The biggest complaint about 2021's MORTAL KOMBAT reboot was strikingly simple: it spent two hours setting up a fighting tournament that never actually happened. Five years, one SAG-AFTRA strike, and a healthy dose of fan frustration later, director Simon McQuoid returns with MORTAL KOMBAT II and this time, he delivers... exactly what was promised. The result is a loud, bloody, spectacularly entertaining action film that does what the first could not: it commits, completely and gloriously, to being a Mortal Kombat movie. Picking up directly after the events of the first film, MORTAL KOMBAT II wastes no time. Cole Young's Earthrealm champions - Liu Kang, Kung Lao, Sonya Blade, Jax, and the unforgettable Kano - are now joined by Hollywood superstar Johnny Cage, reluctantly dragged into a dimension-spanning death tournament that is about as far from a film set as one can get. Standing against them is Shao Kahn, the hulking, hammer-wielding emperor of Outworld, whose ambition to conquer Earthrealm is no longer a distant threat but an imminent, bone-crunching reality.
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