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.
Drinker and the critical right suffer from the problem of: where their paycheck comes from.
If your paycheck comes from criticizing movies, then you must by default remain connected to the Matrix, and you must remain subservient to it to allow your checks to clear.
Critical Drinker and other content creators can’t detach from it, so they cannot overturn the table and state, “This media is made by my enemies, and is only accidentally made tolerable. Continuing to relate to this media is continuing to provide aid and comfort to those who hate me. I’m good, fuck off.”