08 April 2021kino and TV shows

Review of the film "Mortal Combat". Well come here!

"Deadly Battle" Paul y. WITH. Anderson many, including us, call us the best gaming film adaptation in history. The plot is faithful to the letter and the spirit of the original source, the battles are spectacular, the actors are charismatic, the decorations are spectacular, and the soundtrack was completely in history. In the end, this is just a strong adventure action movie that regularly entertains the viewer. But they criticize the “deadly battle” for three things: the graphics that looked dumb even in 1995, bloodless fatalities, as well as the reduction of Scorpio and the Sab-Ziro to the status of brainless slaves, Shang Zun. All this was promised to fix in the new version, which after ten years of production hell has finally reached the screens.

Cole Young is a talented, but not too successful MMA fighter. He holds a blow perfectly, only to win the ring for some reason does not work. However, this is not so important until the wife and daughter support Cole. The only thing that really bothers the fighter is visions in which he is a certain ancient warrior embraced by a flame. It soon turns out that visions are only an omen of future troubles. First, a killer comes after Cole and his family, capable of freezing everything around, and after the hero will find out that he Virgin Games sister sites literally says to participate in an ancient tournament, where the fate of the whole planet is staged at the end.

Let's start with the main one: in front of us is a very, very dumb movie. And in a good way, and in bad. If we consider it from the position of “real” cinema – that is, to disassemble the plot, the development of characters, the placement of accents, etc "Mortal Combat" There is no chance of a 2021 model. The tape can be done with a clear conscience into dust. Even the Anderson version, with all its simplicity and straightforwardness, withstands this test more confidently simply because it takes more care about the ordinary viewer. The new film did not want to give a damn about him. It rather suggests itself in the pantheon of modern Graindhouse, into a narrow category of ultra-bloody restarts for fans, where they are already worth "Punisher: territory of war" , "Dredd" And Hellboy Nila Marshall.

Despite the solid age of 60 years, Hiroyuki Sanada looks quite convincing in the role of Scorpio. Sorry, he has very little screen time

With the latter, the tape is related to the charming of what is happening. In a good way, the events in Mortal Combat would be enough for a whole “sniderkat” or even for the season of the series. Here are the origins of the enmity of the Sab-Ziro and Scorpio, and the collection of the defenders of the earthly kingdom with their subsequent training, and the attempts of the sorcerer Shang Zuna to sabotage the tournament, and the secret of the origin of Cole … And they are trying to push through the force to one and a half hours. The timing is so lacking that in the third act the creators score on the last rules of decency and throw any plot ligaments between the action to the hell. And in the first two, the film is so fever that the viewer hardly has at least a couple of minutes to take a breath.

But this … right. Rather, by chance than intentionally, "Mortal Combat" avoids the main mistake "Godzillas against Kong" – He does not force you to wait for what you actually came. The tape begins with a fight, continues with fights and ends with a fight. And everything that is between the fights is done according to the principle of good porn parody: filled with jokes and fanservice.

All humor drags a cano on himself performed by Josh Lawson. He swears funny, amusingly commenting on what is happening and, in principle, more than others looks like a living person. It's a pity, the creators did not think of making him a protagonist. Other heroes simply replace the characters of the "deadly battle" of Anderson. Cole Young – instead of Liu Kan, Li Kan – instead of Kitana, Sonya Blade – instead of … Sonya Blade. There is also Jax and Kun Lao, but they are needed exclusively for the extraction.

It is clear why Johnny Cage did not introduce into the plot: two Balagurs in the team are a clear overkill

Oh yes, Scorpio and Sab-Ziro. The most famous characters MK. Central figures of the entire advertising campaign of the film. Well, they are in Mortal Combat – and even fight. Two times: at the beginning and at the end. Moreover, Cryomancer at least arises here and there, pursuing the heroes, but the poor Hanzo Hassashi sits until the final sits in the underworld. This is somewhat disappointed. Like the absence, in fact, deadly battle. Yes, in the film, where the plot revolves around the tournament between the worlds, there is no this very tournament – as already mentioned, Shang Zun is trying to disrupt it. Because of this, the scale of what is happening is lost, because the biggest game for the fate of the planet has not even begun.

However, all this is not so important: heroes can fight at least in the gateway – the main thing is that it looks cool. But with the fights, everything is not as clear as we would like. The fact is that in the same film of Paul Anderson, the central cast was more than half equipped with masters of martial arts and professional stunts. But in the new version, only three can boast of the necessary experience-the leading actor Lewis Tan, as well as Joe Tasham, who plays Sab-Ziro, and Max Juan, which is trying on the image of Kun Lao. Only they can do something in the frame. All the others, entirely former fashion models, have to be replaced with understudies and shred the fights with chaotic installation. And if you saw "Raid" or "The night is followed by us" , then the resulting result will impress you hardly.

But there are definitely no problems with fatalics. Here the creators fulfilled their promise, because Mortal Combat Brutalen is as much as it should be. The intestines fall out of dissected stomachs, the bones break, the flesh burns, and the computer bloodshole whips with fountains. Everything was shot very deliciously, with real pride in the work done by artists. Ultranasilia is the same attraction with which the film lures the viewer, and if you value tin with an admixture of black humor, this trip is definitely worth it. It is difficult to remember when the last time in the action films Rating R would be so justified.

As already mentioned, "Mortal Kombat" is an uncompromisingly stupid movie that is not at all embarrassed. Critics will surely give him to fluffs, and there is something. On the account of the director Simon McCouid and the leading screenwriter Greg Russo there is not only full -length films, but even a raising serial. For some reason, the studio entrusted the project for beginners, and it is felt. However, they turned out to be an unlucky and sufficiently carrier trash, which does not claim to be more – including the best gaming adaptation to the laurels. If you just want to see how heroes who are familiar from childhood tear each other to pieces on the big screen, then “Mortal Combat” will fulfill this desire. Nothing else to wait.