TRAILER KOMBAT

I've just half an hour watching new movie trailers on You Tube. Separation, Shang-Chi. Suicide Squad. Loki. Army of the Dead. In the Earth. The Convent. But the one I liked the most by far was Mortal Kombat. The opening scene between Scorpion and Sub-Zero was fabulous, especially if you're a Kung Fu nut like me!

The original film passed me by in the mid-90's and I don't think I've found any of the action figures at car boot sales, which is strange.

I seem to recall that the figure line was somehow associated with Hasbro's mini GI Joe range. Is that right? I can see the blue guy with the orange hair. or is that Street Fighter? I'm confused.

Anyway, I watched the trailer for the upcoming Shang-Chi, a Kung Fu comic character I adored as a young teenager. I had some of the comics and copied the drawings over and over. I may still have some drawings somewhere, so I was so eager to watch the trailer. 

Damn, I was disappointed. I think I expected Bruce Lee himself to be in it! The last time I read my comics was in the early Seventies when Bruce was still alive! Still, the whole film might be brilliant so I'll just have to wait and see.

Anyways, I then saw the Mortal Kombat trailer. Bam! It did everything the Shang-Chi clip didn't. It excited me and the fight scene was stupendous. The Japanese master Scorpion even uses a variant of one of my all-time favourite weapons, the Kusarigama or rope sickle. Scorpion's weapon is a rope dart or kunai, which the film's director uses to devastating effect. The Kunai is the film is essentially a gardening trowel and the tool was sometimes used by stone masons.

When I was a young Martial Arts nut I made my own Kunai rope darts using bricklayers' line pins - pictured below - which usually came with a ball of handy string too and seeing Scorpion brought it all back, chucking my Kunai against the shed side. Happy Days!

Do you know much about Mortal Kombat?