Mortal Kombat

But it sure doesn't feel like the cinematic fatality that fans truly deserve after all these years of fighting.

CG strips martial-arts choreography of its impact, but it does allow for hilarious geysers of fake blood.

One of the only video games to succeed on the big screen gets a fan-focused upgrade, playing up the bloody fatalities that made it an arcade legend in the first place.

The hell-dwelling desire for vengeance at its core makes the movie more intriguing than it had to be.

(...) but this is just an ordinary product hoping enough people buy it to justify a sequel.

But Mortal Kombat made me wonder how exactly low the bar for filmmakers is when adapting popular games into moviegoing events.

[H]alf origin story and half total mess.

Même si nos attentes par rapport à un reboot de Mortal Kombat étaient modérées, nous aurions préféré ne pas trouver le temps long entre les batailles devant lesquelles nous sommes finalement resté quelque peu de glace.