Friday Flicks: There Will Be Blood (and Plenty of It) in Mortal Kombat II

Adeline Rudolph as Kitana in New Line Cinema’s “Mortal Kombat II,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures. Debuting as a video game in the early ’90s, Mortal Kombat became both popular and notorious for its violent and gory death scenes. This renown led to feature films in 1995 and 1997; onward to TV shows, both animated and live-action; comic books and other incarnations; to a 2021 movie reboot; and now to a sequel, Mortal Kombat II . Not being a video game guy, I