Mortal Kombat: Rebirth

There are no words.

Please let this get made. A whole generation of 90s video gamers need their brains scrubbed of the previous awfulness.

Watched in the film club group.. and on a few other websites.. awesomeness.. with so much publicity things will happen..

That's too bad ass to get made.

Why do they always kill off Johnny Cage? Didn't everyone love him as much as my girlfriends and I did in 5th grade?

Still, I will watch the shit out of this.

I love the idea of this. The plot of the games barely made sense for a fighting game, much less a series of movies. Making it real without making it into Street Fighter sounds awesome.

Granted it will still be a ridiculous action movie, but I'm intrigued. Half-assed video game and comic book adaptations are numerous and boring. This looks different.

I especially like how his backstory didn't change at all for this adaption.

Let's just hope the buzz is enough for them to make a full length film (and looking around the net, it appears to be).

I sold on any film they make now.

This version has potential.

Good to see Jeri Ryan working again.

I really want that fake poster.

^^ There's a couple of them

Call me an MK purist, but I'm not sure if I'm 100% sold on this.

Indeed. I don't like pissing on anyone's parade, but the storytelling here leaves me cold.

Two complaints: The build-up of the bad guys just isn't believable, and further, it's pointless. So they all look like freaks and they kill people. Whoop.

Thing the second, it labors over all the little nods to the fans and reveals for so long that I was left going, "Yeah, I get it. Next. Please, next. Already, get on with it." Right down to the closing line: "The name is Scorpion". Yeah, we all figured that out minutes ago. And that's your big shocker to close on? Failtastic.

P.S. What's with the name. Re-birth? Birth? This is MORTAL KOMBAT. Moral! Kombat! This is heads getting torn off oand hearts being ripped out. Leave the miracle of birth out of it.

Best typo ever. Just saying.

The new game trailer, however? Looks like a bloody return to form.

It's not perfect--definitely a concept short rather than a trailer. But: solid acting, nice effects, brutal choreography (even if the fight does go on and on), and and interesting and complete retelling of the MK universe. That last part is what I like about it most, because it derives from the original material without abandoning it. A lot of adaptions, especially the ones that take liberties with the original material, are in-name-only, an excuse to slap a popular name on a product. This seems to me to be the opposite of that.

As soon as i read that i my head all i could hear was this

Exclusive interview with the director, Kevin Tancharoen

Two hours of dark, gritty, R-rated, brutal, bloody, Mortal Kombat slayings with realistic overtones that any of the MK games would be jealous of.. Awesome.

Or if you'd rather just have another MK game...

Gutted they always have to kill Johnny Cage but I'd say there's a bit more to it

Cannot wait to see his though.
Dying for a good movie.

This looks fuckin' wicked too.. MK is back with vengeance!

*ahem*

I'll say it again, this has a lot of potential.

Like I pay attention to what you say.