Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle Of The Realms
This was copied from my DeviantArt journal before I posted it.
I just watched the movie many minutes ago. Like, fully. Credits and all. I’m not gonna spoil anything huge. It’s been a week since it came out. I bought it on DirecTV and after that deleted it.
I’m gonna be honest and from whenever I mentioned it. I was very excited for this film. Even going as far as saying I’m probably gonna love it already, before it even came out. Because I absolutely loved Scorpion’s Revenge. And I felt like what WB Animation has decided to do with this is genius. There was even the idea that I had hoped it would be better than the 2021 live action reboot that came out this year. Despite I did enjoy that film too.
But I will admit….I was bothered when I saw let me look at it in case. Okay, the Amazon rating changed from a two and a half stars. To now three and a half stars. Which I do appreciate that. But that rating, and I do wanna give my own opinion. This is my first reaction to the movie. I’ll just get this out of the way. Even though I tried my best to not see anything spoilerish. Despite a pic concerning one character’s fate(Stryker) and what happens with one character(Liu Kang). Again, no huge spoilers. I only watched two clips that I felt weren’t really big. But I decided to ignore the rest.
I liked it. It is seriously a very kick ass film. But also the violence at certain points may make you feel uneasy in a sense. But the film is overall entertaining, and I’m glad I watched it in the living room. It’s also funny at times. Mainly thanks to Johnny Cage, who’s always a classic.
And I think Liu Kang fans may really appreciate this movie because of what they do with his character. Also other little standouts like Scorpion and Sub Zero who I will always love. There’s a lot of awesome moments.
But here’s my problem…and this may sound weird. I thought to myself, maybe I shouldn’t treat this like a theatrical film. But I need to be honest with you all. I know this is a direct to DVD/video/Blu Ray movie.
But this film/movie needed to be longer…it literally needed to be. There is a lot of stuff in this movie. And it goes by very quick. I have thought that I think Mortal Kombat fans will enjoy this movie more. But I feel like for fans who know the lore and these characters, that might be worse.
Despite my issues with the 2021 movie. At least that had some time with some of it’s characters. Even though it still had issues with packing a lot into one movie. And I get it, this is not a theatrical film, but this NEEDED to be longer. And I’m thinking it was supposed to be. That’s my guess, and I’ll tell you at the end. And I just added the part that I tried my best to avoid spoilers.
I wanna explain it like this. You know when you watch a movie. Maybe it’s based upon a video game or whatever else. There’s a lot of stuff in it, or you think they could do more with it maybe. And it feels like it’s too short. That’s this movie…this movie needed to be longer…
Again, I liked it. But I feel something happened. And there were certain writing choices that I feel like…will piss off MK fans.
Also, now the thing that made me truly think, this was meant to be longer.
Mileena is NOT in this movie….her name is in the credits. She was voice acted by Grey Griffin. But she’s NOT in the movie. But her name appears…and she was in the list of characters that was showed on Twitter, revealing which characters were in this movie. Unless I missed her real quickly….I’m not sure. I was hoping for an end credits scene possibly. But nothing…absolutely nothing.
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