Karl Urban's Johnny Cage dominated all the marketing. Liu Kang is repeatedly declared, throughout the film, to be "the best fighter we've got". So who defeats the big bad Shao Kahn in 1v1 combat and wins the day?
Kitana, of course! Who else? Get subverted, expectations!
Classic girl bossing aside, Mortal Kombat 2 was one of the dumbest movies I've ever seen. My personal highlight was Liu Kang exiting the film like fucking Poochie from the Simpsons. I've never seen a lazier or more convoluted character extraction in my life. I highly recommend you seek out and watch his final scene. It's hilarious.
Anyways, MK2 inexplicably got a pass from all the usual anti-woke content creators. This just keeps happening. Someone like The Critical Drinker will give his stamp of approval to some new media, I'll take a chance on it, only to discover it has many of the same woke elements found in every other mainstream offering. I guess all these "based" YouTube reviewers got one-shot by Buffy when they were teenagers because none of them seem to mind a girl boss.
So two thumbs way down for the new Mortal Kombat movie.
There were plenty of people propping that film up. Even now, go into any normie forum and they are all salivating over that film; look up the user reviews, they can't get enough of it.
There was nowhere near enough lambasting for that film.
The Berserker Predator took out 30 French trappers with ease, but couldn't land a single hit on Naru. Every time I bring this up, the normies just kind of skirt around the issue.
Were there or are there any anti-woke channels out there that actually ripped that movie to shreds in the way that it deserved? I didn't see a lot of negativity aimned at that film like the Star Wars films, even though it was very much on par with them in terms of Naru being a girlboss.