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Not-so-Flawless Victory
His other hobby is My Little Pony fan-fic.
Fans of the hugely successful
Mortal Kombat videogame series have long had mixed feelings about its portrayal in other media, particularly the big screen. Some love the first film (which launched director Paul WS Anderson upon the world), while others find it overly campy and never as violent as they might want.
This new version, with Simon McQuoid taking his own debut spin in the director’s chair, aims to correct at least the second part, putting the “Mortal” back in Mortal Kombat. He’s only partially successful. True, the battles are bloodier and the kills more inventive, but our way into the story here is Lewis Tan’s Cole Young, a new character with connections to one of the game’s most famous fighters that stretches beyond the strange dragon marking he’s always assumed was a birthmark.