Mortal Kombat (2021)

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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

They did create kind of an unnecessary layer. Liu Kang traveling around the world getting the band together would have been just as fine. You could still have Shang Tsung trying to undermine his search and Rayden coming in with the save at times to hit basically the same plot points and all.

I mean they could've had practically the exact same story as this one even simply by stating that Cole was actually Scorpion reincarnated or something like that. It still would've been weird, but if they were set on the script it could've been almost identical to what they filmed.

But instead they created a Non-white lead with.... I dunno.... lmao....tin armor powers. And, I'm not kidding, for a second at the very end I thought he was going to say that he was going to Hollywood to be an actor under the pseudonym "Johnny Cage" or something, but then they scrolled to the poster with the nonsense reveal. Hopefully they will wipe Cole out in the beginning of the sequel similarly to how they wiped Cage out in the beginning of the original MKII movie and then we can get on without the nonsense add-ons.

Again, I thought it was a fun movie and it got me excited about Mortal Kombat again probably for the first time since MK4 dropped in arcades. But I point these things out because it's too obvious to not address, you know?