Mortal Kombat 2 Has 5 Major Problems It Needs To Fix (Luckily, It Can)
Mortal Kombat 2 is officially happening at Warner Bros., and there are five major problems from the first Mortal Kombat (2021) that the sequel needs to fix for it to work. After an underwhelming box office but a solid performance on HBO Max, the Mortal Kombat reboot has a sequel greenlit with director Simon McQuoid set to return. Mortal Kombat 2 will have a new writer, Jeremy Slater, who promised that they will take feedback from the first Mortal Kombat into consideration while working on the sequel.
Mortal Kombat (2021) marked the first attempt of restarting the Mortal Kombat franchise on the big screen after Mortal Kombat: Annihilation’s disastrous reception. The Mortal Kombat reboot had an overall similar story to that of Mortal Kombat (1995), with a focus on introducing the world, the characters, and the relationships between them. That said, the Mortal Kombat reboot had some significant differences from the original Mortal Kombat movies and the games as a whole, namely the absence of Johnny Cage in the Earthrealm’s Champions roster and the creation of a brand new character, Cole Young.
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The decision of replacing Johnny Cage’s role in the story with an original character was met with a lot of criticism and, in some ways, it did not pay off. However, the lack of Johnny Cage in favor of Cole was far from being the only problem of Mortal Kombat. The reboot was flawed both as a movie and as a Mortal Kombat adaptation, and it felt like it wasted a great cast, on-point costumes, and solid visual effects – the last of which Mortal Kombat (1995) and Mortal Kombat: Annihilation struggled a lot with. The Mortal Kombat reboot had all the tools for a
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