'd like to see your opinion when the reboot comes out next year. Note the following has been confirmed: No Goro, Kintaro, Sheeva or Motaro, Megan Fox as Kitana, Vin Diesel as Shao Khan, Robin Shou returns this time as Shang Tsung. Liam Neeson as Raiden and Mike Jay White as Jax. Also Kano's voice is like that because he's Australian.

The only thing I liked from this movie was sub zero and scorpion just for their actual look

I like the Mortal Kombat movie a lot, it's funny to me and so what that it's just fight after fight, that's how the game was! The only problem would be it's PG-13-ness, but I don't like gore that much in movies anyway so it's fine. Honestly I think this is the best videogame movie made, although that's not a high bar to exceed.

4:06 4:20 That Rayden face and voice LMAO

"Robocop makes Mortal Kombat look like carebears" ... Ironic since he's in ze' game now.

Just so you guys know the first Mortal Kombat game was based on Enter the Dragon and it was never meant to have blood and gore. It was suppose to just had motion capture digitize character with martial arts moves. Ed Boon and John Tobias just happens to add blood and gore to it to spice things up because of the last fight in Enter the Dragon was bloody. Also they want to take advantage of the dizzy feature from Street Fighter games so the fatalities serve that purpose. The first Mortal Kombat movie on the other hand was spectacular, there were more martial arts than blood and gore and that is what's important about it rather than the scripted no-talent actors who appeared in MK Annihilation where no one other than Robin Shou and Keith Cook knows how to fight and do stunts.

Loved the movie back then, and still love it. Yeah it has many of the tropes of the mid 90s action movies but it still holds up (besides the Gorro puppet/animatronic). The music is kickass, the fight choreography for the most part is good, and besides a few side steps it follows the plot of the game quite good. And yeah, MK to be PG13 is kind of silly but let's be honest, the majority of the crowd wanting to see the movie were kids/teens, not adults. Why prevent all of them from entering the cinemas but making it R? And Johnny Cage character was pretty spot on. Just check the last two MK games. The dude has a friggin tattoo of his name on his chest! I respect your opinions but I disagree on almost all of them.

Please do a review of mortal kombat conquest, defenders of the realm, and legacy. Theres still more to review other than the 1st and 2nd movie

"Good soundtrack does not equal a good movie." Kind of agree with that, the only exception I have is Baby Driver only because the movie implements the songs into the film so well. It was nothing I have ever seen before which is why I loved that movie so much and I still love the movie even though it has Kevin Spacey in it.

I liked the movie well enough, especially Trevor Goddard's portrayal of Kano (which inspired his retcon to being Australian instead of Japanese-American). The rest was odd and a bit goofy, but fun to watch, plus it introduced us to that signature song.

Oddly enough Super Walker Bros, to my 1994 self it was AMAZING. Considering I was 12, not exactly top notch time for level headed judgement. The soundtrack? Endless loop at my family friend's music shop, on headphones full blast on the CD trial machine.

I get the general sentiment that the film could have been so much better if it had gone a bit more gratuitous with the violence, but it kinda feels like you guys are misremembering the movie as well. Particularly pertaining to the 'low body count' and over emphasis on plot. The way I remember it, once the premise was set up and the tournament was underway, it was nearly back to back fight scenes, where all but one (Liu vs Kitana) ended with the murder of one of the fighters.