Mark Kermode

Actually, the Mortal Kombat series over the years has generally had a kind of slightly raised – it's slightly better than some of the really, really terrible computer game adaptations.

But no, I thought it was good fun.

I really liked it.

It is genuinely twisted.

It works because it's a horror movie with an outlandish conceit.

It's the monkey's poor thing.

It's the be careful what you wish for.

But it's also a story about coercion and control and the horror of coercion and control.

And it's absolutely... I mean, in my review, I made specific reference to the Philippi brothers because there is that... I mean, when it turns nasty...

it turns genuinely nasty.

And I came out of it and then Boyd Hilton, I saw Boyd afterwards and he went, you know, wow, that was really, wasn't it?

It was really.

Okay.

Yeah, well, I really enjoyed it, and I was kind of baffled by how much I did, because I did go in thinking, I have no idea what this is, but it does look like Babe meets Knives Out.

And it is that, but it's also some other lovely things.

We had a couple of emails last week from people talking about how it's also about poignancy and loss and grief.

It's really surprisingly good.

It's a series of set pieces strung together by a completely mechanical plot in order to get the people in the room so they can do the things that you like.

And it's not just number one.

Once again, it's very number one.