MORTAL KOMBAT

A MMA fighter Cole gets pulled into a series mysterious events that lead him to a training camp for master fighters to get ready for a tournament that features fighters from different realms in order to determine the future of earth. But an evil sorceress tries to prevent the final tournament by killing off all of Earth's fighters before it can even begin.

Something of a prequel to the world of the legendary fighting game Mortal Kombat which defined the genre back in the early 90s.

Featuring almost all of the legendary characters the movie is candy to every fan of the games.

The fights are as brutal as they were in the game and some of the most legendary one liners are ofcourse featured. The budget and productions values are much bigger than on the 1995 version (which to me holds a legendary cult position and to this day features one of the best movie musics of all time) and the cast (even without any big names) does a great job.


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MORTAL KOMBAT 2

After the events of the first movie the start of the final tournament is nigh and the Earthrealm's best fighters must fight the fighters of Outworld and the emperor Shao Kang himself. However it proves a near impossible task, but with help from the Emperor's inner circle there is a chance for Earthrealm to win and prevent Outworld from claiming Earth as a reward.

Most of the cast from the first movie return and this time we also get the legendary Johnny Cage played to perfection by Karl Urban.

The fights are perhaps even more brutal than in the first one and the tournament arenas make an appearance and immerse the viewer more into the realm of the games.

A brilliant sequel that captures the essence of the games and the world even better than the first film. There's good added humor, mainly provided by Cage and Kano with their wonderful banter.

These two fight their way straight to the top of computer game based movies!


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Yes I heard about that too...

He was great in the Sopranos. He was kind of the embodiment of a gangster figure.

News said that he'd been dead alone in his appartment for few days...that's sad.

Savatage - Holocaust (Live)

My workout music for this week has been the new KREATOR album and the more I listen to it the more I like it!

So much so that I might have to revise my list ranking for it soon...it might overtake Megadeth! 

@Charger
You may recognise Frank Skinner from the 1996 football anthem "Three Lions" which he co wrote and is one of the singers... BUT I don't know how well known it is outside the UK (and Germany! It went top 10 there!).

Perhaps...but probably not though...maybe he just had one of those faces!

Bit late to the party I am again but just watched the video...and then the song.

I really like the song, not a real surprise, and I have to say I had my reservations about Jorn Lande but he actually does a pretty good job here. His voice has gotten bit raspier with age which is not a bad thing.
He is better than Glenn Hughes that's for sure!

Musically the song sounds very much like something that could have come out with Ronnie...Really heavy riffing.


I'm bit tapped out money wise so I can't preorder this just yet but I have noticed that there is an X-clusive double white/black marble vinyl with a poster available here in Finland so that'll be my choice I think....along with the mediabook cd obviously.

Tomorrow this is the place to be: