Mortal Kombat

Description

based on the best-selling home video game, this action adventuretells of a group of expert fighters who compete in a dangerous tournament for the fate of mankind on a mysterious island.

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less gore than i tought!.......2007-08-03

i never really was a fan of the video game but i finally came across this movie remembering the trailer in the the mask:animated videos. i was basically blown away by the martial arts action in here i am a fan of karate and i am even an orange belt so i am always looking for a decent karate show to wacth and this was good,thoght the film lacks of charecter develoment and cheap spiecial effects, i reall enjoyed robin shou he is a great martial artist it's a shame he didn't star in other good films,the guy that played johhny cage did real good, the sonya charector was very cute!that christopher lambert guy looked and sounded just like my uncle,it's freaky.

It was allrigth.......2007-07-19

this movie was ok, i had seen it many years ago when i was smaller, and i liked it better back then, but watching it as an adult is not the same, the movie is ok tough.

at least its better than street fighter.......2007-07-19

In the world of movies, Mortal Kombat is pretty bad. In the world of martial art films, its pretty average. But in the world of video game movies, this is actually one of the better. Its only competition, if you will, is Street Fighter. That turned out to be extremely poor, even with Van Damme playing the lead. There is no highly known lead or leads in this film (maybe Christopher Lambert to an extent), but Mortal Kombat thankfully improves over Street Fighter. The result is basically the same thing, just not quite as bad.

This movie has a promising start, introducing many of the video game characters quickly and providing a bangin' soundtrack. Unfortunately, when the tournament of Mortal Kombat finally begins, everything goes downhill. There is fight after fight, which is good, but the dialouge really suffers, the cheesiness and poor effects build, and loopholes and unexplained story elements begin to pop up.

Really, the only way you are going to enjoy this film is to probably love the video game. Most of the fun about the movie is seeing the characters from the video game, and about everyone is there. The actors were actually well chosen, and look very much like their video game counterparts. Cary Tagawa makes an excellent choice for Shang Tsung and Christopher Lambert is a wonderful Rayden. As for the rest of the guys, they do the job well enough.

Mortal Kombat is loaded with fights, and maybe what it all comes down to for most people. As a martial arts film, I would not recommend this. Most of the fights look unimpressive compared to your typical martial arts film, even the American made ones. Maybe its the camera angles and editing that make it suffer, but no fight really ever engaged me. The final fight between Liu Kang and Shang Tsung was rather boring, filled with too much dialouge. I just wanted them to fight already.

This is basically a fun movie, but you must leave the brain at the door. If you have never played the video game, this movie might be a complete waste of time. Only hardcore Kombat fans will want this in their collection. It does, however, impress over Street Fighter.

more of a guilty pleasure.......2007-07-16

Its one of those movies you know is corny, but is very well done and enjoyable.

This Movie is a Fatality.......2007-07-15

Simply summed up, this is the best movie of all time.

Okay, okay, that's a bit of an overstatement. Here is what is is: this is a FUN movie. You watch because it's got a kickin' soundtrack, martial arts fights, and, yes, all the hooks of the video game for those who played it and wanted to see more. There are no hugely gaping holes in the plotline. In fact, there really ISN'T much of a plotline: it's just an excuse to have some weird martial artists beat each other up in exotic locations. Corny humour at times, attempts at seriousness at other times, but mostly it's just what it is: a movie about some people who are out to kick each other's butts -- and do so.

NOT for: those who want a complex (or even vaguely understandable) plot; those who abhor violence; those who are finicky about the action sequences ("But, wait -- Gogrillo can't travel 17 meters in 4.3 seconds while he's carrying a battle-sword, according to his stats -- this movie is whack!" -- yeah, people who talk like that? No, not your movie.)

FOR: those who want to ignore the plot and just cheer the fight on until the popcorn goes flying; those who just loved the game and wondered what the characters were like when not in the ring; everyone who loves a basic action movie that's about having FUN!

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ok if you don't own both already. sad not widescreen.
Utterly useless

Mortal Kombat I/Mortal Kombat II
Starring: Mortal Combat 1 , and Mortal Combat 2
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Release Date: 2007-05-22

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ok if you don't own both already. sad not widescreen........2007-06-24

Don't know why they packaged both movies together in fullscreen and not widescreen. The only good thing I did notice is the picture quality and video color on the first one does look alot better than the older widescreen version. So if the screen format of the movies don't matter it's worth getting this pack.

Utterly useless.......2007-05-30

This double feature editon of both Mortal Kombat films has full screen transfers only. A waste of money.

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From first to worst.
Inferior sequel
Flawless victory? I think not !
MORTAL KOMBAT
"I have my reason for liking Mortal Kombat:Annihilation."

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
Starring: Robin Shou , James Remar , Talisa Soto , Sandra Hess , and Brian Thompson
Director: John R. Leonetti
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ASIN: 0780622057
Release Date: 1998-04-07

Description

In defiance of the Elder Lords, the evil Outworlders are back to wreak hell on Earth. Led by the mighty Shao Kahn, their gruesome goal is humanity's complete and utter destruction. Earth's last and only hope is the mighty martial arts warrior Liu Kang.

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From first to worst........2007-06-10

Mortal Kombat is a great movie. The best video game movie ever and fun even if you never played the game. Mortal Kombat: Annihilation is the worst video game movie ever made. First off, anytime you can't get the same actors to reprise there roles you know you have a bad movie. A different Sonya and a different Rayden (No way Christohper Lambert would have done this stinker... not even after Highlander 2). The plot isn't just weak, it's stupid. One of the worst sequels ever made.

Inferior sequel.......2006-08-11

I loved Mortal Kombat,and I thought the sequel would carry on the great Kombat legacy.I was heartily dissapointed when I saw annihilation.Brian Johnson was cool as Khan,but some of the special effects were so fake I had to laugh.Robin Shou returns as Liu Kang,the savior of Earth.After killing Shang Tsung,the group heads on home when all of a sudden,the Emperor busts up the party and sends his minions down.There,Khan makes his first appearance,along with his abnormal,yet awesome soldiers.Johnny Cage is killed,and Rayden(now played by James Remar)fights Khan,winning but sacrificing Johnny Cage.Now,Earth has seven days before it's destroyed.What I didn't like about this movie was appearances by people who had died in the first film,like Scorpion and Sub-zero.Who heard of Sub-Zero having a brother.Another thing that got me was how Liu Kang's fighting got worse since the first film.He was losing every battle,except the end,and even then he wasl osing.Do not get this film if you want to avoid dissapointment.

Flawless victory? I think not !.......2006-06-12

Three years after the first mortal kombat film, fans couldn't wait for Annihilation to come out. Unfortunately, the sequel did not do well at the box office and after viewing it, I can see why. First, I will start with what is positive about the movie. Kitana had more of a role as did Jax, I preferred Sandra Hess as Sonya a little over Bridget Wilson even though she did a good job with Sonya's character in the first movie, some of the fight scenes (Jax vs. Cyrax, Sonya vs. Mileena, Liu Kang vs. Baraka, Sub-Zero vs. Scorpion) were sequenced good, the dvd bonus features were nice, and the soundtrack was awesome. These positive aspects, however, could not save the overall film from disappointment. So what went wrong? Like the first MK, Annihilation attempted to blend two mortal kombat games into one movie (mortal kombat 3 and ultimate mortal kombat 3). Unlike the first MK, however, the blend was not successful. Too many characters were put into the movie and therefore the character development for most of them was almost non-existent. Aside from that, only three of the actors to my knowledge returned from the previous movie though it is understandable why the other actors did not return. What else went wrong with this sequel? Some of the acting was either over-the-top and/or downright pitiful. Shao Kahn's character along with Raiden's character was poorly resembled. Also, some of the characters didn't even get much screen time at all. One flaw that is immediately noticed at the beginning of the movie is that one of the main characters gets killed off (I won't say who because it is probably obvious). While some of the fight sequences were good, most of them were rushed and some were just flat-out ridiculous. This goes double for the animality sequence. Sadly, MK Annihilation doesn't rank up with the first one. Despite all this, there is some good news. After eight long years of waiting, a third mortal kombat film will hit the big screen with most of the actors returning from the first movie. Plus, the third installment will not only kontinue where the first left off but will also ignore the events of Annihilation.

MORTAL KOMBAT.......2006-03-21

I DID NOT RECEIVE THIS MOVIE AND I WAS CHARGE FOR IT
I WOULD LOOK TO RECEIVE THE DVD
THANK YOU
CAN SOMEONE EMAIL ME WITH THIS INFO
rossannemccullough@hotmail.com
or call me at 312-404-0267 my name is ROSSANNE MCCULLOUGH

"I have my reason for liking Mortal Kombat:Annihilation.".......2006-03-18

Now, I know that Mortal Kombat: Annihilation is no where near as good as the first movie. But I still liked it, and I have five reasons for why I say so. 1: Talisa Soto, 2. Sandra Hess( Who I think is a better, and sexier Sonya Blade in this movie than Bridgette Wilson in the first movie. 3. The action sequences 4. The Special Effects. and last but not least 5. The Soundtrack. So all in all, I through Mortal Kombat: Annihilation was pretty good.

Mortal Kombat/Mortal Kombat 2: Annihilation

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Mortal Kombat/Mortal Kombat 2: Annihilation
Starring: Mortal Kombat , and Mortal Kombat 2-Annihilation
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Release Date: 2007-07-03

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Mortal Kombat: Conquest
Starring: Ronald Fox , and Jennifer Renton
Director: Charles Siebert , and Oley Sassone
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Mortal Kombat: Conquest [Region 2]
Starring: Ronald Fox , and Jennifer Renton
Director: Charles Siebert , and Oley Sassone
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Bloody Mary Killer (Mandarin Version)

Manufacturer: Tai Seng Entertainment
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ASIN: B000LMPLPQ
Release Date: 2006-12-01

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Mortal Kombat / Mortal Kombat Annihilation

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Great movies!
First movie good, second movie bad
ROUND TWO.....FIGHT!
Mooooooortal Kooooooooombat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mortal Kombat / Mortal Kombat Annihilation
Starring: Robin Shou , James Remar , Talisa Soto , Sandra Hess , and Brian Thompson
Director: John R. Leonetti , and Paul W.S. Anderson
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ASIN: B0001WTWU6
Release Date: 2004-05-04

Customer Reviews:

Great movies!.......2007-03-28

Although I haven't bought this package, I've seen both films.

The first film was really great, it earned 5/5 stars right off the back.
The fight scenes were intense, with some great, upbeat music playing. In addition to the intensity, there was a lot of first-person views. There There was a cliffhanger ending, though.

The second film was OK, but not as good as the first one. It continues the first one, but they used totally different actors to play Raiden, Sonya, Jax, and Johnny Cage. I would give it a 4/5 stars because of the short fight scenes and over-use of slow motion. I would have given it a 3/5, but it earned a star for the awesome music. It was pretty good film, for those who appreciate the hard work of others.

First movie good, second movie bad.......2006-11-12

I wish they weren't listed together on Amazon except for the region 2 DVD, but I guess I have to rate them together. The point being that MK was easily 5 stars. MK Annihilation, well, that was so bad, I'm not even going to average 1 and 5 and give it a 3. I'll give it a 2.

Mortal Kombat, the FIRST one, most notably starring Christopher Lambert as Rayden, was great. Watch it and party like it's 1995. It was a good story, it had good special effects, good, well acted characters, decent humor, it wasn't too gory for the little ones, and yes, a few little inside gags for the people who had played the games. Johnny Cage's 'friendship' move from the game MK2 when he defeats Scorpion, for instance, and it was totally great the way they fit in Liu Kang's bicycle kick in the fight with Reptile. Crafty. The people who haven't played the game will laugh at how inane it is without realizing it was actually taken right from the game, and the people who have played the game will snicker to themselves because they get the inside joke. And the ending is really very good. Few movies have decent endings. That was Mortal Kombat, the first movie. My rating: 5 stars out of 5.

Now, as for Mortal Kombat Annihilation, I will tell you, coming from a fan of the GAMES (so my bias would be toward being more LIBERAL in my review), that if you watch this movie, chances are you will feel the urge to go out and perform a few 'fatalities'. This movie is the pinnicle of sequels that do not live up to the originals. While Mortal Kombat is one of the greatest in my opinion, this stinker is tied for dead last among everything I've ever seen along with a few others (examples of which include but are not limited to Scary Movie and Toxic Avenger 4). It comes about from one thing more than everything else. They tried to amalgamate every tiniest element in the games MK2 and MK3 into the movie somehow. What's wrong with that? Well, as the creators of the games got more money to develop them and program sizes got larger akin with computers as they expanded by Moore's Law, more characters were put into the game, for instance. Other things were added as well, but I'll get to that. In MK1 there were 7 playable characters, plus 2 'boss' characters and one secret one. In MK2 there were many more. In MK3 there were more still, and ultimate MK3, well, that was practically just an excuse for them to throw in every crazy character that they could think of. As the games expanded, they also had a wider variety of 'finishing moves' as well as moves in general; not just the 'fatalities' of the first game, but some stuff that got, well, downright silly, but that the creators of the game just threw in for variety. Like the 'animalities' and especially 'babalities'. And all this was for one particular goal. To provide a greater variety of possible gameplay for the GAMES. Nobody REALLY knew what the heck the story that went with it was, and nobody really cared. Sure, the creators TRIED to fit some sort of weak story in to connect all the crazy characters, but it was just too many darned characters, and people didn't play the game for the story that didn't make any sense, so it didn't matter anyway. They played because it was a neat game of strategy and you get to kill your oppnent when you win, but only if you know and properly perform the finishing moves, which made performing them properly a sort of victory dance. A chance to show off and say 'ah ha ha ha ha haaaa!' And what little story there is in the game originated from nothing more than the different endings that would come up when you won the game with different characters, a side effect of this being that the different resultant versions of the stories weren't even consistent with each other, since if one character defeats Shang Tsung or Shao Khan, then another must not have, and in the next game, if the writers wanted to continue the 'story', they had to pick one (Liu Kang), but all that other conflicting junk they've already established is still there. The fact was, when it came down to it, there WAS no intelligible story. The trouble is, this blasted movie tried to incorporate every stupid character that was part of the games, and even more obnoxiously, for each one to perform many if not all of the moves they had in the games. Which made for a REALLY boring movie since there were a lot of characters with a LOT of moves to get through, which took a LONG time when you added it all up, and didn't help at all to cover the fact that it STILL had NO INTELLIGIBLE STORY!!! The result was a totally stupid non-stop special effects clip that nobody in his right mind would care about because it still didn't make any sense and was obnoxious on its own accord anyway, and was in fact so bad, even Christopher Lambert wasn't willing to star in it as the thunder god Rayden, as he was in the first movie! And man oh man, I have to say, he made a good choice to avoid this monstrosity. He's got a reputation bigger than Bruce Campbell's as a king of B movies, so you know how bad it is if he wouldn't TOUCH this one. It seems rather appropriate to me. Hat's off to him for making the right choice on that count. So watch the first one. Mortal Kombat incorporated some junk from the game but in a good way, a funny way, a not-too-heavy-handed way, and they generated an actual story that wasn't part of the game, and a good one. And just for kicks, take a look at "Beowulf", starring Christopher Lambert. They totally ripped off the opening credit animation of the Mortal Kombat movie. Maybe just an inside gag for the presence of Lambert. I don't know. But skip this one. Because if you watch it, you will wish you hadn't. Simple as that. Mortal Kombat Annihilation, I'll say, gets negative 1 star. Negative 1 averaged with 5 is 2. Thus, I give the combined set a 2.

ROUND TWO.....FIGHT!.......2004-10-12

If you love kung fu or action flicks pick up Mortal Kombat. This movie rocks! I was a little disappointed that the film was in PG-13 and not rate R, mainly because the MK franchise was all about the insense blood and gore. But, When I fist saw this movie in theaters it blew me away, the acting was good but the kung fu fightin' was better. The charaters in the film are all cool, I like Raiden (or is it Rayden?) the best along with Scorpion. The second film New Line produced wasnt as great as the original but still had its moments. If you haven't seen the oringial Kombat, give it a play. Hey everyone likes kung ku fightin..

Mortal Kombat Annihilation is a fun ride. Many critics out there say this movie blows, which isn't true. People who haven't played any of the games are confused at the story line and sorts. Sure the voice actin' could use a little work but who cares, the action is where its all about in kung fu flicks. I enjoyed both the 1st and 2nd film, there are tons of charaters from the games included in this movie, should please alot of the many gamers out there looking for there favorite charater appreances. Rumors, Rumors of a third instalment of the film! Will there be a round three??

Toasty....

Mooooooortal Kooooooooombat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2004-05-21

I cannot begin to tell everyone how great of a franchise Mortal Kombat is!! While the second movie was a disappointment, the first one is AMAZING and this DVD set it's a great collection for any Mortal Kombat or martial arts movie fans!! The fights and action are amazing!! Mortal Kombat is certainly delivering when it comes to great fight scenes pack with WICKED stunts!!

Few people realize just how great the story of Mortal Kombat really is! The movie follows the video game story (somewhat, it actually kind of kombines Mortal Kombat 1 & 2 in the first movie), which obviously adds to these awesome movies!! Don't miss out on owning the DVD collection. Even if you're not a Mortal Kombat fan, it's a great addition for any lovers of martial arts movies or science fiction/fantasy movies!!

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