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Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Pretty Good

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

How can they call this a movie? Only reason why I have it is to fall asleep to it at night. Worse story line and plot I have ever seen.

A group of martial arts warriors have only six days to save the Earth from an extra-dimensional invasion.This film sits on IMDb proudly displaying its "turkey" status. (There should actually be a symbol on there to signify turkeys.) And with good reason. The plot is even thinner the second time around and there are scenes that rely much too heavily on CGI... with less-than-perfect animation.So why did I give it a 5, higher than a typical turkey vote of 2 or 3? Because it still has a fun aspect to it, especially looking back now almost 20 years later. I can appreciate the music (KMFDM, Rammstein) and bask in the joy that a more or less plot less game was made into multiple movies. Still makes more sense than that Mario Brothers movie.

Having won the battle of the realms in the first film, Liu Kang (Robin Shou) and others enjoy a short period of peace on Earth. Then one day leader of the outer realm Shao Kahn (Brian Thompson) opens up a portal between the two realms and announces that he intends to merge the two realms in six days. With time ticking away, can Liu Kang and his crew stop Shao Kahn in time? I didn't care much for the first film, but curiosity got the better of me so I decided that I'd give the sequel a shot (really just to see if it's as bad as its rating suggests, and sadly it is).The first film had a storyline that was quite poorly developed, but it wasn't totally ridiculous. Here we basically have a 'world domination' storyline in place because the outer realm lost the battle with the Earth Realm. If you take away all the pretence then it boils down to the outer realm being sore losers. Playing this sequel as a straight forward revenge film would have been a better move.I'm probably giving this film too much credit by discussing the story because it seemed like the writers didn't care much for the story themselves. It seemed that any time there was an attempt at character interaction or plot development that we would have a ridiculous fight sequence coupled with the over-bearing soundtrack that we saw in the first film. The first film was directed MTV Style, but this film looks as though it was directed by someone on acid - the fight sequences were much more over the top, the editing was choppy and the choreography was laughable. It's almost like the director went for the bigger is better approach, but it just doesn't quite work here.The dialogue between the characters was laughable and painful. One of the worst examples of this is when Kahn is looking for a new general. This scene gives us some of the most cringe inducing exchanges of dialogue that I've ever heard. We're also handed some laughable plot twists, villains that are more cartoonish than anything else and don't even start me on the final fight scene between Liu Kang and Kahn sigh....The only thing that made this film very slightly tolerable was Jax. He provided the film with the occasional moment of comic relief, but this aspect alone is not enough to save this utter shambles. The only other minor positive that I took from watching this sequel is that it made me appreciate the first film more. Yes the first film was quite a bad film with a multitude of problems, but it was nowhere near as embarrassing or laughable as this sequel.

Spoiler Alert!!! This sequel did everything wrong from killing off Johnny Cage, replacing actors with worse actors, Not casting Michael Jai White as Jax, Having Nightwolf in only a couple scenes, Make Sheeva get squashed without a fight, have Cyrax get killed, Bring Scorpion back with no explanation, have some of the dumbest lines in movie history "Too bad, you, will die!", Also have Raiden get killed only to bring him back yet he was never suppose to compete in the tournament from the beginning. Whoever wrote this film pretty much had no idea how the story goes from here. Just please if you are a true film of Mortal Kombat games don't watch this horrible piece of crap. The only good thing from this film is having the guy who plays the Indian in Indian and the Cupboard play the role of Night wolf because he's the only good actor except for Keith Cooke in the entire film! Overall it's a -10 out of 10.