August 5, 2021 • 63 mins
Nothing in the world can prepare you for MORTAL KOMBATTTTTTT *pause for intense dancing and spinning kicks*
In 1992, the world was introduced to a fighting game which would revolutionize the genre and almost single-handedly cause the creation of the ESRB - the Entertainment Software Rating Board. Bringing together martial artists from all over the world (and elsewhere), and combining fast paced action with raw, gruesome, bloody gore, Mortal Kombat is a video game franchise like no other.
So it is fitting that in 1995, New Line Cinema and Paul W.S Anderson would deliver a PG-13, bloodless, campy, B-Movie adaptation. Is it good? Is it bad? Choose your destiny...
In 1992, the world was introduced to a fighting game which would revolutionize the genre and almost single-handedly cause the creation of the ESRB - the Entertainment Software Rating Board. Bringing together martial artists from all over the world (and elsewhere), and combining fast paced action with raw, gruesome, bloody gore, Mortal Kombat is a video game franchise like no other.
So it is fitting that in 1995, New Line Cinema and Paul W.S Anderson would deliver a PG-13, bloodless, campy, B-Movie adaptation. Is it good? Is it bad? Choose your destiny...
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