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Originally Posted by ShotgunMessiah
I'm more surprised that you found the SF movie to be entertaining. As if the casting weren't a killer enough, the dialogue was really just as bad as the MK, the fight scenes were downright awkward and they used like zero of the characters' signature moves.
The plot was abysmal as well. They took the characters and twisted everything that made the game great until they were the characters in name only, if even that. Sagat is an arms runner? Dhalsim is a scientist? Guile is Belgian? Chun-Li is a reporter? WTF
AND SINCE WHEN IS CHARLIE BLANKA?!?!?
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I appreciate a little bit of creative liscense instead of a mere rehash of the game's plot. But the reason Street Fighter was superior to Mortal Kombat is because it wasn't trying to take itself seriously. Even Raul Julia hamming it up as Bison just showed the underlying fact that all involved KNEW the movie would be completely absurd. There is not one good thing about Street Fighter, but all Street Fighter wanted to be WAS a bad movie. So it was intentionally camped so over-the-top and made completely ridiculous that it became one of those so-great-it's-bad movies.
Mortal Kombat was different. It was actually trying to be art. It was taken too seriously, and no one was having any fun - with the possible exception of Linden Ashby, who played Johnny Cage - so it came off without an appropriate deferral to the video game that inspired it.