Next weekend, Mortal Kombat II opens in theaters everywhere, and is expected to hit a franchise record with its opening weekend. It wouldn’t be the first time that a Mortal Kombat movie has overperformed (or, in the words of the Mortal Kombat: Annihilation poster, “destroy[ed] all expectations”). The previous installment, 2021’s Mortal Kombat, emerged in the early days of movie theaters being fully reopened after the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic with a surprisingly robust opening weekend.
However, the reboot also fell off quickly, and wound up making only slightly more than Annihilation, which, after all, destroyed expectations in the wrong way after its own first weekend. This may have been because the 2021 version was a Mortal Kombat movie that seemed to be about preventing Mortal Kombat from occurring at all costs. Or, given how it became the most successful film ever launched on HBO Max, it may
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