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Knights of the Zodiac (2023)
Sadly, another weak adaptation.
If this movie was an original creation, i would understand why at moments it would look like one of those 'youtube fan movies'.
But, the source material is right there, - is rich, is vast, is deep, it has heart - and to come up with another B movie, is really sad.
Take the anime tv show from the 80s, you don't have to go to the manga, just the first episode has more soul than this. Take episodes 1-7 right until Phoenix steals the gold armor, and you have your first movie, with great stories, good character development with background depth, several heroes with rich, diverse origins, strong roots and clear purpose within the story.
It's a shame to have good and talented actors like Sean Bean, Famke Janssen and Mark Dacascos, limited by a poorly adapted and a lazy executed project.
Mortal Kombat (2021)
Disappointment. Poorly executed. Even for a video game movie.
When you take a look at the background story most of the characters in Mortal Kombat have, so rich and compelling, honor, family, vengeance, rivalry, is nothing but disappointing, to get such a poorly executed version. Lazy and silly dialogs, poor editing.
Hiroyuki Sanada is such a good actor, but his talent was wasted here.
Some of the FX are good enough, but to see the ice and freezing effects, today, still looking like plastic wrap like Mr. Freeze cold gun effects in "Batman & Robin (1997)" is just sad. I don't know if it was a budget thing but The Flash and Snowpiercer tv shows are prove that it can be done better.
The action and the fights are very good and well made choreographed, but the randomness of the fighting scenes, is too bad. Even for a video game movie.
It could have been so much, much better.