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I had very few expectations from this one, given the fact that it was an origin story with a character I know zero facts about. But let me say this, it competes with the Avengers movies when comes to cinematography, visuals and action sequences.

By far the best Marvel movie in the recent years, that puts many titles from its portfolio to shame.

The visuals are a blast, a true eye candy experience. There are a lot of new elements that Marvel seemed to experience with and it worked out perfectly. The choreography is spot on, as the fighting sequences are among the best I've seen, and combined with a good score, it turns out to be a very enjoyable seeing on the big screen. I think it's mandatory to watch Shang-Chi on the biggest screen you can get to.

I will start by saying that I have very few knowledge about Mortal Kombat as a whole and I haven't played the games. I found the movie to be very entertaining for what it want's to be, meaning there will be fans who will either hate this or enjoy it and people outside of the fandom who seek a good action movie for a Saturday night.

There's plenty of action, many gory scenes and good fighting coreography. A lot of popular characters from the MK games return in this version, with a few minor changes and new additions, mainly the protagonist: Cole Young.

Kano is the show stealer whenever he enters a scene, but Scorpion and Sub-zero are probably the best parts of this movie. Their confrontations are a joy to watch, especially towards the end of the movie. The script follows mostly the same story line as the movie from 1995 and they do set up for potential sequels provided this movie performs good. I recommend you to give it a try, it's funny, action packed and filled with many lines from the games plus fatalities and lots of blood. Flawless victory.

I had little to no plans for watching this movie before its release but I had to choose between this and Robin Hood and I made a good choice. First of all, the movie is visually stunning, not only is Peter Jackson involved but Weta Digital is behind the Visual Effects here and oh boy, they did an amazing job. Its for the first time we see motorised cities hunting other cities on the big screen, everything about this movie is good in its way. The sheer size of the cities, the mechanised components and the tense atmosphere transport you in that desolated world. The CGI is amazing, the score is fantastic (props for Junkie XL on this one). It combines more famous series like Star Wars, Mad Max or Terminator but with a more retro and steampunky theme. I know its after the first novel in a series written by Philip Reeve so I do hope for a follow up. The story is not cliche free, its too predictible at some points, there is not much character development and the villain played by Hugo Weaving is driven by an objective that we've seen hundreds of times already. But I say all those flaws are saved by the visuals of the movie and the soundtracks. You can deffinitely feel Peter Jackson's involvment in this project, as some of the cinematography and scenery looks straight out of Lotr or Hobbit. I recommend watching it on the biggest screen you can go to, preferably IMAX.