‘Mortal Kombat II’ Review: Dependable Action, Sludgy Story in an Old-School Mediocre Video-Game Bash

For a while, we’re cheered at the prospect that Karl Urban might lighten the film’s load with his meta ironic balsa-wood Don Johnson presence. And he does — a bit. But "Mortal Kombat II," a sequel to the 2021 "Mortal Kombat" reboot, is still an old-school video-game trash extravaganza: all sound and fury and flying bodies and jargony world-building, propped up by a sludgy excuse for a story.