Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997)

The Mortal Kombat franchise has unleashed so many stupid fights into the collective unconscious, it’s probably the reason you sometimes feel a bit dizzy when you wake up in the morning.

The plot is complete and utter gibberish. In fact, it’s so confusing even the characters don't seem to know what's going on, with two wise mentors giving mixed messages about how to defeat the main villain.

But all you need to know is a bunch of characters from a videogame are brought together by circumstance to fight another bunch of characters from the same videogame.

If you want more details, simply jot down a bunch of odd sounding made-up words into your notebook.

Then, decide which of those language strangles you’d like as locations and which of them you’d like as character names.

Write some half-remembered one-liners from other films, add some punches and kicks and that’s a bingo, you’ve got yourself the script for this film.

The Stupidly Awesome Awesomely Stupid Fight:

This particular punch-up could well be the pinnacle of the series’ idiocy.

But there’s something so ridiculously terrible about it that it transcends awful and slips into awesome.

Maybe it’s the way that Sonya Blade’s multiple foes seem as masochistic as Gymkata’s creeps; sometimes shifting their body position to make it easier for her to kick them.

Perhaps it’s the fact that Jax’s main power is the super-strength in his arms, but he waits about half an hour before even trying to throw a punch at his Terminator rip-off foe Cyrax, preferring to spend most of the scrap with his hands resolutely by his sides.

Or maybe it’s just one-liners like “Yeah! Now what?” that make it so legendary.

We’re not sure, but we could watch it until the end of time and the ironic smile wouldn’t ever slip from our lips.

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