Stephen Thompson

A film like this is never going to get the emotional beats right.

But I think it is very, very smart that they –

leaven this film with a certain amount of silliness and that they leaven this film with a few jokes.

And I think the jokes are a little, I don't know if it was punched up at some point, but I think the jokes surrounding Johnny Cage generally work so much better than the extremely serious kind of stentorian dialogue about the fate of the universe.

And so like, if anything, they could have gone a little silliness.

But when you talk about who's the star of this story, the star of the story, honestly, is the like little scorecard in the sky.

Crocker.

The star of the story is there, is fighting.

Yeah.

Yeah, totally.

Because really, he's just a guy.

He's just a guy.

He has martial arts training, but he doesn't have powers.

He doesn't shoot flame from his fists.

I had one more question that I wanted to ask y'all as you both have played Mortal Kombat, right?

I have another screen open in our Zoom, and I am currently... Because I feel like this is a useful litmus test, right?

Like, choose your fighter.

Who is your Mortal Kombat fighter, and what do you think that says about you?

Oh, wow.

Or maybe you tell me you're a fighter and I'll try to tell you what it says about you.