Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge

Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge is a 2020 American direct-to-video adult animated martial arts film based on the Mortal Kombat franchise created by Ed Boon and John Tobias. South Korean studio Mir animated the film and was produced by mh:besttvshows:Warner Bros. Animation.

Plot
The champions of Outworld and Earthrealm must fight to the death in a brutal tournament that determines the fate of Earth while Quan Chi sends Scorpion to participate in order to retrieve a artifact that can free his master.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The movie is a love letter to fans of Hanzo Hasashi/Scorpion.
 * 2) Just like the 1995 movie, the movie only gives a small amount of Mortal Kombat character which this can give them some character development without trying to flesh out more than 10 Mortal Kombat characters.
 * 3) The animation is very impressive, including the gore which as a lot of graphic imagery and also x-rays (just like the latest NRS Mortal Kombat games), the fighting has a lot of choreography on each single fight, and the character designs are amazing when the audience sees their 3D game models being turned into 2D models.
 * 4) The movie managed to put changes to the story from the games while also keeping it faithful to the source material and it was done in a mostly clever way.
 * 5) Despite the source material changing slightly, Scorpion is still accurate enough to his game counterpart which also includes the other aspects of Mortal Kombat such as an actual tournament and unlike the past two Mortal Kombat movies, Scorpion & Sub-Zero have a fair amount of screen time.
 * 6) *In fact, Scorpion is more likable in the movie compared to the games as he's more selfless and obedient.
 * 7) The characters do have good chemistry.
 * 8) *The opening scene that shows Hanzo's father-son relationship with his child Satoshi is cute.
 * 9) *Much like the 1995 Mortal Kombat movie, Liu Kang, Johnny Cage, and Sonya are a good team.
 * 10) Just like the original Mortal Kombat era, each character has their own goals other than the tournament.
 * 11) Scorpion has an interesting backstory set in the movie, his background gave him some clear character and also his motivations to be understandable while also upsetting knowing what he went through, even watch him turn from Hanzo to Scorpion.
 * 12) The movie has some heartbreaking and emotional moments such as the death of Scorpion's family and clan.
 * 13) Unlike Annihilation, the characters don’t kill a huge number of beloved/known Mortal Kombat characters, instead, they kill a bunch of cannon fodder, generics, and minions.
 * 14) This movie’s depiction of Raiden is more likable since he is actually helpful to his allies and an actual protector to his participates since he does actually help them whenever he is allowed to.
 * 15) The movie does have some good messages:
 * 16) *"THERE IS ALWAYS ANOTHER CHOICE."
 * 17) Just like a Mortal Kombat game, the fatalities are still has gruesome and violent.
 * 18) Lots of epic and exciting moments.
 * 19) The humor is pretty witty and well-written.
 * 20) The movie does have a serious tone without going too far and there some lighthearted moments in the film that don't make the film feel inconsistent.
 * 21) Some of the game voice actors comeback to reprised their roles such as Scorpion voice actor from the latest Mortal Kombat games and even Goro’s 1995 voice actor.
 * 22) Though Jamieson Price doesn't reprise his role here, Steve Blum is still a good choice to play Bi-Han/Original Sub-Zero and he does a good job voicing him.
 * 23) The movie adds stuff from the modern games and mixes them with the plot of the old games, such as Scorpion's uniform from Mortal Kombat X.
 * 24) A great twist - the audience will assume Sub-Zero killed Hanzo family and many will believe that Sub-Zero is one of the main villains in movie only to find out it was Quan Chi all along who committed crimes which Sub-Zero was innocent all this time.
 * 25) Quan Chi's death was one of the most impacting moments in the movie as he committed all the crimes against Scorpion.
 * 26) Iconic quotes such as:
 * 27) *GET OVER HERE !
 * 28) *Damn your God.
 * 29) The movie was a good start to the Mortal Kombat Legends series.
 * 30) The ending is a great setup for the sequel.
 * 31) This film is one of the minority of video game movies to receive positive reviews from critics and audiences.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Despite being faithful to the source material, there were a couple of changes such as Liu Kang not being as important nor completely accurate to his game counterpart, Shang Tsung being a non-fighter in the movie, Quan Chi able to turn and mimic different characters and the tournament was depicted more of a battle royale since every participate were scattered all over the island then slowly coming into one place or the center of the island.
 * 2) Not all the characters were handled well:
 * 3) *Shang Tsung is the worst character in the film, as he constantly cheers Quan Chi’s fighter (Scorpion) despite clearly seeing that Scorpion is actively killing his followers and also every minion that works for Shang Tsung, Quan Chi able to morph into other characters as Shang Tsung is never shown using his morph ability, and still confusion on who killed the Great Kung Lao since Shang Tsung implies he did it while there’s times that implies Goro did it.
 * 4) *Kano is a completely useless villain in the film compared to his other movie appearance.
 * 5) *Reptile and Baraka were sadly wasted in this movie. They don't have any personality and were just there to be killed in their fight scenes. This is a similar problem that Mortal Kombat 1995 suffered from (only in that movie, Scorpion and Sub-Zero were the ones wasted).
 * 6) Plot armor - there’s been a lot of near death moments especially for Sonya & Johnny Cage and they always seem to win every fight they are in despite the odds that were put against them.
 * 7) Due to the movie having two different stories, the movie does struggle on who to focus on at times.
 * 8) Its sequel, Battle of the Realms was not well-received.

Reception
Scorpion's Revenge has been met with postive reviews from Mortal Kombat fans, it was praised for it's animation and fighting scenes. The movie currently 82% on Google, a 7.4/10 rating on IMDb, as well as a 90% critcs score and a 85% fans score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Trivia

 * This is the first Mortal Komabt based property to be produced at Warner Bros. Animation, after its parent company acquired the franchise from Midway Games in 2009.
 * Before the film was released, Daffy (from Looney Tunes) was grabbed by Scorpion (voiced by Patrick Seitz), who shouts his catchphrase "Get over here!"

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