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Whilst I know he's gone on record to say he didn't enjoy Annihilation, he did lend his actual
voice to that movie.
"SUCKERRRRRS" indeed.
And I'm going to be bold as brass here,
no one can ever say that MK21 is worse than Annihilation. MKA is fun in its own schlocky way, it's a true pizza and beer and MST3K pile of shit car-crash of a film, but it's barely got any credibility of its own (there's like two scenes I like on their own merits?). MK21 is a thousand times the movie that dumpster fire was.
How it ranks to MK95 is subjective. Both do things better than the other (as I've said before, a bit like the two Judge Dredd films). Both are fun in their own ways but most impressively of all, so different from one another.
How it ranks to fans in their late 30s or 40s who've been there since the start waiting for
the MK movie to finally be made.... I'm still undecided, I don't ever want to speak for everyone, but personally as someone in that market, I find it very enjoyable and I'm 39 and been a fan since day one. 13 year old me originally hated MK95 because I wanted the MK2 live action ad from the Hellraiser team in movie-form. Instead I got a PG-13 supernatural version of Bloodsports 2 & 3 (with Daniel Bernhardt, who funnily enough later starred in MK Conquest). I didn't like it at first, but grew to love it for what it did right, especially in all the decades that followed for what "video game movies" proved to be.
Is the new film A-grade cinema? No. Fuck no. I love arthouse and nihilistic experimentation in my films. I like to think I know what a
good film maybe is, but I also take MK live action productions on their own metric scale. Therefore, as far as I'm concerned, is it a decent entry into the MK live-action legacy? Hell yeah and better than almost everything that came before. I mean, fuck, Jax in Federation of Martial Arts yelling "where's Rain?" compared to this? The new film's fucking Apocalypse Now by comparison.