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For Tanya Tuesdays this week you get two film reviews not just the one. Aren’t you lucky, lucky people. Instead of just reviewing the first Mortal Kombat film and then the second in another week I’m reviewing them together so both reviews will be relatively short so that this whole review doesn’t waffle on. Anyway on with the first film.

I actually fell asleep during this film, along for a couple of minutes because I was rudely awoken so that I wouldn’t miss anything. Surprisingly this film is miles better than the Super Mario Bros movie and Double Dragon. I’m not saying this is a good film, no not by a long shot. But its a vast improvement. The first thing I want to comment on is the music. The music is this film is actually fantastic, it’s the best thing about the film. I got really excited when the music shone through in certain parts of the film, especially during the fight scenes. You cannot deny how good the music is.

Anyway I was surprised when I watched this too see Christopher Lambert (Connor MacLeod from Highlander) in the cast. I just think he’s an exceptional actor in Highlander so that amused me for a while. The acting for some of the other actors (if you can call them such) within the film is so terrible. It really is! I just didn’t feel anything towards the characters. The fight scenes were well choreographed however anytime you saw the actors outside the confines of battle they just lacked personality.

I suppose I should mention the plot a little within this review. The story essentially is that for each generation a selection of warriors from the Earthworld must battle some warriors from the Outworld. So far The Outworld have won nine battles in a row meaning if they win this battle they can invade the Earthworld (by the way that is Earth if you had not yet realised). So the fighters within this film are Earth’s last hope.

The film had quite a good narrative for setting up the battles, it reminded me slightly of Dead or Alive. All the characters taken to an Island to battle each other. It’s so easy to set a film up that way and it works. Yet the plot appears to fail in other aspects.

So overall this film is good if your going to have to watch these films adapted from video games however, I would not recommend this as a general watch. It’s still a poor film, there is not much good to say really about this film besides the music and music cannot alone make a film.

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation Film Review

So onto the sequel, I have to be honest I ended up playing professor Layton through this film. I could not focus my attention to watching it. Sequels are traditionally not as good as the original, there are always exceptions to the case and this is not one of them. This is a terrible sequel miles worse than the original film. This film makes me appreciate the first. If you were comparing the two films on a scale this would get a 2 and the original somewhere around an 8. The difference between the films is staggering. The first film set up the opening to the sequel so we already have established where the film is going to go. Forces from the Outworld, lead by Shao Kahn, attempt to invade the Earthworld and thus the warriors from the previous film must battle the new enemies.

This film pretty much changes the entire cast which really annoyed me. I hate watching movies where a character gets played by a new actor everytime there is a new sequel. The cast within this film was just as bad as the last, no surprises there.

The story was terrible, just its hard to believe they followed up Mortal Kombat with this. Who actually thought this was a good idea. It has me totally baffled. Again there is some good music, but it doesn’t make up for how appallingly bad this film is. I’m glad I played Professor Layton through this film because I don’t think I’d be happy knowing I’d wasted over an hour on this rubbish. It seems like everything that was mediocre in the first film rather than improve it they just decided to make it worse. This film is why everyone hates sequels. Someone please bring me a good sequel, films like this make me lose hope!

Seeing as I’ve had a ton of free time lately, I’ve played quite a few games this week. I’ve been sinking quite a few hours into black ops multiplayer, played some mortal kombat 1 & 2, had a blast with super mario world, briefly played some pilotwings 64, played sonic next-gen and finally had a frustrating play session of Shadow the hedgehog.

I’ve realised that I really suck at fighting games, back when we used to record wednesday rewinds I thought I’d do street fighter 2 on the snes, but when I went to record footage I couldn’t get past the first round. I figured maybe I was just bad at street fighter so I bought the first 2 mortal kombat games for the snes. I finally got round to playing them this week and, as with street fighter, I couldn’t get past the first round. I don’t know why I can’t seem to get to grips with 2D fighters, maybe its the whole combo thing. I am pretty good at smash bros though so at least I have that to save my pride. So thats about all I can talk about mortal kombat so I think I’ll move on.

Another game that I couldn’t really get into this week is pilotwings 64. I liked pilotwings resort on the 3DS so I thought I’d give pilotwings 64 a try (I’ve actually had it since I got my current N64 but I’ve just never had any interest to play it). I’m not sure why but I really didn’t find it as fun as the 3DS version, I’ll probably give it another try some other time but the first impressions haven’t left much of an impact.

I’ve played a bit of sonic next gen this week, but it was for a let’s play for the site which you can check out here. If you don’t feel like watching the video, then long story short I think it’s a game with good ideas but was very poorly put together. 

Super mario world is probably my favourite game for the SNES and this week I played a bit more of it. I love the graphics of this game, I think it’s one of the few retro games that, if it was released today with no changes, it would still be a huge hit. I know a lot of people like super mario bros 3 more but personally I think super mario world is a much better game. The only problem I have is that my SNES controller buttons are really spongy, but obviously thats not a problem with the game. 

I’ve tried to play shadow the hedgehog before but I’ve never really invested any time into it and this week I wish I never had. I don’t know why sonic next gen gets the title of worst sonic game, shadow the hedgehog is much worse. It’s just one of those game where you play it and think “what were the designers thinking?”. Whoever though that sonic adventure 2 with guns was a good idea was a complete idiot. The guns are impossible to aim which makes them useless and the other attacks are equally as useless. The objectives are also completely stupid. It’s supposed to have a simple moral choice system, where there are 3 different objectives (good, bad and neutral). Depending on what objectives you do on each level depends on the ending you get. Now I was trying to get the good ending, until I got to the about the 3rd level. The good objective was to collect 300 rings. Now in any sonic game collecting 300 rings would be a pain, but this game makes it stupidly tedious. You still loose rings if you get hit and if you die by falling into a bottomless pit, which happens all the time because the homing attack doesn’t always work, you loose all your rings. So by about the 3rd time I’d got to about 200 rings and then died, I gave up on shadow the hedgehog and I won’t be picking it back up anytime soon. 

I don’t normally play online games but for whatever reason I’ve got into black ops multiplayer. I’m not great at playing online, I’m not awful just about average I guess. I really like the maps in black ops. I never really liked modern warfare 2, but I loved modern warfare. I don’t think the maps are as good as modern warfare but they’re still pretty fun. I really need to level up some more, the best assault rifle I can get at the moment isn’t very good. Anyway I’ve talked about black ops before so I won’t waffle on anymore.

So thats about it for game this week. Hopefully next week I’ll get round to playing some pokemon, but who knows. Anyway I’ll leave you with the sad scene of where my first wolf died :( haha see you next week!