Faux Mortal Kombat Trailer: What Did You Think?
So if you haven’t seen this yet, a couple of days ago, this Mortal Kombat Rebirth trailer appeared on YouTube in an attempt to generate interest in a reboot of the franchise. It’s more of an eight minute scene than a trailer, and it focuses on portraying various characters (e.g. Reptile, Baraka) as brutal serial killers. What’s interesting about this trailer is that it was directed by Kevin Tancharoen, whose claim to fame is Fame (which isn’t exactly similar to Mortal Kombat).
After watching the video, I felt like it was a substandard Seven with wicked action sequences. Unfortunately, action spectacle doesn’t really do it for me like it used to, but if you hold this against something like Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, you’re sure to see a vast improvement. Don’t take my word for it. Check it out for yourself, and let us here at Paper Spaceships know what you think.
The clip was well made, really. This is not really my genre, though, so it’s not something I would find myself watching. Having grown up, playing some of these games, I am not too thrilled about the character’s back stories. Setting it up in the real world, I think that’s a bit much. That could be me, though…
If they change the story this drastically, they’ll have to vamp up the ambiance and dialogue to make it even remotely watchable. At this point, it’d be better for them to just make another terrible installment of the original franchise so we can all enjoy mocking it.
I guess you’re right.
Besides, who wouldn’t want to mock that?
That was PAINFUL. Suddenly we’re supposed to take one of the most ludicrous concepts in fictional history seriously? Please.
“Code name?” Has anyone with authority ever used the phrase “code name” with a straight face?
What’s so ludicrous about a death match between humans and immortals to decide the fate of the universe?