It’s getting interesting.

Snow Blind is the third of currently four films in the Mortal Kombat Legends series, with a fifth film coming out sometime in 2024 called “Fall of Edenia” starring Kitana.

Thank God Mortal Kombat has alternate timelines. Directed by Rick Morales with screenplay by Jeremy Adams, Snow Blind takes place decades after the events of the last movie. With Earthrealm destroyed by undead revenants and now a wasteland so Morales can play out his version of Mad Max, Snow Blind follows Kenshi (Manny Jacinto) who is a badass going from town to town kicking everyone’s ass and amassing a major fortune doing so.

Unfortunately for Kenshi he’s about to come up against the Black Dragon clan made up of who else? Some of my favorites like Kabal (Keith Silverstein), Erron Black, Kobra, Ferra/Torr, Tremor (Imari Williams), Drahmin, and Kira (Courtenay Taylor). Oh and uh…Shang Tsung (Artt Butler). All of them are being led by Kano who now has barely any human parts remaining and has become king shit of the wasteland. You may notice I haven’t given voice actors to some of those bad guys, it’s because they don’t have speaking roles.

After getting the taste beaten out of his mouth and a series of unfortunate events, Kenshi is blinded and finds his family sword Sento. Can Kenshi learn his family’s history and use Sento to save the wasteland? Probably not, that whole universe is going to be a komplete shit hole no matter what the timeline is in my experience. But he can make it a little better. And can he save a kindly old man who seems to have an affinity for producing ice (Ron Yuan)? Possibly. Through the power of friendship.

Despite absolutely hating the overall concept of this movie I did find the plot interesting. I’m not a fan of when series leap into the future and the world is a desolate wasteland. Maybe it’s because I’m a hopeful optimist, or maybe it’s because the whole cliche has been overdone for decades. Maybe it’s because Mortal Kombat has introduced people altering the past through Kronika’s hourglass, which means all of it has no impact whatsoever and can be undone any time some powerful being shows up.

It’s that age old story of the hero who gets humbled and has to work his way back up from the bottom. Thankfully the fight scenes are wonderfully animated and there is a ton of gore to go around. The cast is much smaller, especially the speaking roles, and they did away completely with the x-ray scenes of bones being smashed from prior animated films. Sure, why not. I guess it really didn’t make much sense seeing a guy’s skull get cracked in half and then have him walking around pretty much just fine a few minutes later after the fight is done.

Rating: B+