I had the misfortune to come across this move while channel-surfing, and it brought back horrible, horrible memories.
I recall seeing this movie in the theater when it first came out, and asking myself multiple times "how in the world did you agree to see this movie?". In truth, I had actually gone with a friend who was big into the whole Mortal Kombat series. And just for being a nice friend, I was treated to a movie of unspeakable wretchedness. I absolutely hated that flick -- perhaps the longest hour and a half of my life. And that's when I was a teenager, still possibly vulnerable to movies like this.
Well, if I hated it then, you can imagine how much I hated it this time around. It's about 90 minutes of non-stop hackneyed fighting, complete with wooden acting, awful special-effects (which is pretty pitiful, given that action is about the only thing a movie like this is expected to deliver) a plot that might fly in a second-rate video game, and laughable dialouge.
This movie is so bad, it makes Saturday morning cartoons look like Academy Award-winning material. And that's about the only level in which you could even begin to derive any enjoyment out of this nonsense: if you were an 8 year-old boy watching TV at 8am on a Saturday morning.
I recall seeing this movie in the theater when it first came out, and asking myself multiple times "how in the world did you agree to see this movie?". In truth, I had actually gone with a friend who was big into the whole Mortal Kombat series. And just for being a nice friend, I was treated to a movie of unspeakable wretchedness. I absolutely hated that flick -- perhaps the longest hour and a half of my life. And that's when I was a teenager, still possibly vulnerable to movies like this.
Well, if I hated it then, you can imagine how much I hated it this time around. It's about 90 minutes of non-stop hackneyed fighting, complete with wooden acting, awful special-effects (which is pretty pitiful, given that action is about the only thing a movie like this is expected to deliver) a plot that might fly in a second-rate video game, and laughable dialouge.
This movie is so bad, it makes Saturday morning cartoons look like Academy Award-winning material. And that's about the only level in which you could even begin to derive any enjoyment out of this nonsense: if you were an 8 year-old boy watching TV at 8am on a Saturday morning.