By Jacob Smith It has been 24 years since the last “Mortal Kombat” movie was released in theaters. If you’ve been waiting to see your favorite characters back on the big screen, then you may be waiting a bit longer, because this third film in the franchise’s history is a “Mortal Kombat” movie in name only.
Movies based on video games have a long history of unsuccessful adaptations and the “Mortal Kombat” franchise is no exception. In 1995, New Line Cinema released the first “Mortal Kombat” film. At the time, the video game franchise was a mega-hit with arcade audiences along with massive sales of the then-popular video game systems, Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo. The ’90s-era “Mortal Kombat” became the highest-grossing adaptation...