Liu Kang: You both made it. Good. I fear it's only gonna get harder from here.
Johnny Cage: Whoa. Wait. What's gonna get harder? I just fought a walking pair of teeth on the side of a mountain. I'm not Tom Cruise, you know. I act. I leave that stunt shit to the stunt people.
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge (2020)
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Directed by: Ethan Spaulding
Starring: Steve Blum, Joel McHale, Jennifer Carpenter, Ike Amadi
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"Scorpion's Revenge" is a feature-length animated feature set in the "Mortal Kombat" universe. And it is quite a bit of good, bloody fun, even if its short runtime causes some major issues.
The film follows the basic plot of the original game, with a great emphasis on Scorpion's storyline. After his clan is massacred and he is killed by the treacherous ninja Sub-Zero, Hanzo Hasashi - now calling himself "Scorpion" - is brought back to life to seek revenge during an upcoming tournament known as "Mortal Kombat." At the same time, a group of Earth's mightiest warriors - Liu Kang, Sony Blade and Johnny Case - gather to defend the world in the tournament. For if they should lose, the dreaded Shang Tsung and his leader Shao Kahn of Outworld will invade the Earth!
For the most part, "Scorpion's Revenge" is very well done. The animation is just fantastic all around. It's brutal and visceral and kinetic... it's exactly what you'd want to see in an animated "Mortal Kombat" feature. I also really enjoyed the bulk of the cast. Especially the always reliable Patrick Seitz as the titular Scorpion, and a perfectly cast Joel McHale as Johnny Cage. Everyone really fits their parts well. And the movie is just plain fun, especially if you grew up playing the original games as I did.
Unfortunately where the movie does falter is the runtime. At a brisk 80 minutes, a lot of the story feels quite rushed, and characters aren't developed as much as you might like. Several major sequences also feel really abbreviated. And it really does the film a disservice if I'm to be honest. This is a movie that easily could use an extra 15... maybe even 30 minutes to tell its story. But as it is... it's a major issue.
But still, that one fairly big complaint aside... "Scorpion's Revenge" is so much fun, I can (mostly) forgive it. Because when it works, it really works. It's fun, ferocious and highly entertaining. And I'm giving it a very solid 3.5 out of 5. (Rounding up to 4 for MovieMistakes).
Trivia: Despite the video-game series being quite bloody and gory, this is actually the first "Mortal Kombat" movie to receive an R-rating.
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