Well, of course it's a movie night nothing in a sense wanting to watch then I found the latest Mortal Kombat Legends movie uploaded on Max. And so, I figured well might as well make the best of it since movies like these are free besides the subscription fee. Cage Match, takes a origin story of how Johnny Cage became Johnny Cage with a blend of Miami Vice but hey, it at least has Joel McHale voicing the title role right? I mean sure because I've always been a fan of his version of the Soup when it got canceled and always loved his performance in Community, and to tell you the truth there's a lot of things in the movie I didn't mind, but a lot of things that they could have done better.
Action superstar Johnny Cage squares off against a sinister secret society that's plotting a nefarious scheme. However, the brutal fight against the bloodthirsty warriors of the Netherrealm is just the beginning.
I've said it multiple times especially when I reviewed the first two Mortal Kombat Legends films, Cage being portrait as this dumb douche bag is overrated. And it's not to say that some of the stuff they did with the movie wasn't all bad like the entire film crew as demons isn't bad, it’s just Cage acting like a total schmuck just gets boring at times. And for sure Joel McHale does a great job with that hell, he proved that by playing a lawyer in Community but come one day we need some new refreshments when it comes to the character of Johnny Cage. Like, it was fine in the nineties and from games like Mortal Kombat X and eleven show him being more of a father as well with some sarcasm, but it’s like with this movie, the writers just got way too lazy with character development in terms of Johnny Cage and they just thought that oh Joel McHale will make this work but again it just feels so lame that you feel disgusted that this was turned into a cheap cartoon movie. Even the character of Ashrah voiced by Kelly Hu (who I had a crush via Scorpion King) but it's like her character was written on ChatGPT, which again it just seems so lazy because her character is a demon trying to be human, but every time she act's it's just way to lazy and you need to cringe and scream into a pillow. Some of the story elements that they do is not so bad but the fact that this is set in a 80's fantasy L.A. just makes no sense of how this can be a prequal to the first MK Legends film but yet they make this happened, and you're really expect me to believe this is just way to lazy and sad, maybe if this was set in an alternate universe I can believe it but again they don't explain it well enough. Deep down this was supposed to be direct to DVD and Blu-Ray movie but this was lazy writing from start to finish and if you're making a MK movie where it centers around Johnny Cage you have to make him like a Bill Murray character from films like Stripes and Ghostbusters just those moments where Cage is seeing a demon God for the first time and he has the light "well there's something you don't see every day". All and all a decent watch but not worth the time, and if you’re a die-hard Mortal Kombat fan like I am, I would highly suggest not buying the movie and watching it on Max so that way it makes you feel better that you're not spending your money on a cheap cartoon movie.
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