Since the international industry set its gaze on them in the first half of the 90s and they began to proliferate exponentially to this day, adaptations of the video game to the big screen, with honorable exceptions, have always been associated with products of dubious technical and artistic quality; a constant especially notorious when it comes to live action based on fighting games.
It is not necessary more than a look at real-action feature films based on such juicy licenses as ‘Tekken’, ‘Street Fighter’ or ‘Dead or Alive’ to realize this, to appreciate even more its recommended animated versions —The ‘Fatal Fury’ of 1994 is still a delight—, and to find in the ‘Mortal Kombat’ franchise a strange oasis thanks to the shot of nostalgia directed by Paul WS Anderson in 1995 and the recent piece of animation ‘The Legend of Scorpion ‘.
