One Thing I Like About Mortal Kombat II

Last week I saw a link to a review of Mortal Kombat II where the subhead claimed “fans deserve better than the sloppy CGI blood and empty characters.” It just made me sad. Why are they sending reviewers out to movies without telling them what they’ll be seeing? For me, my take was: I bought the ticket, I knew what I was getting into. And I can’t really claim to be a fan of Mortal Kombat; I’ve played one of the games exactly one time, and it was around 45 minutes of “matches” against my former roommate, which were each about 30 seconds of him using “get over here!” repeatedly until I was dead. But I know enough about it to be completely baffled by the claim that Mortal Kombat fans would be turned off by CGI blood and empty characters. “Fans of Tomb Raider deserve more than all of this raiding of tombs.” I also didn’t see the first movie in the reboot, although I did see a recap, which pretty much reinforced the consensus that it was very dull. I couldn’t get a sense of whether they…