The producer of the Mortal Kombat 2 film has known as out critics who gave it a unfavorable evaluate.
On the time of writing, Mortal Kombat 2 has a rating of 73% on movie evaluate aggregator web site Rotten Tomatoes, and a rating of 48 on Metacritic.
Whereas this implies evaluations have typically been blended, the movie’s producer Todd Garner took to X to criticise those that wrote unfavorable evaluations, suggesting that a few of them have been written by critics who aren’t acquainted with the supply materials.
“A few of these evaluations are cracking me up,” Garner wrote. “It’s clear they’ve by no means performed the sport and don’t know what the followers need or any of the foundations/canon of Mortal Kombat.
“One reviewer was mad {that a} man ‘had a laser eye’! Why the fuck can we nonetheless enable those who don’t have any love for the style evaluate these films! Baffling.”
When questioned on this viewpoint by some followers, Garner defined that whereas he doesn’t have a problem with unfavorable evaluations basically, his drawback is particularly reviewers who don’t seem like acquainted with Mortal Kombat.
“My remark was very squarely directed at a few reviewers that didn’t just like the ‘zombies’ and the truth that there was a ‘man with a laser eye’, and so forth,” he mentioned. “These are components which are baked into the Mortal Kombat IP and due to this fact we have been useless within the water stepping into.
“There is no such thing as a means for that individual to evaluate the way it functioned as a movie, as a result of they didn’t just like the foundational components of the IP. I simply want when one thing is so clearly fan leaning in its DNA, that critics would take that into consideration.”
One follower then countered Garner’s criticism by arguing that he shouldn’t be criticising individuals who don’t know the video games, when the movies themselves take inventive license with the IP.
“Bro to be truthful, you invented Cole Younger, Arcana and couldn’t even get the easy lore of Mileena and Kitana right,” mentioned consumer Dudeguy29. “I’d say you shouldn’t be tossing any stones right here.”
“Honest,” Garner replied.
Garner beforehand criticised the solid of the Avenue Fighter film when, throughout The Sport Awards final yr, comic Andrew Schulz – who performs Dan within the Avenue Fighter movie – claimed that the Mortal Kombat 2 film solid have been additionally in attendance, earlier than joking: “I’m simply kidding, they didn’t come, they don’t care about you, they solely care about cash.”
The jibe didn’t go down nicely with Garner, who said on X on the time: “I don’t climb over others to get forward”. When lately requested how he felt in regards to the solid vs solid rivalry, nonetheless, Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon laughed and mentioned he had no concern with it in any respect.
Mortal Kombat 2 is launched in cinemas this Friday, Could 8, whereas Avenue Fighter arrives later within the yr on October 16.
