This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Leaving off where the first Mortal Kombat ended the earth was to have a generation of peace since our martial arts heroes won the last tournament. But the rules are broken and dimension portals are opening. A warlord from another dimension says in 6 days all kinds of unearthly creatures will be laying waste to good old mother earth and its populace. Only Robin Shou is back from the original Mortal Kombat. Other players/martial artists are back in other roles, particularly James Remar plays the wizard that gathered them together for the first film.Not being an aficionado of either martial arts or video games I am missing a lot in reviewing this. But for me it's more of the same from the first Mortal Kombat film. If you like that stuff I'm sure you'll enjoy Mortal Kombat: Annihilation.

Granted that the first movie was cheesy and campy, and of course what else would it be as it is a movie based on a game with no other contents than fighting! So when "Mortal Kombat: Annihilation" followed two years after, expectations were not high."Mortal Kombat: Annihilation" was every bit as cheesy and campy as its predecessor, and director John R. Leonetti had done nothing really to improve on the first movie. In fact, "Mortal Kombat: Annihilation" just continued on with the same pointless tirade of having characters from an arcade fighting game beat each other up in a soup of very weak storyline.The CGI effects in this 1997 sequel was every bit as horrible as it was in the 1995 movie. It was gut wrenching to witness those demons and the dragon duel on the screen, because the CGI animation was just atrocious, and the textures looked like they were borrowed directly from the PC game version of Mortal Kombat.As for the acting, well some people were doing good enough jobs here, despite the fact of having nothing to work with in terms of script and storyline. However, why they opted for Brian Thompson as the main villain was just simply beyond my comprehension.If you enjoyed the 1995 "Mortal Kombat" movie then you will also like the 1997 sequel "Mortal Kombat: Annihilation". However, unless you are a fan, then there is very little to get from this movie.

A group of martial arts warriors have only six days to save the Earth from an extra-dimensional invasion.This film sits on IMDb proudly displaying its "turkey" status. (There should actually be a symbol on there to signify turkeys.) And with good reason. The plot is even thinner the second time around and there are scenes that rely much too heavily on CGI... with less-than-perfect animation.So why did I give it a 5, higher than a typical turkey vote of 2 or 3? Because it still has a fun aspect to it, especially looking back now almost 20 years later. I can appreciate the music (KMFDM, Rammstein) and bask in the joy that a more or less plot less game was made into multiple movies. Still makes more sense than that Mario Brothers movie.

Wow. where to start with this...This movie is pretty much a complete bomb in every aspect. With an exception of Lui Kang and Kitana, EVERY character is replaced. and not for the better.. Personally, I think Sonya Blade is hotter in this one than the first but she's a worse actor so that pretty much cancels out.The story is garbage! It doesn't even follow the game! It's clearly noticeable that the ONLY goal as far as the story, was for it to include as many characters and their 'in-game moves' as they could regardless of their back stories. For example, Jax is a character that lost his arms in the game and replaces them with robotic ones. In the movie, he has his arms but they are 'muscle enhancers'... doesn't even make much sense to me.I honestly can't tell if the script is god-awful or the acting. Was it a great script that was poorly performed or great performances that had to be executed the way they were due to how it was written? I take that back. I can tell. It's both a terrible script with god awful performances. Sets, costumes, and stunts were all pretty bad as well. The costumes make you feel like you're in a college Halloween party while the sets look like they were cheaply made at my mom's house. The stunts/fight scenes are all executed in a way that made them seem like they were trying to be the deleted fight scene of a power rangers episode. The soundtrack from the first movie went platinum! In 10 days!! This time? It sounded like a 10 year old kid's Zumba class... Overall, this movie ONLY to be watched as a joke. It is the epitome of the thought that a video game should STAY a video game! I gave it 3 stars because I'm a huge fan of the game so seeing some of my favorite characters was cool (even if I had to be some form of intoxicated to enjoy it) and also, this movie helped guide me to know what NOT to have made my scorpion Halloween costume look like.