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Mortal Kombat

1995

Paul W.S. Anderson

Robin Shou, Christopher Lambert, Linden Ashby, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa ...

3.8

13,686

Action. Fantasy Three unknowing martial artists are summoned to a mysterious island to compete in a tournament whose outcome will decide the fate of the world.

	Author	Review
United States	Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times	"A martial arts action-adventure with wondrous special effects and witty production design"	POS
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"The filmmakers try to solve the problem of turning an experience which merely consists of a series of fights into a story by... ignoring it, presenting a film which merely consists of a series of fights. Read full review"	NEU
United States	Leonard Klady Variety	"Paul Anderson and writer Kevin Droney effect a viable balance between exquisitely choreographed action and ironic visual and verbal counterpoint"	POS
United States	Gene Siskel Chicago Tribune	"The only decent video game turned into a movie"	POS
United States	SFGATE	2The movie has everything a teenage boy could want... Everything, that is, but an interesting plot, decent dialogue and compelling acting."	NEG
United States	Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle	"It's silly, of course, but more importantly, it's a hell of a lot of fun, with plenty of above-average gags."	NEU
United States	Richard Harrington The Washington Post	"Likely to satisfy only the core audience already hooked on video and arcade games, and even that's not a sure thing."	NEG

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