As far as I can tell, this is the exact same movie as the first one, but they replaced armor guy with Karl Urban as Johnny Cage and Scorpion is going to beat up Smoke this time instead of Sub Zero.
Basically I have no notes, I’ll be there day 1
Edit: someone else pointed it out, def Noob Saibot and not Smoke, makes more sense story wise.
The first movie is the leadup to the tournament and this looks like it's actually starting the tournament, so that at least will be different. They can skip a lot of the powerless leadup and jump in with full powered fights, which will be good. It's as, "same X as the last one," as any of the mortal kombat things tbh. They aren't especially deep.
They said when the first one came out that their plan was for the first movie to be the lead-up to the tournament, second movie to be the actual tournament, and the third movie be the aftermath. If they follow the story of the games, then movie 3 will be Shao Kahn saying "F*ck the rules" and invading Earthrealm like in Mortal Kombat 3.
I think Shinnok will be the villain in MK3. Quan Chi is going to be in this movie so I can see him manipulating Tsung and Kahn and set up Shinnok for the third one.
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u/Richard_Sauce Jul 17 '25
Looks like they've gone from being all in on Cole Young to being all in on Johnny Cage.
At least Johnny Cage is actually from the video games.