The Horror Returns - The Action Returns - Ep. #34: Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997)

Episode Date: May 3, 2021

This episode Brian and Nez regroup with our heroes of the Earthrealm to take on Shao Kahn and his Outworld warriors in the 1997 martial arts video game film MORTAL KOMBAT: ANNIHILATION.   Join The Action Returns Facebook group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/841619946357776   Follow The Action Returns on IG and Twitter: Instagram: @theactionreturns Twitter: @action_returns 

The earth was created in six days. So too, shall it be destroyed. And on the seventh day, mankind will rest in peace. I need some passion tonight. Welcome back, everybody, to a brand new episode of the Action Returns. I'm your host, Brian, and with me to hopefully put a fatality on this. God awful movie. My brother

Nez, what's up, man? Mortal Kombat Inolation. Well, I'm all right. The movie wasn't. If I'm all right after watching it. I'm not either. I'm like,

come on. I was looking at my phone and started cutting my fingernails. James Remar. is not, he's not in the Hall of Fame. In the Hall of Shame for this one. There's a couple of boobies here. He's not headed in the right direction.

Well, man, you got to work. You take whatever's handed to you, get that money. So, all righty, Mortal Kombat. Every generation, an ancient gateway opens. that links the earth with another world.

The ultimate evil has been released. Now, the fate of our planet is about to be decided. Fighting for our... 1997, directed by John R. Leonetti. Every generation a portal opens up between the outworld and Earth. Emperor Shao Khan,

ruler of the mythical outer world pounces the moment the portal opens and slips through with his mighty warriors intent on total domination and

until into the two worlds. However, he is only however he has only seven days to complete his task. In the meantime opposition grows in warrior Sonia Blade, Jack

Katana and Lou King Get Ready for War All right I was a long It was a long synopsis about Nothing Yeah I don't remember any that happened in the movie

But all right I am to be a group of martial art warriors I have only six days To save the earth from an extra dimensional invasion There you go Yeah, that sounds a little bit better. All right.

This stars a ton of people. I only see. There's only one, I think, two people that actually returned from the first film. Cast or actor-wise. Robin Shows, Lou Kang. Oh, well, three. I'm sorry. I forgot about her.

She didn't do nothing in the first one. Talisa Soto. She's Katana. Barely did anything. in this one. Well, she did more than this one than she did in the last, really she fought a little bit. Man, we'll just hold on a second. She, her first scene in the movie when everybody's invading, like she's doing this

thing where she's, I guess it's her fighting stance, but it just looks like she doesn't know where to put her hands. I don't know. I don't know who was helping them with the choreography, but they obviously dropped the ball on her. Or maybe, she just wasn't listening too hard to put her own spice on it but uh action returns a hall of famer uh the one and only james remar as raiden replacing uh christopher lambert from the first film um another replacement sandra hess she's a sonia blade um really quick this film takes starts right where the first one ended so i mean other than and replace an actress.

I guess Sony had time to cut her hair. Oh, yeah. Before the next fight. All right. Lynn Red Williams is Jacks. Ooh. He had some cool one-liners,

what's, yeah. Brian Thompson, Shao Khan. You guys might remember him as, um, what's his name of Cobra? I just remember him as the night slasher. Yeah, and

I think that I mean, he's been in a ton of movies. I think that's the only movie Cobra that we've covered with him in it. All right. Rine here. Ooh.

Good luck. Shoshuan. I'll take that. Shinnock. All right. Museta, Vader, Sondell.

Oh. Rino. You. We'll die. Oh, fuck. You know, Pabbity as Jade. Dionne McRide is

Marado. Is that, or Motorola? Mortaro, I think. Yeah, he's the centaur or whatever, half horse guy. Amar Jean Holden as Shiva. Gary Davis,

a.k.a. Lightfoot as Night Wolf. Chris Conrad is Johnny Cage. they did Johnny dirty in this one. It's not even the same guy. No. John Medellin as Airmac. J.J. Perry as Syracs, Scorpion.

That new, Bernab, Sabat, Takanan. He was Baraka. I don't know. Yeah. We'll get to that one, too. Yeah. And a bunch of other people.

people. Ray Park was in this. He played a Raptor and Baraka, when I guess when he was doing the flips and everything. But okay, Ed Boone, a scorpion. Well, no, he did the voice.

Who was? Oh, JJ Perry was scorpion. The guy that played sub-zero, where's he had on here? He's not even listed, is he? No, no, no, no,

he's right here. He's cooked. Yeah, he played reptile in the first film. So, but then there's Ninja Warriors and a bunch of other people in this. Shang-sung came back, but only like in the very beginning, like during flashbacks or something, as well as Luke King's brother Chan, Steve-ho, he came as it comes back just for what they shot in the first film. And Tony Jive was a stunt double for, what is it, Robin Chu, Show? Oh, was he?

Yeah, like early, early Tony Jop. But, Brian, what did you think of Mortal Kombat annihilation? And when was the first time you seen this? This I also saw in the theater. I hated it then. Fucking hate it even more now. this movie is fucking stupid. Oh my gosh.

Because I always, you know, back then I didn't really, you know, dig deep into the movies like we do now. I see why Christopher Lambert passed on this one. I see why the, I don't know, the name of the actor that played Johnny Cage also didn't like the script and passed on this one. I see that because this story is stupid. It makes no sense.

I don't understand Shao Khan is invading Earth with the help of his father who is an elder god but the two other elder gods have no knowledge of this whatsoever which is fucking weird

I don't buy James Remar as raiding it was completely just two different two different people two different styles acting I mean playing raiding compared to Christopher Lambert

the way he played it. I don't even know if I liked any of the fight scenes really. I may be the Sonia Blade fighting, um, what was his name? In the, in the lab or whatever, the robot dude. Oh, um, smoke. Yeah. Maybe that one was probably pretty good, but then

Jacks gets involved and he fucking does nothing with his useless ass arms. I don't fucking do anything. Then they tried to shoehorn like all these other characters in. Like, why did we need like three Maracas?

I don't know. And the fucking makeup. The special effects on that was horrible. The CGI has got awful because yeah, they gave us people's like animalities in this, but they just they're so bad.

They're so bad. And I didn't understand what this. Every time someone got defeated, their little tattoo would just fly away. I don't know. If you thought the CGI was bad in the first one, who? Yeah,

they went the fucking wrong direction with this one. I don't know. I do like Brian Thompson. I mean, he was hamming it up in this one. But, yeah. But I don't,

I don't know if I can really say I liked anything about this. I do like Robin Showshoe. I don't know how you pronounce it. He's always cool. He does his thing, but this whole romantic relationship with Katana, I don't know. Stupid.

Whole movie's stupid. Well, the budget for this one was $30 million and it boxed off as 51.3. wasn't an extra 20 million but it was what it was I understand

why they did it because the first one was so good but I wish they would have thought about what they were doing I mean this the story was just like

what the hell's actually going on other than they're trying to save the outer world us the earth realm to

uh completely total complete total annihilation because they opened up these portals and it was sucking in thing i i didn't get what's going to life out of me watching it i guess man it doesn't make sense because they lost in mortal combat that i mean they that's what that's what uh lu keg said he said that to raiden is like how is this happening and why is it happening he goes we won mortal with combat. This should, we should be good until another

10 years or however that many years they said, but I don't know. I assume it was because um who was uh, shout Khan's dad um

I don't even remember. Um, it was it an air mac, was it? No. Um, well, whoever that dude was um he brought back um what's her face uh katana's um mom um was a send out

yeah to talk about fucking overacting uh i liked how she looked but oh man i was like what the hell you're going and then when she wasn't evil no more she just looked like a regular old soccer mom or something. Yeah. I was like, oh, it's like you don't even look like you're from another dimension. You look like you're a regular middle age woman from Earth.

Yeah, I don't know what, what was happening with all these people, but. Oh, and they just fucking ruin Scorpion. When he does, when he,

when he kidnaps Katana and he's like, sucker. I was like, no. he didn't even do anything i mean i did like the um the fight with uh sub zero but

it was just like what the fuck is going on here i mean they i did like how sub zero looked and they did kind of revamp um scorpions mask and everything so I mean, that was

alright. Shinuk was the name of what the hell is his name? Shaakhan's dad. Because the Shinok guy, he was the one that brought Sendell

back to life. And I think because of that, she was able to have these portals open. I think. I don't know. But this movie

was just all over the place. Because it starts off where the last one ended. And then this is when we're introduced to Shaal Khan. I assume that was him at the end of the first Mortal Kombat movie. I thought it was the emperor. But

Shaq Khan I guess they weren't ethnically correct I'm pretty sure Shao Khan was an Asian gentleman but all right let's get the night slasher to do it I mean that's all I see him as

he's been in a ton of movies and he's getting whatever he does but night slasher is all I see every time I see him so we're introduced to him and raining ninjas yeah the clouds are all and ninjas are falling out of the sky

I assume that was a portal he comes down and explains all right this is what I'm going to do I'm going to kill all you and then we're going to rule the earth realm and then we kind of get a little fight between uh raiden and it shall come which is terrible. Well,

James Remar, man, I love you, man. You're always good, but man, he, he, I mean, the editors or whatever, I mean, you can clearly see that wasn't James Raymore every time he got into some kind of action. They didn't even try to hide

the actor's face. And you can clearly see it was a much younger gentleman. Well, yeah, at least Shao Khan can put the mask on. Well, he did in the beginning. He took it off later, but. Never put it back on. Uh-uh. I was like, oh, my God.

I mean, all right. So they kind of get into that and Shao Khan takes off. And then that's when they kind of feel, all right, well, we got to do it again. This time it wasn't, there was no turn. tournament, it was just titled Moral Combat. So, so now they got to protect the world, protect the world from Shao Khan and his reigning ban and ninjas and all these people that he brought in.

Yeah, I like it. It said it, they had six days, but this seemed like it took place in one night. Yeah, I really couldn't tell because once they went back to the, to the outer world,

outworld, I was like, well, what happened? I mean, well, yeah, was this like in one day or a matter of hours? But, well, I don't know. So, Radin kind of told them, I was like, all right, look, we got to go into the outer world to fight them. And stop everything and figure out how we're going to close these portals. Because, yeah, Katana showed up too when she was there with Shao Khan and everything. And not Katana.

um, Sondell showed up. But Katana was the one that saw her like mother and whatever. Because I, did they even explain or say anything on how Sindel who killed her or what or? No. All right.

We're supposed to just go with it. Yeah. So yeah, Rayden tells them, all right, we got to go in there and this is what we got to do. but when we get in there, each of you are going to have your own kind of type of mission. So they end up going into the outworld.

And this is when, um, this is when sub zero shows up or no, um, oh, when they split up in them stupid two ball things that travel through the earth. Oh, yeah, they got there first. Um, and these balls, these magic rolling balls are going to take them. Yeah. Take him to hell. I don't know where. Yeah, Lou King has to go search out Knight Wolf, which he's not really searching for him because you don't find him.

He finds you. And Sonia is supposed to go get Jacks, even though she said she's not going to because she doesn't want to bring him into this. She goes and gets him anyways. All right. Yeah, so that's what she was supposed to do. And, um, Raiden told Luke Kang to go, go to the Hopi Mesa's and look for Night Wolf.

All righty. Pretty much all you know, I, I am Native American. My nation, I represent the Navajo Nation. Deneta. And this, this guy, um, uh, Night Wolf, aka Gray. cloud or something, whatever

his real name was in the game wise. But he was supposedly Matoka from the Matoka tribe. And I'm like, okay, that's more

east. Why is he going to the southwest? Either in Arizona or New Mexico or in that area. to the Hopi Mesa to look for this

native that should be on the other side of the country but okay sounds like somebody didn't do their research

I'm like okay but Gary Davis aka Lightfoot back in my musical days when I was in this hip-hop group we actually opened up for him

And he was cool. If you guys have seen him in that movie, well, he's been in a shit ton of movies. But an Indian in the cupboard. He was Little Bear. I think that's what his name was in that. I loved the Night Wolf when he first appeared in the games. I believe it was Mortal Kombat 3.

And that was my character. Other than Scorpions, my man, but again, native. I'm like, hell yeah. I got to be him. he does what he does in the game. They kind of not had him in a few of the games and then he came back later in the later games.

I like his moves. I really love the tomahawk thing, the fiery tomahawk that whatever movie does with that. But this one, oh man. Other than they slapped a wig on Lightfoot and painted up his face. He did look like,

how Night Wolf looked in the game so I was cool with that but this scene was kind of dumb I was like make no sense I mean they talked for like a second then he knocks him out and then he's gone

okay this is what it says Lou finds Night Wolf who teaches him about the power of animal animal animal animality of formality or form a shape shifting

which utilizes the cast of strengths and abilities. Did he teach him though? No. He knocked his ass out and then left him there. More anything he showed him because when when Luke King is looking around

he's out walking in the desert and then all of a sudden it just gets dark and he's in the background you kind of see these little little um i can't remember what they call them um god damn it um well these these native things and i'm like that's more uh a plains or eastern tribe thing and and then again we're in the

southwest so okay you know uh and night wolf comes in the cg i wolf or I was like, oh my God. I mean, it looked bad. But I was like, okay, whatever. And, okay, wait, here's what it says. To achieve the mindset needed to acquire this power, Lou must pass three tests.

The first is a trial of self-esteem, courage, and focus. The second comes in a form of temptation, which manifests itself. to the form of jade a mysterious warrior who attempts to seduce lou and offers her assistance after he resists her advances okay time out so she was the one of the tests that supposedly manifested but then later you find out that she was sent by shall con okay so technically did he pass any i didn't know there was three tests Well, he mentions it, but I...

Just go with it? I guess. I mean, they... I think they're just more concentrated on everybody's looks than a story. I was like, all right, whatever. As Lou accepts Jades' offer and takes her with him to the Elder God's Temple, where he and his friends are to meet Raiden. The third test is never revealed.

Well, I guess the second one really was a... either. But okay. And that's pretty much all we see a night wolf. Which is lame. Okay. This, the things I was reading, like on, when you, when you type in night wolf, they're saying, oh, he's a mystical shaman. All right. There is no such thing as a Native American shaman,

first of all. um this is i don't know the what white people call uh call them that they call them that um he was more of a uh well in my in my tribe um we have medicine men we don't call them they're not priests or anything and they're definitely not shamans but what what you're saying is hollywood needs to do better yeah well they did a little big did a little good they at least got a native guy to be a native character so yeah from from my point of view since we've been doing this we went from stephen lang to james remar to a lot of misrepresentation in this movie come on hollywood well everyone it's it's early

Hollywood. I don't know. I don't know what to tell you. But I gave him that. I remember when this movie first came out and me and my friends were talking about it, some other native guys. We all said, well, at least they got an Indian guy to play the Native American character. I mean, again, Night Wolf was awesome. Lifewood. He was a cool guy. I had no problems with him. I hung out with him. We actually hung out that night, um, Indian in the cupboard came out because we were going.

We met in Albuquerque at the airport. Then we flew or we drove up to, to the Navajo Res. We were doing a show and, um, where was it? Chinley, I believe, Chinley, Arizona on the Res. At the Navajo Community College.

Uh, Lightfoot was a head one was one of the headliners. Um, then it was us. some other people. I can't remember. It was like a two-day thing. We only played one night.

Well, excuse me. So, but anyway. I think I remember listening to his music, like in the late 90s. I liked his earlier stuff. I mean, his first album, seen red, and then he did his second one. I can't remember the name of him. He kind of lost me a little bit, but I think he still does music.

But I know he's really into more of the tribal. politics of his nation, which is good. I mean, we need those positive role models in the native communities. He does good. He didn't just get money and party and be stupid with it. So good for him. Gary, if you're listening to Brother, man, I love you. Keep it up.

Hollywood would do better. Yeah, I didn't know his name was Gary until he told me. I just knew him as Lightfoot. But he said, yeah, my name is Gary Davis. Okay, cool. So, all right. Lou and Jade go hook up

with everyone else, but let me go back a little bit. Sonia went to pick up Jacks. When they got those little balls, they were right in tone, look man, these

little things, they're going to take you to where you need to be. So that one took Lou Kang, to the Hopi Mases, and then the other one took Sonia to get Jacks

and some lab in the middle of nowhere yeah I didn't get that but all right I mean why did what go ahead no I was going to say I was going to say when we left jacks he was outside that club or no outside where the the

boat was when they got on to go to the island yeah but she knows where to go get him because he's at his lab putting these stupid-ass arms on? Well, I don't think she knew, but they just said these balls will take you wherever you need to go. So I assume the balls knew. We need to back it up really quick,

all the way back to the beginning. We forgot that at the very beginning of the film, I mean, if you guys remember the end of the last one, we got Lou Kang, Johnny Cage, and Sonia and Raiden there. When Shao Khan showed up, Johnny Cage kind of stepped up, a totally different actor. I can take care of it. And Shao Khan kills him.

I was like, that's it. Well, I could see why the actor didn't want to come back. If I'm only going to be in it for like a second and not do nothing, I mean, I don't want to be in this movie. So, but I was like,

really, he's going to kill him of Johnny Cage? At least let him go and maybe get killed towards the end or in the middle. Not right from the get go. but I just assumed that they needed to have all these other new characters we see shine but I mean they could have gave Johnny Cage another fight scene with somebody and then and then get killed but I don't know I thought that was dumb man is dumb oh and uh did Sonia like Johnny Cage

according to the way she reacted when he died yeah I didn't get well they had that one scene I didn't like from the first movie where he was he's going to fight Goro because he was telling her I can't I can't see anything happened to you and I'm like you've known each other for like hours

so flashing back forward Sonia goes to pick up Jacks and he's laying on the table on some science lab and they put these big styrofoam looking silver arms on them

supposedly he's supposed to be metal they did not look good and they were so bulky I was like I did like how his arms looked in in the new movie but we'll talk about that next week I just laughed I was like oh because

son, he was like, come on, man, you got to help me. He was like, all right. And he was trying to get up out of the table, but couldn't. So he ended up busting, busting out. And he was like, ooh, all right. Now that's what I'm talking about with his big crazy arms. I mean, he just, he had to ham it up. Any, every chance he got.

And I was like, oh, my God. And this is when smoke shows up. I liked how he looked. He kind of looked like. how he did in the game. Whoever that actor was, it was in the costume. I thought that was cool.

They did a lot of fighting. I mean, this is when Sonia got to shine. She at least did more than just a couple of kicks and strangled you with their feet or something. But she was getting her ass whooped, but she was

handling her own. So I thought that was cool. and then who did jack start fighting he started fighting him because then she started fighting the random ninjas that was raining in from the sky oh that's right because yeah smoke came in and then his whole crew of ninjas uh to follow him i'm i don't know where they're getting all these ninjas but these ninja guys are garbage uh they all get they all get killed they're like stormtroopers or the foot clan or whatever random guys you need to just die hey you guys not fighting here put this on and come on so um i did like it they were at least getting thrown all over the room sonia was and uh jacks was getting tossed all over the

place and uh how did they end up killing him well no he actually blew up but um yeah i think he did like a self-destruct thing. The Jackson is the one that started beating him up. Yeah, after that, he started beating him up, and then after that I think he did some kind of self-destruct thing, and then they ran out and dove from the worst explosion, CGI effect ever. I mean, there was a lot of people jumping in the air

and would fly across the room and stuff like that. Speaking of that, we're jumping ahead. Um, when, uh, before everybody, before they are heroes all, was that before they went into the out, the outworld when they met, uh, when Scorpion came? Or was that right when they got there? That was before. Okay. That was in, uh, where, uh, uh, uh, uh, Lou King and Katana got out of the, got out of the ball, because they were. where they needed to go, I guess, and Scorpion showed up.

And then, no, first the other robot dude showed up. And they started fighting. Yeah, they started fighting the other robot dude. Then Sub-Zero showed up. And then he revealed that he's the brother of the other one. And then out of nowhere, Scorpion showed up. And he had your favorite little spirit things with the mouth and teeth but he had two of them this time oh my god i was

was all this happened in like five minutes yeah because yeah scorpion comes in and starts doing that and fighting lu keang and katana and then sub zero comes flying in he comes in and he takes his mask off and then they were kind of like hey man I thought thought I killed you and then sub we all goes no that was my brother and I mean all right this is this sub zero must be a shitty brother because if someone that killed my brother I'd be after them to but I was like okay not to mention he he came in like Iceman to on like a like a like a ice lie or something.

Oh my God, dude. The wire work in this was the worst. I mean, you couldn't see the wires, but you knew they were on it. And, uh, I don't know, but yeah, when Scorpion showed up and

he didn't do the get over here, come here. He said something else. Yeah, he said, sucker. Yeah, I was like, uh, and just like, stop talking, Scorpions.

Just don't say anything. thing. Oh my guy. Sub-Zero, he only showed up with his mask for a second, and then he took it off. But he at least looked like how Sub-Zero did, and I believe it was the second game when he didn't have a mask. He just had that red, I don't know if it was a scar

or whatever, over his eye. But this sub-zero is just like his brother. When he starts doing the magic ice stuff, he takes forever and at least the CGI was somewhat good here

so but our heroes Leukang and Katana were trying to cross this little endless pit I don't know bottomless pit but they couldn't get across

so subzero he does his magic ice and makes an ice bridge and um okay practical effects once the bridge is there and then when

a sub-zero starts to cross this is when scorpion appears his little things come flying up and they look worse than they did in the first one he he does do the get over here when it comes out of his hand

it's not well it's one but then it splits off off into two. I did like how he looked. Well, both of them. I liked how Sub Zero looked, and I liked how Scorpion looked. Their mask were totally different. Was this the same Scorpion from the first film?

Or I don't know. As far as actors, no. But because Johnny Cage blew up that one. I don't know. I don't know, but then. They didn't even question why Scorpion was back. Yeah, I mean, they, well, they kind of did say, well, you don't really die in the outer world in mortal combat. But, okay.

Well, they didn't, when we get to the new one, they kind of, they reference that. And it kind of made sense. Yeah, well. But this one, it just. Oh, man. Yeah, because it's sub zero. scorpion commenced the fighting they're fighting on the ice bridge i did like this fight scene i mean it was cool to see them battling each other i mean we didn't get it in the in the first film

but after why these two are fighting the bridge starts to crack and fall apart uh scorpion kind of falls under the thing and uh there's like an under bridge part and then sub zero does a backflip and goes down on there and then they they commence to whoop an ass. All right. They're really quick. Sub Zero made that bridge so they can cross. Because when they got to that point,

they're like, oh, man, how we can get across this? Now that the bridge is gone and Scorpion and Sub Zero are fighting, Lucaine jumps across. It's not just a jump. He does a flip for no reason. I know. I was like, why didn't you just do that to begin with? Because if he can do it, I know she can do it.

Yeah, I mean, it didn't look that far. Maybe if he got a running jump, but I don't know. But still while, at least they focused more, during the scene, they did focus more in on Scorpion and Sub-Zero. I did like the fight. I did like the move when Sub-Zero jumps up and starts stomping Scorpion while he's in the air. I don't know why none of them did their their moves

I wasn't Scorpion is your subzero is just slow to make bring on the freezing stuff but Scorpion never did the come here during any of this fight so but I don't know all right

I'm watching this as I'm talking about it okay um sub zero as Scorpion is still battling it out. Scorpion kind of gets the upper hand and kicks Sub Zero and he falls back and almost to the edge.

And if Sub Zero falls off, he'll fall into the burning lava river. So Sub Zero kind of just disappears in a crappy CGI melting effect. So he disappears. Sub Zero still, oh, hanging on. So Lou King does. a flip

across to get to the other side. I still don't understand why he didn't do that to begin with, but all right. Now you can clearly see he was on ropes. Or so he lands on the other side, helps Sub-Zero get up. But if you notice, sub-zero gets up without him grabbing his hand first.

Yeah. And then he helps. I was like, why did you just sit up in the first place? Yeah. I was like, oh my God. So, Sub Zero and Cano, not Cano,

Lou Kang are on one side of the bridge. Katana's on the other side. Scorpion reappears, grabs Katana, and they go, suckers, and then jumps off the bridge, but then a portal or something opens up,

and then it sucks him in Katana through it. and from this point that's it that's all we see a scorpion yeah so i was like man what a jip so could uh lu keang is kind of like oh man that's it man it's over with me and i i he's got a find her but um sub zero to him said look man he goes you you can and you're not ready and he goes you're not ready for what's to come but uh lu keang is like i i need her without her this the out of the earth realm is is done for so so yeah um back to that would that was just something we missed so going back to well during the during the in between a lot of the scenes when they show shall con it was a lot of just talk talk talk and

that that's when his dad dialogue oh man and that's when his dad shows up and trying to explain to him, yeah, you got to do this. And we got to, we got to take over the Earth realm. They should have just saved that for like closer to the end. I was like, why did they reveal that his dad was helping him so early? I don't know. All right. All right, what does this say right here?

Meanwhile, Raiden meets with the elder gods and ask them why Conn is allowed to break the term or rules and force his way into the Earth realm. and how he can be stopped. The answers he receives are sparse and ambiguous. One says the returning katana with her mother, Sindel, is the key to breaking Khan's hold on the earth realm. But another elder god insists that the defeat of Khan himself is a solution. Raiden is then asked by the elder gods about his feelings and obligations towards the mortals

and what he would be willing to do to ensure their survival. Okay. Raiden seemed like he knew all the answers in the first film. This one, he was like, I don't know what to do. What do I have to do? I was like, what happened, man? Did you just get dumb and a matter of hours? Yeah, it's night and day.

from the raiding from the first one and this one is just like he he doesn't know anything he i don't know and it's just before he did it's like he knew what was going to happen before it happened and this one he's just clueless yeah and then yeah after that is then that's when lou finds a night wolf and uh does these tests that he never finishes the second much less the third. So who was it? I'm just reading this on Wikipedia and trying to remember it because it was just

so all over the place. At the temple, at the temple, the earthworm warriors reunite with Raiden and they learned that he has to sacrifice his immortality to freely fight alongside them. Did he really do that? Because once he gets into the

to the outworld. He has no powers. So was one of his powers that he could fight? And now he can't. And now that he's mortal, he has an haircut. But was he really mortal? Because he came like or just reappeared out of the sky.

And does a backflip. Well, okay. He still had something left because you remember when they had to do. Oh, yeah. get out of there when Sindel did her little scream thing and was just destroying mountain sides. And he did his little whatever thing.

You open a portal. I kissed the rest of his power. Yeah, because when they were standing in front of that big temple, rock temple or whatever it was, Shaqan and all his guys showed up. I mean, all right,

they're really quick. Another nitpaker. these guys are able to just zap themselves all over the place why does Shaqan and his whole army have to come riding up on their horses why can't they just reappear I mean earlier we had ninjas falling out of the sky and so I don't know what's happening here

I mean I figured that in the earth in the outer in the out world they were able to do more than than what they could do in the earth realm, but I guess apparently it's backwards. I don't know. So, yeah, that's when

they were going to go down there and they were going to kill them. Because they were saying, together, they infiltrate outward to rescue Katana to reunite her with Sindel in hopes of restoring her soul and closing the outward pole to earth. All right.

Yeah, like you said, Raiden, he still had some kind of power because he was able to make open up a portal so they all all of them can go running through it. Shit again and we missed the scene. After Sonia sorry everyone were jumbled all over the place

but after Sonia found Jacks and they were out walking wherever they were supposed to go to some temple and Jack's talking shit the whole time they were kind of in this little vows of rocks or whatever and um who did sonya she started fighting um malina yeah malina shows up which kind of i don't know why she's fighting malina they didn't even show her her mouth or anything she was covered the whole time yeah i mean it kind of just turned into like a wrestling

mud match and uh did uh sonia killer yeah she killed her yeah she she kicked her. Oh, that's right. And she died. And kicked her and yeah, she fell in the mud and that was it. Yeah. And from a kick. Yeah. Then there was some statue of something behind her as she's looking down and then all of a sudden it.

I don't know what it was, but oh my God, did it look bad? Oh, this is when Jacks came in. He looked like he was like punching in the ass or something. Yeah. I don't know what that thing was, but it, when it's, Some kind of demon thing was going after Sonia and then Jacks comes in, hey, and then starts punching it. Clearly you see he was standing there probably punching nothing, but it's, I don't know who did the CGI. I always say this. I don't know how to do any of that. I'm just a guy behind a microphone talking shit and, and oh, fuck.

It looked horrible. I mean Reptile looked better than how this guy looked And you guys all remember how bad we were cutting that up But we're not We're not to the bad CGI yet Oh So

So Jacks Kills it or whatever Because then that thing disappears And then they go Taking off And then they meet up with Raiden and Luke King and everybody And they go through the

the portal. Where did it go after that? I don't even remember. Once they went through the portal. They went to the portal, went to Outworld. And the first thing I can remember, I think, I think Lou Kang fought, was it rain? When he splits into like three people,

but he only really fights two and only really beats one. rain which one was that I don't know I might be making up characters now oh that was one that it split into like three of them but he never really fought three was that the one that looked like reptile

yeah with the green and ninja suit yeah and who's the one in the red and who was the one in the purple yeah I don't know you're getting they might be getting deep into the game here because this is past my knowledge. Yeah.

Someone was probably screaming at us, but I mean, the fight scene was fine. I mean, it was cool. I mean, I did like how they looked, but I was just they were just pulling people out of their ass and just throwing them in this. And yeah, and start fighting. But Lou ended up defeating them. It was only one, really. Yeah.

I was like, where did the other two go? I don't know. They kept popping up here and there, but. And I don't know. Maybe it was all three of them that he killed, but, or maybe you just needed to kill one and then the other two dropped out of it. He killed the right one. Yeah.

So. And then somehow, Jade says she, I think she got the drop on, uh, Sendell. And this is when they did the whole, I don't know, like trick, trap. trap or something and they didn't really do anything. Yeah, this was kind of when she, no, Jade revealed that she was working for Khan, Shout Khan, to disrupt

the heroes that says here. Where am I? Senda remains under Kahn's control and escapes during the ambush while Jade reveals herself as a double agent sent by Kahn to disrupt the hero's plans before he feeds jade to a gargoyle for her failure sure all right that didn't even look good

uh raiden then reveals that shall con and his shall con reveals that shall con reveals that chow con is his brother and the former elder god chinook is his father i don't know if they wanted everyone to go but i was like uh didn't happen here No, I think I was doing this, I was kind of like just, oh my God, why are you guys trying to throw in some shocks in this? Just we came here to see fighting. Yeah, I'm just still blown away that the two other elder guys have no knowledge of anything going on. Yeah, I don't know. So, yeah, yeah, he realized that Chinook is.

supporting con with renewed purpose raiding and the earth earth room warriors make their way through the final showdown with con and sundell and his remaining generals more mataro and airmac which one was air mac was that the green the the right one okay no all right um when did they when did they fight syracs um I think he was the one. I think smoke was the one that Luke King fought before Sub Zero showed up. And Syrax was the, that was a yellow one. Yeah.

Well, who was he fighting? Was he fighting, um, uh, Jackson Sonia? Yeah, in the lab. Oh, I think that was, you know. Yeah, I guess. I mean, I do. Listeners, we, we really did watch the movie. This is just how bad the movie is.

Yeah, I mean, it was all over the place. That's probably why we're all over the place. But I did like the fight scene, though, with Syrax. I thought it was good. But you can clearly see, I guess he's supposed to be some kind of cyborg robot fighter or something. But the costumes look neat. I mean, I loved how everybody looked.

But you can clearly see that the costume were kind of um um yeah kind of like yeah kind of like foam like how uh jack's arm you can clearly see that

was some kind of uh foam material that that they had on there um because when sonia it was either sonia or or jacks grabbed the back of cyrax uh she grabbed or

I think it was sonia grabbed the back and was gonna do give him a flip and you just saw that stuff flex yeah yeah I know what you're talking about. I was kind of like, oh, man. Again, he looked neat.

And I do like Syrax in the game. So, because, yeah, they threw him around. And he and, I know smoke was the one that blew himself up. Did Syracs blow up too? Because I know he, they were shooting the missiles out of his chest. I think both flew up. Yeah. I don't remember.

So that was the end of him. And then the final fight was, a um Jack Sonia Katana um Lukang Raiden

and a Raiden actually he got he had a fight scene as well but he well again he refused to kill his brother and his brother was like

I don't give a shit I'll kill you and then he I'm doing error quotes killed Raiden and I don't even get that. But that scene when Raiden was fighting, again, you could clearly see it wasn't him.

But there was some close-up shots of James Ramar doing something. But the majority of the whole fight scene was somebody else. So you're saying that wasn't him doing them spin kicks? No. I mean, again, at least Radin did something in this one. And the first one needed to do nothing, but that's some snark. your remarks and

show us his lightning. That was about it in that one. But at least he was at least kicking some ass in this one. But the

um, who was supposed to fight? Raiden was supposed to fight. Well, I guess he kind of did, but then, uh, uh,

Shao Khan killed him. Mm-hmm. It didn't even look like much. He just shot him with some kind of, was it like a green skull or something that came out of his face? I don't know, man. They were fighting for a second, but then Shao Khan kind of stepped back and shot some green skull-looking thing and hit Raiden in the chest.

And then he- Raiden's not immortal no more. Yeah. Or it says, Raiden refuses. I guess they were telling me, I guess we were asking him to kill him, but he wouldn't. He refuses and is killed by an energy blast. from Shao Khan. Sure.

Okay. So, this is after a hard fight, Jack Sonia and Katana emerged victorious over Khan's generals, but Lou struggles with Khan and his, how do you say this, animality? Animality. Yeah, barely proves effective,

exposing a cut to Khan and that proves he is now mortal. All right. Okay, I remember what happened here. Well, all right, go ahead, then. Okay, this, this is this final fight with Lou, I guess, this is, for some reason, this is when the other two elder gods showed up. And they, they made this fight, um, uh, they, I think they made Shao Khan mortal. And so it would be a fair, fair fight. And this is, of course, when the music kicked in and they started fighting.

because we just completely skipped over when they did their animality and Lou Kang turned into a dragon and Shao Khan turned into

fucking I don't know what that was the worst CGI this movie and the first one

you put them together and try to pick the worst CGI out of it it was this moment right here yeah because

Lou and Shao Khan are beating the hell out of each other and then they fall down and I don't know

spirit creatures or whatever because it looked like Shao Khan was about to break Lou Kang's neck and then Lou Kang's like I'm watching it right now Lou's eyes turn yellow and he's like, I can feel. And then I guess Lou Kang was some kind of dragon thing with wings.

And all right. But I did like the line because Jackson standing there. Oh, now I've seen everything. Were all his one-liner is funny? No, but it was just funny. they just kept doing it over and over. So, Shal Khan kind of steps back and he goes,

ah, impressive, you showed up, or whatever he says. And he goes, but he's not impressed. So, oh, my God. The transformation from Shal Khan to whatever this four or five-headed dragon thing,

I don't know. it's it's so bad it doesn't even look good I mean I don't know who greenlit the the CGI I think at this point they probably just didn't give a shit I need to see I need to go back and see what direct this director has done before but it's it's stupid I mean they the Shaqan's character or whatever he is is just beating the hell out of Luke Kang Dragon and

everyone else is just kind of standing around watching these two fight and I mean there's so much going on in this scene I think there's like six heads or whatever on Shao Khan's beast and they end up falling off they kind of fight for a little bit and then they both end up falling off

of this temple or whatever and then they're both laying there and that's when they turn back into themselves and I'm like I was like what the hell's going on but

right when they both kind of come to um Shanook or whatever he was going to do something, but the two other elder gods showed up. I guess Chinook was going to kill Luke King because he, like, raised his hands,

getting ready to do whatever, his magic, and those two elders showed up and had to tell him the slow his role. Did they... Okay. They ended up saying kind of like the faith of the universe should decide on how it should be.

Basically, it's got to be a mortal combat not the tournament, just Lou Kang and Shao Khan have to fight. So that's when they look at each other and then the music kicks in, the mortal combat!

And then other than they were fighting this whole time, and now they got to jump in the air and fight each other and do all kinds of crazy flips. And Lou just I like when they fight

but when they're flying around and doing the flips and everything it just looks dumb um that's him I mean he's actually out there he's a real deal he's fighting but dumbass Shao Khan night slasher

hands up like uh they they do some fighting but then they get to the choking match for a minute we still didn't get Luke King doing the fireballs figured okay we only got more of a fireball flash in the first film hopefully that's how you get in this we didn't even get it

we already got the bicycle kick in the first movie we don't we don't get it in this he turned into a dragon what else what else do you want you could have just gave me more fighting than turning that stupid stuff so Lou Kang how he defeats

Shao Khan just kind of does a front flip kicks him in the face he falls over backwards on the stairs and then that little dragon tattoo every time someone got defeated his little dragon the little dragon tattoo so

while he's screaming the two elders are standing out with Chinook and it kind of reminded me like the forbidden zone in the forbidden zone what's the thing in Superman? No, that's fantastic for. It's not the forbidden zone.

God damn it. We know listeners, you're yelling to answer right now. Yeah, whatever that is. I mean, he kind of gets phantom zone there you go some kind of thing

it looked like just squares really and then he disappears yeah it looked like the the armor from doom yeah a second except he folded up and then disappeared yeah so that little dragon

comes off of Shaqon and then disappears and then so does uh shall con he disappears then all of a sudden there's huge flashes and everything and then they're showing uh the world trade center iful tower the the the golden gate bridge and there's lightning and louis looking around and then all of a sudden there's a big flash and now they're back uh where they began and there's people all of a sudden yeah all these shal and monks are there um sundale turns back into her normal self uh,

Jacks and Sonia show up as well. Oh yeah, we forgot that, uh, who was it who pulled Jack's arm off? Uh, the horse guy. Oh yeah.

That fight didn't even do anything. None of their fights. It was stupid. Like, Katana didn't really, her and Sindell fought for like a second. Uh, Sonia fought the,

the one dude, the red one. The red one. The red one. red-looking scorpion guy. I know somebody knows his name, but I don't. She basically, she did the same thing, broke his neck with her legs. And then Jacks was getting his ass kicked by the horse dude.

And he ripped one of his arms off, which was just not really his arms. It was just coverings over his real arms. But then I guess he found the strength to fight without him. all right yeah so um there everyone's kind of like all right yeah we did it but um raiden is just laying there dead still and what would the fire and the water thing was that the the two elder gods or yeah all right yeah they showed up and then they yeah it is the two elder gods they bring

Raiden back to life and that's your movie everybody's happy and celebrating yeah um okay

let me see John R. Leonetti he directed a movie that I don't like and you like 2017's wish upon

Oh, I like that movie. He also directed the first Annabelle movie. Yeah, I don't know yet. And then he directed that horrible Netflix movie, The Silence, the one with the bat creatures. Oh, yeah. All right, let me see. Let me just read his last two sentences. They declare the fate of Earth shall be decided on Mortal Kombat.

Lou finally defeats Khan and Shinnook is ban. is banished to the nether realm. Earth realm avert's to its former state and Kahn's holdover, Sindel, finally broken. She reunites with Katana. Raiden is revived by the other elder gods who bestow upon him his father's former position

with everything right in the universe. Once again, the Earthworm warriors return home. At the end. This movie was all over the place just like a review, but oh man, this one is just not good at all.

Costing wise, I did like it. Of course, the Mortal Kombat theme is awesome. I thought the music, the score in the background was cool every time they had somebody fighting. Again, my favorite fight scene was right in the beginning with Sub Zero and Scorpion.

I wish they would have brought them back. I mean, they gave us all these other different colored red and green and purple and all that. Reptile was the one that broke up into three. But I don't know. At least Syrac's and smoke got to shine a little bit. I mean, they were cool, but I just, I don't know. This movie was bad. I mean, it was bad the first time I saw it and all the other times in between.

then and now I was watching it at work and one of my friends came walking by what are you watching? I said Mortal Kombat Annihilation and walked away as he should have this movie

Of course we both have it in our libraries I have two forms of it The steel book and the regular go around But I hate that it's in the steel book It's like the the bad side of it. Yeah, I mean, we'll ever watch it? Probably not.

I watch Mortal Kombat over and over. I think this is the one that sealed its fate to like not give us anymore. Yeah, because I'm reading here, Robin Schau, original Mortal Kombat contract was a three-picture deal. Okay. But it just

it wasn't it wasn't good at all i mean i i i was just like oh my god this this one was so bad um yeah mortal combat annihilation i mean i don't know what else to say i mean those of you that have seen it i mean there there are people that do like this film i would like to know who they are it is i just i just It wasn't for us, boys and girls. It was bad. Nothing against everybody that was in it. They just did what they could.

And yeah, I mean, that's it. Because of this movie, Paul W.S. Anderson, he said because of this is why he's never left a franchise. Because he felt like if he would have stayed on the second movie, would have been better. All right. I guess that was a Mortal Kombat Annihilation, so

it's all, it's all uphill from here. I eventually want to get to Mortal Kombat Legacy as well as what's that Sub 01? Scorpion. Scorpion, yeah. Scorpion's revenge.

Yeah, that one. I watch those. uh maybe on the next one i'll just kind of give you my thoughts on on both of them really quick um um um it's yeah mortal combat in adelaidea's that that's all we could say it's we gave this movie too much time

we did but um we had to but uh get ready for the for the new one the 20 21 version of mortal combat But yeah, for those of you that haven't seen any of these films, definitely watch the original one. And obviously, if you listen to it, it was real cool. Thank you. But this one, if you're curious and you got nothing else to watch, if you have HBO Max, it is streaming on there. Can you live the rest of your life without seeing this one?

Yeah, I think so. Live a much happier life. Yeah, but if you just wanted to see it, yeah, you can go for it. Yeah, it is what it is. I don't know if I'll ever watch it again. My son wants to watch it. If I'm home when he's watching it, then I'll sit down and laugh around with him. But other than that, I can't put myself through that again.

Has he seen the new one? Yeah. He really loves the new one. He's going to get a kick out of annihilation then. He seen the first one, but he says he doesn't really remember it. He was probably much younger. So, I don't know. Maybe I'll get his thoughts and see what he thinks after we watch the first one in this one.

Annihilation. Yeah. But, yeah, everyone, that's going to wrap it up this evening. So, yeah, if you like it, you like it. it but okay but as far as everything on the Skaternest Podcast Network East Society we got a new episode out you can listen to I just dropped episode 129 of the McNus podcast where I interview Oki podcast host Russell Sun Eagle definitely check that interview out and Fight Society 5 is coming we

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