Product Details

• Actors: Christopher Lambert, Robin Shou, Linden Ashby, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Bridgette Wilson
• Directors: Paul W.S. Anderson
• Writers: Ed Boon, John Tobias, Kevin Droney
• Producers: Alison Savitch, Danny Simon, Lauri Apelian, Lawrence Kasanoff
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Live, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: New Line Home Video
• DVD Release Date: March 26, 1997
• Run Time: 101 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (165 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0790729997
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #10,373 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Mortal Kombat" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

From The New Yorker
This martial-arts film, based on a video game and set to a techno beat, starts out promisingly: the actors look sinewy and primed for action, and the effects (mostly morphing) are convincing. But soon the movie falls flat under an uninspired good-versus-evil plot and pathetically simpleminded dialogue. To be fair, it tries for a tongue-in-cheek punch here and there, and, thanks to Christopher Lambert (sporting a Catherine Deneuve-like wig in the Obi-Wan Kenobi role), it lands a few. But the bulk of the movie is set in a grotto that owes much to Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion-animation isles without improving on them, and the fighting is endless. It's all paced swiftly enough-like an old kung-fu movie with a budget-but it could have used some witty dubbing. Directed by Paul Anderson. -Bruce Diones
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Product Description
based on the best-selling home video game, this action adventuretells of a group of expert fighters who compete in a dangerous tournament for the fate of mankind on a mysterious island.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still Rocks, February 20, 2005

By	Johnny Biggs (Brampghanistan) - See all my reviews

This movie still rocks. The Reptile effects are kind of dated, but everything else... hell yes! Next to Resident Evil (One, not Two), the best video game adaptation ever. No, it ain't a life affirming oscar worthy masterpiece, but its' a damn good time, with rockin' music, excellent fight scenes and gorgeous scenery. It stays pretty close to the game (minus the extreme gore). If you dug Enter The Dragon, you'll dig this.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still love it, August 30, 2006

By	Ebby D "Ebby" (Canada) - See all my reviews

When this movie came out, I was twelve years old and horribly afraid of being caught out as not old enough to see a PG-13 movie without an adult. In spite of that fear however, I saw this movie no less than seven times in the theatre alone. Now at almost 23 years old, I can say that this movie still makes me giddy with enjoyment. I love Liu Kang, Raiden and especially Reptile. Annihilation didn't come close to matching this movie. They couldn't keep the actors from the first film, Johnny Cage died in the first five seconds and the actor who had replaced Christopher Lambert as Raiden was terrible. But this movie, this movie captured my imagination over and over again and will likely continue to do so.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wicked movie, February 26, 2005

By	DSG "DSG" (Franklin, Wisconsin) - See all my reviews

saw it with my father at age 15. saw it 2 times on vhs. saw it 8 times on tv. saw it 4 times on dvd. glad I bought it on dvd less then a year ago. it's a hit like the video games and cards and some comics made from this series are. it amazes. gives you laughs here and there. shocks the hell out of you. like when Scorpion has Cage in his hell lair and rips off his face or face mask and you see his ugly, horrifying, shocking, evil skull grimacing. and then Cage kicks some ass by shattering his stomach open with a shield with spikes on it. and then Scorpion burns up and blood oozes out and his head explodes like a watermelon or something like that. the effects, visuals , etc are amazing
see this movie