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The 1995 film adaptation of the classic fighting game Mortal Kombat is now available to stream for free.

Fans of the gory franchise can now watch the cult classic for free on Tubi. Although the 1995 film has an infamous reputation for poorly representing the brutality of the games, it still carries a charm that fans have since been able to see the merit in.

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The film featured many of the game's iconic characters, including Raiden (Christopher Lambert), Liu Kang (Robin Shou), Johnny Cage (Linden Ashby), Shang Tsung (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa), Sonya Blade (Bridgette Wilson), Kitana (Talisa Soto), Kano (Trevor Goddard), Scorpion (Chris Casamassa), Sub-Zero (Franois Petit), and Reptile (Keith Cooke).

The film somewhat follows the original game's plot, following the fighters participating in the Mortal Kombat tournament. Despite mixed reviews,...

With Tyler having the clarity, gumption, and downright insight to throw the first live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie at us as a gateway horror movie, it got me thinking about other movies that aren’t really horror movies but maybe got us thinking about dipping our toes into that now beloved genre. It got me thinking past things like A House with a Clock in its Walls, The Monster Squad, or other kids’ movies that are actually horror movies for kids. It got me thinking of late summer in 1995 and the old Charter Center theater off of Beach Blvd in Huntington Beach, California. It got me thinking of the first time I saw Mortal Kombat (watch it Here) and what that meant to both me and the state of video games as movies. Turn on your Techno Syndrome from the soundtrack and let’s revisit one of the...

Let’s hear it for ‘undiscriminating’ audiences, the kind that want nothing more in a movie than a hundred minutes of combat action, suspense, scary monsters and gross-out gore. They’ll get their fill in Stephen Sommers’ Cuisinart blending of Titanic, Aliens and Die Hard. It’s quality fast food exploitation; just keep your medicine handy if you’re allergic to brainless cornball dialogue.

Deep Rising

Blu-ray

Kl Studio Classics

1998 / Color/ 2:35 widescreen / 106 min. / Street Date August 21, 2018 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95

Starring: Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Anthony Heald, Kevin J. O’Connor, Wes Studi, Derrick O’Connor, Jason Flemyng, Cliff Curtis, Clifton Powell, Trevor Goddard, Djimon Hounsou.

Cinematography: Howard Atherton

Film Editor: Bob Ducsay, John Wright

Original Music: Jerry Goldsmith

Special Creature and Makeup Effects designer and creator: Rob Bottin

Second Unit Director: Dean Cundey

Produced by John Baldecchi, Laurence Mark

Written and Directed by Stephen Sommers

Deep Rising must...

It's more violent than a kebab shop after the pubs kick out, and has caused more controversy than Katie Hopkins on an episode of This Morning. It's spawned a couple of movies, a TV show, comic books, techno albums and card games. It is, of course, Mortal Kombat.

As the franchise's first major motion picture prepares to celebrate its 20th anniversary, now seems like as good a time as any to look back at the series' best brawlers.

From young pretenders like Cassie Cage and Erron Black to old favourites like Raiden and Sonya Blade, here are the top 20 Mortal Kombat kharacters characters.

Why Mortal Kombat is the greatest game movie ever made

20. Ferra/Torr

First appears in: Mortal Kombat X

There was a spell when new additions to the Mortal Kombat series were either masked ninja clones (Rain) or just a bit crap (Stryker). The development team made much...

Video game movies don't have the best reputation, but there are a few shining diamonds in the rough.

Weak on plot and characters, Silent Hill nevertheless has a deliciously creepy atmosphere that echoes the unsettling vibe of the game that inspired it. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is obviously rubbish, but wins points for embracing the absurd madness of the whole affair.

Ranking the Mortal Kombat characters: Who scores a flawless victory?

Not that you'd guess from the interminable Resident Evil series, but the greatest ever video game movie was directed by Paul Ws Anderson - 1995's Mortal Kombat, celebrating its 20th anniversary today.

It's got a proper, simple storyline that - and why the hell not? - is based on the wafer-thin plot of the game itself.

Ne'er do well and bad guy sorcerer Shang Tsung (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) is looking to take over the Earth, and needs his gang to...

Mortal Kombat

Paul W.S. Anderson

Kevin Droney

1995, USA

After Street Fighter laid the groundwork for the fighting game, Mortal Kombat hit the scene, setting a high-water mark for realistic digitized graphics and pushing boundaries with its high levels of bloody violence, including, most notably, its Fatalities. It sparked so much controversy for its depiction of extreme violence and gore that it led to the creation of the Esrb (the video game rating system). The release of Mortal Kombat for home consoles by Acclaim Entertainment was one of the largest video game launches of all time, with a $10 million marketing campaign that dubbed the date “Mortal Monday.” No surprise, then, that a game this controversial and popular would pique the interest of money-hungry Hollywood executives looking to cash in. Mortal Kombat the movie enjoyed a 3-week run at the top of the Us box office, earning over $122 million worldwide. In addition to toys,...

I don’t know about you, but E3 got me Super stoked to slap Mortal Kombat X into my PS4 next year! In my excitement I went back and watched one of the few video game movies that actually encompasses the feel of the original material. That movie? You guessed it, New Line Cinema’s Mortal Kombat! Well, despite having a lot of input from original game creators Ed Boon and John Tobias, there are a few things in the film that aren’t quite canon, so here is my list of the five biggest things they did differently than the original storyline for the games. I am not including parts from the rebooted timeline, however, since the movie wasn’t based on that timeline. (Also, we’re only gonna talk about the first Mortal Kombat movie, because Annihilation got so much wrong this article would have to be printed in hardback…...

A slick, state-of-the-art monster movie with a cool cast but hack dialogue, providing plenty of laughs to go with the mayhem, Hollywood Pictures' "Deep Rising" could be the new year's first sizable hit if audiences jump aboard for another spectacle set on an ill-fated luxury liner.

"Die Hard"-meets-"Alien"-meets-"Titanic" in writer-director Stephen Sommers' wide-screen chiller starring the rugged Treat Williams and an eclectic lineup of supporting players including Anthony Heald, Wes Studi, Djimon Hounsou, Famke Janssen and Kevin J. O'Connor.

With Jerry Goldsmith's robust score setting the tone, "Deep Rising" teases one with information about the 40,000-foot-deep trenches in the South China Sea and the many reported disappearances in the area throughout history. Could it be there's a fearsome sea monster to blame?

Speeding along in his small, fast boat, mercenary smuggler and good-guy Finnegan (Williams) and his long-suffering crew and surly passengers are destined to find out just how deadly and untidy the creature can be. Finnegan's party, a gang of gun-happy bad-asses led by Hanover (Studi), intends to loot the huge cruise ship Argonautica after its computer programs are deliberately erased by an on-board collaborator (Heald).

Along with the tension brought on by all the macho men in a confined space, erupting briefly into violence against Finnegan's whiny but likable mechanic (O'Connor), the group is unknowingly headed toward a ghost ship. In a terrific sequence, the Argonautica is struck by something big causing destruction and death like a major earthquake.

What happens next to one panicked passenger sitting on a toilet is a bit gratuitous and sophomoric, but there's much more to come. What do you expect from a movie with a nasty tentacle that "drinks" its victims? Horribly gross is one way to describe the truly ghoulish bits, but they can be howlingly entertaining.

Providing some relief from the steady elimination of Studi's men (Trevor Goddard, Clifton Powell, Hounsou, Jason Flemyng) in inventively gory ways is the subplot involving a professional thief (Janssen), who is spared when most passengers are gobbled up and joins Finnegan in trying to escape.

With elaborate production design by Holger Gross ("Stargate") and inspired cinematography by Howard Atherton, "Deep Rising" is an expensive-looking production, but more effort could have been put into the script. Williams, Janssen and O'Connor come off looking good, but Studi and Heald are too easily upstaged.

The special effects are solid throughout, with kudos to the crack team of special makeup and creature designer Rob Bottin, visual effects supervisor Mike Shea and mechanical effects coordinator Darrell Pritchett. Credit also goes to all the imaginative folks at Dream Quest Images, Industrial Light & Magic and Banned From the Ranch.

DEEP RISING

Buena Vista Pictures

Hollywood Pictures presents

A Laurence Mark production

A Stephen Sommers film

Writer-director: Stephen Sommers

Producers: Laurence Mark, John Baldecchi

Executive producer: Barry Bernardi

Director of photography: Howard Atherton

Production designer: Holger Gross

Editors: Bob Ducsay, John Wright

Music: Jerry Goldsmith

Casting: Mary Goldberg

Color/stereo

Cast:

Finnegan: Treat Williams

Trillian: Famke Janssen

Canton: Anthony Heald

Pantucci: Kevin J. O'Connor

Hanover: Wes Studi

Running time -- 106 minutes

MPAA rating: R...