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 Ok, I have seen both movies and was an ok Mortal Kombat fan. This movie was horrible. While the first movie had character development and storyline, this had none. The first movie stuck to the theme of the game, and even if you had never played the game at all, you could have understood it. Not in MKA. This movie throws out all story, and simply makes it one fight after another after another. There is not a single explanation about any new character's story. To someone who hasn't played all of the games, like me, the characters were pointless. No one had any point or any depth, and there wasn't any real reason to fear the bad guys. They simply were cut out bad guys who ran off nothing. Watch the first movie, and stay away from this one unless all you care about is endless, pointless fighting.
The movie is great. But there are a few problems. In Mk1, the actors looked a little more like they did in the games.(Like Raiden and Sonya.) Liu Kang was good in the movie, except he did not do any of his signature moves. Every other character did at least one of their moves from the game (Jax with the ground pound, Sonya with the hand stand, Raiden with the shooting into the person... etc.) Why did Johnny Cage have to die so soon? He was funny!!! The fighting scenes were a little bit too long, and I was kind of upset when Sub Zero left and was not seen for the rest of the movie. Even though the movie had these problems, it was a great movie,...
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There were far too many characters in this second movie as well as a half brained soundtrack. Rather than the first movie being about good vs. evil this is more like a Mad Max type movie where Kang, Blade, Jax, Rayden and the new Sub are set to roam the outworld. Fighting whomever comes. Lots of people come too because this movie covers MK2 and MK3, causing there to be 30 second fights. Then the last fight of the movie is a three on three battle which causes you to start getting into one fight and then they cut to another pair of people fighting, it is like watching a high budget Power Rangers.
This movie could have really gone somewhere, instead they threw out the storyline along with the plot. The first movie was WAY better than the sequel. If only they had focused on the plot instead of getting everyone in it.....
... In this one, there was pleanty of action. The fighting scenes look a lot better and more realistic than the first movie, and Liu Kang's Animality was a good feature. The plot of the movie is basically that Shao Kahan decided to break the rules of the tournament and have it again even though it was not allowed for another generation. He is going to merge the Out World with the real World, and that will kill all of the humans and animals on Earth.
