The producers of "Mortal Kombat" know that the film's strength movie is based on the actors' roundhouse kicks, not soliloquies. So it's not surprising that the sci-fi action-adventure is heavy on fight scenes and low on plot.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 27, 2023

The wonderful (and practical) use of a limited budget, the film's phenomenal production design, and exquisite cinematography, and the admittedly terrible application of CGI.

| Oct 2, 2021

Time hasn't been kind to every facet of Anderson's Mortal Kombat, but its well-crafted atmospherics, heightened action, and enthusiastic cast ensure it remains one of the more spirited video game adaptations to date.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 24, 2021

I'll say it over and over again. Just because you own the rights to a franchise...any franchise, if you can't tap into the emotional reasons why we love these characters and their stories, save your money.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Apr 13, 2021

It is too violent for children and too silly for anyone else.

| Mar 17, 2021

Novices may find the ground rules difficult to follow, though if you cut away the baroque detail you are left with a blunt, noisy, violent fight between good and evil.

| Mar 17, 2021

The special effects are incredibly poor, even by 1995's standards.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Sep 16, 2020

The only decent video game turned into a movie. Why? Obviously because the filmmakers have really tried to offer some eye-popping visuals that can provide the same stimuli as the video game itself.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 14, 2020

Bad actors in lead roles, sometimes poor fight choreography and extremely dated special effects, MK isn't a good film, but it does make for a good laugh with friends!

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 19, 2019

Unlike other games-inspired turkeys (Super Mario Bros, Street Fighter), this one actually works, thanks mainly to director Paul Anderson's single-minded dedication to nonstop, expertly choreographed martial arts action, all set to a thumping techno beat.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 18, 2019

One of its main attractions is, in effect, the way in which it works with the visual and interactive aspects of the videogame, trying to incorporate all this into a totally different product. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 18, 2019

A martial arts action-adventure with wondrous special effects and witty production design, it effectively combines supernatural terror, a mythical slay-the-dragon, save-the-princess odyssey and even a spiritual quest for self-knowledge.

| Apr 18, 2019

It's a movie rife with mullets, gratuitous gymnastics, screamed lines, and terrible CGI. But it all just contributes to the charm.

| Apr 18, 2019

This is a Mortal Kombat movie made for Mortal Kombat fans.

| Apr 18, 2019

A fun, visually appealing film with effective performances and well choreographed fights. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 29, 2016

Cheesy and very violent adaptation of '90s video game.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 12, 2016

The guys in the recording studio who made the ooofff! augghhhh! sounds are the ones who really had all the fun.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 7, 2011

Hardly award-worthy entertainment, and pretty visually dated, but probably one of the better video game movies ever made comparatively.

| Original Score: 6/10 | May 16, 2011

...a one-note gimmick that comes with everything but a joystick for the viewer to control the robotic characters.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Apr 11, 2011

In the realm of movies adapted from video games, "Mortal Kombat" sucks the least...

| Jun 10, 2010