Okay…let me get this straight. Mortal Kombat was one of the productions that made me childhood happier. I don’t know the exact number of times that I’ve seen this movie – but for me, it will be one of the best action movies ever. So, this will be my perception on this movie.
Mortal Kombat is the story of a group of people that were chosen in order to represent the earth realm at a tournament. The great Shao Khan will get his hands on this planet if the earthlings lose.
So, we have Liu Kang – an martial artist, Johnny Cage – a movie star and Sonya Blade – a police officer. These three are the only hope that earth has left.
Probably you’ve seen this movie [it's impossible for you not seeing it- even if you live in a cave]. So, what’s so good about it?
- first of all, being a film inspired by a game it is a big deal. Mortal Kombat games were very appreciated when they first came out. From the old Nes games to today’s PS3 and Xbox editions – Mortal Kombat games are great and it’s a pleasure to deal with them.
- speaking of film-making techniques, this movie shows the usual stuff – no incredible visual effects or camera tricks. But I loved this example of really cool effect called the dolly zoom. I think I saw this twice in the movie. The dolly zoom consists in zooming in while the camera moves away from the subjects. It’ s incredible how this thing works. Your perception of that scene seems to be a bit unclear but in fact there’s no change in the quality of the image. If the camera is centered on a character the surroundings become plasma-like, they aquafy a little bit.
In romanian this is called trans-traveling. It’s all about the background which becomes unreal, fictional. So, this technique was welcomed in such kind of movie as this one. I will post some other material describing this technique – when the right time comes 
- the fighting parts. Everybody loves fights and battles. MK has a lot of them.
When speaking of a favourite character – in my case – it gets down to Scorpion.
Even when I choose to play some MK4 or Trilogy, this is the one I fight with.
Scorpion is one of the evil’s side fighters. I always thought that Sub-Zero was more innocent than this one. Scorpion really enjoys killing his enemies and as we can see in the first MK movie – he will try anything to win.
Another reason of me liking this movie are the costumes and the make-up. Preparing the image of the characters is as hard as any other part in the creation of a movie. That’s why you can get an Oscar for it.
Most of the people like to criticize movies that are inspired by videogames. For example the discussions that occurred because of Uwe Boll’s creations. As you might know, his work, his movies are inspired by some popular videogames. They aren’t the best movies ever – but they don’t really suck. I enjoyed House of the dead and Postal. But in order to gain experience and become a good entertainer – you have to start small and if you get a chance to develop an idea already existing into something that you would want to watch.
Okay, let’s get back to this movie. MK won the prize for the Best Music in a motion picture. C’mon, don’t tell me you didn’t do crazy stuff by listening MK theme?? I remember that like 5 or 6 years ago I nearly broke my leg trying to fight an imaginary opponent while listening that song.
MK brings out good memories – that’s why I love the film.
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