Why is it so hard to make a good video-game movie?

The age-old question is ripe for discussion again now that there’s a newMortal Kombathitting the big screen.

Sub-Zero uses his powers in an incredible multitude of ways throughout.

Mortal Kombat trailer

Hiroyuki Sanada in ‘Mortal Kombat’.Warner Bros. Pictures

Why so much screen time was wasted talking about a tournament at all is left unclear.

There is one area in which the newMortal Kombatdefinitely delivers, though, and that is in fatalities.

This movie has plenty of brutal, bloody kills.