13. Mortal Kombat on Film

About this episode

The episode discusses the film adaptations of the Mortal Kombat video game franchise and compares them.

Send us Fan Mail MORTAL KOMBAT!! The beloved violent video game franchise made its big leap to the cinema in 1995, followed it up with a derided sequel in 1997, and then took 24 years to return with 2021's Mortal Kombat and the recent Mortal Kombat 2. But which one is the best? Find out in our new episode!! Also, some talk about internet controversy if that's your bag. **Spoiler Warning - we do spoil pretty much every movie we talk about here, so if you haven't caught up with MK2 ...

People in this episode

Hosts: John Holt, James Brigginshaw

Topics covered

• Mortal Kombat
• film adaptation
• video game history
• movie reviews
• internet controversy

Keywords

• Mortal Kombat
• film
• video game
• movie review
• internet controversy

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat 2

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