Mortal Kombat II

"Their fight. Our future."

2026 1h 56m EN

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7.8

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64%

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METACRITIC

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6.3

IMDB

★7.8TMDB · 2,655🍅64%Rotten Tomatoes●46Metacritic★6.3IMDB · 88,067

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Synopsis

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The fan favorite champions—now joined by Johnny Cage himself—are pitted against one another in the ultimate, no-holds barred, gory battle to defeat the dark rule of Shao Kahn that threatens the very existence of the Earthrealm and its defenders.

“Their fight. Our future.”

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Cast

Karl Urban
Johnny Cage
Adeline Rudolph
Kitana
Ludi Lin
Liu Kang
Jessica McNamee
Sonya Blade
Martyn Ford
Shao Kahn
Josh Lawson
Kano
Tati Gabrielle
Jade
Mehcad Brooks
Jax Briggs

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Simon McQuoid
Writers: Jeremy Slater
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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1 / 8

MONEY

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Mid-budget at $80M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released this year — you're seeing it while it's still in the cultural conversation.

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Mortal Kombat (Reboot) Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Simon McQuoid, shot by Stephen F. Windon. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Benjamin Wallfisch. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Stuart Levy shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Karl Urban and Adeline Rudolph and Ludi Lin carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Their fight. Our future.".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Simon McQuoid directs. Stephen F. Windon behind the camera. Benjamin Wallfisch scores. Stuart Levy cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Mid-budget at $80M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.
2Released this year — you're seeing it while it's still in the cultural conversation.
3Part of the "Mortal Kombat (Reboot) Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Directed by Simon McQuoid, shot by Stephen F. Windon. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Benjamin Wallfisch. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Stuart Levy shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Karl Urban and Adeline Rudolph and Ludi Lin carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "Their fight. Our future.".
9IMDB entry: tt17490712 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 15 themes, including "martial arts", "magic", "ninja fighter", "gore".

The technical file

Cinematography: Stephen F. Windon
Original score: Benjamin Wallfisch
Editing: Stuart Levy
Production design: Yohei Taneda
Costume design: Cappi Ireland
Makeup / hair: Nikki Gooley
VFX supervisor: Chris Godfrey
Sound: Phil Heywood
Stunt coordinator: Kyle Gardiner
Runtime: 116 min · 1h 56m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.78:1 (16:9)
Status: Released
Budget: $80,000,000
Box office: $129,570,110
Return: 162% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Mortal Kombat II (2026)
Rotten Tomatoes: 64% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 46/100
IMDB rating: 6.3/10 · 88,067 votes
MPAA: R

Awards

3 nominations total

Part of

Mortal Kombat (Reboot) Collection

A series of action fantasy films based on the popular fighting games of the same name.

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CinemaSerf2026-05-13
★ 6/10
Remember the start of "Galaxy Quest" (1999) when a group of actors are drafted in to help rescue the universe from a nasty megalomaniac bent on intergalactic domination? Well, this time it's poor old "Johnny Cage" (Karl Urban) who's the past his sell-by-date Thespian reluctantly recruited by "Lord Raiden" (Tadanobu Asano) to help save the Earth realm from certain doom. He is to join four other somewhat sceptical fighters, all with various skills, to combat the five soldiers of "Shao Kahn" (Martyn Ford) who has been hitherto indestructable as the princess "Kitana" (Adeline Rudolph) can attest having seen her father slain when her own kingdom fell. Now adopted and trained by this nemesis, and together with her formidable friend "Jade" (Tati Gabrielle), she looks certain to reduce "Johnny" and his cohort to dust. Things become even more doom-laden when an all-powerful amulet is accidentally delivered by Aussie rogue "Kano" (Josh Lawson) into the hands of the khan and getting this sorted out is going to take them all to the perilous netherworld for quite a battle royal. Now this is really quite a good fun action adventure if you take it on face value, and it is certainly no worse than than the first of these Simon McQuoid outings from five years ago, but the dialogue is pretty torrid and even though he looks like his tongue is fixed firmly in his cheek, Urban just hasn't the charisma to pull this off and so he does really rather let this down. That said, along the way there are plenty of homages to other films in this genre; the visual effects are pretty spectactular and there are loads of perfectly choreographed and acrobatically staged combat scenes that are straight out of "Kung Fu Panda" to keep us entertained as the plot heads in a fairly predicable direction. Not great, no - but it passes two hours easily enough.
userloser2026-05-20
★ 1/10
Unbearably, tooth-achingly bad. Now, you can only do so much with a plot of a computer game from the early 90s that has been filmed umpteen times already, but this is a new low. And a cleaned up, one-dimensional version of Butcher can't save it. Just no.
mgaugy2026-05-20
★ 6/10
On first watch of the trailer, I expected that Johnny Cage would be the centerpiece, capitalizing on Karl Urban's name. While the usual formulaic approach and a bit of convoluted and disjointed script, it did pay homage to the previous film (though not the video game). I did appreciate that they gave mostly equal balance to the different characters, though it lacked backstories to everyone but Cage. We expect the acting to be fun and not deep (except for Cage), which we expected. The special effects were decent, though a few things could have been better. I like the choice of actors, though Urban is a bit too old for the role; instead of many being young and inexperienced, they went with an older, more seasoned cast which gave the characters more weight. Only the Johnny Cage gave notice to the advanced age. Liu Kang's fire special effects were really overdone, but the rest of the movie was not drowning in special effects. Overall, it was a decent film, with a thin plot, okay acting, but a generally fun time. As for the negative, I would say the disjointed script that didn't really refresh any previous plot points was a bit confusing and took away from the experience. Highlights: I liked the choice of an older cast instead of a bunch of 20-somethings that didn't add gravitas to the characters. Lowlights: A couple of SFX misses, confusing subplots, and no resolution for Cage's special abilities. Acting: 5/10 Special FX: 5/10 Writing: 3/10 Directing/Cinematography: 7/10 Editing: 6/10 Overall Entertainment: 6/10