Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms
The Earthrealm heroes must journey to the Outworld and fight for the survival of their homeland, invaded by the forces of evil warlord Shao Kahn, in the tournament to end all tournaments: the final Mortal Kombat.
- Released: 2021-08-30
- Runtime: 80 minutes
- Genre: Action, Animation, Fantasy
- Stars: Jordan Rodrigues, Jennifer Carpenter, Joel McHale, Patrick Seitz, Dave B. Mitchell, Bayardo De Murguia, Fred Tatasciore, Matthew Mercer, Emily O'Brien, Debra Wilson, Artt Butler, Robin Atkin Downes, Ike Amadi, Grey DeLisle, Matthew Yang King, Paul Nakauchi, Matthew Lillard, Kyle Wyatt
- Director: Ethan Spaulding
Comments
- Floated2 - 4 November 2022
Slight decline
The first film of the Mortal Kombat Legends trilogy: Scorpion's Revenge was seemingly quite refreshing and entertaining. Battle of the Realms however isn't as great as the story is quite bland and boring. Nothing too engaging.
The visuals don't look as great and do look somewhat older. There are some brutal kills and deaths towards the end but as a whole, this film doesn't have that same spark and magic as the first.
It isn't entirely bad, and fans of the Mortal Kombat universe and games will still find enjoyment in this film, but in comparison to Scorpion's Revenge, there is a slight decline. - EdwardtheBlackPrince - 2 December 2021
Finish Him
Mortal Kombat legends: battle of the Realm's The Sequel to Scorpions Revenge. Shao Khan's forces wage war on Earthrealm as Raiden and the others manages to hold him back. Though in an attempt to finally claim the realm and be free of interference. Shao Khan convinces Raiden to go seek the Elder Gods to enact one final Mortal Kombat to determine the fate of all realms. Now Earthrealms champions travel to outworld to Battle for the fate of the Realms. Given how scorpion revenge ended it seemed rather obvious that a sequel would follow, and here were giving Shao Khan and the battle of the realms. While the movie does still manages to satisfy it's tone of violence and gore with it's fight scenes. It's pacing feel rather rush and compact, and the characters this time around come off as kinda flat. With the exception of a few new characters like Kung Lao and Stryker of all Characters. Everyone you've seen in scorpions revenge is here, and while they're all here for the sake of their world. Not much time is really giving for any characters to really flesh out. The exceptions being Raiden and Liu Kang no other reason but to give Liu Kang strength to fight. Raiden becomes mortal and enters the tournament and reallly try to push the connection and motivation between the two of them. Liu Kang as the chosen one is really push in this even more then usually. But they don't have any incentive to feel invest in his destiny. Until the end in the final act where it feels rather rushed. There's really not that much interaction between everybody to make it feel like a team effort. Kitanna still doesn't really have a personality in this and really no real relationship towards Liu Kang same with Sonia and Johnny. There's also this second subplot going on that involves Scorpion and Sub-Zeros feud with Kaui Lang seeking revenge for his brothers death. The Cyber Lin Kuei and Shinnok are thrown into the whole film. This could have worked to help fill the film if it just chosen to focus on Hanzo and Kaui Lang relationship over Bi-Han. You cut away and kinda forget about them Their rivalry is barely acknowledged. Subzero and Scorpion could have been focus on more along with the outworld battle,With everything going on this movie feel cluttered. This movie basically takes elements from Mk 2,3,4. While it's nice to actually get a story outside the island tournament and the fights are excessive. It still sort of a mess The Whole thing with Shinnok could have been Scraped for another Film.
