This one came out on Friday. I just got back from vacation, so I haven't checked it out yet. I'll probably go today. It's a sequel to the decent 2021 movie, which I rated about a 6.0/10 or so.

I was skeptical about Karl Urban as Johnny Cage. He seems more Kano than Johnny Cage. But right now, the movie has a decent 65% on RT after 144 reviews ( a pretty good score for a Mortal Kombat flick, particularly compared to the critically panned movies in the 1990s)

Reviews say that the new movie goes all-out with the action/fight scenes, with a lot of gore. But the story lags a little: the events on-screen apparently don't carry enough emotional stakes.

Will watch - it's not like we are spoiled these days with great movies anyways.



Just made me think though – isn't it weird how many action roles go to actors 50-60 yrs old? Urban here – then we have Statham, Keanu Reeves, Tom Cruise. Mamoa is 46 now so young still I guess. Then there must have been some alpha action roles up in their age with Stallone, Arnold, the rock, Bruce Willis and so on.

Prolly will not watch. The 2020s ML movie was...okay, but nothing special.

Scott Adkins would have played a good Johnny Cage. More suite to role than Karl Urban IMO.

Adkins is an underrated action star. I recently watched "Diablo" as well as "One More Shot." He's good in both. He also held his own with Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren in the Universal Soldier movie. My guess is that Urban is simply the far bigger draw because of The Boys.

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I went to see Mortal Kombat 2 on 05/11/2026. I enjoyed the 2021 movie for what it was; I rated that one a respectable 6.0/10. Unfortunately, I think Part 2 is significantly worse. I’d go so far to say that this movie, at best, is only marginally better than the 1995 movie.

I'll start with the good though: The biggest upside is that the fight scenes are not too bad visually. The CGI and costumes look OK most of the time; the sound is great in the theater; and the kills are often cool. In isolation, these fight scenes might amaze you if you were to just watch them as 5–6-minute clips on YouTube on a bored weekday night.

Karl Urban as Johnny Cage is a highlight. Initially, I was worried about his casting because of his age, but it doesn’t become an issue. There are some scenes where Urban’s comedic delivery is great. His interactions with Baraka brought a little smile to my face. In addition, I like Adelaine Rudolph as Kitana. She’s pretty and convincing.

The movie fails badly because of the storytelling. The fights, as I said, might be cool. But midway through the movie or thereabouts, it started to feel like a rapid-fire delivery of one fight scene after another. It really felt as if the filmmakers began by filming numerous fight scenes. Then once they filmed about 10 fight scenes or so, they lazily said, “OK. Now let’s just jam all these fight scenes together and call it a movie”

This movie just needed some downtime between fights: the pacing and plot could’ve benefited so much from slower scenes where characters chit-chat, offer some backstories, or create build-up. I would’ve been ok with fewer fight scenes in lieu of some cool-down scenes.

The bare-bones story in this movie is often predictable. Multiple characters switch allegiances, and all of their heel/face turns could be foreseen from a mile away. The most notable is Kitana’s … I mean, really. Shao Kahn kills her father in the opening sequence, and she shows obvious signs of disobediance. Yet he never thinks to himself, “ya know. I should keep my eye on Kitana. She might turn on me.”

The dialogue feels as if it were written by a high-school student. I don’t like this movie’s handling of Cole, one of the bright spots in part 1. There’s a subplot involving Kitana’s friend Jade that wastes too much valuable time; the character Jade wasn’t needed at all.

Jax and Sonya Blade are basically just there. Sindel is wasted: there was so much room for more emotional depth with her and Kitana. Shao Kahn has no backstory at all. He’s just a big evil dude in another realm.

The movie loses a ton of stakes because of the resurrections. Several dead characters die gruesomely and climatically, but then a few scenes later, they pop right back up on-screen. Some characters who died satisfyingly in Part 1 come back unnecessarily in this movie. The character Kano especially should have stayed off this movie: he created an obvious redundancy with Johnny Cage because of their looks and personalities.  

As I said, I would put this movie just barely above the 1995 movie, if at all.

3.5/10.

Yeah bro, I seen it yesterday !!! I thought the movie was awesome. It’s better than the 2021 film. It feels like part 2 has more fight scenes in this one. Gotta rewatch again !

Ha.... GAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!

i aint paying $20 to see slop

I didn't even know there was a 2021 movie

I remember the 90s movie

I used to wear a mortal Kombat shirt to school and got so many compliments from other kids

Then the .movie came out and the school was familiar with what it was and told me it wasn't appropriate

i do think i remember watching the 2021 movie