Mortal Kombat (1995)
August 18, 1995 in theaters
For nine generations an evil sorcerer has been victorious in hand-to-hand battle against his mortal enemies. If he wins a tenth Mortal Kombat tournament, desolation and evil will reign over the multiverse forever. To save Earth, three warriors must overcome seemingly insurmountable odds, their own inner demons, and superhuman foes.
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The original live-action Mortal Kombat is joyfully committed to its own mythology — a campy, kinetic tournament film that understood the assignment better than most video game adaptations of its era. Robin Shou brings genuine physicality to Liu Kang, and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa's Shang Tsung remains one of the most effectively menacing villains the franchise has ever produced. It doesn't ask to be taken seriously on a cinematic level, but it delivers exactly what fans of the game were hoping for in 1995. For the OTHERverse, this is the origin point of one of live-action gaming's most durable theatrical lineages.
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