Speed 2: Cruise Control, The Island Of Doctor Moreau, Lost In Space, Street Fighter, Godzilla. An array of big movies, based on massive properties, was just kinda shat onto the screen with a general feeling that all involved in making them just shrugged and said:
“That’ll do, release it!”
Among this merry brand of failures was the original adaption of the classic beat-’em-up Mortal Kombat. In 1995, it opened to a savage mauling from both fans and critics alike. Fans pointed to the PG-13 rating and total lack of gore, unlike the video game it was based on. Critics pointed to the shonky effects and terrible, terrible acting.
The less said about the sequel, the better. A Mortal Kombat reboot had been consistently teased for years but never seemed to go anywhere, even as the game was updated constantly for new editions. Last year it finally entered production and new images were released last week from the nearly completed movie.
Now director Simon Quoid has reassured fans that this definitely WILL NOT be a PG-13. McQuoid is a longtime fan of the franchise and has been on the record as saying only something in the spirit of the game will do:
“It’s definitely not gonna get a PG-13 rating… Out of context this quote might seem incendiary, it’s not: The rules around ratings aren’t what a lot of people think they are. It’s amount of blood, it’s amount of red, it’s interpretation of how you go about it.
We had a lot of discussions about getting the balance right so there was gore and there was blood and there were fatalities. And there is gore, blood, and fatalities.”
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