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Mortal Kombat
Theatrical release poster
Directed bySimon McQuoid
Screenplay by
Story by
  • Oren Uziel
  • Greg Russo
Based on
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyGermain McMicking
Edited by
  • Dan Lebental
  • Scott Gray
Music byBenjamin Wallfisch
Production
companies
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release dates
  • April 8, 2021 (2021-04-08) (international)
  • April 23, 2021 (2021-04-23) (United States)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget~$95 million[1]
Box office$19.4 million[2][3]

Mortal Kombat is a 2021 American martial arts fantasy film directed by Simon McQuoid, in his feature directorial debut, from a screenplay by Greg Russo and Dave Callaham and a story by Oren Uziel and Russo.[4] It is based on the video game franchise of the same name created by Ed Boon and John Tobias, serving as a reboot to the Mortal Kombat film series. The film stars Lewis Tan, Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Tadanobu Asano, Mehcad Brooks, Ludi Lin, Chin Han, Joe Taslim, and Hiroyuki Sanada.

Following the critical and commercial failure of the 1997 film Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, a third Mortal Kombat film languished in development hell for a period of nearly two decades. In late 2010, Warner Bros. Pictures (whose parent company acquired the franchise from Midway Games in 2009) began developing a new film, with Kevin Tancharoen serving as director from a script written by Uziel in the wake of their Mortal Kombat: Rebirth short film. James Wan was announced as a producer in August 2015 and McQuoid was hired as director in November 2016. Production took place at Adelaide Studios in Adelaide and at other locations in South Australia. Principal photography occurred from September to December 2019.

Mortal Kombat was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema internationally on April 8, 2021, and is scheduled to be released in the United States on April 23, simultaneously in theaters in 3D and on the HBO Max streaming service.

Plot

In 17th Century Japan, the Lin Kuei assassins, led by Bi-Han, attack the village of Hanzo Hasashi and members of the rival Shirai Ryu ninja clan, killing Hanzo's wife and son as well, though their infant daughter is safely hidden. Hanzo himself kills all the attackers before falling to Bi-Han. As Hanzo's spirit is taken to the Netherrealm, Lord Raiden appears and takes his infant daughter away to safety.

In the present day, the realm of Outworld is at the brink of victory against Earthrealm, having won nine out of ten deathmatch tournaments known as "Mortal Kombat" that would allow the winning realm to invade, conquer and even merge the defeated realm. However, an ancient prophecy is also uncovered, stating that the 'blood of Hanzo Hasashi' would unite a new generation of Earthrealm's champions to prevent Outworld's victory. Aware of the prophecy, Outworld's soul-eating sorcerer Shang Tsung employs warriors to hunt and kill all Earthrealm champions, identified by a distinctive dragon mark, before the next tournament begins. One of the targets is Cole Young, a former MMA champion whom regularly experiences hellish visions of Hanzo. When Cole and his family are attacked by Bi-Han, now known as Sub-Zero and one of Outworld's champions, Special Forces' Major Jackson "Jax" Briggs rescues them, explaining to Cole the meaning of the dragon mark. Jax directs Cole to get himself and his family to safety, and to seek out Jax's partner, Sonya Blade, while staying behind to fight off Sub-Zero, who easily defeats Jax by freezing and shattering both his arms.

Cole tracks Sonya to her hideout where she is holding and interrogating a captive Kano, a mercenary of the Black Dragon organization. Sonya reveals that she and Jax have been investigating the existence of Mortal Kombat after an encounter with someone possessing superhuman abilities. He also learns more about the dragon mark, which can be transferred to anyone who kills the original bearer, which has occurred with both Jax and Kano. The hideout is attacked by Reptile, an assassin of Shang Tsung's, but Cole, Sonya, and a reluctant Kano manage to fight him off with Kano killing Reptile. They then travel to Raiden's temple, meeting Liu Kang and Kung Lao, another two of Earthrealm's champions, and brought before Raiden himself, who is critical of the newcomers due to their individual flaws. Jax is reunited with Sonya, having been rescued by Raiden and refitted with a set of skeletal mechanical arms. Shang Tsung attacks the temple alongside Sub-Zero and Mileena, but Raiden erects a shield to stave them off.

While Sonya trains and encourages Jax to fight regardless of his new condition, Cole and Kano start training with Liu Kang and Kung Lao to unlock their "arcana", a special inner power unique to all dragon mark bearers such as Liu Kang's pyrokinesis and Kung Lao's magical blade-rimmed hat. During a heated argument with Kung Lao, Kano unexpectedly awakens his arcana, the ability to fire a laser beam from his cybernetic right eye, while Cole is unable to awaken his despite his persistence. Disappointed with his lack of progress, Raiden allows Cole to return to his family, revealing that he is a descendant of Hasashi through his infant daughter.

Shang Tsung gathers Sub-Zero and Mileena, along with Reiko, Nitara, Goro and Kabal, a former rival of Kano, for a renewed assault on the Temple. Learning that Kano is among Raiden's champions, Kabal convinces him to defect and bring down the shield, allowing the Outworlders to attack. Liu Kang barely fends off Kabal, who possesses supernatural speed, while Kung Lao easily kills Nitara. Jax and Sonya, however, are overpowered by Reiko, Kano and Mileena. Simultaneously, Cole and his family are attacked by Goro, but Cole finally awakens his arcana, which forms a suit of armor around his body and a set of tonfas, and kills Goro before returning to the temple to help repel the attack just as Jax's arcana awakens in the form of turning his prosthetic arms into weapons that grants him superhuman strength. Both Shang Tsung and Sub-Zero are infuriated when Raiden discloses Cole's bloodline, meaning the prophecy was fulfilled, before he teleports most of the Earthrealm fighters to safety in the Void, a safe space between realms. Kung Lao, however, sacrifices himself defending Cole from Sub-Zero and has his soul taken by Shang Tsung.

After mourning Kung Lao's death, Cole proposes a plan to force Outworld's champions into one-on-one battles with Earthrealm's champions before neutralizing Sub-Zero together, thereby forcing the tournament Shang Tsung tried to prevent. Agreeing with the plan, Raiden gives Cole the same bloodstained kunai that belonged to Hanzo and transports Cole and his allies to their targets. Liu Kang and Jax slays Kabal and Reiko, while Sonya kills Kano and acquired her dragon mark and arcana, the ability to fire energy blasts from her hands, which she uses to help Cole kill Mileena. Sub-Zero then appears and reveals that he has abducted and frozen Cole's family alive planning to finally finish the Hasashi bloodline, luring him into a one-on-one battle at a gym where Cole did his cage fighting. Initially overpowered by Sub-Zero, just before Sub-Zero can kill him, Cole manages to get his own blood on Hanzo's kunai, releasing Hanzo from the Netherrealm as the vengeful spectre Scorpion. Recognizing Cole as his descendant, Scorpion helps him overpower Sub-Zero and free Cole's family, with Scorpion burning a heavily wounded Sub-Zero to death with hellfire.

Thanking Cole for freeing him and requesting that he look after the Hasashi bloodline, Scorpion departs as Raiden and the other champions arrive. Shang Tsung also arrives, vowing revenge as he sends the bodies of his dead champions back to Outworld before Raiden banishes him. Raiden then declares he is beginning a new list of warriors in preparation for the next tournament, and assigns his champions to look for them. With this information, Cole departs for Los Angeles in search of Hollywood superstar Johnny Cage.

Cast

Production

Development

James Wan, Todd Garner (on the photo above), E. Bennett Walsh, and director Simon McQuoid serve as producers for the reboot.

In 1997, Robin Shou's original Mortal Kombat contract was a three-picture deal,[12] and Threshold Entertainment's production on a second sequel was initially scheduled to commence shortly after the release of Annihilation, but it was shelved due to Annihilation's poor reception and disappointing box-office performance. Attempts to produce a third film since then have remained stuck in development hell with numerous script rewrites and storyline, cast, and crew changes. A November 2001 poll on the official Mortal Kombat website hosted by Threshold asked fans which characters they believed would die in the third movie.[13] The 2005 destruction of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina greatly affected one of the film's planned shooting locations.[14] In June 2009, a bankruptcy court lawsuit saw Lawrence Kasanoff suing Midway Games while mentioning that a third film was in the works. Warner Bros. Pictures (which became the parent of New Line Cinema in 2008, after over a decade of both operating as separate divisions of Time Warner) ended up purchasing most of Midway's assets, including Mortal Kombat.[15]

In 2010, director Kevin Tancharoen released an eight-minute short film titled Mortal Kombat: Rebirth,[16] made as a pitch to Warner Bros. Pictures of a reboot of the Mortal Kombat film franchise.[17] In September 2011, New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. announced that Tancharoen was hired to direct a new feature-length film from a screenplay by Mortal Kombat: Rebirth writer Oren Uziel,[18] with the intention of aiming for an R rating.[19] Shooting was expected to begin in March 2012 with a budget projected at between $40–50 million[20] and a release date of 2013.[21][22] However, the project was ultimately delayed due to budget constraints, and Tancharoen began working on the second season of the web series Mortal Kombat: Legacy until problems with the film had been sorted out, but he quit the film production in October 2013.[23]

James Wan signed on as the film's producer in August 2015.[24] Simon McQuoid was hired as director in November 2016, marking his feature directorial debut, with Greg Russo writing the script.[25][26] Russo tweeted in February 2019 that the film's script was complete.[26] In May 2019, it was announced that the film had entered pre-production and would be shot in South Australia,[27] with a release date of March 5, 2021.[28] Russo tweeted in July 2019 that the film would indeed have an R rating and that the games' Fatalities would "finally be on the big screen".[29]

In April 2021, McQuoid revealed that the film came "quite close to the line" of getting an NC-17 rating by the Motion Picture Association, saying in full, "What we had to be a bit careful of was... you can get to NC-17 territory pretty quick. It's different in a video game when it's not real human beings. When you move this across to reality, a different set of things start to happen in your mind, and you get rated slightly differently. So there were certain things that are in the game that would mean the film would be unreleasable. And none of us wanted that. … So we were balancing that stuff all the time. And there's some stuff that you will see that really gets quite close to the line because we didn't want people to go, 'Meh. Seemed kind of lame.'"[30]

Casting

Joe Taslim was the first actor cast for the production in July 2019, as Bi-Han, the first Sub-Zero.[31][32] In August, Mehcad Brooks, Tadanobu Asano, Sisi Stringer, and Ludi Lin were cast in the roles of Jax, Raiden, Mileena, and Liu Kang respectively.[33] Later that month, Josh Lawson, Jessica McNamee, Chin Han and Hiroyuki Sanada were cast as Kano, Sonya Blade, Shang Tsung and Scorpion respectively, with Lewis Tan in the role of Cole Young, an original character created for the film.[34][35] On September 16, 2019, it was announced that Max Huang had been cast as Kung Lao.[7] Stuntwoman Elissa Cadwell was announced as having been cast as Nitara on November 11, 2019.[8] However, in the film she is actually played by Mel Jarnson. Matilda Kimber was cast as Emily on December 4, 2019.[36]

Filming

Production took place at Adelaide Studios and other locations in South Australia,[37] lasting from September 16 to December 13, 2019.[38] In November 2020, Todd Garner stated that "we have more days to shoot" in a statement regarding the film's release delay.[39] The film was shot on the ARRI ALEXA LF and Mini LF cameras with Panavision Anamorphic lenses.[40]

Music

The score for Mortal Kombat was composed by Benjamin Wallfisch.[41] In March 2021, director Simon McQuoid revealed that Wallfisch actually began compositions for the film before he was officially hired on the project and that the film will include a new version of the track "Techno Syndrome" by The Immortals[42] produced by Wallfisch.

Release

Theatrical and streaming

Mortal Kombat was theatrically released internationally, beginning on April 8, 2021,[43] and will later be released in the United States on April 23, 2021, in both theaters and on HBO Max.[44] The film was originally going to be released on March 5, 2021 before being moved up to January 15, 2021.[45] In November 2020, producer Todd Garner confirmed that the film would be delayed until theaters are reopened due to the COVID-19 pandemic,[39] before it was finally dated for release on April 16.[46] As part of its plans for all of its 2021 films, Warner Bros. will also stream the film simultaneously on the HBO Max service for a period of one month, after which the film will be removed until the normal home media release schedule period.[47] In late March 2021, the film was delayed one week from April 16 to April 23.[44][48]

The film is scheduled for release in Japan on June 18, 2021, despite not having any Mortal Kombat games released officially in the country due to rules concerning excessive gore.[49]

Marketing

On January 15, 2021, which was when the film was initially set to release prior to being delayed due the COVID-19 pandemic, Entertainment Weekly released a first look of the film, which contained several behind the scenes photos.[50] On February 17, 2021, a series of character posters were released for the film, along with the next announcement that the film's first trailer would be released the following day.[51] On February 18, 2021, the first red band trailer for the film was released online. The trailer received critical acclaim from both fans and critics alike, with particular praise for the gory action sequences and the inclusion of the game's iconic fatalities. A scene featuring Scorpion saying his iconic catchphrase "Get over here!" was also seen as a highlight from the trailer.[52][53] The film's first trailer had become the most-watched red-band trailer until the release of the first trailer of The Suicide Squad a month later.[54][55]

Reception

Box office

In its opening international weekend, the film made $10.7 million from 17 countries, with the largest market being Russia ($6.1 million).[56] In its second weekend the film made $5.7 million from 28 countries.[1]

Critical response

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 68% based on 19 reviews, with an average rating of 5.70/10.[57]

James Marsh, of the South China Morning Post, gave a positive review, saying, "Director Simon McQuoid understands and honours the film's video game origins, including memorable lines of dialogue and signature fight moves throughout".[58]

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