A Little History
Video game fans haven’t had a whole lot of luck with regards to getting enjoyable interpretations of their favorite game characters on the silver screen. Super Mario Bros. (1993) and Street Fighter (1994) are cringeworthy examples of how such movies can be very poorly made. This may be the result of having people put in charge of the project who either know how to make movies but don’t know anything about the game or people who know the game but don’t know how to make a good movie.
That changed in 1995 when they released that year’s Mortal Kombat. It wasn’t a film that took itself too seriously but put in enough effort where most if its audience walked out of the theater feeling entertained. At that point, it looked like video game movies might finally get their due. It is unfortunate then that Mortal Kombat Annihilation came out in 1997 and all that is bad about the genre was put back on display.
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