It's not secret I'm huge on Mortal Kombat, so when I heard they were making a reboot I was excited because I get to see my favorite videogame on the big screen. But when I saw Rebirth, I was disgusted. I hated what he did with the whole thing, It wasn't Mortal Kombat. Mortal Kombat: Legacy was a truer adaptation to the games and I really liked it, I'm not a fan of changing something to make it more real but Legacy was able to make it work, especially Episode 6: Raiden. But last September when they announced that he would be directing the remake I was happy but pissed at the same time. Unless he sticks to the games and focuses more on the story than the blood and gore but keeping that blood and gore, I might enjoy it but here is what he HAS to do to make rather watchable, enjoyable and overall just flat out good.
1: As stated before, focus on the story. Blood and gore come second, if you put the goodies first before the story then it's just gonna be a gore fest with no story and I hate those. That's all the fricking zombie movies in my opinion except for Zombieland.
2: Keep some humor. Every movie has some humor, but movies like this need an comic relief, this is where you gonna portray the Johnny Cage character properly. Keep the humor understandable in each situation but also make him so cocky he does pop off with something that's funny and what Johnny Cage would actually say.
3: NO REALISM. Everybody loves realism in alot of fantasy movies these days, with the exception of mostly Stryker, the games have absolutely NO realism so therefore there shouldn't be any realism. You take out the realism, then your just taking away alot of what makes Mortal Kombat good and different.
4: No generic costumes, make each characters look unique to them please. Also make Baraka at least frightening, it's kinda bad I laughed when I saw Baraka in Mortal Kombat: Legacy and pissed when I saw him in Rebirth.
5: Please add more characters to the movie so it's longer and go in depth with all of the films heros.
6: Instead of making the film a Lui Kang movie, it also needs to be a Kung Lao film with a side plate of the other characters obviously. No, Kung Lao was not in the first Mortal Kombat film.
7: No same palette characters like the original games. With the exception of Sektor and Cyrax for a sequel, no ninjas in the films should EVER look the same. They all need to be unique, I personally feel Reptile should look like the newer game because it fits the character more and he comes off more threatening.
8: Mention Shinnok because it's his fault the the tournament was created and bring Quan Chi in for the films.
9: Most of the fights need to be done for story reasons. Not all should be because of story reasons though, at least that's my way of thinking.
10: Have the Scorpion and Sub-Zero rivalry be like that of Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow but more violent and have a bigger role in the film, also tease certain characters in the film. Like Kenshi for instance, he is part of Shang Tsung's past, that was for example.
Whatya guys think? Comment below and be respectful, also would you like to see some of my begining of my Mortal Kombat scriptment I'm writing? Again leave comments below.
