Mortal Kombat II is Hollywood’s second sequel to a Mortal Kombat movie. It is, however, the first of its name, as the sequel to the 1995 Paul W.S. Anderson movie was entitled Mortal Kombat Annihilation . In terms of quality, Annihilation stands as arguably the worst video game adaptation of all time , so it would have been quite a feat for this movie to be even worse. Fortunately for everyone involved, it surpasses that very low bar, blending its fantasy martial arts nonsense with a few fun characters and plenty of bloody fatalities. It also, shockingly , actually features its characters fighting in a martial arts tournament to the death . Not that a video game adaptation needs to demonstrate extreme fealty to the premise of the source material, but there’s really not much narrative thrust to the Mortal Kombat franchise beyond “dudes fighting each other in a martial arts tournament,” so it does give this movie some helpful focus, at least in the first two acts.…