I saw the original Mortal Kombat film in theaters about 100 years ago, give or take, and it was bad but also really good. It was the '90s and I was going through kind of a Christopher Lambert phase (if you ever have the chance to see The Hunted, I highly recommend it), and it's also possible that I may have been mildly hammered. But the film itself has an underlying earnestness, and some really good choreography, that elevates it above the cheese line and into the realm of Legitimately Good Videogame Movie. (Plus there's that guy who yells "Mortal Kombat!" That guy rocked.)
I bring all this up because the trailer for Mortal Kombat 2—the one with Karl Urban as Johnny Cage—is here, and, well, I can't say it fills me with confidence. Maybe it's not fair to be overly critical of the dialog in a New Line Cinema flick about some interdimensional Kumite, but lines like "How are you doing that?" and "It's time to become the hero you were meant to be" clang like they were written by George Lucas.
