Mortal Kombat II is popping out on October twenty fourth, and I could not be happier (properly, type of. It will be cooler if the twenty fourth was a Monday, in order that it might come out on Mortal Monday. Actual ones know).
Anyway, as an apologist for the 2021 movie, it does my coronary heart glad to listen to that check screenings for this upcoming Mortal Kombat have gone swimmingly. As a result of regardless that I’ve come round on the 2021 flick, I nonetheless need a MK film that may get me as pumped up as the primary one did again in 1995.
I nonetheless contemplate that to be one in every of the most effective online game motion pictures of all time. And, if Mortal Kombat II can do 5 issues for me, then I might need to replace that record. So, listed here are these 5 issues!
If Cole Will get Killed Off In The First Few Minutes, I am Gonna Scream
Look, I’ve nothing in opposition to Cole Younger. In reality, now that I’ve come round on the 2021 movie, I truly type of like his character. He is scrappy and in contrast to some other character from the collection.
Even so, dude must go ASAP for the sequel. With Johnny Cage trying to be the star of Mortal Kombat II, all indicators level to Cole both having a a lot smaller function or, catching a FATALITY. Personally, I am hoping for the latter.
Longtime MK followers know that this very situation occurred to Johnny Cage within the so-bad-it’s-good sequel, Mortal Kombat Annihilation. In simply the primary couple of minutes, Cage is killed off by Shao Khan, and he by no means comes again.
I might scream my head off if there is a callback to that in MKII, the place Cole is killed in the identical method. Actually, that is one in every of my largest requests. If they simply give me this, I am fairly certain the film could be an automated 8 out of 10 for me, as a result of how nice would that be? It will be excellent, that is what it might be.
I Want Liu Kang, Raiden, And Sonya Blade To Play A Greater Position In This Film
One among my largest complaints with the 2021 film is that Liu Kang, Sonya Blade, and Lord Raiden had been barely in it. I imply, they had been, however they did not actually play a lot of a job.
This felt like a missed alternative since they’re the cornerstones of MK, proper alongside Scorpion and Sub-Zero, who performed a a lot greater function within the 2021 movie. Even so, the film simply felt off, and Kano just about stole the present. It felt bizarre, is what I am getting at.
Fortunately, with the story centering round Johnny Cage this time, I’ve excessive hopes that the outdated gang might be rather more prominently used, as a result of they NEED for use for this to actually really feel like Mortal Kombat to me.
Although I like Johnny (he is one in every of my favourite characters!), I do not need this film to only be centered on him in the identical manner that the latest movie was centered on Cole. No, I need Liu, Sonya, and Raiden to even have fascinating arcs, simply as they did within the ‘95 movie. Is that an excessive amount of to ask?
Goro Felt Wasted In The Final Movie. Carry On Kintaro!
Is Mortal Kombat II the most effective MK sport ever? Nicely, there’s positively a case to be made. Personally, I might go along with MK X, however I’ve heard folks from the Preventing Sport Group (FGC) say that MK2 is the sport’s peak.
Cool. I can dig it. That stated, one side that I at all times felt was type of lame in regards to the second sport was the sub-boss, Kintaro, who actually simply felt like a much less fascinating model of Goro. One other member of the four-armed Shokan race, Kintaro was the character you confronted proper earlier than the ultimate boss, Shao Khan, and he was nowhere close to as cool as Goro.
Be that as it might, I nonetheless wish to see him within the MK II film, as a result of Goro was completely WASTED within the first flick. I imply, simply consider the 1995 film, and the way superior (and intimidating!) he was.
Truthfully, in case you ask most followers of the primary film what was their favourite half, they’ll seemingly both say the Johnny/Scorpion combat within the woods, or, the Johnny vs. Goro battle. So, I need one thing just like that with Kintaro. Certain, I type of contemplate him to be like Temu Goro (I’m sorry, however it’s true), however I need him within the movie, simply so we will get a PROPER Goro combat this time round.
I Need To See Phases From The Mortal Kombat II Sport, With Secrets and techniques Galore!
Are you aware what number of occasions I’ve watched the Mortal Kombat II trailer? Lots, and one factor I’ll say is that it appears to be like like a few of the phases from the second sport one way or the other snuck their manner into the film.
For instance, there’s a scene within the trailer with a portal that appears just like the stage with the floating monks within the sport. There’s additionally a shot of a forest, and that may very properly be the residing forest from the sport, which is one in every of my favourite phases ever.
Significantly, give me all of the fan service, and all of the phases! I bear in mind the primary time I went to the arcade and noticed that stunning MK2 cupboard. The very first thing that struck me had been the phases, just like the double pit (with the man actually on hearth within the background, who we would later be taught is Blaze), the bridge over the acid pool, and my favourite stage, the one with Sonya and Kano tied up whereas Shao Khan watches you combat.
Give me all of that, and likewise secret characters. (I imply, we already see Jade and Noob Saibot within the trailer, so now we simply want Smoke and Ermac!) Plus, bonus factors in the event that they embrace Dan Forden popping in on the backside of the display screen and singing, “Toasty!” when any individual delivers an uppercut. Oh, man. My coronary heart would explode if that occurred!
No MK Film Has Surpassed The First One From 1995, And I Need This Film To Blow It Away
Some time in the past, I wrote about how I might reasonably watch the 1995 Mortal Kombat film over the latest movie, and I stand behind that remark. The factor is, the primary film is not even that good (I imply, in terms of the primary Road Fighter film, and MK, I might say that they are about neck and neck).
Now, do not get offended. I LIKE the unique, however largely as a result of I appreciated it as a child, and it was comparatively trustworthy to the video games on the time. In different phrases, it is a online game film in a time when online game motion pictures had been traditionally horrible.
My remaining want, then, to make this the “excellent” MK film is for it to only be higher than the primary flick. That is actually it. All the issues I listed above might push this sequel over the end line, however that is what I actually need – A Mortal Kombat film that’s higher than the one from 1995.
What do you assume? May this sequel be the one? I might love to listen to your ideas.