Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match

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Cheesy fun action. The film is hilarious! I hope they make more Cage films! When i sat down to watch this i had no expectations of what to expect, i went in totally blind and it blew me away. The voice acting is great. The writing is fun cheese, don't go in expecting a heavy drama or anything like some people have oddly bemoaned. The creators knew exactly what they wanted to make and made it. The fighting is furious and fast, though this is definitely more of a komedy than a pure action film. The 80's style was fun. Animation was solid. I liked the use of colors. Some of the music was riffs of classics, which was a bit odd, but maybe the budget didn't allow for eye of the tiger.

Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match is the fourth entry in the Mortal Kombat Legends DTV film series, and it is an interesting entry for me, as it not only stars Johnny Cage, one of my favorite MK characters, but is also a neat movie set in the 1980's. In the movie, Johnny Cage is about to have his big break filming the movie Ninja Mime. However, the movie is in danger of being unfinished when co-star Jennifer Grey goes missing. Going to her mansion, she sees the place is a mess, and going into her bedroom, he witnesses two women fighting over a scroll. This puts him in the middle of a plot by a cult known as the Brotherhood of Shadow to bring their god, Shinnok, into Earthrealm. Okay, for a Mortal Kombat movie, Cage Match not only succeeds in keeping the violence and gore the franchise is infamous for, but also making it a cheesy 80's action comedy that fits Johnny Cage's role of comic relief real well. Joel McHale returns to voice the Hollywood airhead from the first two Mortal Kombat Legends films after being absent in the last film, Snow Blind, and Jennifer Grey is in this voicing herself as well as Sareena. Also, Kelly Hu is the voice Ashrah, and Robin Atkins Downs returns as the voice of Shinnok, also reprising the role from Scorpion's Revenge and Battle of the Realms. But the greatest voice role here is David Doubldy, who is voiced by the late Gilbert Gotfried, this being his final film role before his passing (with the movie one of the few media to be dedicated to his memory). A great departure from the past three films, Cage Match aims for being a cheesy 80's action comedy. Johnny Cage is spewing one-liners and jokes as usual, and the film embraces how cheesy it is, alongside its various references to 1980's pop culture. However, it still keeps the action as well as the violence and gore that fans of Mortal Kombat come to expect. Johnny gets a backstory to how he became skilled in martial arts, and the 80's style soundtrack is awesome.

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Although Cage's character do not disappoint and the actor who does thevoice over is more than great in it, this film's script and directing fail too much. No consistancy to the other 3 from the franchise. Starts off well, gets boring, predictable half trough. All of the characters are whatever except the main two. No cool gore. No cool figts. No cool story. It feels like Mortal Kombat which is good, and Johhny Cage is the way he should be, but everything else just falls apart. IDK why they keep making these movies. Th first one was exellent. The second one ruined the franchise, and the third one kind of made the things better, but it did not feel part of the franchise at all... It's a mess. Shame. Shame, because all of the four feel MK, but except the first one, the others fail because of the script. Final Score: 5/10.

Some of the fight scenes have stage transitions and the fights end in bloody defeat for the other character, that was enough for me to like it. Enjoyed the art style, even if it was for yet another 80's themed movie aesthetic. So apparently I can't post a review that short. Now I have to fill up this review with words just to post about a movie that I enjoyed. It makes sense why some of the reviews on here that I've read seem to drag. By the time I hit the word count I'm probably going to dislike the movie. The performances from the voice actors were fine, although hearing Gilbert Gottfried's voice was a lovely surprise.

If you are paying attention, it seems that in our new "woke" universe, merely trying to do something is now literally as good as actually doing it. By that odd logic, this film should be a "10." Because, in every scene, and with every line of dialog, it tries so darn hard to get the formula right -- yet fails repeatedly -- that the end result is almost painful to watch. The MK universe is not my favorite part of Warner Animation, but it can be fun when it works. Here it does not not work. Clearly the writing team had watched one too many episodes of Archer -- because the entire movie is mainly swagger and little else. Martial Arts? Barely an afterthought. For diehard fans of the franchise only -- and even then you may not like what you see. ((Designated "IMDb Top Reviewer." Please check out my list "167+ Nearly-Perfect Movies (with the occasional Anime or TV miniseries) you can/should see again and again (1932 to the present))