 What's good Joshua Ross back again with another video so one to kind of let you guys know I'm kind of under the weather. So if I sound a little bit congested in this video I'm not at a hundred percent, but I definitely wanted to get this out to you guys as soon as possible Because I definitely wanted to talk about The spoiler side of things from the recent Mortal Kombat movie I'm gonna get into the good things that I liked about the movie I'm definitely gonna get into the bad things that I felt definitely brought the movie down But for me overall, I enjoyed it. I know a lot of people Didn't really like the movie as much, you know And then there's also a lot of people that did like the movie. So it's I've seen like 50-50 like Split decisions, you know, some people hated the movie Some people thought it was the best Mortal Kombat movie we've had so you know It's it's really up to your personal taste, but I do think anyone has a Mortal Kombat fan I still think they should at least check it out for sure So let's start with some of the bad things on the spoiler side of things for this movie First and foremost Cole Young being our main protagonist He's a he's a descendant of Hanzo Asashi aka Scorpion and I'm gonna be honest with you I don't know why he was the main protagonist I honestly thought and I think a lot of people that I Have come made this comment Even some people I know personally they thought Johnny Cage would have been the perfect person for Us to get introduced as the main protagonist It sucks Johnny Cage is not actually in the film Like they set it up for him being in the later films next film if they make one but he's not in this film which kind of sucks and Cole Young he's He's generic. He is literally a creative character if Mortal Kombat had a creative character system That's what Cole Young is insert moves insert dialogue. He is He's bland. He's boring. He barely has any dialogue. You can't really get invested in his character You get introduced to him in like this underground UFC type style match and You know, he ends up losing the match and I'm thinking well Maybe because he's so cold that he throw fights for his opponents to make them look good No, he just loses matches because he sucks throughout the movie. He is he he really Isn't really useful In the movie the way they go about characters having their powers they call it. I want to say it's Arcania Arcana. Yeah, Arcana. I think that's how they pronounce it Arcana. That's how they I Guess you could say, you know find a way to Make sense of how these characters have powers and they call it Arcana And you have to unlock your Arcana in order for you to get the powers or whatnot now We meet up with Sonya blade. She doesn't have any powers, right? And there's a reason why I'm bringing this up She doesn't have any powers, but she can hold her own in one-on-one combat Cole Doesn't seem like he can do that at all Now I'm gonna lie to you so there's been situations where his Arcana hasn't shown up and he's gotten so and killed Aka Kun Lao he ends up getting killed Kun Lao saves his life and ends up Getting his soul taking my sing song saying soon and I'm just like What I was so confused. I was like Kun Lao is a character that actually was liking in the film I like this, you know his design the way he's introduced You know I'm saying they kind of fit to come like the games like he's a little arrogant You know I'm saying but I like this character I wish I could have seen more of them But he ends up getting killed off because he had to save Cole goofy eyes, bro That was annoying not gonna lie to you Cole is a detriment to this film and Not nothing against the actor is just he's a detriment to this film for the simple fact that he does nothing All the other characters around him are more compelling and interesting than he is and he's kind of like the damsel in the stress Until he gets his powers and let's not talk about when he gets his powers Dude's armor look like a wicker basket, bro Literally his armor looks like a wicker basket. He can redirect Like a tax like the energy from a tax you can redirect it which is cool But his armor looks kind of lame He doesn't get his arcana into his his family is in jeopardy, you know the cliche stuff Um He ends up defeating Goro Mind you, he couldn't feed somebody in the underground UFC match But he defeats Goro because he gets his arcana in just a nick of time and he kills Goro It was a nice fight scene, but it was just one of those things like Goro is like a top tier Mortal Kombat Opponent and he's get he basically gets destroyed by wicker basket man like I just If they would have made Cole a cooler character gave him some type of emotion He wasn't playing slate. I think we would care more There's nothing wrong with introducing someone into the franchise as a surrogate person for the audience to follow along That doesn't really know anything about Mortal Kombat But honestly, I think you could have went with Johnny Cage. I think it would have been much better So yeah Cole definitely is the low point of this movie and should not even have been a character if they weren't gonna do nothing with them The selection of characters that ended up using really wasn't that that prominent Unfortunately, they didn't really have too many characters on both sides than at the realm side in the earth realm side It was just kind of lackluster Because you had to Luke Kane to come loud as expected But you didn't get Johnny Cage, like I said at the beginning Johnny Cage is not in the film You get raiding and that's cool You get scorpion and sub zero the classic ones, but you know, they even get you get reptile You know I'm saying he he shows up for a little bit But I just felt like they were kind of lackluster on both sides. So I'm like I said I get This movie takes place right before The tournament so I get that they're trying to you know build up for the tournament I'm sure more characters will get involved But as is being the first showing for this rebranding of this like a reboot of this this franchise It was kind of lackluster not gonna lie. The earth champion sucks outside of Kung Lao and And Luke Kane they suck and let's not get Distorted on Luke Kane even though Luke Kane. He's okay but I know a lot of people felt like he didn't look like Luke Kane and Maybe because we don't really get a chance to get to know the character We just know he can control fire and he you know spawns up a fire dragon, which I thought was pretty dope But we don't get chances to get invested with these characters You know I'm saying so this is also another notch because we get introduced to the characters and then that's it like We don't really get time to really spend with them and and stuff like that Which I get it They don't have that much time to do because this they're just trying to get to the next set piece like that kind of hampers the film in my opinion People you know especially fans of Mortal Kombat, you know saying they know who Luke Kane is and it's like We don't really spend too much time with these iconic characters from the game So it kind of sucks, but we go back to cold boring guys That shit sucks The plot of this doesn't really make sense either for the sense of or for the fact that Basically Shang Tsung is trying to What's the word? Take out the earth realm champions by killing them ahead of time of mortal before they have Mortal Kombat Before that the Mortal Kombat tournament, and I'm just like that They can't even they shouldn't be able to do that the elder God should get involved in the mix because it's like how can they do that? The tournament is supposed to happen Why are they allowed to go to earth realm to kill earth's champions before the tournament happened? How is that even a thing? What the hell's going on the elder gods don't give them no fucks clearly I don't know I kind of that didn't make sense to me the fact that Raiden he's in the movie, but not much The fact that he can banish cool. I mean not cool. I'll shame soon back to the nether realm when he enters in this temple but when I Was getting his soul sucked. He didn't do anything bro. I don't I Don't get that I Don't get that. He's one of your most powerful fighters And you just let his soul gets taken up to save cold goofy ass We could have zapped him away too, and then I'm just sitting there like What and then he sat up there and said well, you know, I can't get involved in mortal affairs Okay, yeah, okay Raiden thanks for being For doing absolutely nothing when you could have easily just banished them from your temple You did it before previous in like a couple scenes previous You banished them to the nether realm when they tried to pull up on your game and kill everybody like I know I Guess I Guess man Let's see if there anything else That I really wasn't a big fan of all and also towards the end Even though the fighting was excellent. I'm gonna talk about that on the good side of things It was short. That's the only only thing about that is this is more of combat You're here to see the fights. You're here to see the blood and the guts and the gore and the violence You get it But in very small doses they keep cutting back to cold. I don't care about him At least if they was cut back to like a Johnny Cage character I think I would have enjoyed it a little bit more But it messes up the patient when you're sitting there wanting to see more mortal combat Fighting and then you go back to this boring ass character as in cold his story his story I don't I don't give a damn about that, bro I just want to see people die and in in fighting in martial arts I I know this guy's sick to say but that's what mortal combat is people dying in brutal ways the martial arts to fighting That's what it is mortal combat not cold and mortal combat. Just mortal combat. So That's the the major thing I can think of just on the on the negative side of things bad side of things that I wasn't really rocking with Now let's get into the good things that the good parts of the movie that I thoroughly enjoyed And I don't think it's any secret to anybody that has seen the movie Kano. It's the best part of this movie Shout out to Josh Lawson who plays Kano. He knocked it out the part He was the perfect embodiment of Kano. I said it in my spoiler-free review He is one of those type of characters that own the role so well I don't see anyone else playing Kano as well as he did like he he has the um, the Hugh Jackman and the uh, Robbie Downey Jr. When they play these comic book characters Or the superhero characters. That's them. They they embody that role so much that it's them And you can only see them playing that role. I can only see Josh Lawson playing as Kano I think he's fantastic. Uh, it sucks. He ends up getting killed. Uh, for those who don't know The champions are chosen by this little dragon birthmark. You can be born with it or If you kill someone with the dragon birthmark, you become the next chosen champion for earthrealm And Kano has the mark and Sonya blade doesn't you can kind of see where it was going to is alluding That eventually Sonya blade is gonna end up killing Kano, which sucks because He was fantastic any scene he was in he made it 10 times better He he kind of made the pacing of the movie go back go In uh, you know, it was it was more in a positive direction Like when his scene when he was in a scene You was paying attention. You was laughing You was you know enjoying when he was bringing with the other characters around like he owned every single scene He made the pacing fantastic Um And then when he's not in the scene it it kind of sucks, you know And a granted you can say well, he's taken away from every other character true But when you got Cole sitting next to you doesn't really take much to take away from this character Because there is no character there. It's just a blank slate. So Kano was one of if not the best part of this movie um, the first 10 to 15 minutes of this movie Was fantastic. It's the best way just to hype you up for a Mortal Kombat film Um, did it stick to landing? Not so much, but I still enjoyed it though You know, I I I think a lot of people were hyped about the beginning and then they kind of Waved it off towards the end of the film because they just wasn't liking it as much as they thought they would but that beginning sequence Well, Hanzo asashi and sub zero and you know him Hanzo chilling with his family and they him them getting murdered and then he Just killing everyone all everyone that's around him. He's just brutally murdering them thought it was beautiful Him and sub zero fighting at the beginning thought that was beautiful It really hyped you up for the movie and I wish more of the movie had more scenes like that I think that would have been more fantastic and would have fit the Mortal Kombat type vibe um Let's see, um Sub zero as a character. He literally held it down. I'll be honest with you sub zero was the most overpowered character in this movie And he was badass like you could tell Sub zero was that dude like when he Destroyed jack's arms brutal as hell frozen arms And just broke him brutal as hell dude I I like the way he was using his ice powers like he would conjure up some ice Like snow like hail and then he would lift it up and then throw it down when he was hunting cold In jacks. I thought that was pretty dope And the ending fight scene between him and finally was scorpion uh Comes to life from hell or whatnot and he's uh Basically fighting him. I thought that was fantastic that whole fight sequence Definitely gave me the video game vibes with scorpion using his combo attacks and techniques I thought that was cool, bro. Like I really wish there was more moments like that Now when the other characters are fighting like melena is fighting once again cold And at this point, uh, song your blade comes in with her powers and she blows a hole through melena's Like chess like her like a stomach area and then she dies. It was a one shot. And I'm just like damn, bro Like I really wish We could have got a little bit more of these fighting scenes, you know I'm saying I feel like the fighting scenes will cut short. So I really wanted more of this. Um, I want to say um Jacks had a nice nice little fighting scene on the you guys know the little pit area where you can knock somebody off They fall all the way down to the pit below with the spikes and stuff I kind of wish that would have happened with the character he was fighting against. Um But even his one liners video game him smashing his head Uh to a pulp. I thought that was pretty cool. I'm just like, okay There's some good things in this film that give me the video game vibes It's just they're not there long enough. And I think that's my biggest issue with this film Like it's so much promise, but they're not expounded upon the fighting was great The gore in violence was spot on. Uh Natara she's like this weaned creature. I'm telling you man. They they really picked the z team From nether realm of Natara. She's his weaned creature She gets hits with such a dope Dope and brutal fatality this guy actually I think the fate one of the fatalities in mortal combat 11 um where Um cum laude throws his hat on the ground And he was riding the back of her and she ends up sliding while the hat's rotating in the ground and splits her in half I thought that was brutal definitely Definitely sick man. And I like the little one liners that was talking about fatality and stuff like that It was cool. They there were some great things here I know a lot of people are quick to hate on this film But I do think there were some great things here and I do think they did Right by some of the material could have been a lot better for sure But these are just some of the good things I can think off the top of my head and I remember that I enjoy So comment down below. Let me know. Did you guys enjoy this film? Did you hate it? Let me know I want to get a discussion Let's start the discussion down below. And who was your favorite character out of the film me personally It was cano. I hope they bring him back in the next film because definitely he was a He was the best part of this film character wise So I would love your guys opinion appreciate all love and support road to 40k appreciate y'all kicking it with me I'll see y'all next week. Peace