Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms (2021) poster
2021 · animation · action · fantasy · martial-arts

Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms

Directed by Ethan Spaulding1h 20m2021
ElsewhereIMDb6.59kRT50%
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • inventive
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Neutral, breathless, extreme animation / action, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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When Shao Kahn's Outworld barbarians terrorize Earthrealm, Lord Raiden is determined to put an end to the carnage once and for all. This leaves one option: a final Mortal Kombat tournament for the future of Earthrealm – win it or lose everything. Raiden's elite fighters Liu Kang, Johnny Cage, Sonya Blade, and a few new faces kick the action into overdrive as they go head-to-head with Outworld's most bloodthirsty warriors. But deep in the Netherrealm, an unspeakable scheme by the malevolent Shinnok unfolds, threatening to obliterate existence.

Our read · Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms (2021) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive animation · action · fantasy entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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