Mortal Kombat reboot of 2021 dropped a trailer.
I DON'T HATE IT... but I don't love it either. Aside Cole Young (whose name doesn't sound ANYTHING LIKE KUAI LIANG), Kano "being a Good Guy", Mileena being there for some reason, the excessive focus on Scorpion and Sub-Zero, it was decent. Even Supergirl's black Jimmy Olsen playing Steve Harvey playing Jax was decent. I'm mentioning that Supergirl's Jimmy Olsen is black because now in order for being Not racist, you must see color And react differently to people because of it. But back to Mortal Kombat, it was nice to se "fatalities" and gore... what worried me is the massive shit they are taking on the MK lore.
And that seems to always be the main problem with me and most adaptations... adherence to the source material. I get it that making the game straight up would be incredibly boring. At the same time, that doesn't mean you can make weird stuff up like say:
-Ryu and Ken are grifters selling nerf guns to terrorists.
-Iori Yagami and Mai Shiranui are dating, while Terry Bogard is a government agent.
A good example of not following the game to a T but respecting the Lore, Mortal Kombat: You know the good one despite it being PG-13... no, not Annihilation, you doughnut.
This reboot is taking WAY TOO MANY LIBERTIES with the Lore and that bothers me. Liu Kang is not a supporting character. He's the protagonist. Shang Tsung is not "Emperor of Outworld". He's a herald at best... The only "cool factor" this movie has are the fatalities and even these seem underwhelming due to the realism in the gore on the current games.
Take out the gore and the movie is just as bad as Annihilation.
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