Mortal Kombat 2021: 26 Years In The Making

Campy. Gory. Fun?

Alexander Razin
3 min readApr 24, 2021
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When I arrived home Friday, I had two things on my mind: Yes; they gave me tomorrow off at work, and I’m nervous talking to the owner of the publication I’m a part of on Sunday. What would he sound like, and how would he perceive my voice?

I hope they’re ready because I sound like a surfer bra who abandons surfing to get a Ph.D. in science.

I set those aside so problems so I can watch a film that melted my worries.

Mortal Kombat (2021) released internationally on April 8, 2021, and in the United States on April 23, 2021, in theaters and HBO Max. New Line Cinema produced the film, and Warner Bros. distributed it.

Directed by first time major length film director, Simon McQuoid. He’s directed plenty of ads for Netflix, Playstation, Call of Duty, and the Duracell Star Wars commercial. He did a good job overseeing the movie. The scenes looked vivid, and the action scenes excite.

The screenplay of Mortal Kombat is by four people (it makes sense now), Greg Russo with Mortal Kombat (2021) and many video game movies in development as Saints Row. Dave Callahan, who wrote Godzilla (2014) and the first Expendables. Oren Uziel wrote 22 Jump Street and The Cloverfield Paradox. It’s a video game-based film where people rip each…

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Alexander Razin

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