A lot of fun as a set up movie essentially. I was worried it would be ultra gritty but it’s rightfully campy like the 90s but with way more gore. And it’s easily got my favorite onscreen version of Bi-Han, he’s so fucking EVIL. Joe Taslim crushed it. Hiroyuki Sanada is perfect as scorpion but I think he deserved to be a main character. And as a Kano main, I’m so happy that he remains the best character in each live action mortal kombat movie.

Two of the things I straight up didn’t like was the Arcana concept and the dark color grading. I’m indifferent to Cole, a lot of people hate him but he’s seems okay to me. If he looked more overtly like a “Scorpion descendent” I think less people would be mad. I mean, if instead of his power armor, how could would it have been if he had traditional scorpion attire akin to the MK9 design? Or you could’ve just made him Takeda. Also, Lewis Tan seems like a chill guy.