The first Mortal Kombat reviews from international critics are in, along with a new featurette which spotlights the film’s fighting.
Mortal Kombat, the highly anticipated video game adaptation from director Simon McQuoid and producer James Wan, is finally set to arrive in theaters and on HBO Max next week, but that doesn’t mean the hype train is ready to stop. Warner Bros. has released a new featurette dedicated to spotlighting the film’s fight choreography, along with some of the cast’s action movie and martial arts backgrounds. According to McQuoid, the film’s producers set out to hire people who could really sell the brutality of Mortal Kombat’s fight scenes. “The fatalities are sickeningly violent, but we all knew we needed to cast some really amazing talented people to make it feel real.” Based on the video below, we can already tell that this adaptation of Mortal Kombat will be a far more accurate representation of the games than the previous films from the ’90s – not just due to the promised violence, but because it seems to really lean into the fantasy aspects of the series.
