Oh Thank God New Mortal Kombat Movie Is About ‘Family’

Ah, Family: As a pop culture trope, that can justify just about anything. Noble sacrifices, gang purges, lowering a car from another car while both cars also fire harpoons at a third and fourth car, respectively[…]All of them can be presented, narratively, as expressions of our common love for the people closest to us in our lives. (And also, sometimes, our hatred of cars.) We can now add “Rip a guy’s spine out and show him, probably” to this filial list. functions, too, because the new Mortal combat The movie is apparently all about those two big F’s: family and death. It’s enough to warm his heart, then tear it, still beating, from his chest.

All this hot blood the feeling comes from the courtesy oF a profile of the upcoming video game adaptation that was combo by Weekly entertainment today, talk with star Lewis Tan and director Simon McQuoid about their attempts to reboot the comatose long Mortal combat movie franchise. (The last theatrical MK movie, Annihilation, collapsed out of theaters in 1997.) And, of course, the 2021 Mortal combat The movie will involve killing a whole bunch of people – making it the first movie in the series to actually adopt the games’ signature Fatality mechanic, which if you didn’t register on Mortal combat in a minute, shit these things got bloody– but it will also be full of tender, human moments, like when an undead ninja Scorpion’s wife uses one of her kunai as a gardening tool, right before she is presumably pushed into a medieval Japanese refrigerator in order to motivate her post-death grudge against the similarly dressed Sub-Zero Nemesis ninja. There is also a touching search for identity and belonging centered on Tan Cole Young’s character (a name approaching the levels of “Cade Yaeger” from “Only an action movie protagonist would be called that” energy), an original character in the franchise who find out why he has a Mortal combat birth logo on his chest. (Our guess: a romantic night between his mother and an arcade cabinet, a lot, several years ago.)

This is all very silly, obviously, but, hey: AAt least the fight scenes look cool. (Additionally, we can see footage from the film’s takes on Sonya Blade, Kano, and Jax– played by Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson and Mehcad Brooks Mustache, respectively – in THAT ONEexclusive photos from the film.)