Mortal Kombat II brought carnage to the Earthrealm in downtown Toronto courtesy of Kung Lao. The message? Our parking is not worthy.
I recently took a trip to downtown to Toronto to check out one of the more unique promotional events I’ve come across for the highly anticipated film Mortal Kombat II. On Queen Street West, in the shadow of the CN Tower, was a car with a license plate from “EARTHREALM” that had been torn wide open by a spinning saw blade, a punishment for the massive collection of parking tickets tucked into its windshield wipers. The message written on it: “Your parking is not worthy,” courtesy of popular MK character Kung Lao. A speaker behind the car was blaring “The Rockafeller Skank” by Fatboy Slim.
The sight of the car ripped nearly completely in two will be familiar to anyone who’s fired up any installment of the long-running video game franchise — it’s been going for an astonishing 34 years now and the first MK film released 31 years ago — and pulled off any of its signature “fatalities,” brutal finishing moves where fighters go far beyond a mere KO to seal victory.
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Even wilder still is that the same parking lot now has two totaled vehicles, as the Mortal Kombat promotional crew set up in the very same parking lot that has long been home to the famous CP24 car dangling out of the side of their former headquarters.
MK II continues the tale of the 2021 reboot, with “The Boys” star Karl Urban in the role of Johnny Cage and Hiroyuki Sanada (“Shogun,” “John Wick Chapter 4”) as Scorpion as they fight to defeat Shao Kahn (Martyn Ford).
Mortal Kombat II is screening in theaters across North America.
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