The Mortal Kombat 2 Movie Has Officially Wrapped Filming

I enjoyed the first movie for what it was, I can't wait to watch the sequel.

Now will there be, uh, Mortal Kombat in this, uh, Mortal Kombat movie?

Hello? Is this thing on?

I really enjoyed the first movie, despite mostly just being a decent action movie with maybe three characters worth even having a single opinion about, filled with fanservice for a series I haven't touched in 20 years.

If this one just goes a bit further into being a well put together story about something with more characters with actual personality, I could be super into it. Also please bring back Kano, he was the best.

Strongly disliked the first film. Like, STRONGLY.
But I grew up loving the Paul Anderson film, so I’m probably super biased…

Eh...Despite it's problems, the original 90's film is still the best adaptation of the franchise film wise.

I'm hoping this one is better paced. The first one had some cool stuff going for it and was pretty entertaining, despite some utterly baffling adaptation deviations and its boring OC main character, but it's just way too long for what it is and has too long a stretch with no real action happening. Something like this should be a svelte 90 minutes.

Well no Kung Lao in the sequel means I likely won't be watching it. The first movie was the only MK live action movie in the series existence to feature Kung Lao and y'all killed him for no reason.

@ear_wig
Nope, same here. The reboot was pretty, but felt hollow. At least the original has the actual TOURNAMENT.

I hadn’t heard Karl Urban was cast as Johnny. Don’t get me wrong, I love Karl, but him as Cage is an odd choice. He just doesn’t have the look, imo

Kay. Are we getting the tournament in it?

@Serpenterror Yes! The guy who played Kung Lao was great. Please bring back Kabal, and bring in Night Wolf and Sindel.

Also, please ditch Cole and put Liu Kang front and center where he belongs.

@Waluigi451 I agree with you

The cutscenes are WAYYYY better than the modern film. There really is no need for a live-action MK. The current game scenes are live enough.

@Tempestryke I agree. It was pretty baffling to make a new main character when Liu Kang is right there lol

First one was oaky, but kinda meh. it's biggest disservice was the unbelievably stupid idea of making an OC for a protagonist with a literal Plot Armor for a power.

@ottoecamn Nothing wrong with introducing an OC character. The Franchise has being doing it for decades with about every other sequel. MK Armageddon poked fun at that with it's cgi opening.

The problem is not the idea of an OC character, but the fact said character doesn't have room to grow when the movie is cramming in so many other characters into a mess of a plot.

This is why films with too many characters every rarely comes out great.The film was doing way too much in such little runtime.

What the first film should have done is slowly introduce new characters in the sequels. Focus on a core group, then gradually introduce a bigger cast.

Honestly, imo, a live action MK would better as a longform
tv series, than a movie franchise.

@ear_wig I agree.
One of things I didn’t like was the gore being taken to ridiculous extremes. A 15 rated martial arts movie more than represents and does justice to the game.

Also the complete lack of character.
It really shows how important and well done the personalities of the Paul Anderson film are.
I know the script isn’t going to win any awards but it makes a huge difference.
I thought his film was very well done. With the martial arts choreography by Pat Johnson.

@HotGoomba lol where'd you find that

Aw. I really wanted WWE's Mike 'The Miz' Mizanin for Cage. He had been pitching it long before there even was talk of the first (new) movie. https://c.tenor.com/mMD5dK4U06YAAAAC/wwe-the-miz.gif (I don't know how to post gifs!)

I hated, like...HATED...the first one about as much as I could hate a movie. Terrible , tonally confused script written by people who think they're better than the source material and had to "elevate" it by needlessly over-complicating things, absolutely pathetic direction, amateur choreography further ruined by abysmal cinematography and possibly the worst editing I've ever seen in a studio film.

So, I suppose the sequel couldn't be worse.........could it?

The first movie was kinda dumb, but it was also really fun. Was the first movie I saw in theaters post-COVID

For some reason the 90s pg-13 movie felt more rated R than the actual rated R movie a few years back, so my expectations are somewhat dampened.
Nothing beats the MK rebirth short film with Michael Jay White.

Fingers crossed that they kill off Cole in this sequel faster than Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. That character needs to go.

Loved the first 10 minutes of the remake. After watching the battle between scorpion and sub zero i thought i was about to watch something special..... then i watched the rest of the movie.

They need to make it accurate to the current games so they need to find a way to inject it with GAAS nonsense and endless crossover characters taking precedent over anything else, maybe then can make the first movie with MTX, pay $30 bucks and the cast will be wearing outfits inspired by your favorite 80’s cartoon, pay to unlock new characters to inject into the movie that should have been there in the first place.

But the first movie wasn't even good.

I watched most of the first movie randomly with a buddy last week. It was, pretty bad. Shang Tsung just looked like somebody's dad, he lacked the menace of the original actor. And I don't know why they felt the need to create an original character, when the games already have a massive roster to draw from. I appreciated the uncompromising gore tho, even though the obvious cgi was distracting.

I saw the first one, but can barely remember anything from it.

@Serpenterror There was this live action MK series that featured Kung Lao's ancestor, the Great Kung Lao. I've only managed to catch clips of it, but I thought I might mention it to you. It's like if the 90s MK movies had a baby with the 90s Power Ranger series.

@Quiet2down Yeah, I could've explained that better. The issue with the OC is that he was simply not interesting. when you have a franchise full of characters people care about but opt for a new guy to be your anchor to the story, you gotta make damn sure that he's captivating. and Cole simply wasn't. he was as generic as they come. They could've made him interesting through his connection with Scorpion, but not even that.

@ottoecamn Well put