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Some of the fight scenes have stage transitions and the fights end in bloody defeat for the other character, that was enough for me to like it.

Enjoyed the art style, even if it was for yet another 80's themed movie aesthetic.

So apparently I can't post a review that short. Now I have to fill up this review with words just to post about a movie that I enjoyed. It makes sense why some of the reviews on here that I've read seem to drag.

By the time I hit the word count I'm probably going to dislike the movie.

The performances from the voice actors were fine, although hearing Gilbert Gottfried's voice was a lovely surprise.

When this movie was first announced, I got super pumped up. Johnny Cage has always been one of my favourite personalities in the Mortal Kombat Universe.

Therefore, I was eager to see his side of the story, but alas! My expectations were not fulfilled, mainly due to a lacklustre direction that had opted for style over substance.

Considering it was supposed to be a 'Johnny Cage' extravaganza, I wouldn't have been bothered by it if only this approach hadn't compromised the natural flow of the narrative, which lacked both charm and spirit and surprisingly so!

P. S. I cherished the 80s-inspired Music. It did not come as a surprise, though; I have always admired such style of tracks, and this was no exception.

If you are paying attention, it seems that in our new "woke" universe, merely trying to do something is now literally as good as actually doing it. By that odd logic, this film should be a "10." Because, in every scene, and with every line of dialog, it tries so darn hard to get the formula right -- yet fails repeatedly -- that the end result is almost painful to watch. The MK universe is not my favorite part of Warner Animation, but it can be fun when it works. Here it does not not work. Clearly the writing team had watched one too many episodes of Archer -- because the entire movie is mainly swagger and little else. Martial Arts? Barely an afterthought. For diehard fans of the franchise only -- and even then you may not like what you see. ((Designated "IMDb Top Reviewer." Please check out my list "167+ Nearly-Perfect Movies (with the occasional Anime or TV miniseries) you can/should see again and again (1932 to the present))

I can see why having the second one, which is tied to the first, puts you in a corner, but this one makes NO SENSE. Where are the MK characters? I get the third one was somewhat experimental, elseworld, whatever, but it actually had fights and MK faces.... this... I was expecting John Constantine to pop out, the difference being that John Constantine is more serious and better written. This does nothing for the MK franchise and the movie is very very weak. How did we go from Scorpion's Revenge to this I have no idea. I would not recommend this movie to any MK fan or martial arts movies fan or gore fan.... because it has none of that. The blood in this seems so out of place and in no way in line with the movie, if it does something it makes the movie worse, not better. It's a mess. Usually WB does great animations, better than the live action movies a lot of the times, but this is.... Shazam 2 level.

Scorpions revenge had an art style that understandibly isn't to everyone's taste, but the movie itself was entertaining, story was servicable, action scenes were well animated and overall it was pretty good.

Battle for the realms has horrendous pacing, movie has 2 villains 1 of whom has less than 90 seconds of screen time, most of the movie nothing happens and then in the last 10 minutes they outright rip off dragonball and have characters pull ridiculous transformations out of thin to air

Snowblind has literally nothing going on for 95% of the screen time, when the finale happens the power to fix everything is in the "heroes" hands but instead of using it, with no rhyme or reason whatsoever throws it away and leaves the world in the state it is in rendering everything we watched moot and makes him a complete hypocrite about the ethos he prattles on about.

Finaly cage match, looks like it was created in paint by people who have never seen any iterations of the mk characters before, script appears to have been generated by an early chatgpt build that was not fed any information on mortal kombat, sound design can't possibly have been handled by a team consisting of anything more than 3 unpaid interns and in addition to looking awful, sounding awful and having a painfully moronic script it's also immeasurably boring. If i didn't know any better I would swear that wb knew how much of a disaster the mk1 game would be so they just rushed out as much mk media as possible before public opinion soured on the franchise's name because I can think of no other reason why a billion dollar company would intentionally release increasingly worse, increasingly worse recieved movies for a once popular franchise they bought the rights to. For context mk1 is widely considered the worst fighting game of all time, drawing in less than 1/20th the daily viewer count or player count as sf or tekken and is so bad and objectively unfinished that within 2 months of release ( the time period this was released) the game hemorrhaged so many players that it dropped to less than 1k and things have not improved, it has been out for 9 months at the time of writing this and 8 of those months it has had half the daily players as mk11 which does not even have crossplay yet still the player statistics show more people choosing it.

If you're gonna get hung up on the MK mythos and source material, it may not be for you; but as a fan of the 80s and the aesthetic, this movie delivers. The look, the music, even the animation style all is of that era. They do a really fantastic job with the animation and color choices to mix MK with Miami Vice. McHale NAILS the voice and cockiness of Cage and the rest of the voice cast (Jennifer Grey anyone?!) does a great job too. Adams has been pumping out fun animated scripts for years at WB and this may be my favorite that he's done. I appreciate that it's a bit of a standalone movie so that Cage can shine. If you like the character and just wanna laugh and have fun, then this movie is for you. Laughed so many times and the MK action and fighting and FINISHING MOVES are all there. Loved it.

Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match is the fourth entry in the Mortal Kombat Legends DTV film series, and it is an interesting entry for me, as it not only stars Johnny Cage, one of my favorite MK characters, but is also a neat movie set in the 1980's.

In the movie, Johnny Cage is about to have his big break filming the movie Ninja Mime. However, the movie is in danger of being unfinished when co-star Jennifer Grey goes missing. Going to her mansion, she sees the place is a mess, and going into her bedroom, he witnesses two women fighting over a scroll. This puts him in the middle of a plot by a cult known as the Brotherhood of Shadow to bring their god, Shinnok, into Earthrealm.

Okay, for a Mortal Kombat movie, Cage Match not only succeeds in keeping the violence and gore the franchise is infamous for, but also making it a cheesy 80's action comedy that fits Johnny Cage's role of comic relief real well. Joel McHale returns to voice the Hollywood airhead from the first two Mortal Kombat Legends films after being absent in the last film, Snow Blind, and Jennifer Grey is in this voicing herself as well as Sareena. Also, Kelly Hu is the voice Ashrah, and Robin Atkins Downs returns as the voice of Shinnok, also reprising the role from Scorpion's Revenge and Battle of the Realms. But the greatest voice role here is David Doubldy, who is voiced by the late Gilbert Gotfried, this being his final film role before his passing (with the movie one of the few media to be dedicated to his memory).

A great departure from the past three films, Cage Match aims for being a cheesy 80's action comedy. Johnny Cage is spewing one-liners and jokes as usual, and the film embraces how cheesy it is, alongside its various references to 1980's pop culture. However, it still keeps the action as well as the violence and gore that fans of Mortal Kombat come to expect. Johnny gets a backstory to how he became skilled in martial arts, and the 80's style soundtrack is awesome.

Very funny, cheesy 80's vibe and great action. If you don't like 80's action style you won't like this. Hilarious that Jennifer Grey plays herself in this movie. Love how they use cliche Hollywood tropes in the movie while simultaneously poking fun at them. I thought the action was good and the dialog was fun. Voice acting was superb, loved hearing Gilbert as a talent agent that was hilarious. Anyone who says this movie was bad needs to take a chill pill and stop being so serious. This was intended to be campy so embrace the suck and enjoy it for what it is: a 4th wall breaking, blood and guts action/comedy cartoon.

Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match fully embraces the personality of its self obsessed title character and it makes this entry the best since they started these. This has such a unique personality to it, helped by the fact that it's focusing on the best character. The one off story approach really works for these, so far.

Joel McHale remains a great choice for Johnny Cage, it's his third and best time as the character. He once again nails that complete lack of modesty and it's particularly impressive that despite being the lead as well as narrating the whole thing, he never becomes grating.

Ethan Spaulding's direction is helped massively by the 80s setting which allows him to imbue everything with so much more style than the previous ones (lots of neon in this one). The score by John Jennings Boyd and Eric V. Hachikian also benefits a lot from the 80s setting, giving it the opportunity to go very synth heavy.

Holy freaking heck.

How does these guys make animated movies better and better every freaking time? I have no idea! But I think 5.8 at the moment is a LOW offer. The movie has massive amount of references and easter eggs, and is super funny too! I loved watching it.. and especially because t was first animated movie with Retrowave theme! It was absolutely awesome!

I never really would choose cage to start with, so although of course its a popular character in Mortal Kombat games and in the first movie... I wouldn't think there can be as awesome movie to make about him. I am much impressed! Congratulations to the studio, and thank you!

Cheesy fun action. The film is hilarious! I hope they make more Cage films!

When i sat down to watch this i had no expectations of what to expect, i went in totally blind and it blew me away. The voice acting is great. The writing is fun cheese, don't go in expecting a heavy drama or anything like some people have oddly bemoaned. The creators knew exactly what they wanted to make and made it. The fighting is furious and fast, though this is definitely more of a komedy than a pure action film.

The 80's style was fun. Animation was solid. I liked the use of colors. Some of the music was riffs of classics, which was a bit odd, but maybe the budget didn't allow for eye of the tiger.

Easily one of the best the Legends animated movies have to offer! I should also address that a lot of the fan base is, for lack of a better word, "split", on how they feel about this adventure. They seem to feel a little mixed about it, due to it's lack of the traditional lineup, but this movie is endless fun, filled with badass 80s rifftrax, and anything a fan could ask for!

Admittedly, it's a shame that there weren't a lot of other characters from the game, such as Scorpion and Sub-Zero, but I won't let that ruin this movie for me. Also, Raiden was beyond underused in this movie, but it brings back a lot of obscure, and/or forgotten characters from the classic Midway era, and that's enough to make up for that. Also, technically Scorpion is actually in the movie, but just his 1995 sprite recycled for the PlayStation 1 or Nintendo 64 compilation Mortal Kombat game, just minus the actual voice.

If you want a Johnny Cage movie, this is definitely the one for you! Always worth the watch everything you revisit it! I enjoyed this one as much as the '95 movie, as well as Scorpion's Revenge, Snow Blind, and to a lesser extent, Battle of the Realms, and the recent movie from a few years ago. Johnny Cage is the vessel for anyone over 30 years old to go back to their childhoods, renting Van Damme VHS tapes from Blockbuster Video, and feeling like they've truly returned to their youth! For those who haven't seen this one yet, and/or plan to see it, prepare yourself!! Check out that kick ass album from the 90s, too, in order to get that reference! Finish it!!