It’s a question that goes back to Doom, if not before: Why make movie adaptations of video games? Easy answer: “Why not?” Or “easy money.” So why are so many so lackluster, in story, and often in production values? The triumphs mark the exceptions, from Tron and Tron: Legacy to the Resident Evil series, and a fine enough effort by Angelina Jolie and Alicia Vikander in two efforts to get a Tomb Raider film series to take hold, for starters. Then there’s Assassin’s Creed, Warcraft, Street Fighter, Wing Commander, and worse (at least Prince of Persia: Sands of Time had some fun in it). Often listed among the worst of them all is 1995’s Mortal Kombat, a film that couldn’t be saved even by casting Cary Hiroyuki-Tagawa as the charismatic villain or casting an ex-Bond girl (Talisa Soto). It’s those same characters and apparently plot that will get a retry this spring with the big-screen reboot Mortal Kombat. However this movie features leads of the stellar martial arts marvels The Night Comes for Us and Wu Assassins, and the special effects are light years ahead of the prior films. Check out the first trailer for the movie below.
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