I'm quite fed up to be deluded by american studios that spend huge amount of money on marketing and false reviews...
This movie has nothing good except the great animation. I'm quite sure that the artist were underpaid, as usual. It surfs as usual on our nostalgie and love for the once great game.
The characters are boring and so caricatural. The story is inexistant, or should I said, always the same. The fast pace of this movie is certainly done to spend the lesser money possible and it ruined any scene. Maybe it's good for the "new generation" that have an attention span of 3 seconds.
Yes, there is some good violence and fatalities scenes, thanks to the good animators, but it looks like Warner Bros add them one after another just....because it's Mortal Kombat.
As usual, big american studio never stay on a position, they try to reach the larger audience possible. They must put stupid one liners, "good looking" caracters, army things, the most caricatural caracters to avoid sending money on building a real story, etc.
I would grade this piece of crap a 2 or 3, but I put it a 5 for the work of the animators, the only real artist here.
Most of the reviews must be fake, or they are from people who never played the dark Mortal Kombat and for sure, from people who never saw the great animation from Japan, Europe, etc.
Don't fall on the Warner Bros marketing trap as I did.