: The film features voice acting from Joel McHale as Johnny Cage and Jennifer Carpenter as Sonya Blade, with Patrick Seitz reprising his role as Scorpion from the game series.
The film follows two parallel narratives that eventually collide:
: Unlike previous live-action adaptations, this film fully embraces the games' "M" rating with extreme violence, including X-ray shots , beheadings, and brutal fatalities.
: After his family and clan, the Shirai Ryu, are massacred by the rival Lin Kuei, Hanzo is resurrected in the Netherrealm by the sorcerer Quan Chi. Reborn as the hellspawn spectre Scorpion, he enters the Mortal Kombat tournament to hunt down Sub-Zero, whom he believes is responsible for the genocide.