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Mortal Kombat II May 11, 2026

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 Sorry, I haven't blogged in a while, but I'm back to it.  I didn't play a lot of Mortal Kombat when I was a kid and when I did it was at friends' houses. Even so, I enjoyed the fight scenes in the 1995 movie, and it was the same in the last movie in 2021. When I saw bait for a sequel, I had a feeling it would be the same, and when I saw Karl Urban was going to play Johnny Cage, I got a little excited. It was not only because Karl was in my favorite movie, because in truth all actors in Lord of the Rings are, and another way to describe him is an underrated legend. Like with the other Mortal Kombat movies I've seen, the action scenes were fun, and Johnny's banter was fun. I liked the way they attempted to make us relate to Johnny by having him be an out of work action movie actor, feeling defeated, and see that he had a universe to protect.  In the Covert Militia Campaigns, Jack Stamper's only desire is to play hard rock music, while the Third World War inte...