Mortal Kombat I/Mortal Kombat II

MORTAL KOMBAT: Three warriors Sonya Blade Johnny Cage and Lui Kang battle the servants of the evil sorcerer Shang Tsung to determine the fate of the world.MORTAL KOMBAT II: The Outworld villains refusing to accept the outcome of the tenth Mortal Kombat tournament try their hand at the direct approach--storming Earth instead amidst the same synthetic fog computer morphing and pounding techno score cues as the first film. Waiting to rebuff them are valiant Earth warriors Liu Kang the burly Jax and Sonya Blade as well as a newly humanized Rayden.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: NR UPC: 794043109539 Manufacturer No: N10953 Product Description

Awesome

Great films, can't wait for the next one. Plus bring on Konquest region 1 dvd's. July 17, 2008

Support MK3 in Buying or Playing, you decide...2 stars for 2 dvds in this package

Its been ages since Mortal Kombat was re-released. I remember watching a TNT special of the making of Mortal Kombat, falling more in love with the fantasy myth inspired martial arts film which I have yet to see much of again. A special you could buy on VHS at the time for a limitted time which never made it as a special feature on the dvd, dissapointment and heart ache begins. The DVDs came out in the early days of DVD booms. Matrix got a decent treatment at the time while the only cool thing about a Mortal Kombat on DVD is chapter skip. The quality was "eh" and not even anamorphic. Now this DVD is here to bring some money to New Line under the title. I say buy it only to support the film side of it for we are waiting patiently like monks chanting 'Om' for a third movie to hopefully bring hype to release the Special Editions of Mortal Kombat. I was hoping the success of Resident Evil films would hype the director's past works into special edition releases but no. This new DVD release is good with picture quality enhancement, BUT the picture is cropped and cut to fit the fullscreen. It was filmed in 1.85 so maybe this is not so bad. Support MK film wise and get this OR continue support for the success of the video games where I believe the true heart and power for MK3 will come from. March 12, 2008

Mortal Kombat : the 2 movies

hello there folks. for those who like to rate this dvd neggatively, just stop and think for a moment.

1 - this dvd is brand new.
2 - while yes it does does have the utter fullscreen instead of widescreen , the picture crips of the film is far better than the old dvd's. which means the picture quality has been improoved.
3 - not every dvd needs special features. footage like that isnt alwasy easy to find even with the directors and the crew.
4 - you get 2 movies for the price of 1. far better than buying 2 dvds seperate.

I totally recommend this dvd for any mortal kombat fan due to the fact that its the brand new release & the picture quality is far better than the previous released old dvd's. you have to remember those dvd's came out in the 90's, so times have changed.

& IF you are a real Mortal Kombat Fan , try waiting this year 2008 for the next instalment in the video game series. and IF you are patient enough to wait until 2010 , you will finally see the release of the next Mortal Kombat film. which they are working their hard efforts to get it made. plus , its been since 1997 since we saw a new Mortal Kombat Movie. its already been 11 years , and 2010 will make it 13 years of silence.

so IF you want the 2 MK films for picture quality and not just crappy special features and widescreen format , then this is just perfect.

and stop rating this neggatively just for no widescreen capabilities and special features. NOT ALL movies need widescreen and NOT EVERY movie looks good widescreen. trust me , there are movies in which widescreen ruins the whole movie.

and trust me , go for the picture being clearer. the old dvd's are out dated and were made sometime in the late 90's, so picture quality for dvd's are far different now then it was back in 1998.

thanks for taking alook , trust me , its worth your money. I wont dissapoint you in that. March 12, 2008

"Rally the Extermination Squads and prepare for VIKTORY!"

KAUTION: THIS DISK IS PAN & SKAN, NOT WIDESKREEN.

Two inkredibly ekciting, aktion-packed motion piktures on one single-sided, silver-kolored disk would normally warrant a `flawless' five star rating. But, in this most unfortunate kase, I must subtrakt one star due to New Line's mind-bogglingly idiotik decision to use the modified pan & skan versions--which have been `formatted to fit your TV skreen'--instead of the more aesthetikally-pleasing anamorphik wideskreen transfers. Nevertheless, both movies look and sound terrifik, the cover art is pretty kool, and you get two films for the price of one. Each selektion kontains "non-stop martial arts violence," so you _know_ they've _got_ to be good. As Jax might say: "Yeah! Now that's what I'M talkin' `bout!"

The first installment tells the tale of guilt-ridden good guy, Liu Kang, and his quest to avenge his murdered little brother, Chan, by defeating the ruthless, soul-stealing wizard, Shang Tsung (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa), in the legendary, once-in-a-generation Mortal Kombat tournament. If the snarling sorcerer and his formidable ninja warriors win just one more tournament, the immortal Emperor of Outworld will be able to enter the realm of earth and end life as we know it. Liu is joined by the delightfully egotistikal movie star, Johnny Cage, and the beautiful but kantankerous policewoman, Sonya Blade (Bridgette Wilson). Johnny desperately wants to dispel tabloid rumors that he's a fake by proving himself to be the world's greatest martial artist. Sonya desperately wants to track down the one-eyed butcher, Kano, and make him pay for what he did to her partner. But Lord Rayden (Christopher Lambert), the ever-chuckling lightning god, appears in a krackling ball of elektricity to remind the three brave kombatants to fokus on their sakred mission to protekt Earthrealm from a hostile takeover by Outworld. "One of you three will decide the outcome of the tournament," says the jolly, white-robed mystik, "the fate of billions will depend upon you...heh heh heh." Along the way, our heroes must battle such vicious opponents as the ice-slinging Sub-Zero; the whip-wielding Scorpion; the shape-shifting kameleon, Reptile; and the hideous, four-armed behemoth, Prince Goro. Fortunately, the lovely ten-thousand year-old princess, Kitana, is ready with some helpful hints.

The infamous sequel, `Annihilation,' is despised by many movie fans, but I think it's just as entertaining as its predecessor...even if it is kind of korny. MK2 features a kornukopia of kolorful charakters in authentik kostumes and a whole mess of epik, tekno-musik-charged battles straight out of the video game! The plot, inkoherent though it may be, centers around the fiendish emperor, Shao-Kahn (Brian Thompson), who, with a lot of help from his elder god father, Shinnok (no; not `Schnook'), has broken the sakred rules of Mortal Kombat to open the portals between Outworld and Earthrealm and begin a merger of the two. This horrifik process will take six days to komplete, and will inevitably result in the total destruktion of the world of the humans. As the loathsome Shao-Kahn so eloquently puts it, "The earth was created in six days; so too shall it be destroyed. And on the seventh day, mankind will rest in peace!" Luckily, the valiant Liu Kang, the feisty Sonya Blade (this time portrayed by Sandra Hess), and the ever-incredulous Jax Briggs are on the kase. Their mission is to reunite Princess Kitana with her dead mother, Sindel--who has recently been resurrekted by the diabolikal Shao-Kahn, and transformed into the disagreeable skreaming banshee who now leads his Extermination Squads. An uncharakteristikally serious Lord Rayden (now played by James Remar) insists that when Kitana and Sindel are together again, Kahn's vile spell will be broken, Sindel's soul will be at peace, and Outworld's ominous portals will close. So, the intrepid fighters hop in their speedy little velospheres and zoom off to save the world. Can they defeat the likes of Motaro, the horn-headed, lizard-tailed centaur; Sheeva, the unattraktive female version of Goro; Baraka (no; not `Barakabama'), the scythe-fisted, fang-faced terror; and Cyrax, the yellow-armored, bomb-shooting robo-ninja? Maybe...with the quadrupled muskular kapacity of Jax's cybernetik strength-enhancers, and Liu Kang's newly diskovered animality...not to mention Rayden's short hairkut and spiffy little vest. In the immortal words of Major Briggs, "Now I done seen everything!"

If you want two phenomenally fun feature films for one low price, go ahead and grab this disk; but if you're a wideskreen fanatik you should buy these flicks separately even though it's more kostly to do so. Test your might...today! September 16, 2007

ok if you don't own both already. sad not widescreen.

Don't know why they packaged both movies together in fullscreen and not widescreen. The only good thing I did notice is the picture quality and video color on the first one does look alot better than the older widescreen version. So if the screen format of the movies don't matter it's worth getting this pack. June 24, 2007

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