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Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
Overwhelming dislike
Based on 12 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 27 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Written by:
Brent V. Friedman & Bryce Zabel
Lawrence Kasanoff & Joshua Wexler & John Tobias (story)
Ed Boon (video games)
Directed by: John R. Leonetti
Release Date:
Theatrical: November 21, 1997
DVD: September 14, 2004
Running Time: 91 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for non-stop martial arts violence
Starring Robin Shou, James Remar, Talisa Soto, Sandra Hess, Brian Thompson, Lynn 'Red' Williams, Reiner Schöne, and Deron McBee
In defiance of the Elder Gods, the evil Outworlders are back to wreak hell on Earth. Earth's last hope is the mighty Liu Kang and his explosive fighting friends. They're all that stand between life…and annihilation! (New Line)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
But the most stimulating, satisfying aspect of this action fantasy is the theme music.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack
Its dazzling special effects make its combatants flip and fly, spin and soar, all the while punching and kicking each other like jackhammers, only to leave viewers utterly unmoved.
Read Full Review >Variety Daniel M. Kimmel
Pic consists largely of choppily edited fight scenes (usually involving somersaults and back flips) combined with various computer graphic effects.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
It wastes no time getting to the punching, kicking, stomping and zapping that passes for a cinematic event. [22Nov1997 Pg. 35]
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
This tedious hodgepodge of martial-arts mayhem, bogus mysticism and computer-generated special effects doesn't even pretend to have a plot.
Read Full Review >Empire Ian Freer
It would miss the point to complain that the plot is nonsensical drivel peopled by paper-thin characters and a paucity of ideas.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Fragmented and monotonous, without a semblance of the gymnastic cleverness that at least made the first Mortal Kombat film into watchable trash, Mortal Kombat Annihilation is as debased as movies come.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
This film has no story, no characters, and no coherence.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Lawrence Van Gelder
Here's the lowdown on the latest chapter in Mortal Kombat: deadly dull.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Bob Heisler
The sequel is quite serious, charmless and critic-proof (in fact, it wasn't screened for the media), and it may attract the teenagers who have made the game so popular. [24Nov1997 Pg.10]
Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
The movie is nothing more than a perpetual chain of elaborately choreographed (by returning star Robin Shou) fight sequences that mix live-action foregrounds with complexly layered digital effects and are linked together by the most flimsy and laughable of plot elements.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
It's cynical and it's depressing, and I would lock a child in a room before I'd show him Mortal Kombat: Annihilation.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 3.2 (out of 10) based on 27 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
N P gave it a0:
It is one of the worst movies I have ever seen! It makes the first movie (which was a masterpiece) a joke. Just watch the first one (its better).
Christian S. gave it a1:
Hi, if you want to watch mortal kombat, watch the first one because it is so much better this garbage they call a sequel. even if it is faithful to the video game that i played when i was 10, the whole film is brought down by terribly cheesy and outdated visual effects, corny dialouge, annoying characters, and a terrible script.
LB gave it a0:
I had heard this was horrible, but my sanity was simply annihilated as I watched this on TV. Bad acting, terrible fight scenes, and the plot makes no sense. Characters just randomly show up and fight random characters. The first one was actually pretty decent, but they really should have left it alone after that.
Kevin M gave it a4:
I like how 5 guys can come up with a story that any 6th grader could have come up with in their head. This sequel was just shallow. Still, it's not the worse movie I've ever seen, but it is definitely one of the weakest movie adaptations of a video game (nothing beats Street Fighter, even though it was entertaining for all the wrong reasons).
Edgar V gave it a2:
A very bad movie at all levels even though in my opinion is a little- but only a little- better than the first which was pretty awful itself... From bad acting to ridiculous special effects the experience turns into un unbearable torment... This is definitely the movie you should be looking forward... to avoid!
Gabbo E gave it a2:
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, that's pretty much the description of this sequel, it annihilated the opportunity of New Line ever doing another Mortal Kombat movie, i really liked the first Mortal Kombat movie, but i did not like this one as much as i liked the first one, what went wrong with this one was that almost everyone of the original cast has been replaced except for Robin Shou as Liu Kang and Talisa Soto as Kitana, the costumes were terrible, the special effects were vomit, the dialogue was absolutely cheesy, the fights were not as good as the fights in the first MK movie and there were too many characters jumping in and out, bottomline: the original Mortal Kombat movie is an excellent masterpiece, but the sequel Mortal Kombat: Annihilation is a waste of time.
Patrick N gave it a0:
The most time-wasting movie that i watched.Can your face still be in perfect shape when you get hit by a steel hatchet in the face?
