Excellent adaptation.

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Grew up with this movie. Still as good now as it was back then.

The success of the 'Super Mario Bros' movie in 1993 provided many an idea for movie makers in the '90's. It wasn't an immediate success though. The 'Street Fighter' movie made in 1994 proved a box office flop. It was therefore brave that Ed Boon and John Tobias' much loved video game franchise 'Mortal Kombat' should be brought to the cinema screen. The film, written by Kevin Droney, was conceived in August 1995, four months after the third game in the series got underway. The cinematic film came after a straight to video animated film entitled 'Mortal Kombat - The Journey Begins' was released ( which was made to fit around the movie ) and met with mixed reviews, some felt it was completely unfaithful to its game predecessor and criticised it for not giving enough of the characters much exposure whilst others felt it was a welcome venture. I still have mixed feelings about it. On one hand I find it worthwhile, gripping and sometimes even humorous whereas on the other I find it sometimes disjointed, confusing and even lazy.The film more or less follows that same pattern as the game. The Earthrealm fighting tournament known as 'Mortal Kombat' is about to embark on its tenth and final battle against Outworld. Having lost the previous nine battles, the tournament looks destined to perish forever it is does not win the final tournament. Sorceror Shang Tsung ( Cary-Hiryuki Tagawa ) and his ghastly four armed body guard Goro ( Tom Woodruff. Jr ) both endeavour to win the tournament. and rule Outworld. Meanwhile, a group of Earthrealm warriors are competing for reasons of their own - Liu Kang ( Robin Shou ) enters to avenge the death of his brother Chan ( who died at the hands of Shang Tsung ), Special Forces agent Sonya Blade ( the beautiful Bridgette Wilson, in a role that was originally written for the equally beautiful Cameron Diaz ) hopes to get revenge against not only Tsung but one of his henchmen, the cold blooded Kano ( Trevor Goddard ), film star Johnny Cage ( Linden Ashby ) is entering to prove that he is a bona fide martial artist and not the fake that the media have made him out to be. All are guided by Rayden - God Of Thunder ( Christopher Lambert ).Also allying with the Earth warriors is 10,000 year old Princess Kitana, who is the daughter of Shao Kahn, the despicable ruler of Outworld.The cast certainly do a good job in bringing the characters to life, particularly Bridgette Wilson ( who I fondly remember as Veronica Vaughn in the hilarious Adam Sandler film 'Billy Madison' ) as Sonya and the husky voiced Christoper Lambert as Rayden. Talisa Soto is also wonderful ( as well as sexy ) as Kitana. One of the biggest downsides, as I encountered earlier, is the lack of screen time for some of the most popular characters such as ninjas Sub Zero, Scorpion and Reptile. One of the most notable things about the film is its soundtrack, particularly the opening theme by The Immortals which has become a global hit in its own right.A second cinematic release came in 1997 entitled 'Mortal Kombat - Annihilation' which fared disastrously at the box office, meaning there would be little chance of a third release, which is tragic considering it was a far better film than the first in about every respect.

As a Video game adaption film this movie is by far the best Video game adaption film of all time,Mortal kombat tried to fit everything from the 1st video game & a little from the 2nd into the film & it did it very nicely,the fight scene's are straight to the point not much dialog & that's the way it should be. As Far as this film goes it is the best video game adaption film i've ever seen the work that went into making it & the great cast was solid.As for the what came after it the sequel was terrible

Granted with the success of the arcade game that spans over multiple platforms and is readily available in many versions, that the transition to the big screen would eventually spawn an adaptation of the "Mortal Kombat" franchise. And the world was introduced to that back in 1995.Now, I have seen "Mortal Kombat" about three or four times since then, and I can't really claim that it improves with each viewing. In fact, the movie clings on to the mediocre end result that turned out to be this 1995 movie.The storyline in "Mortal Kombat" was as weak as Budweiser Light, so don't expect anything much of a kick here, pardon the pun. But then again, what could you expect from a movie that is based on a game that is solely fighting and nothing else? It felt like they were trying to jam backstories into the movie from way too many characters, but failed at each and every one of them, and with no real solid storyline, it was just hard to center the storytelling on something concrete. And what was even more bizarre was that there was little concern about killing off established characters from the game left and right.The costumes and wardrobe definitely could have used a bigger budget. While the outfits do look much like they did back in the mid-1990's, there was just something too plain and low budget about them. There were not much details and such."Mortal Kombat" actually had decent enough acting for what it turned out to be, especially since the actors and actresses had very, very little to work with in terms of script and storyline. Of course, this is not Shakespearian performances in any way, and you pretty much know what you are in for with a movie of this caliber.Robin Shou, Linden Ashby and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa carried the movie well enough, given the fact that they had very little to work with. But why they opted for Christopher Lambert to portray Rayden was just beyond me, especially since he semi-whispers all of his dialogue.As for the dialogue in "Mortal Kombat", well, let's just say that it was as corny and flawed as you would expect from a movie based on a weak storyline and one-dimensional characters. One might actually go as far as saying, in that classic voice used in the game, this: "flawed dialogue".The special effects in "Mortal Kombat" was not impressive either. And it was a rather bitter pill to swallow to witness that ropy grabber that came out of Scorpions hand as it flew about. It looked so fake that it didn't even do the arcade game any justice. As for Goro, well, he was well-enough intended, but the animation and CGI just was too synthetic.All in all, "Mortal Kombat" is a generic movie adaptation of a good enough fighting game. But there was very little of a storyline here, and the movie constitutes little more than just being an hour and a half of fighting.