The day that Karl Urban most anticipated and dreaded on the set of Mortal Kombat II is one and the same. Along the desolate plains occupied by Outworld’s nomads and outcasts—or at least a dizzying replica of their Tarkatan Colony built by an armada of moviemakers and artisans living in Australia’s Queensland—Urban’s fast-talking wiseacre, Johnny Cage, is going face-to-face with Baraka (CJ Bloomfield).

In the context of the film, it is an important moment for Urban’s newcomer antihero. A washed-up, has-been actor of 1990s glory days gone by, this Johnny has long given up on his movie star dreams when he is recruited into the titular life-and-death tournament that will decide the fate of Earthrealm. Furthermore, Urban recognizes that this mid-movie sequence is the turning point for Jo

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