I stuck on Mortal Kombat (2021) yesterday as I was kind of intrigued - plus, having recently rewatched The Raid and Chocolate, I wanted to see if a US production with a solid cast could actually pull off a good martial arts action film.
The general quality of acting and special effects is higher than in the 1995 film, but that's about it. I felt every second of the runtime, and the "look, we know this is based on a videogame" stuff made me age an extra decade each time it happened (except for "Kano wins", which worked because the casting choice for Kano was very good). The script, though.... How the hell did they go ahead with such a boring, blether filled load of junk? "It'll be a surprise when we find out Cole's secret" - no it won't, it may as well be stamped all over the screen.
I'm honestly impressed that they made a new MK film so monumentally poor that, even as someone who knows the '95 film is in no way good, I'd rewatch that over the new one any day. Hell, I'd punch myself in the crotch over rewatching the new one.
Right now I'm rewatching Eurotrip as a very very stupid palate cleanser. Mi scusi 😁