Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997)

A group of martial arts warriors have only six days to save the Earth from an extra-dimensional invasion. Mortal Kombat: Annihilation is not just worse than it's predecessor but it's also worse in everything, from the terrible green screen to the terrible acting to the over the top jumping and fight scenes with some of the worst choreographies that i have ever witnessed and to be honest now i can see why everyone hates this film cause this is one of the absolute worst videogame movies ever released or made. (0/10)

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation could have easily made the franchise into a successful trilogy of movies, but as the tagline implies, this movie destroyed all expectations.Everything that worked in the first movie is absent here. The majority of returning characters are portrayed by new actors (with the exceptions of Robin Shou as Liu Kang, and Talisa Soto as Kitana). It also doesn't help that the acting this time around is terrible as everyone's performances range from stale (James Remar as Rayden) to over the top (Brian Thompson as Shao Kahn).The script is riddled with plot holes, and comes off as nonsensical. The movie also follows a simple pattern; fighting, running, talking, and it goes on throughout the entire run time of the movie.There is a lack of character development as the movie attempts to cram in as many characters from the more popular games in the Mortal Kombat franchise (mainly Mortal Kombat II and MK3), and the majority of them have limited screen-time as they either get killed off, or disappear after their 1 scene.Of course, we have to take a look at the action, but the fight scenes are pretty lackluster this time around. We had some impressive stuff choreography-wise in the first movie, but all of the fight scenes here feel rushed.There's an overabundance of special effects in the movie, and yet, every single one of them look terrible, even for 1997. Supposedly, this movie had a bigger budget than the first movie, and yet, it looks nowhere near as impressive. Production and cinematography- wise, the whole movie looks and feels like a cheap straight-to-video sequel rushed out to capitalize on the success of the first movie.Mortal Kombat: Annihilation suffers the same problems as the majority of the other movies based on video games, it didn't feel like they tried to make a proper movie based on the game, but instead a product that tries shoehorning references to said game in a way that feels gimmicky, but as far as the genre goes, this stands as the worst film of the genre for being a colossal disappointment following its entertaining and well made predecessor, and a prime example of shoddy filmmaking (so much that it almost rivals anything directed by Uwe Boll). Do yourself a favor, stick to the first movie and the video games, avoid this stinker.

This sequel to the first Mortal Kombat is pretty good, but I did not like it that Johnny Cage had to die at the beginning. He's one of the very important characters in the Mortal Kombat franchise. Now this sequel includes more characters from the franchise and it also includes the return of Sub-Zero and Scorpion. Of course they did appear only for a couple of minutes but still it was worth seeing them in this. In this movie Liu Kang has to fight Shao Khan Raiden's brother in order to save the world and all other realms. With the help of Sonya, Jax, Katana and Raiden they defeat Shao Khan and the world is saved. As for Raiden he becomes one of the Elder Gods. Now there are people on here who don't like this as much as the first one but I say its a pretty fair sequel and still worth watching.

Spoiler Alert!!! This sequel did everything wrong from killing off Johnny Cage, replacing actors with worse actors, Not casting Michael Jai White as Jax, Having Nightwolf in only a couple scenes, Make Sheeva get squashed without a fight, have Cyrax get killed, Bring Scorpion back with no explanation, have some of the dumbest lines in movie history "Too bad, you, will die!", Also have Raiden get killed only to bring him back yet he was never suppose to compete in the tournament from the beginning. Whoever wrote this film pretty much had no idea how the story goes from here. Just please if you are a true film of Mortal Kombat games don't watch this horrible piece of crap. The only good thing from this film is having the guy who plays the Indian in Indian and the Cupboard play the role of Night wolf because he's the only good actor except for Keith Cooke in the entire film! Overall it's a -10 out of 10.