If you loved Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, try Steel
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Steel has roughly 4.7× fewer votes than Mortal Kombat: Annihilation — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Theysit in Action / Fantasy / Science Fiction territory. If that's the register that drew you to Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Steel is
You’re John Henry Irons, a disillusioned weapons designer who sees his own creations turn against the city he swore to protect, and then a rogue ex-military faction deploys your stolen tech to terrorize Gotham’s streets. But when one of your prototype suits malfunctions mid-combat, you’re forced to improvise repairs while racing against time and your own conscience. The film positions Steel not as a mythic savior but as a flawed engineer in a city built on broken promises—its grit is its genre, its stakes are street-level, and its hero learns courage isn’t in the armor, but in the moment before you pull the trigger.

