{"id":233947,"date":"2021-04-23T02:01:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T23:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/after-a-serious-year-its-silly-gory-fun\/"},"modified":"2021-04-23T02:01:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T23:01:11","slug":"after-a-serious-year-its-silly-gory-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/after-a-serious-year-its-silly-gory-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"#After a serious year, it’s silly, gory fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#After a serious year, it’s silly, gory fun<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n Running time: 110 minutes. Rated R (strong bloody violence and language throughout, and some crude references.) In theaters and on HBO Max.\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

You\u2019ve gotta hand it to Warner Bros. With their new reboot of \u201cMortal Kombat,\u201d the studio has given audiences the anti-Oscars. \u00a0<\/p>\n

In Best Picture-nominated \u201cNomadland,\u201d Frances McDormand never once slices open a four-armed Hulk so his innards spill out onto the pavement. In \u201cMortal Kombat,\u201d that\u2019s one of the less gratuitous scenes. The action film is as unpretentious as Charlie Sheen eating a Krispy Kreme doughnut at Six Flags.<\/p>\n

In short: blissfully dumb entertainment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But the movie doesn\u2019t assault your taste in the way the 1995 flick, also based on the ultraviolent arcade game<\/a>, and its sequel \u201cAnnihilation\u201d do. The reboot is actually quite well-made by first-time feature director Simon McQuoid. You\u2019ll have a good time and forget about it 30 minutes later.<\/p>\n

McQuoid strikes the ideal balance of serious and stupid, and Greg Russo and Dave Callaham\u2019s script<\/a> does a far superior job of explaining why invisible lizards and ice-ninjas are so keen on roundhouse kicking some humans.<\/p>\n

The universe, we learn, is\u00a0divided into several realms, including \u201cEarthrealm\u201d \u2014 our little dog-and-pony show \u2014 and \u201cOutworld\u201d \u2014 the most terrifying and war-torn of them all. Chosen fighters from each realm compete in a tournament, called Mortal Kombat, to stave off the annihilation of Earth by the Outworlders.<\/p>\n

The endless terminology grates, but it conceals a very simple plot: Group saves world with martial arts.<\/p>\n

The characters are easy to grasp, too. New leading man, Cole (Lewis Tan), is given a puddle\u2019s worth of depth because he\u2019s determined to protect his wife and daughter. Cole\u2019s an orphaned cage fighter whose life goes into a tailspin when he learns he\u2019s been chosen to defend Earth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He meets up with Kano (Josh Lawson), the foul-mouthed Australian mercenary, femme fatale Sonya Blade (Jessica McNamee) and Special Forces soldier Jax (Mehcad Brooks) \u2014 and the quartet jet off to Lord Raiden\u2019s (Tadanobu Asano) desert temple to train. <\/p>\n

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Ludi Lin, left, and, Max Huang are chosen fighters in the reboot of \u201cMortal Kombat.\u201d <\/figcaption>
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They\u2019re taught by Raiden\u2019s right-hand men Liu Kang (Ludi Lin) and Kung Lao (Max Huang), who help the trio unleash their superpowers. See, a black belt alone won\u2019t win the tournament. A person needs laser eyes, or fire hands, or a magical spinning hat to emerge victorious. Those gifts must be unlocked in the chosen few, who each share a special dragon birthmark that looks conspicuously like a trademarked logo.<\/p>\n

One of the criticisms of the first \u201cMortal Kombat\u201d film was that it wasn\u2019t violent enough<\/em>. Can you imagine? Well, the new movie has remedied that, and then some. It\u2019s a veritable hemophiliac \u2014 the blood never stops gushing. A bad guy is sliced in half by a table saw and few throats are spared. The fatalities keep on coming.<\/p>\n

The fights are artful, though, and exhilarating \u2014 particularly those of Huang and Lin. Huang is a member of Jackie Chan\u2019s stunt team, and Lin played the Black Ranger in the \u201cPower Rangers\u201d film. Out of everybody, the duo balances high stakes and humor the best. <\/p>\n

The rest of the acting, well, we won\u2019t be seeing these guys at the Oscars next year. We probably won\u2019t even see them in a Marvel movie. Tan, Lawson and McNamee give what amount to toned-down video-game performances, which is what they were assigned to do. And, frankly, good for them. Every time one of these silly old properties gets remade, the audience sits in fear that it\u2019ll be turned into an allegory, or a statement on US politics, or the realization of some aging geek\u2019s dark vision. <\/p>\n

\u201cMortal Kombat\u201d is none of those things. It\u2019s just plain, unrepentant fun.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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