For fans of combat animation, Cage Match delivers satisfying sequences that are both inventive and respectful of the fighters’ movesets.
At first glance Cage Match is about combat and spectacle; beneath that, it’s quietly about cycles — cycles of violence, cycles of revenge, and cycles of exploitation (the underground fight economy). The screenplay doesn’t sermonize, but it does thread moments of empathy among the brutality: a character’s reluctance to finish an opponent, a lost father/daughter echo in two fighters’ conflict, or the melancholy of fighters who recognize the only future available to them is one more fight. mortal kombat legends cage match top