Imagine a fighting tournament where history’s greatest human fighters battle to the death, a mortal combat, if you will. Imagine if a company had the power to pick up those greatest warriors from history and have them fight each other. Dumb, right? George C. Patton was a fantastic general, but he wouldn’t last long in the ring with Baraka.
This is the premise of Asylum’s blockbuster “Immortal Combat.” In it, Joan of Arc, Attila the Hun, Ghengis Khan, Shaka Zulu and the Greek Cleopatra, who is black for some reason (I believe it’s an American conspiracy theory that erases her well known ancestry). Ghengis Khan is the first to die, which is surprising.
The film quickly scatters away from being a Mortal Kombat rip-off to being a Running Man/Hunger Games rip-off. “Running Man” in the way this absurd reality tv competition is hyped in a futuristic dystopia and “Hunger Games” in how the game they are playing is just Hunger Games.
The main character is the angelic Joan of Arc, and she is just as sanctimonious as one might expect. I am not sure they made a lot of research on the others. I mean, this the Asylum.
The actors hopefully got paid. That’s all I’ve to say about that.
