Mortal Kombat (1995) First Time Watching! Movie Reaction!
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That Johnny Cage vs. Scorpion fight is the stuff of fucking legends. _So good._
Always find it funny that such an iconic fight was added in reshoots. The original movie had the Johnny v Scorpion fight end in the woods with the kick instead of teleporting to Scorpion's domain. The Reptile fight was also added as a reshoot.
I love that Scorpion is just so relentless. When Cage is on the ground, he doesn't let up, and the slightest hint of him getting up, is met with a foot to the head to kick him back down.
Same
@swaswj414 That's wild I didn't know that, and they're easily the 2 best fights in the movie. Genuinely great.
It's impossible to overstate how epic it was to be a 13-year-old boy seeing this at the height of 90s Mortal Kombat arcade mania.
MK (Mortal Kombat) and JP (Jurassic Park) were the big blockbuster movies for male teens, back in the 90s
Not really, this movie was terrible lol no real gore or fatalities. The new movie feels more like MK.
@@CYB3R2K I completely agree with you now. But as a kid knowing nothing about good quality movies. I would definitely disagree with you. But let those people who still truly love it. Have their fun with these types of movies. Remember no matter how much we love movies or shows. None of them really mean anything at all. It's only entertainment and a way to open up our minds to different stories.
@@CYB3R2K It wasn't terrible. It was 95 and video games were still viewed as being for children. If they made it more like the game it would've never released. All we cared about was seeing our favorite fighters in live action doing their signature moves.
@@Insolent8 and they do those signatures HORRIBLY lol
Fun fact Ed Boon(Co-creator of Mortal Kombat) loved this movies version of Kano so much they modeled future incarnations after him
Rest in Peace to Trevor Goddard 😢
@@generic_sauce And Darren Shahlavi
except that he had a cockney English accent in the movie not Australian 👀
Ditto Shang Tsung
a lot of the characters ended up being based off these portrayals. including goro who was little more than a monster before this.
Love the Christopher Lambert laugh, it never gets old, its always amazing.
It's the highlight of the whole franchise, no contest.
It's so bad, but it's so fun.
i dont think so!
Fun fact: Steven Spielberg was such a big fan of MK, he offered to be in the movie (he was going to play Jonny’s Director) but couldn’t because of scheduling issues
That explains how Goro ended up in Ready Player One
@@daustin8888don't forget the Mortal Kombat logo pin on Sato/Shoto's chest
This is such a cool factoid!
It reminds me of how Spielberg visited De Palma's Scarface set and got all giddy & fanboy over the guns, explosions, & blood squibs. So De Palma let Spielberg direct a couple of shots in the movie's final shootout.
Question... Steven Spielberg OFFERED to be part of the movie? But he couldn't because of schedule? Or he couldn't do it because he was offered??? Thank you.
@@old_school_4ever from what is reported he agreed to make a cameo in the movie but eventually pulled out because of scheduling conflicts on commitments he already had that would have took place during filming
I love Raiden's laughter, always puts a smile on my face
That's just Christopher lambert laugh😂
‘There Can Be Only ONE!’ 😉
He's just excited because he loves mortals triumphing over adversity.
"i apologize for calling your wife bloated warthog... hehehe."
Hehehe
Fun Fact: Christpher Lambert has said numerous of times Raiden is his all time favorite role. He has had much fun with the character.
How come he didn’t come back in the sequel,the other guy that played raider was bland
@@stephantisdale4473 Lambert likely read the script and said nope. Same with Linden Ashby and Bridgette Wilson. At least all 3 came back for MK11 as DLC.
@@stephantisdale4473 from my understanding it was a scheduling conflict while he was filming another movie and didn't want to break his contract with that movie. Still a bummer. The second guy wasn't bad, none of the actors were bad. It was just campy bad writing in my opinion hahaha
James Remar played Raiden in the sequel. While he's a great character actor who starred in a lot of movies back in the 80s and 90s, but he did not have the gravitas and star power that Christopher Lambert had. I personally would've preferred Rutger Hauer to replace Lambert instead.
@stephantisdale4473 What's crazy is the guy that played Raiden in the sequel he also played Ajax from The Warriors lol
I remember watching this at the movies as a kid and when Subzero & Scorpion first showed up together, the whole damn theater went crazy. Good times
I remember that actually. Even myself, when they showed up through that door on the boat, I was like: shit...........
Lol
Christophe Lambert went full ham for the movie and it was perfect in this particular case, my favorite Raiden iteration. His punch to the guy next to him followed by “sorry”… chef’s kiss
And Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa was an amazing Shang Tsung
The guy who plays Shang Tsung in this movie was perfect for the role, if only because that particular actor, in every role he's ever done, just has such an outstanding "villain face!" lol He just LOOKS evil, even when he's grinning at you.
Tagawa reprised his role as Shang in MK 11 game and it was top tier voice acting, also his looks and banter before fights...."and now, a taste of things to come".
Originally, Cameron Diaz was cast as Sonya Blde but broke her wrist during filming and had to drop out.
Jean Claude Van Damme was considered to play the role of Johnny Cage, but turned it down after the negative reviews of STREET FIGHTER.
It was rumored that the late Brandon Lee was going to play Liu Kang, but it would sadly never happen as Lee died in 1993.
Van Damme was supposed to play Johnny Cage in the game, so he missed that boat twice.
@@everyonelovesmajima well he is in the new game, better late than never i guess
Actually, Cameron Diaz broke her wrist while training for the role before filming actually began. She was officially cast for the role, but never got to actually film anything for the film.
Source: IMDb
Brandon Lee for Liu Kang would've been O.P asf
The actors seemed to have REALLY good chemistry, and that made for a much better film than most were expecting!
Oh yeah, the cast and crew all enjoyed making this film. I remember seeing behind the scenes footage of the fight scene between Liu Kang and Subzero. There were some guys on set sitting at a table and viewing the fight. At the end of the fight Robin Shou who played Liu Kang got a low score by these guys. Just like they do at a competition. Robin Shou said "Oh, come on!" Then everyone started laughing together.
The reason why this gave you a lot of Bloodsport vibes is that the original video game itself - on which the movie is based - took inspiration from the movie Bloodsport, and the Johnny Cage character was their version of Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Speaking of inspirations, the Raiden character was inspired by one of the characters in the movie Big Trouble in Little China.
I watched this movie 100 billion times growing up. I remember quoting the whole movie while in college and had my roommates cracking up cuz I was doing all the voices and everything.🤣
My friends and I starting sparring with each other, as soon as we left the theatre, and we're five minutes into fighting, and we all stop, saying "What the Hell are we doing!?"
I can relate to that 🤣
😂yeah me too I had them CTFU with the Kano voice.."C'mon baby"
"Get over here!" isn't just Scorpion's most iconic catchphrase, he has always been voiced in the games by MK co-creator Ed Boon - and in this movie too! For the 2021 reboot, Scorpion was played by Hiroyuki Sanada, but his delivery of the famous line in the initial trailer caused such a ruckus among fans that it was specifically re-recorded by Boon for the final theatrical release. All told, Boon is one of the longest-running voice actors for a single role in gaming, at 31 years to date.
Mortal Kombat was the first movie that took video games semi-seriously. It really was a cultural touchstone picture because so many video game movies were made for younger kids. The song was already iconic before the movie. If you compare it to every movie around it, it's clearly well above and beyond what any other video game movie did. They actually cared about the games and it showed.
So many people assumed it would be a complete shit-show given what Street-fighter with Jean-Claude Van Damme turned out to be just about 10 months prior. I expected it to be a piece of garbage. A friend of mine saw it opening night. He mentioned it to me and I jokingly asked him how bad it was. He said, if I wanted to watch it, he'd go with me to watch it a second time. Figured it had to be good!
Yes they cared, to the point Johny Cage have to vanish so Liu can fight Reptile 1v1. Because the game is literally just 1v1 fights. Fucking love it.
@@KavkaObscuranever thougt about that
What are you saying? You don’t think they took the Super Mario Bros. movie seriously? I really don’t know what gave you that idea.
@@KavkaObscura look what happened to Optimus Prime. Hot Rod got involved in his one on one fight and it got Prime killed. Cup said, "Stay away kid, that's prime's fight!"
The reason Bridget Wilson had the only basic fights was because she was a late addition to the cast and didn’t have time to train. She was brought in after the original actress broke her arm during training. Cameron Diaz was originally cast as Sonya after her roll in The Mask.
Prayers for Bridget .she recently got diagnosed with ovarian cancer I believe
@@brandonspencer5594 God I hope she is able to put cancer in her rear view mirror and continue to live her life cancer free. I like to believe that she's very successful at beating this terrible disease. My thoughts and prayers are with her and her family.
Eeeesh. I just cannot picture Diaz in such a role! Probably a good thing she broke her arm. lol
@@jacob4920 We all might have been pleasantly surprised by the skills that she could have brought to the film.
@@vincecommando7575 Well, maybe. But I'm sorry, I just can't picture Cameron Diaz doing a flick like this in the first place. Maybe that's just me, but... lol
First one is amazing, second one (Annihilation) is amazing in a car crash kinda way.
Edit- at 40 minutes, you got it right. Johnny Cage was inspired from Bloodsport / splits etc. We've come full circle with the latest game having a Jean Claude skin for Johnny voicing him as well.
yea Annihilation is something else oof
They didn't get it right, they said the opposite. "That's just like Bloodsport!"
It's the other way around.
Annihilation is only interesting to see more MK characters even if most of them were poorly done. Less said about Baraka the better.
Mortal Kombat Annihilation is hilarious 😂
The sequel was awful! The soundtrack was badass though!
Raiden laughing was definitely a character choice, and an awesome one
don't you know Raiden's true title? Raiden the TROLLING-Thunder God
the highlander actor (chritopher lambert or whatever his name) definitely had a fun time trolling as raiden, and it worked really well too for raiden
@@redmoonbloodmoon3161 Christopher Lambert makes this movie, he's one of the old, b-movie kings
Funnily enough, you guys were inadvertently prepared a lot to watch this movie lol
Enter the Dragon = which Mortal Kombat's HEAVILY inspired by
Bloodsport = Base Model for the character of Johnny Cage
Big Trouble in Little China = John Carpenter used the character of Raiden(s) (3 of them) in there
Highlander = starred Christopher Lambert who plays Raiden
Last Action Hero, Billy Madison = starred Bridgette Wilson who plays Sonia
Event Horizon = directed by Paul W.S. Anderson who directed this movie
It was the other way around. MK was inspired by Big Trouble in Little China. Raiden was based off one of the Three Storms: Lightning.
Big Trouble came out in like 86, several years before MK.
Kano for terminator and Shang for Big Trouble also.
@@SeamusMcBundy its raiden for big trouble and little china
@@JIX9ISLER1986 I was referring to Lo Pan for Shang. Not the 3 with the hats.
@@SeamusMcBundy oh ok....i know they say that but meh.
"That was sick... for some reason."
You just described this whole movie 😂
I hate having to reply to people not TBR Schmitt, *But:*
Rayden said: "To face Shang Tsung is to fight not one, but a legion of adversaries". That, and Kitana saying: "Face your enemy", are your answers to round 1.
I don't care if this is silly bollocks lol. This is THE event movie from my childhood. 1st theater experience where kids were cheering and blew our little minds over things transferred from the video games. Thank you for doing this one guys. Really brought back some good memories.
I saw this movie when it came out in theaters and the cheer that erupted in the crowd when they heard the word “Reptile” was awesome.
Christopher Lamberts laugh is almost an icon in itself. This movie was absolutely EPIC in theaters and watching it as a kid in the midst of the SNES MK phase was crazy awesome. To this day, I still get crazy jacked when that iconic intro plays. It's even better when I pretend a certain sequel doesn't exist.
The second movie in this series was such a letdown, after all that buildup, that to this day I refuse to ever watch it again. lol
As much as I love this movie. I love the soundtrack even more. I legit have it in my car stereo.
*Same. On my car's infinite playlist.* _"Test your might..."_ will blast at random. Raised eyebrows from cars around me, a signal from MK fans.
We are all with you here. That soundtrack will always kickass. If other people don't like it. Then they can go listen to their own terrible music. Not to trash talk, but if they want to be disrespectful to those who love something deeply. I believe it's only right to be disrespectful in return.
I saw this at the movies. When the lights went down and a sudden scream "MORTAL KOMBAT!!!" over the new line cinema logo, it perfectly set the stage for the next half and half! Saw it a another 5+ times at the movies! Ahhhh good times
I had the same experience
*I bought **_Mortal Kombat: The Album_** after seeing this movie.* And the soundtrack album as well.
oh yeah hehe :> I was on holiday got a taxi and money from my dad to go see it :> Just had to watch it and was NOT disapointed hehe.
@@hulkhatepunybanner Same! It was the first album I bought with my own money I saved up for months haha. Wore that tape out
My theatre was playing a Mickey Mouse short(5min) before the movie started and as a kid, i was so confused as to why MK wasnt playing, until that song suddenly played
You guys owe both of your favorite fight scenes to early focus groups for the movie. When the movie was initially shown, one complaint was that their weren’t enough fights. So they went back to production and added the second half of Johnny’s Scorpion fight AND Lui’s fight with Reptile. A very rare instance of focus groups being right and actually helping a movie be better. Also if I remember right, Robin Shou stepped in and did the fight choreography for the two scenes. I think the original choreography had already moved on to his next project.
Yeah I was gonna mention that if no-one else did crazy how probably my 2 favorite fights were even in the movie at one point I think I heard Liu also might've helped with the fight choreography for some of those fights
Loved this as a kid. It's cheesy in retrospect but it'll always hold a special place in my heart.
Nothing wrong with cheesy when done good, and MK is one of those movies that does it more less right ^^
What about the cartoon?
@@slanetroyard92I don't think I ever really watched it.
@@PerfectHandProductions I remember a bit of it when I was a kid. Used to watch it on USA during the weekend sometimes. Cree summer voiced kitanna. You can find it online.
came out in tha heart of tha 90s watchu expect
The funny thing about johnny cage giving gorro a nutshot like bloodsport is that johnny cage is based on Van Damme 😂
25:55
Goro in this movie *IS* kinda slow, but not just because he is a giant of a creature, but because Goro's effects are all practical! He is basically one giant puppet and even a suit that the legendary Tom Woodruff Jr. wore! The top half of Goro (starting from his upper arms and up) was all one giant puppet that was remote controlled by 16 people at once, everyone thing his arms and eyes and mouth and eyebrows! That is why he moves kinda stiff and janky, and didn't help that the suit constantly malfunctioned. It cost at least over a million dollars to produce and make and sculpt, but the appearance of the puppet itself was uncanny!
I love that 2 MK casuals were guiding each other through this and got absolutely nothing wrong lol.
Wait until they react to annihilation💀
@@aznlee2817 There are some places I can’t follow them.
Ya'll aftermath talks are so satisfying and understanding. Very interesting and good. 👏
When MK started getting fully voiced, Cary Tagawa (the guy who played Shang Tsung) was so nostalgic to so many little kids who saw this movie that he ended up being the official model of Shang Tsung in the video games from MK9 onwards
The splits/nutcracker move by Johnny Cage is also straight from the original game so it was another well-placed bit of fan service. I saw this in the theater and was just smiling from ear to ear the whole time 😂
Y'all never miss with the grade A content. I'm a lifelong fighting game player and this was so effin' hype back in the day. This is like if John Carpenter made Enter The Dragon.
Hey, Big Trouble in Little China is a big inspiration for Mortal Kombat actually.
@@kennethbryant5819 Yeah I know.
Blasphemy.
That’s a great way to put it actually
"He's got great hair!"
Robin Shou (Lu Kang) and his fabulous hair are also in Beverley Hills Ninja, with Chris Farley, if you ever need an intentionally funny martial arts movie.
Still the best MK movie ever made. Nothing beats the original. Love the camp, love the cheesy lines and low budget effects! But despite all that it was always such a fun movie to watch. Everyone nails their characters perfectly here. Love Christopher Lambert as Raiden!
Best fight...Scorpion vs Johnny Cage...all works so perfectly ! The choreography, soundtrack and area they fight ( maybe it's netherrealm)...Just amazing !! And of course he says GET OVER HERE !!!
I grew up with this one. It's campy cheesy 90s fun.
Biggest gripe is Sub-Zeros fight is the shortest one! We were robbed
Poor Raiden doesn't even get a proper fight at all. A shame, considering he was one of the main 7 playable characters in the first game.
I am so glad my mom introduced this game and film to me. Flawless Victory!
Being a kid, and a huge MK fan when this came out, this movie will always hold a special place in my heart. One very distinct memory I have from childhood was sitting in the theater, the lights dimmed, and it was silent. Then out of nowhere a loud "MORTAL KOMBAT" rang through the speakers and the song starts playing. I get fucking chills even talking about it! As always, great reaction my friends!
I can remember when that happened in my theater I could feel the floor underneath my feet thumping, pulsing to the beat of that iconic tune.
That, along with how awesome the movie itself turned out to be of course, is why to this day MK' 95 is still by far the best theater-going experience of my entire life.
Epic, epic stuff.
Fun fact, The actor played Liu Kang, Robin Shou was 40 years old at the time when he first got the role.
Wait what fo real, the guy didn't even look 40
He was 34 born 1960
@@jamesmorant1406you right, I didn't look at his date of birth. About 34/35 years old at the time.
Such good memories watching this in theaters with my older brother. I remember getting the movie soundtrack cassette and playing the theme song while playing the game on my Genesis.
This movie was so good.. Unexpected fun.. and super clean audio and video.. I can't tell you how many times I watched this as we used it on Laser Disc for Demo when I worked at Circuit City.. I knew I was in for a ride right from the start... "MORTALLL KOMBAAATTT!!!"
One of my favorite movies as a kid. Rented it from Blockbuster sooo many times lol
6:17, fun fact;: the director of Johnny Cage's movie was going to be played by Steven Spielberg, a huge fan of the video game, but was taking a break from filming JURASSIC PARK and Schindler's List.
Spielberg would direct the VR film READY PLAYER ONE.
Goro appears in RPO.
There was a huge explosion of fighting games in the early-mid 90s. Street Fighter, Tekken, Primal Rage, Battle Arena Toshinden, Virtua Fighter, Killer Instinct, etc, etc, etc...
Virtua Fighter was turned into Tekken it has a lot of the same characters like Paul Phoenix, martial law, Devil Jin and others
I saw this opening day after school in 1995. A classmate of mine happened to be at the movies too and we saw it together. If you 12 or 13 years old in 1995, 'Mortal Kombat' was LIFE!
This was so awesomely fun to see in the theater that I went multiple times. That opening on the big screen really sets the tone!
In college we watched the first and second MK movies and played a drinking game. Take a drink every time:
- someone dies
- some does an unnecessary flip
Raiden's fight scene in Annihilation alone would cause a blackout 😂
It's crazy that you're able to leave this comment, having died of alcohol poisoning and all.
@@thatguybehindtheglass none of us ever made it to the end of MK Annihilation. What can I say, we always got annihilated.
14:41, this was an animatronic puppet created by Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff of Amalgamated Dynamics Inc.
This movie was always fun. I love Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Shang). But I can't help thinking about Bridgette Wilson (Sonya). Her husband, Pete Sampras, was asking for prayers last week because she has cancer. 🙏🏼
It's really weird seeing Cary in this and Showdown in Little Tokyo...then watching Johnny Tsunami on Disney and him being a cool as hell uncle.
@@TimedRevolverI met Cary at a Comic-Con about ten years ago and he didn’t really have a line so we got to talk for a while. Definitely closer to “cool as hell uncle”
What a welcoming, wholesome surprise! I finished all my work and set aside a nice little snack just to prepare and watch this with you two. I hope movie was entertaining! Looking forward to when both of you do a Jackie Chan marathon😊 (not his American movies, of course). Cheers!
Drunken Master II
🤚🏽 self-admitted grunge teen of the 90s, MK was huge in all my city's highschools. Therefore all movie theaters were sold out for the opening weekend of this game-based movie in my city. Lol! We waited several hours in line. Soundtrack was awesome 😎. Thx for sharing & love your reactions! ❤❤
The surprise split move Johnny Cage pulls at the begining of his fight with Goro is straight from the first MK video game and is awesome!!! BTW... If you liked this film you should totally react to the Street Fighter film from 1995.
I second this. Do Street Fighter!
Of Course!!!
COME ON! When we saw this thumbnail in our feeds we ALL thought two things: first) we hummed the title theme to this movie, and second)
“GET OVER HERE!!!”
One of my favorite parts of the movie was both its soundtrack and musical score.
Jammed the former alot back in the day and they still hold up very well after all of these years. Each track was so good and we had peak quality of both metal and electronic/techno music. We had acts like KMFDM, Napalm Death, Type O Negative, Fear Factory, The Immortals, Traci Lords and Gravity Kills. Pretty much the whole soundtrack was a bop!
The musical score was done by George S. Clinton. It was not really a very traditional score by any means. It was mostly taiko drums, Shakuhachi flute, didgeridoos, Tuvan throat singing, violas, cellis, basses and low brass. Giving it more of an exotic mystical musical landscape. Helping with the score was legendary guitarist Buckethead, who gave us some really memorable guitar riffs and solos. Best prime example was the track Goro vs. Art, the same cue that plays when Art was facing off against Goro.
According to Clinton back in 2015, the first test screening they put a temporary score under it that was mainly traditional orchestral action music and it became clear that the target audience (my generation and the older generation generally speaking) was used to hearing techno music blasting during game play for Mortal Kombat, HATED that approach.
So they changed it to what we ended up getting instead. In some ways, I'm glad that they did that but on the other hand, I would had loved to hear the intended musical score.
I absolutely LOVE the outro track “Halcyon and On and On” by Orbital.
Oddly enough it’s also the song playing when Mean Girls ends. Two great movies, one amazing trance banger!
And it's also in the movie Hackers if I remember correctly.
@@tetsuoakira8294 yup! That one is at the beginning tho.
I remember being excited about parts of the soundtrack when this came out. I even bought the cd. I was surprised to hear "Zero Signal" by Fear Factory during the Cage/Scorpion fight scene, and "Juke Joint Jezebel" by KMFDM during the Sonja/Kano fight.
Bridgette Wilson (Sonya) went from kicking Adam Sandler's ass in Billy Madison to kicking ass as Arnold's daughter in Last Action Hero, to Mortal Kombat.
She looks at him with such Love❤
Something important to remember is when this movie came out. CGI was still very primitive, and it showed - but at the time it still looked damned cool.
They also used some existing technology that had been worked out for earlier movies, which is why we basically ended up with Teenage Mutant Ninja Goro.
Fans of the game and of this kind of movie really liked this movie when it came out. Sure, it was cheesy, but it was fun - and it didn't condescend to the fans.
This was such a fun take on the video game. They really got the spirit of the game. Also the film soundtrack was one the main reasons of me getting into electronic music.
15:20 "she's quite a couger"
At 10,000 years old she's more like a sabertooth tiger.
The actor who played Johnny Cage also didn't know martial arts. (Couldn't do kicks very well.) But they worked around his limitations and made him look very good!
And yes, the movie was modelled greatly after the Original Mortal Kombat arcade game. (Where Goro & Shang Sung were the final bosses & Reptile was a "secret opponent" you had to "unlock" via a specific series of actions.)
And yeah, Lambert was definitely "camping it up" and it was great! Also, I THINK they intended him (Raiden) to have some fight scenes originally, but by then, his vision had gotten SO bad, it was no longer feasible.
And that theme song is PEAK 90s! Luv it.
I have seen this movie well over 100 times throughout the years and i still love it. The johnny cage ball buster scene i had to watch a few times because i was laughing so hard, gets me everytime. The scene where sonya says my friends will come for me and johnny takes his hood off, still gives me chills. Great reaction guys
This reaction was flawless flawless victory LoL 😂🤣
The song when Lui Kang wins always makes me think of the movie 'Hackers' as its the opening song for that one and came out around the same time as well. Both this and Hackers were must watches whenever us kid's went to dad's over the summer.
My college roommate LOVED this movie and soundtrack. He played the soundtrack CD all the time. Lol.
Recently I realized that the scream in this iconic song is "mortal combat". For most of my life it was like ououououo...
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I was 17 and wirjed in a movie theater when this came out and watched it over and over for free!! Still one of the best soundtracks! After this movie, when my mom wanted me, she would yell, "GET OVER HERE!" That and Christopher Lambert were her favorite parts of the movie!😂
that's awesome.. Does she do the voice?
Nearly 30 years old and this soundtrack hits so hard still. I think I saw this in theaters like at least 10 times. I was 17 and religiously played MK in the arcades at work. Sidenote, I laughed that you blurred the lava coming from Scorpion's chest, but not the skull slicing in half haha. BTW that ending was a Johnny Cage Friendship from MK3
Kano wasn't Australian before this film, but this portrayal was popular enough that it is now part of his lore.
Liu Kang's mentors are supposed to be Shaolin priests, but they picked the gorgeous Wat Chaiwatthanaram Buddhist temple in Thailand for the film.
Goro was a giant animatronic suit that had constant problems with water during the shooting.
The most iconic movie love it do the sequel as well
I love your reaction
Raiden was played by Christopher Lambert who was casted in another movie released the same year as Mortal Kombat that no one talks about. It's another martial arts movie that takes place in modern time. Christopher Lambert plays a business man from New York who makes a business trip to Japan where he gets caught up between two rival samurai dating back thousands of years ago. The movie is called 'The Hunted' If anyone has seen this movie, you are awesome. I would highly recommend watching if you're needing another Christopher Lambert movie.
The Hunted 95 has possibly the best train fight ever (it's certainly my fave).
Also, piggies 😉
@@LordVolkov You are awesome! I The train fight scene is epic! and no one talks about it. Also forgot to mention John Lone is in the movie too. He was in the academy award winning film The Last Emperor and was also in Rush Hour 2 when he'd played Ricky Tan.
The actor who plays Shang Tsung is freakin ICONIC!
"That's Kevin doing the spoken voice of Goro (with Frank doing his non-literal stuff among others' general voices including Scorpions' spear, Reptile and Shao Khan."
It's silly, of course, but more importantly, it's a hell of a lot of fun movie
I love this movie and all its cheesy 90s glory 😂. I watched this movie so many times as a kid I broke my vhs tape and had to get another copy lol
I still bump the MK theme on my playlist and still get as hyped as i did when i was 7yrs old when i watched this movie for the 1st time
7:38, Christopher Lambert (Lamb Bear), aka The Highlander!
14:38, RIP, Trevor Goddard, Kano ,1962-2003.😔 Died from a drug overdose of cocaine, heroin, temazapem, and vicodine.
If I remember correctly, he was going through a divorce at the time, and because of his acting schedule and known drug habits, he had lost custody of his children to his wife and he would only get visitations. Also, the woman he was in a relationship with at the time was threatening to leave him as well. So it's likely he felt his entire world had crumbled and he just went off the rails in the final weeks/months of his life. Tragic.
Me and my best friend went to see it day one when it came out and love it. The action was great and for long time it was considered the best video game adaptation. It not a masterpiece, but it damn good fun
24:23 When they showed THIS in the teaser trailer in November of 94 before my showing of 'Street Fighter' opening night, my theater went NUTS!
13:17 TBR's reaction to "Flawless Victory" LOL
"Yes... I am familiar with that one"
Until recently, Mortal Kombat was my gold standard for video game movie adaptation. Easily in my top ten for guilty pleasure movies.
What took the throne?
@@chrisjfox8715 The Netflix Castlevania series and HBO's The Last of Us. The Super Mario Bros. movie by Illumination was a fun watch too.
Very happy to see you guys react to this movie. It’s very underserved in the reaction community in my opinion.
I always say that this is my favorite “bad” move. It’s so wonderfully campy and cheesy in the best ways.
I wouldn't even call this a bad movie. It's arguably up there with Enter The Dragon, Bloodsport, and The Karate Kid as one of the best Martial Arts movies of all-time. It knows what it is, it stays completely in it's lane, the casting is spot-on, the humor is done extremely well without crossing into comedy territory... I would say this is actually one of the better movies of the mid-90s when most movies were starting to really lean into CGI like Twister, Deep Impact, Power Rangers: The Movie, The Mask, etc.
No one:
Absolutely no one:
Daniel: *does Raiden laugh*
EDIT: Also, the fact that the Scorpion cartwheel jumpscared you both makes me feel not ashamed of myself. It got me, too when I was a kid. XD
Jean Claude Van Damme is the reason Mortal Kombat exists! Ed Boon and John Tobias creators of the series approached Van Damme about a game based on him and his martial arts.. Unfortunately he declined the role. So they landed up creating a different character Johnny Cage who was posted on the side of the old arcade cabinet dawning the Bloodsport outfit.
So they approached Van Damme for a few more years and he still declined.. It wasnt until 2023 in the reboot of the original Mortal Kombat game simply titled Mortal Kombat 1, that Jean Claude Van Damme finally agreed to be in the game and Ed Boon was so excited and emotional about finally getting his childhood hero to appear in Mortal Kombat.
I would love to see you watch Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Amazing fight scenes and great drama. I always feel like it would make for a great reaction movie, but so few channels react to it. I guess it was really big, so maybe everyone's already seen it.
I love, love, love this movie. We rented it from the new arrival wall of our video store when I was (I think) 14, and I watch it 13 times in 48 hours. I was obsessed. The soundtrack was a mainstay of my high school years and Brigette Wilson was one of my all-time crushes. My biases are strong but I still think a lot of it holds up.
13 times in 48hrs? Come on bro lol...
@@chrisjfox8715 What can I say? I was 14 and before streaming you never knew when you were actually going to get to see these things again. Like I said: I was obsessed.
Seeing this in the movie theater at that time and as a kid was just awesome! I remember skiping school just to watch it.
I will always love this movie. No matter how many movies they make today, they will never beat the PERFECT soundtrack, the casting(specially Shang Tsung) and the flawless atmosphere. They absolutely nailed the vibe and set design of MK.
Trevor Goddard and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa really set the tone for their characters in the franchise til this day.
To this day, whenever I see the New Line logo I expect that epic intro to follow! 😆
Amazing reaction guys. This movie is so much fun and cheesy but I love it. Sub Zero has always been my favorite character in the franchise. Hope you guys react to the new movie, it's absolutely incredible.
LOVE THIS MOVIE!!
FINISH HIM!
FLAWLESS VICTORY
FATALITY
GET OVER HERE!
*TBR Schmitt:* "Is this Highlander? Highlander plays Rayden?"
*Me:* "Yes, because Christopher Lambert, the guy who played Connor Macleod, played Rayden."
The excitement for this movie was thru the roof. Mortal Kombat 3 I believe just came out in arcades so this was a long time coming for fans who played since Mortal Kombat 1992
I love the BLoodsport and Van Damme references because MK was LITERALLY a Van Damme game. Boon and Tobias asked Van Damme's agent if they could basically name the game after him and they were NOT excited at the time so, they modeled Johnny Cage AFTER Van Damme. Now, Van Damme's a skin for Cage in the new MK 2023.
This is classic stuff right here.
FINISH HIM 😂😂
The character Johnny Cage was created in the image of Van Damme during the creation of the game, the role in the film was also offered to Van Damme, but he chose a film based on another fighting game - a street fighter who had a bigger budget and was considered more profitable, but in fact, the mortal kombat blew up the box office, and the street fighter failed.
" How did reptile turn into fnking worms? " lmao 😆