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this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2025
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Because it's easy to write the script (you can just make stuff up) and they have a lot of fans. Honestly, I do like the 1990s Mortal Kombat movie, and I think the Street Fighter 1990s movie is pretty funny (The first anime movie is good).
1990s Mortal Kombat is GOAT. I think one of the reasons it works as a fighting game movie is that a martial arts tournament is the primary plot point. Other fighting game movies, including later MK films, try to expand the plot beyond martial arts competitions. We get really quick character backstories in '90s MK, like Cage's action film scene, that are short and straight to the point, not lingering on exposition dumps or training montages.
The Mortal Kombat movie worked because it was just Enter the Dragon with supernatural elements and 80s-90s one-liners like "Those were $500 sunglasses, asshole."
The soundtrack was also really good. Funny enough the movie would ended up influencing the games and a lot of the movie lore would be reused for the games. I think a sequel movie with the Tournament in the Outworld and with Shao Kahn as the main villain would have been simple and good, instead we got whatever the fuck Mortal Kombat Annihilation was.