Big fat spoilers for the entire Mortal Kombat 2 movie ahead. You've been warned!
2021's Mortal Kombat is not a good movie. It's a little under two hours of pure, terrible decision making. It's filled with some of the series' most boring characters—and the select few interesting ones still end up sidelined. All of its so-called comic relief is put on Kano, whose attempts at quips and witty one-liners fell incredibly flat for me. Lest we forget sloppy choreography (khoreography?), amateurish editing, and kringeworthy attempts to hamfist in an iconic "fatality" line or two.
At the centre of it all was the movie's biggest offender: Cole Young. If that name doesn't ring a bell to you, that's because he's not in any of the games. A wholly original creation for the movie, a bland everyman to serve as the protagonist in an attempt to cajole people who've never done a quarter-circle forward in their life into watching the film without asking questions like "What's a Johnny Cage?"
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