Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- surreal
- epic-stakes
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / fantasy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →A group of heroic warriors has only six days to save the planet in "Mortal Kombat Annihilation." To succeed they must survive the most spectacular series of challenges any human, or god, has ever encountered as they battle an evil warlord bent on taking control of Earth.
Our read · Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997) reads as a sombre, breathless, surreal action · fantasy · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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