We were never going to get Jurassic Park-tier special effects.Īll that could be forgiven if the rest of the movie was any good. But this is a movie from 1995, with an $18 million budget. A lot of the practical effects looked cheap, and the CGI was laughable. One of the things that really bugged me about Mortal Kombat were the effects. Like so many things from the ‘90s it does fall into the trap of trying to take itself too seriously, so you couldn’t try and claim it was all done as some weird joke. With the sequence, it makes me wonder whether the director was actually messing with the audience the whole time. But unfortunately that game is Doom 3, and the whole thing is so laughably bad that it turns the movie into a parody of itself.īefore that moment you had a weak take on the basic plot of the first Doom game, albeit without any of the supernatural elements. The sequence captures the essence of a Doom game pretty perfectly. A five-minute sequence that has been made to feel like it was pulled from a video game. Until the point where the movie goes into first-person mode, at any rate. There’s very little to differentiate most of the plot from some generic space horror B-movie. Take Doom (2005), for instance, which is a pretty disjointed attempt at a video game movie. But capturing the spirit of a video game is pretty pointless if you can’t then build a quality story around it. Video game movies often focus on the movie aspect, rather than what made the video games great. Mortal Kombat gets a lot of praise for “capturing the essence” of the games, and translating that into a film. Having watched both movies this past weekend, I can attest to this fact. It’s got a better script, with better production value and effects, and generally it’s a much more enjoyable experience. Not only does it help capture the essence of the game and its array of characters, it’s also a much better film. Mortal Kombat 2021 isn’t a masterpiece by any means, but it is a much, much better attempt at bringing Mortal Kombat to the big screen. See more Capturing the essence of the source is worthless on its own
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