7/10 – Flawless Victory (in spirit, if not in CGI)
Does it hold up? Like a digitized photo of a 90s arcade cabinet: fuzzy around the edges, brutally charming, and surprisingly ambitious. Paul W.S. Anderson’s Mortal Kombat is not a good movie in the classical sense. It is, however, the definitive video game movie of its era—a film that understood that the game’s paper-thin plot (“Ten fighters. One tournament. Save the world.”) was actually its greatest strength. mortal kombat 1995 archive
Mortal Kombat (1995) – The Arcade Perfect Flawed Gem Archive Date: October 2023 (Retrospective) Format: Theatrical Cut (DVD/Blu-ray Archive) 7/10 – Flawless Victory (in spirit, if not