Mortal Kombat (1995)

The ultimate video game based movie!
Martial Arts expert Liu Kang (Robin Shou), beautiful agent Sonya Blade (Bridgette Wilson) and movie actor Johnny Cage (Linden Ashby)have been chosen by thunder wizard Raidan (Christopher Lambert) to a magical remote island. Over there, they must battle against fighters from another dimension called "The Outworld" lead by sininster sorcerer Shang Tsung (Cary-Hiroyki Tagawa) with fighters such as Kano (Trevor Goddard), Scorpion (Chris Casamassa), Sub-Zero (Francois Petit), gorgeous but deadly Princess Kitana (Talisa Soto) and four armed demon prince Goro in order to save the world from armageddon.

Highly entertaining and stunning fantasy action adventure flick! Faithfully adapts the popular video games to the big screen in a glorious way. The acting is not bad but the martial arts and action sequences are mind-blowing especially the special effects, the creature effects are quite good even on Goro himself and the music score such as the memorable theme is very good. It's a little violent for a PG-13 rated movie which means not worth seeing for the very young, Christopher Lambert was born to play Rayden as he was pitch perfect for the role. I also love the dark production values of the film, as this is a true game adaptation that succeeds where "Super Mario Brothers" and "Street Fighter" failed.

This DVD contains good picture and sound with both standard and widescreen versions with only a couple of extras like Trailer and list of Kombatants.

Also recommended: "Willow", "Big Trouble in Little China", "Tekken The Motion Picture", "Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie", "Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky", "Wizards", "The Dark Crystal", "Clash of the Titans", "Krull", "Legend", "Excalibur", "Fist of the North Star (Anime version)", "The Mummy (1999)", "Hellboy", "The Matrix Trilogy", "Blade Trilogy", "The Mummy Returns", "The Scorpion King", "Fire and Ice", "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon", "Hero", "Lord of the Rings Trilogy", "Beowulf (2007)", "Enter the Dragon", "The BeastMaster", "Kill Bill 1 & 2", "Conan The Barbarian", "Ninja Scroll", "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad", "Army of Darkness", "Jason and The Argonauts", "Ladyhawke", "House of Flying Daggers" and "300".

Moooooortal Koooombat...
Since I found out about this movie I went after it and got it in VHS. I had the video games MK, MKII, MK3 & UMK, so I had to get this movie.

The storyline of the movie is not very faithful to the game storyline (that can be confirmed through Shaolin Monks game). However, the look and feel of the movie is very much as I had imagined. The sound and music are also cool (that opening theme has the beat; I would like to hear it in any of the upcoming MK games).

If you are looking for a movie based in a video game, this is the best I've ever seen.

I wouldn't recommend the second part (MK Annihilation) though, because besides the writers tried to bring the UMK3 to live, the movie doesn't follow the videogames storyline at all, it misses the whole point of MK.

At the end, you should stick to this movie because it's awesome (rent the second part to see what is it about).

Moooooortal Koooombat...
Since I found out about this movie I went after it and got it in VHS. I had the video games MK, MKII, MK3 & UMK, so I had to get this movie.

The storyline of the movie is not very faithful to the game storyline (that can be confirmed through Shaolin Monks game). However, the look and feel of the movie is very much as I had imagined. The sound and music are also cool (that opening theme has the beat; I would like to hear it in any of the upcoming MK games).

If you are looking for a movie based in a video game, this is the best I've ever seen.

I wouldn't recommend the second part (MK Annihilation) though, because besides the writers tried to bring the UMK3 to live, the movie doesn't follow the videogames storyline at all, it misses the whole point of MK.

At the end, you should stick to this movie because it's awesome (rent the second part to see what is it about).