Today, let's talk about the movie "Mortal Kombat: Destruction".
Title Mortal Kombat / MK3: Domination / Mortal Kombat 3 / Mortal Kombat: Devastation (2021), alias Mortal Kombat / King of Fighters.
The first thing to note is that this is a purely fan-oriented game-based action movie, and fans of the famous fighting game Mortal Kombat should not miss this movie.
This film has a very obvious threshold for watching movies. If you are not very familiar with the "Mortal Kombat" series, it is easy to watch in the clouds.
From a Mortal Kombat fan perspective, this is a fan-oriented film that has lived up to expectations.
Recommended for friends to watch.
Those who have experienced the fighting game boom in the 1990s should still remember the popularity of "Mortal Kombat" back then.
The "Mortal Kombat" series was originally developed by the American Midway company.
When Japanese manufacturers such as SNK, SEGA, and KONAMI were deeply involved in 2D fighting games, MIDWAY in the United States had already set their sights on 3D fighting. And due to different development environments, American fighting games pay more attention to keyboard rubbing moves. Simply put, when rubbing moves, it is about making a crackling sound on the mechanical keyboard, and there is no oblique button setting.
The result is that if players start with arcade fighting games, it's easy to start with Street Fighter and The King of Fighters, and if players start with computer games, it's easy to start with Mortal Kombat. To be honest, "Mortal Kombat" is already at the top level in the sense of operation and attack in American games.
In 2006, Midway released the seventh installment in the series, Mortal Kombat: Doomsday. Later, MIDWAY went bankrupt due to poor management, and the IP of "Mortal Kombat" was integrated into Warner's hands.
Friends familiar with DC know that Warners has an ancestral skill: reboot. In addition, the plot of the game series "Mortal Kombat" itself is pulpy, and Warners decided to restart the entire series, launching "Mortal Kombat 9" in 2011. The plot of the game escaped for a while, and went around for a while, and actually brought the plot back to the beginning of the entire series.
Originally in "Mortal Kombat 7", all the characters were dead. After the restart of "Mortal Kombat 9", the timeline was reversed without the Flash being sacrificed to the sky, and it returned to the first part of the series. The beginning of the plot, the follow-up plot is also rewritten by Warner.
Over the next few years, the producer has successively launched sequels. In April 2019, "Mortal Kombat 11" officially debuted.
The screen operation of the new work has been greatly improved. "Mortal Kombat 11" successfully entered the top 20 of the list of the best-selling TOP20 new games in April 2019 announced by Steam, and at the same time won the title of revenue champion on the host platform. .
It is recommended that friends who like this series and have not yet started "Mortal Kombat 11" can try it.
Back to the film and television works of the "Mortal Kombat" series.
In the early years, "Mortal Kombat" released two live-action films, "Empire" (1995) and "Empire 2" (1997), and a TV series "Mortal Kombat: Conquest" (1998) ).
It was followed by Mortal Kombat: Rebirth (2010), the mini-series Mortal Kombat: Legacy (2011), and the animated version of Mortal Kombat Legends: Revenge of the Scorpion (2020).
It can be seen that these film and television works are inseparable from the main story of the game at that time. After the game restarts, the game derivative movies also restarted.
I want to know why players like to play "Mortal Kombat". It's very simple. It's nonsense to mention that the characters are well-made and the world view is huge and complex. Everyone comes to play "Mortal Kombat" for the various, bloody and cruel endings. skills.
If the world view of the game is not smashed, it will not need to be overturned. The character creation of American games is incomparable with the characters of Japanese and Korean games, but for the more famous European and American games, players will “intimately” make character beautification MOD packages, not just because the official characters are ugly.
This year's Mortal Kombat: Destruction should be the best live-action version of Mortal Kombat ever. A little bit more interesting.
There are many characters in the Mortal Kombat series, and there are nearly 100 characters available for players to use. Due to copyright reasons and space limitations, only some main characters can be selected to appear in the film.
This film faithfully restores the signature moves of the characters in the Mortal Kombat series, perfectly reproduces their finishing moves, and faithfully depicts the battle scene in the game.
Just asking: "Hearing GET OVER HERE" isn't enough?
In order to take care of the audience who do not know this series, the film spent a lot of space introducing the world view of "Mortal Kombat".
Although the setting of this world view is very nonsense, it still needs to be briefly expressed.
The good and evil sides need to compete for the championship of the fighting competition. After winning ten championships, they will occupy all the universes. The evil side led by King Zhou of Shang has won 9 times, and the righteous side led by Lord Raiden will try their best to win this 10th victory.
If you want to talk about the world view of "Mortal Kombat", you will inevitably take out the scorpion and whip the corpse. If there is Jax, remove Jax's arm. This is already a routine operation.
Scorpion is the son of the "Mortal Kombat" series, and even the character on the logo is a scorpion. Let the scorpion go through the painful experience of being slaughtered by his family again and again, which is probably the weight that his own son cannot bear.
In addition, as long as you see that Jax's arms are still flesh, you will know that this kid's arm will definitely break once.
I've seen a lot of criticism online about Mortal Kombat: Destruction. These reviews criticized the film's plot setting and characterization.
It was originally a game-derived movie, promoting the game, and the actual effect fully met expectations. It can only be said that these people don't understand neither movies nor feelings, so they dare to make comments, which only adds to their laughter.
If I look at the plot, the logic, and the characterization, will I choose this film?
It's like some people go to a pizza restaurant to eat beef noodles, and they give the restaurant a bad review if they don't eat it. Is there a problem with their brains?
Say a few tidbits:
1. It's the highest-budget film ever made in Adelaide and South Australia, and director Simon McQuoid's first feature film.
2. Cole Young was an original character who debuted in the film. The actor, Lewis Tan, himself a professional kickboxer and Muay Thai boxer, tried to play the role of an MMA fighter by watching welterweight UFC fighter Jorge Masvidal video for inspiration on how Cole moves.
3. For the first time, the actor who played Raiden was held by a yellow race, Japanese actor Asano Tadanobu. Previously played by the French Christopher Lambert ("Empire" (1995)) and the American James Remar ("Empire 2" (1997)).
Raiden's "metal hat" in the film is actually made of fiberglass.
4. Hiroyuki Sanada, who played the scorpion, was 58 years old at the time, the oldest among the previous actors.
5. Director Simon McQuaid had to ask Joe Taslim to slow down during the fight scene because he was walking too fast to get into the shot.
6. Sub-Zero's ice sword Kori Blade is made of resin with a plastic film inside to make it look icy in the light.
7. Mekkad Brooks joked that he made a mistake after learning that his character Jax had a fight scene with Absolut Zero, watching Serbuan Maut (2011) .
8. Australian actress Jessica McNamee, who played Sonya Blade, was the second non-American actor to play the role.
9. In the film, when Kano saw the signboard of Mortal Kombat, he said that the battle was spelled wrong, it should not be Kombat, it should be Combat.
10. Kano is played by Australian actor Josh Lawson, whose two previous predecessors were British.
11. The unmasked skin used by Mileena in the film. .
Milina's facial features are based on the makeup of KISS member Gene Simmons.
12. Because there are so many characters, many characters appear in the form of Easter eggs. In Lord Raiden's temple, Kano tries to steal an amulet from the Elder God Shinnok. This is one of my favorite characters to use.
13. Another weapon seen is a blue steel fan, which is the personal weapon of Kitana, Mileena's twin sibling.
14. A Native American photo in the film refers to the Native American fighter Nightwolf.
15. There is also an Aztec statue that resembles the Aztec warrior Kotal Kahn.
16. The game character Rain was originally in the script but was later cut from the movie.
17. At the end of the film, Cole Young revealed that he was going to Hollywood to find another boxer. The boxer is Johnny Cage, hinting that he will appear in the next movie. Johnny Cage also starred in Mortal Kombat Saga: Scorpion's Revenge.
18. In June 2009, Lawrence Kasanoff sued Midway in a bankruptcy court lawsuit, noting that a third film was in the works. Warner became the parent company of New Line in 2008, after the two companies operated as separate divisions of Time Warner for more than a decade. The following month, Warner Bros. finally acquired most of Midway's assets, including the Mortal Kombat IP.
19. The film was originally scheduled to be released on March 5, 2021. Later, it was said that it would be postponed to January 15, 2021, and then due to the impact of the epidemic, it was postponed until the theaters reopened. The film will eventually be released in theaters and HBO Max on April 16, 2021.
It just so happens that the 9th, 10th and 11th Mortal Kombat games were released in 2011, 2015 and 2019, and the release of the film this year also marks the 10th anniversary of the soft reboot of the series.
20. In this film, Kung Lao and Liu Kang are set as brothers. The actors of the two roles, Max Huang and Lin Ludi, are both members of the original "Chen Family Class".
21. To insert a digression, any person in this film can play Shangqi.
GET OVER HERE & FINISH HIM,
Fully up to the expectations of the fans to the movie.
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