Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
New Line Cinema | Release Date: November 21, 1997 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
11
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
2
Negative:
10
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
But the most stimulating, satisfying aspect of this action fantasy is the theme music. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Stack
Its dazzling special effects make its combatants flip and fly, spin and soar, all the while punching and kicking each other like jackhammers, only to leave viewers utterly unmoved. Read full review
30
VarietyDaniel M. Kimmel
Pic consists largely of choppily edited fight scenes (usually involving somersaults and back flips) combined with various computer graphic effects. Read full review
25
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
It wastes no time getting to the punching, kicking, stomping and zapping that passes for a cinematic event. [22Nov1997 Pg. 35]
20
EmpireIan Freer
It would miss the point to complain that the plot is nonsensical drivel peopled by paper-thin characters and a paucity of ideas. Read full review
20
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
This tedious hodgepodge of martial-arts mayhem, bogus mysticism and computer-generated special effects doesn't even pretend to have a plot. Read full review
16
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Fragmented and monotonous, without a semblance of the gymnastic cleverness that at least made the first Mortal Kombat film into watchable trash, Mortal Kombat Annihilation is as debased as movies come. Read full review
12
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
This film has no story, no characters, and no coherence. Read full review
10
The New York TimesLawrence Van Gelder
Here's the lowdown on the latest chapter in Mortal Kombat: deadly dull. Read full review
10
Los Angeles TimesBob Heisler
The sequel is quite serious, charmless and critic-proof (in fact, it wasn't screened for the media), and it may attract the teenagers who have made the game so popular. [24Nov1997 Pg.10]
0
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
The movie is nothing more than a perpetual chain of elaborately choreographed (by returning star Robin Shou) fight sequences that mix live-action foregrounds with complexly layered digital effects and are linked together by the most flimsy and laughable of plot elements. Read full review
0
L.A. WeeklyHazel-Dawn Dumpert
It's cynical and it's depressing, and I would lock a child in a room before I'd show him Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. Read full review
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