Now, I am a big fan of Mortal Kombat and upon seeing a few clips of this web series I was interested in giving it a watch. While I didn't entirely hate it, I didn't exactly love it either. While I do understand the swings they took making this series given the years it was developed some of it's swings don't exactly work for me.
One of the things I don't love about this series is some of it's scenes and episodes never going anywhere, being picked up again, or not even being important like how the first episode had a damn good Sonya, Jax, and Kano, but they ultimately, never appear again, which applies to other characters like Mileena, Ermac, Baraka, and Sub-Zero being killed and then never appearing again. Another example of this being the episode with Raiden in a psychiatric institution. Why did he teleport himself to a psych ward, he's the god of thunder, did he not have anything better to do besides preparing for the MK Tournament? And on top of that, you expect me to believe the GOD OF THUNDER, could be kept in a psych ward, The writers must've been crazy if they thought that was sensible idea. In fact, speaking of Raiden, I hate how he looks nothing like his video game self, especially with his beard and him lacking his signature robes and straw hat, and that same issue I have with some character designs carries over to Baraka, who looks to rat like in my opinion, and Shao Kahn, who looks almost as bad as he did in Annihilation (almost).
Another issue with the swings I have that this series took would be with Scorpion and Sub-Zero. Scorpion is good for the most part and I like the Lin Kuei and Shirai Ryu actually wanting to be at peace with each other, but I don't like what they did with Sub-Zero since, the main Sub-Zero in this is Bi-Han since Kuai Liang is apparently dead in this series, though it's confirmed off-screen which is stupid, and later on Bi-Han is killed later on by Scorpion in the tournament, which yes is accurate to the games, but in this timeline that means there's no Sub-Zero as both of them are dead and there's no Scorpion and Sub-Zero rivalry. And in fact, how did the tournament even work in this series?
Speaking of Kuai Liang, I don't like how he seemed a bit to eager to pick a fight and nothing like how he is in the games, which led to his death, and that inaccurate personalities issues I have carries over to Kung Lao, who is usually the cocky one, but in this one is treated more like Raiden than the actual Raiden.
Still, despite those faults, I think this is a decently made web series filled with some decent production value, and choreographed fight scenes, even if at times they feel like something out of Power Rangers to me, but my favorite would have to be the one with Kenshi and Ermac, since at the end of the day, they had a guy wear a blind fold and actually fight someone while wearing it. That's so cool to me.
I also do appreciate some of the swings they took with this series, most notably with Liu Kang, as i like what they did with his character oddly enough as, after winning last years MK tournament, he lost the love of his life and began to resent Earthrealmers for their deeds, despite fighting for them, and then later he gets manipulated by Shang Tsung into joining the fighters of Outworld which I really like for some reason, and then we see Liu Kang and Kung Lao face off, with Kung Lao terrified of what his former friend has become. To bad we'll never get to see a continuation of this as this series hasn't been picked up for a Season 3 since
I also really like the animated sequences, some of the characters, most notably Jax, Sub-Zero, Kenshi, and Shang Tsung, the animated sequences for the Kitana and Mileena episodes, and I think the Scorpion & Sub-Zero episodes were the best of the series for me. Plus some of the acting is good to me, probably most notably with Michael Jai White as Jax and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa reprising his role as Shang Tsung.
So, yeah, not my favorite web-series, but I think it's decently made.
One of the things I don't love about this series is some of it's scenes and episodes never going anywhere, being picked up again, or not even being important like how the first episode had a damn good Sonya, Jax, and Kano, but they ultimately, never appear again, which applies to other characters like Mileena, Ermac, Baraka, and Sub-Zero being killed and then never appearing again. Another example of this being the episode with Raiden in a psychiatric institution. Why did he teleport himself to a psych ward, he's the god of thunder, did he not have anything better to do besides preparing for the MK Tournament? And on top of that, you expect me to believe the GOD OF THUNDER, could be kept in a psych ward, The writers must've been crazy if they thought that was sensible idea. In fact, speaking of Raiden, I hate how he looks nothing like his video game self, especially with his beard and him lacking his signature robes and straw hat, and that same issue I have with some character designs carries over to Baraka, who looks to rat like in my opinion, and Shao Kahn, who looks almost as bad as he did in Annihilation (almost).
Another issue with the swings I have that this series took would be with Scorpion and Sub-Zero. Scorpion is good for the most part and I like the Lin Kuei and Shirai Ryu actually wanting to be at peace with each other, but I don't like what they did with Sub-Zero since, the main Sub-Zero in this is Bi-Han since Kuai Liang is apparently dead in this series, though it's confirmed off-screen which is stupid, and later on Bi-Han is killed later on by Scorpion in the tournament, which yes is accurate to the games, but in this timeline that means there's no Sub-Zero as both of them are dead and there's no Scorpion and Sub-Zero rivalry. And in fact, how did the tournament even work in this series?
Speaking of Kuai Liang, I don't like how he seemed a bit to eager to pick a fight and nothing like how he is in the games, which led to his death, and that inaccurate personalities issues I have carries over to Kung Lao, who is usually the cocky one, but in this one is treated more like Raiden than the actual Raiden.
Still, despite those faults, I think this is a decently made web series filled with some decent production value, and choreographed fight scenes, even if at times they feel like something out of Power Rangers to me, but my favorite would have to be the one with Kenshi and Ermac, since at the end of the day, they had a guy wear a blind fold and actually fight someone while wearing it. That's so cool to me.
I also do appreciate some of the swings they took with this series, most notably with Liu Kang, as i like what they did with his character oddly enough as, after winning last years MK tournament, he lost the love of his life and began to resent Earthrealmers for their deeds, despite fighting for them, and then later he gets manipulated by Shang Tsung into joining the fighters of Outworld which I really like for some reason, and then we see Liu Kang and Kung Lao face off, with Kung Lao terrified of what his former friend has become. To bad we'll never get to see a continuation of this as this series hasn't been picked up for a Season 3 since
I also really like the animated sequences, some of the characters, most notably Jax, Sub-Zero, Kenshi, and Shang Tsung, the animated sequences for the Kitana and Mileena episodes, and I think the Scorpion & Sub-Zero episodes were the best of the series for me. Plus some of the acting is good to me, probably most notably with Michael Jai White as Jax and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa reprising his role as Shang Tsung.
So, yeah, not my favorite web-series, but I think it's decently made.