Mortal Kombat 2: Much Emotions, Less Brutality

Okay guys, so this is my review of Mortal Kombat 2026.

To start with, I remember watching Mortal Kombat 2021 and while it wasn’t the biggest movie that year, it made sense. It had roots. It was almost true to the source material — it had the comic side, the lore, everything.

Now for Mortal Kombat 2 — it’s still true to the source material, but there’s a lot of emotion attached this time. You see Keitana go from being a good person to changing along the line. Jade, her friend/her sister betraying her, then turning around later… it was a lot. Honestly, it felt like too much emotion packed in.

Fight scenes
The fight scenes aren’t bad, actually. But at the same time, they’re not the best either.

Johnny Cage — permission to call him Butcher — made a comment about how people are done with karate poses and now expect John Wick fight scenes. I get the game part of it and how it’s founded in karate. But here’s the thing: they could have tried to replicate one or two of those John Wick style scenes. What makes everyone love John Wick is the brutality. These guys had a lot of emotion in their fighting, but not enough brutality. Except for the stabbing part where they stabbed Shao Kahn a lot.

The worst fight scene
The worst fight scene for me was Johnny Cage’s first fight with Keitana. She stuck her fan on a wooden post, used it to propel herself upside down, and while floating — or levitating — she cut him with the other fan blade and landed casually. It didn’t have the force or sudden action of a jump. It just looked like she had a power to fly that they never explained.

The best fight scene
On the other hand, the best fight scene was in hell. They met Scorpion, and Scorpion led them to Bi-Han, which is Sub-Zero. That whole fight was the most OG fight in the whole movie. The part where Scorpion jumps across the stage — I’m sure they used CGI — but it was just good. He lived up to the hype. It was even better than the final fight where Keitana finally killed Shao Kahn.

Johnny Cage’s choice
Secondly, Johnny Cage went into it too easily. He just accepted it so casually. I mean, he just transported into another world where death was a real, potential reality. I see his street-smart, Earth side where he convinced the monsters to join the fight. I see the flirting too — he moved across from The Boys multiples, right? But that’s all nice.

What was strange for me is how he just accepted going to a strange world and potentially dying. Like, he saw someone die and knew he could die too, and he just agreed to fight for something so strange and die for something so strange so casually. That gave very strange suicidal vibes, and I’m saying that cautiously. How do you just see a portal open, walk through it, and decide “okay, let’s go die for this”?

Those are the two main things for now. I’ll update this article as soon as I notice anything else. But please, in the comments tell me what else you noticed, what you love and what you hate about the movie. Catch you on the next one.