Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997)Directed by John R LeonettiFor the #100daysofsketching challenge prompt "Misfire", I did a sketch from this movie.Paul W S Anderson's 1995 adaptation of "Mortal Kombat" was very successful and is known as one of the best videogame based movies. While not without its flaws, it is well done and very entertaining. And so, a sequel was soon put into production with a bigger budget. However, "Mortal Kombat: Annihilation" was inferior in every way, and it took several years for us to see "Mortal Kombat" on the big screen again.I have watched videos that point out to the reasons for "Annihilation" not being good, essentially, they promoted people who worked on the earlier film to higher positions, which didn't work (the 1995 film's director of photography became the director here) due to their inexperience and the rushed schedule. Also, the film looks much cheaper than the previous movie, though it had close to double the budget. The story is all over the place, it feels as if they were making it up as they went along, the dialogues are laughable, the visual effects look unfinished, the way some of the costumes look make you feel that cosplayers could probably do a better job.This may be nostalgia talking but I still think the movie is worth watching, it has some nice music and there is a slightly different version of the "Techno Syndrome" theme song that's really good. The credits run for unusually long (11 or 12 min).I drew Scorpion from the movie, he is in only one scene and his random inclusion makes no sense because the character was supposed to have died in the previous movie. He kidnaps Kitana and yells "SUCKERS!". The drawing was done with multi colour ballpoint pen and Gelly Roll pen on A6 sketchbook. Swipe to see a scanned version.I have seen the 2021 "Mortal Kombat", and though it has several good things going for it, I personally felt disappointed. I felt the 1995 movie was more entertaining!#canon #5dmarkiii #50mm#karthikabhiram #dailymoviesketch#mortalkombat #annihilation #100daysofsketching #100days2021 @100daysofsketchingofficial @keshrt#ballpointpen #ballpointpendrawing#586 / 2-May-21
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