Mortal Kombat II, the sequel to the 2021 reboot of the Mortal Kombat film franchise, is heading to premium VOD as it finishes up a successful theatrical run at the box office. While the earlier film was released during the early stages of the pandemic, Mortal Kombat II has become the highest-grossing Mortal Kombat movie worldwide, despite the fact that it still favors the original 1995 film when adjusting for inflation. Returning director Simon McQuoid seems to have learned from his experience making the first film, ensuring that the sequel actually features the fabled Mortal Kombat tournament. The movie follows two lead fighters: Johnny Cage, a profane and wisecracking martial-arts star, and Princess Kitana, who is working undercover to defeat the evil emperor who conquered her realm. The film offers a perfect blend of action-comedy slapstick and palace-intrigue fantasy, two elements that shouldn't necessarily work well together but complement each other in such a lavishly silly movie. If you missed Mortal Kombat II in theaters, you can now rent or buy it on digital platforms like Prime Video, Apple TV, and Fandango At Home. The suggested price is $24.99 to buy a digital copy or $19.99 to rent for 48 hours. The film will also be released on DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K UHD on July 28, with behind-the-scenes special features and an exclusive steelbook packaging for the 4K UHD available at Walmart. Eventually, Mortal Kombat II will make its way to HBO Max, where the original film became one of the service's top titles in 2021. Typically, Warner Bros. and/or New Line movies arrive on HBO Max around two and a half months after their theatrical debut, which would place Mortal Kombat II on the platform around July 23. If it holds true, the movie should stream within about a week of that date, giving you plenty of time to get psyched up by bumping the greatest theme song ever known. And if you want to get prepared to enter Kombat, the other three live-action movies are all streaming on HBO Max right now, along with a bunch of animated features.
