It also had the potential to be turned into another animation. You put more time and detail into things that matter. Not only is it not enough, but it shows how much it’s not essential. It would be much better if they told this story in a more detailed fashion in another installment.Īll these important and dangerous things happen in just 20 minutes. Includes all 13 add-on fighters including Shao Kahn, Shang Tsung, Nightwolf, Terminator, Sindel, The Joker, Spawn, Fujin, Sheeva, RoboCop and newly added. All the realms intertwine because of Shinnok and get fixed again by Liu Kang. Shinnok becomes the One Being, and Liu Kang becomes the dragon and fights. My main problem with Battle of the Realm is the last 20 minutes. These things are glorious to us, but not the character who does them regularly. But they did a great job not focusing too much on them or making a big deal of it, as they did in the Mortal Kombat movies. There are many familiar moves from characters in Battle of the Realm, and there are, of course, the infamous fatalities. Due to its unrestricted physics, it has more freedom to do crazier things, which you cannot do in a video game. But in films, you can change that, as well as the speed of actions. The thing with fighting games is that you cannot be artistic about the camera angle. Mortal Kombat Legends found a way to be as engaging as the video games. Not many people can make a film or animation to be as close as its video game. But when you turn that kind of game into a movie, you exchange the active part into a passive one. The fun part of Mortal Kombat is that you control the characters and fight. The best and most important part of the game is, of course, its action sequences. This guy’s sense of humor did a great job not letting the animation turn into a dead saving-the-world severe drama. Johnny Cage, voiced by Joel McHale, is the top-notch character of Battle of the Realms. But in Battle of the Realms, if you do not know the characters, you’ll have trouble connecting with these people. In the Mortal Kombat games, we see the character’s background through flashbacks or simple conversation. I do not expect to see every character’s background deeply, but it would have been better if we saw a little bit more about Liu Kang or Lord Raiden. You cannot connect that much with the characters unless you’ve played Mortal Kombat games and understand each character’s background. The tricky part is that it needs to be dramatic but not that deep to turn off the fun mode of the film.Īs much as the story is well-written, the characters’ arcs are bad. The drama in movies like Mortal Kombat is a break from one action sequence to another. Jeremy Adams, who wrote the Battle of the Realms script, did one hell of a job to balance the animation’s action and drama. No one watches a Mortal Kombat feature to get lectured by the writer and director about morality. The thing about animations or movies like Mortal Kombat is that the writer needs to understand what viewers want. Battle of the Realms doesn’t give you much talking and chatting, and it is not a non-stop action animation either. The story itself is pretty well written and has a very accurate pace. It is based chiefly on Mortal Kombat, which was released in 2011. We saw many familiar faces from Mortal Kombat games, primarily the main characters. Lord Raiden and Shao Kahn decide to ask the Elder Gods to start a final Mortal Kombat tournament. The story of Battle of the Realms is about the final tournament of Mortal Kombat, which will end the conflict between realms forever. It stayed faithful to the video games on every term. Personally, Battle of the Realms is my 2021 Mortal Kombat. It was quite a remedy to what the Mortal Kombat movie did to me. Like many others, I didn’t like the film, and it was not even as exciting as Scorpion’s Revenge or the Mortal Kombat games.įortunately, this year we also got the second installment of Mortal Kombat Legends, entitled Battle of the Realms. This year we had the Mortal Kombat movie directed by Simon McQuoid. I did not expect it to be that good, but it surprised me and turned out to be the best-produced feature based on the Mortal Kombat video games. It told the story of Hanzo Hasashi, aka Scorpion. We saw the first Mortal Kombat Legends last year entitled Scorpion’s Revenge. *This review spoils the story of Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms.* It’s bloody, it has many fight scenes, and of course, there are fatalities. Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms is a proper Mortal-Kombatian animation that you can watch.
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