You won't be disappointed!

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

I hate to write bad about a movie but this one was bad.

Granted that the first movie was cheesy and campy, and of course what else would it be as it is a movie based on a game with no other contents than fighting! So when "Mortal Kombat: Annihilation" followed two years after, expectations were not high."Mortal Kombat: Annihilation" was every bit as cheesy and campy as its predecessor, and director John R. Leonetti had done nothing really to improve on the first movie. In fact, "Mortal Kombat: Annihilation" just continued on with the same pointless tirade of having characters from an arcade fighting game beat each other up in a soup of very weak storyline.The CGI effects in this 1997 sequel was every bit as horrible as it was in the 1995 movie. It was gut wrenching to witness those demons and the dragon duel on the screen, because the CGI animation was just atrocious, and the textures looked like they were borrowed directly from the PC game version of Mortal Kombat.As for the acting, well some people were doing good enough jobs here, despite the fact of having nothing to work with in terms of script and storyline. However, why they opted for Brian Thompson as the main villain was just simply beyond my comprehension.If you enjoyed the 1995 "Mortal Kombat" movie then you will also like the 1997 sequel "Mortal Kombat: Annihilation". However, unless you are a fan, then there is very little to get from this movie.

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation could have easily made the franchise into a successful trilogy of movies, but as the tagline implies, this movie destroyed all expectations.Everything that worked in the first movie is absent here. The majority of returning characters are portrayed by new actors (with the exceptions of Robin Shou as Liu Kang, and Talisa Soto as Kitana). It also doesn't help that the acting this time around is terrible as everyone's performances range from stale (James Remar as Rayden) to over the top (Brian Thompson as Shao Kahn).The script is riddled with plot holes, and comes off as nonsensical. The movie also follows a simple pattern; fighting, running, talking, and it goes on throughout the entire run time of the movie.There is a lack of character development as the movie attempts to cram in as many characters from the more popular games in the Mortal Kombat franchise (mainly Mortal Kombat II and MK3), and the majority of them have limited screen-time as they either get killed off, or disappear after their 1 scene.Of course, we have to take a look at the action, but the fight scenes are pretty lackluster this time around. We had some impressive stuff choreography-wise in the first movie, but all of the fight scenes here feel rushed.There's an overabundance of special effects in the movie, and yet, every single one of them look terrible, even for 1997. Supposedly, this movie had a bigger budget than the first movie, and yet, it looks nowhere near as impressive. Production and cinematography- wise, the whole movie looks and feels like a cheap straight-to-video sequel rushed out to capitalize on the success of the first movie.Mortal Kombat: Annihilation suffers the same problems as the majority of the other movies based on video games, it didn't feel like they tried to make a proper movie based on the game, but instead a product that tries shoehorning references to said game in a way that feels gimmicky, but as far as the genre goes, this stands as the worst film of the genre for being a colossal disappointment following its entertaining and well made predecessor, and a prime example of shoddy filmmaking (so much that it almost rivals anything directed by Uwe Boll). Do yourself a favor, stick to the first movie and the video games, avoid this stinker.

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation is consider by many as one of the worse video game movies ever created and with good reason.The film from the get go shows that it had no desire to make a huge impact the only impact this film has that is even close to being consider memorable is that this film just shows how a sequel can pretty much ruin a whole series.It features some of the worse visual and special effects that can easy to be set up as a video game. I mean video games had better visuals then this film has all together.As a fan of the first Mortal Kombat movie I will say yes that film wasn't perfect but it had at least try to make itself a hit and it was. I consider the first Mortal Kombat to have been done right. Mortal Kombat: Annihilation does not. The acting in the film is simply awful the cast seem that they were trying to make a bad video game and also the writing in the film is just plain bad. Also the story is really weak. Perhaps the best thing about the film is that if you don't watch it you'll be better off because this film really don't do anything to award the viewerI give Mortal Kombat: Annihilation an 2 out of 10