The character designs are far more polarizing, characterized by heavily angular faces with chins that often look just as sharp as some of the weapons they wield. The backgrounds are gorgeous and do a great job of replicating the looks of locations from the games, like the Lin Kuei Temple from MKX and Kahn’s Arena from MK2. Visually, Battle of the Realms is also a bit hit and miss. There are some gnarly moments of over-the-top violence that any Mortal Kombat fan is sure to appreciate, and Joel McHale as Johnny Cage continues to be a perfect voice casting choice for the obnoxious Hollywood star that’s in way over his head. Kung Lao, who is supposed to be like a brother to Liu Kang, barely exchanges a single line of dialogue with him Stryker just shows up without any explanation of how or why a normal-ass police officer found himself in a battle against supernatural monsters, and Kitana says she doesn’t have a choice but to follow Shao Kahn, but we never get to see that toxic father-daughter dynamic that leads her to want to side with the forces of Earthrealm.Īs a result, all of the character moments fall on their face, resulting in a movie that is basically just all about the action and the fanservice, and at least in that regard, it delivers. It feels like there could have been four Mortal Kombat Legends movies that each focused on a single subplot, but instead, they were all mashed together into a single movie, and as a result, every character feels flat. Then while that’s going on there’s also other completely disconnected subplots involving the Lin Kuei and the cyber initiative Kuai Liang and his desire for vengeance against Scorpion for the murder of his brother Shinnok’s scheming in netherrealm to retrieve the kamidogu, and it’s all just a lot, especially for a movie with a less than 90-minute run-time. But that invasion doesn’t last for very long because eventually, Shao Kahn proposes, you guessed it, another Mortal Kombat tournament. Battle of the Realms picks up where Scorpion’s Revenge left off: with an Outworld invasion of Earthrealm led by a very angry Shao Kahn who’s a very sore loser after Shang Tsung’s failure in the Mortal Kombat tournament.
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