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Mortal Kombat II (2025)
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Rajaah
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This movie was dumb as shit.
People went to it to see Johnny Cage, the audience clearly loved Johnny Cage, though the crowd reactions to him got a bit muted by halfway through the movie because the movie spent so much time making him look like a total fucking loser and by extension mocking the audience for getting behind him. The entire movie exists as a vehicle to put Kitana over and push Kitana. Not sure how interesting or tense a Kitana-led sequel will be when she never takes any damage or shows any vulnerability, to the point that I can't even imagine her actually losing a fight or having a hard time with anybody.
It reminded me of when WWE pushed Roman Reigns while their audience liked Daniel Bryan. Back in 2014 or so when Roman wasn't cool at all yet. People liked him fine as a character, but not as the all-conquering main character. They showed up to see Daniel Bryan instead, who only got pushed insofar as to draw fans to the shows, only to see him get shat on regularly by the company while Roman was portrayed as the unbeatable superbadass.
Well that's what MK2 is, with a dollop of DEI on top. And I say this as a big fan of Kitana in the games. I like her character. She could be a lead character in a game, especially post-Shao when she rules Outworld and has to fend off challenges from Mileena.
However, this movie was Johnny's movie, the movie was promoted around Johnny, the audience showed up to see Johnny. Only to have him get dumped on a lot while Kitana got to be the cool badass instead. The overall story arc of the movie was pretty fucking stupid, as well. Soulless movie that I'll probably forget about, like the 2021 movie. At least it's better than MK Annihilation, and is a kind of "Annihilation done right" in that it throws in a lot of characters. It makes room for them by killing a lot of them off really fast, solving that organizational dilemma.
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It just felt awkward as others said
one of those movies where you look away and “oh we are somewhere else now” “oh another fight is happening”
it’s like when you get to a movie late and try to find your seat
but then its just the movie as is and I don’t care about you or you or you
it’s not like the actors from the first movie have done anything to build up their cred since so seeing Sonya blade or Jax or liu kang people again just jumping straight to them turns into “oh ya ya that’s the people from the first movie “
some king guy dies ….”oh no! ….king mckingy! Why you kill him ?!”
They went too we want to be taken seriously and authentically portraying most the people as realistic and Asian people authentic
Street fighter is doing it right
It’s the same as X-men black leather outfits vs Wolverine blue and yellow