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12 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60Chicago ReaderLisa AlspectorChicago ReaderLisa AlspectorBut the most stimulating, satisfying aspect of this action fantasy is the theme music.
- 50San Francisco ChroniclePeter StackSan Francisco ChroniclePeter StackIts dazzling special effects make its combatants flip and fly, spin and soar, all the while punching and kicking each other like jackhammers, only to leave viewers utterly unmoved.
- 20EmpireEmpireIt would miss the point to complain that the plot is nonsensical drivel peopled by paper-thin characters and a paucity of ideas.
- 20TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThis tedious hodgepodge of martial-arts mayhem, bogus mysticism and computer-generated special effects doesn't even pretend to have a plot.
- 16Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanFragmented and monotonous, without a semblance of the gymnastic cleverness that at least made the first Mortal Kombat film into watchable trash, Mortal Kombat Annihilation is as debased as movies come.
- 12ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThis film has no story, no characters, and no coherence.
- 10The New York TimesLawrence Van GelderThe New York TimesLawrence Van GelderHere's the lowdown on the latest chapter in Mortal Kombat: deadly dull.
- 10Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles TimesThe sequel is quite serious, charmless and critic-proof (in fact, it wasn't screened for the media), and it may attract the teenagers who have made the game so popular. [24Nov1997 Pg.10]
- 0Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenThe movie is nothing more than a perpetual chain of elaborately choreographed (by returning star Robin Shou) fight sequences that mix live-action foregrounds with complexly layered digital effects and are linked together by the most flimsy and laughable of plot elements.
- 0L.A. WeeklyHazel-Dawn DumpertL.A. WeeklyHazel-Dawn DumpertIt's cynical and it's depressing, and I would lock a child in a room before I'd show him Mortal Kombat: Annihilation.