1995 · action · fantasy · supernatural
Mortal Kombat
Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson1h 41m1995
For nine generations an evil sorcerer has been victorious in hand-to-hand battle against his mortal enemies. If he wins a tenth Mortal Kombat tournament, desolation and evil will reign over the multiverse forever. To save Earth, three warriors must overcome seemingly insurmountable odds, their own inner demons, and superhuman foes.
Our read: Mortal Kombat (1995) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive action · fantasy · supernatural entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / fantasy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
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