It's a pretty conservative film without a lot of risks or notables from the game, besides brand marketing. Quite mild deaths compared to the game and its martial arts inspirations, albeit it probably made the game cheaper.
The set design is absolutely PHENOMENAL though.
You're in a Enter the Dragon-like tournament and island, especially when Liu Kang uses the stick to fight the unnamed man.
The forest Johnny Cage fights Scorpion in is cinematic and photographic, like that of a fairy tale, or in a video game, like Final Fantasy VII's Sleeping Forest.
Sub Zero's gives you chills.
The Reptile stage is like that on Notre Dame.
Goro's is an Earth-like rocky craggy stage, signifying his strength.
And of course, the epic Shang Tsung stage with the spikes.
Not to mention the place with the platforms and the multiple deaths.
Way more video game-ish than Street Fighter.
Campy, with special effects narrators going "OOPSY!" in a high pitched voice, Mortal Kombat was a game with a lot of replay value that kept players going. A Pandora's box of video game design and achievement placement.
I felt that the entire fears and egos things never goes anywhere, unless Raiden was trying to trick them. Not to mention that Sonya already defeated Kano by the time this happens in the film, only to play a stereotypical damsel in distress against Shang Tsung, something not even Street Fighter did in their film!
Also I don't find Cage particularly funny. Then again, maybe they were supposed to portray him as a loser in the group. The Hollywood member.
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