I barely managed to make it through Mortal Kombat Annihilation because the dialog is terrible, the story makes no sense and the kung fu action scenes are substandard.

| Original Score: F | May 16, 2022

A critical and commercial fatality, this fantasy action-adventure flopped so hard it sent its characters back to their original, video-game realm until a 2021 live-action reboot.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 13, 2022

The climax devolves into a mess of pitiful CG animalities - video game finishing moves that definitely shouldn't have been translated into the realm of cinema.

| Original Score: 1/10 | Jan 2, 2022

Here's the lowdown on the latest chapter in Mortal Kombat: deadly dull.

| Jul 20, 2021

The makers of the thoroughly terrible Mortal Kombat: Annihilation haven't even attempted to move beyond their source material -- the super-popular video game -- and actually make a movie.

| Jul 20, 2021

Take the worst elements of martial arts movies, the worst elements of science fiction movies... and the cheesiest sets and special effects this side of Ed Wood. Mix them together and you have something called Mortal Kombat Annihilation.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 20, 2021

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation is not just a movie based on a video game, it is a sequel to a movie that was based on a video game. That pedigree should tell you all you need to know about the quality of this movie.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 20, 2021

The sequel to the 1995 live-action video-game movie turns out to be idiotic but amusing low kitsch.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 20, 2021

The filmmakers tried to get complicated -- and pay a price. The story lines are obviously designed to link the fight scenes, leading to moments of hilariously bad dialogue.

| Jul 20, 2021

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation is doubly insulting; a shamelessly lazy sequel and embarrassingly low-effort video game adaptation.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 24, 2021

Mortal Kombat was the perfect level of cheesy badness, this is just... badness. It exceeded my bad memories of it, and lived up to its reputation, that's for sure!

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 18, 2019

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation is a joke.

| Apr 10, 2019

This film is only made for fans of the game. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 10, 2019

It is inscrutable mostly and in those rare moments that it can be decoded, it's so awful as to prove unworthy of the effort.

| Original Score: 1/10 | Dec 6, 2016

It's hard to believe that it was produced by big studios in Hollywood, since it's one of the worst films ever made. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Oct 3, 2016

Never -- at least not since the first Mortal Kombat -- has tedium been so loud, so full of backward flips and flying fists to the kissers of centaurs from another realm.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 10, 2014

The first sequel to 1995's highly successful Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat Annihilation adds little to the development of the saga except for a truckload of martial arts sequences and a whole mess of bigger and louder special effects.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 10, 2014

It wastes no time getting to the punching, kicking, stomping and zapping that passes for a cinematic event.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 10, 2014

The video game is much more fun, of course.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 10, 2014

Mortal Kombat Annihilation features evil ninja monsters popping out of nowhere. If at first these villains appear absolutely unbeatable, just wait a minute and you'll see them cower before our determined, team-oriented good guys.

| Sep 10, 2014