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.
They need to take lessons from sensei Steven Seagal, like: Using a body double for all the action scenes, using a body double for standing still so the hero looks more fit, taking shots of the hero ducking in a random place in the room and then playing them forwards, backwards and mirrored at least ten times total, overloading the viewer with a string of half-second cuts that only show limbs moving and replaying some of them more than twice...and my favorite, using CGI over a motorcyclist's helmet to make it look like the hero is wearing it.
Sounds like that 13 jump cut sequence of Liam Neeson jumping over a fence.