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"Does Mortal Kombat Still Hold Up?"
Jan. 27th, 2025 05:51 am"Lani, Jesse, and Stephan test their might with 1995's Mortal Kombat!"
It's almost 6am, so instead of going to bed like I should be doing, I will instead post this. And then go to bed.
Yeah, the first Mortal Kombat movie is probably what I would consider to be the first ever video game movie that was actually passably good. Before that was Super Mario Bros: The Movie, then Double Dragon, and then Street Fighter: The Movie (and I forgot that the DD movie actually came out a month or two before the SF movie). I still say that SMB:TM was a kinda sorta okay movie... it just wasn't really Super Mario Bros. at all. Double Dragon was dogshit, and not even in a "so bad it's good" kind of way. Street Fighter, on the other hand, was so hilariously bad that it kind of rounded the corner to being good again. (I am so there when TFS reviews that one, which they said in this video will probably be the one they do next.) And after that... well... a metric assload of other movies based on video games, a few of which were okay, most of which were garbage, and also most of which I have not seen myself (and most of the few I've seen skewed more toward garbage than not).
Again, though, Mortal Kombat was the first one that actually felt like it did justice to the game it was portraying, for the most part. But... then along came the sequel, Annihilation, which was pretty much Double Dragon-level dogshit. Aside from those two, I haven't seen any of the other movies (animated or live action) or the TV shows (or "web show" in the latter case) that were based on Mortal Kombat.
