"I don't believe people could punch somebody's head off if they tried." 'It was inevitable'ģ:23 Midday film critic Tom New takes a look at the 1995 movie based on the video game and gives it low marks, but concedes a certain demographic might disagree. studies that had shown that video gamers were less likely than others to have a heart attack, disagreed. "The mere idea that you would enjoy blowing your opponent's head off is a problem," she said.īut Malice, who told Paterson there were U.S. "You begin by facing your opponent one-on-one and using special weapons or kicks or punches to defeat him," he said. "I can either punch him over, knock him over, or completely finish him by knocking his head off."Ĭonsidering that level of violence, Paterson's voice-over asked if Mortal Kombat could "really be suitable for kids."ĭyson didn't think so, noting the game was "training them" to enjoy and like violence "as a form of conflict resolution." "It's a one-on-one fighting game," explained Bill Malice, a "video game aficionado" who was seen inside a video game store with Rose Dyson of an organization called Canadians Concerned about Violence in Entertainment.īoth were looking at a monitor showing the game as Malice played it and Dyson recoiled at what she saw on the screen. According to the Internet Movie Database, the Motion Picture Association rated it R for "strong bloody violence." Violence 'as a form of conflict resolution'Ī customer buying Mortal Kombat for home play said its appeal was that it had the same "blood and violence" as the arcade version. What the movie has in common with the game that inspired it can be summed up in one word: violence.
Nintendo made consoles for home video game play.Īlmost 30 years later, in April 2021, the Mortal Kombat name is back in popular culture as a movie. According to Variety magazine, "the story follows a washed-up MMA fighter who is unaware of his hidden lineage and why he's being hunted down by a clan of assassins." "Nintendo has also issued a version of Mortal Kombat today," he explained. The Sega video game had only been available at the arcade - until what Paterson said had been dubbed "Mortal Monday" in September that year. "Lots of blood, lots of heads rolling," was how CBC reporter Stu Paterson described the game as two characters were seen on viewers' screens. The graphics weren't sophisticated, but the violence in the video game Mortal Kombat was too graphic for some critics in 1993.
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