The second movie was horrible.

The first movie was a good movie. There was a cohesion between all the visuals. The characters matched the environments, and everything seemed to fit. Sub Zero and Scorpion did not look exactly like they did in the game, they looked different because they had to create a look that worked in the movie environment.

Also, while the acting wasn't stellar, it was definately bearable. The storylines were shifted, but thats a necessity since you can't transplant a game straight to a movie without making changes, and I think the changes they made for the First movie were well thought out and made a lot of sense.

The second movie was full of cliches, cartoon-like costume design, HORRIBLE acting, a storyline that was an anti-climactic puddle of mud, and it had so much completely ignorant and stupid stuff in it. Metal balls to travel around the planet quickly? Tattoos to gain entry to realms that fly off of bodies, Mileena getting hip tossed into mud and Dieing because of it, Sonya's shirt being able to be cleaned completely between scenes, and Too Many Characters.

I know it sucks that you can't have so many characters, but you can't have so many characters, not with a story like MKs. The characters were often not all their as big groups, and trying to incorporate all of them into one single, limited story, is one of the things that killed the street fighter live action film.

Overall, Mortal Kombat Abominations was an attrocity against MK.

Look, let's get a few things clear here... First of all, none of the films were made to be Oscar-winners, so why expect spectacular acting, brilliant directing and so on?? They were supposed to be action flicks, pure and simple. And as such they did quite well, I must say. Ok, so the first part did brilliant, the second did just ok. But I still watch it from time to time

Second of all, the fight scenes seem to be something a lot of people hold against MK movies (and the tv series as well). But remember that these are based on a video game that does not exactly go for realism in fights. And I don't mean any special powers here, but rather all the jumping about, somersaulting thru the air and other Crouching-Tiger-Hidden-Dragon-style flying. The amount of punishment the characters take is also incredible, I can tell you from personal experience that a real fight does not last that long. Usually its the first three blows that end it (even the first hit can prove to be the last in a fight). I think that as far as the compromise between the MK spirit and the realism and choreography of fights is concerned, the first film does SO much better.

Third, the actors... Oh, come ON!! Lambert's Rayden is absolutely BRILLIANT, Remar doesn't even come close. The only good thing about Rayden in MK:A was Ray Park, who is a great martial artist and has some incredible moves. However, I must concede the point about Sonya. I think that while neither of them are extremely talented actresses, at the very least Sandra Hess is pretty.

Finally, while watching MK:A I always get the impression that a bunch of characters are in it simply to show as many of them as possible. Most of them appear for like a minute (Baraka, Smoke, Scorpion, Rain and so on)... What's the bloody point? Fewer characters but a better plot line would make this even better than the original (oh yeah, provided they improved the special FX). I just hope that MK3 will be an improvement over both of them. After all, there's so much plot to choose from now

though the Cyrax vs Jax fight was the only good fight in the movie, having the robots work for Shao Kahn was utterly ridiculous. if the outworld empie can afford to build cruise-guided missiles, why didn't they just nuke Earth? taking out Lui would have been alot easier with an M-16. giving all of those ninjas shotguns would have made things a hell of alot simpler. if they would have put a sniper on the roof, like I told Shao Kahn to, Rayden would have stayed dead.