Mortal Kombat, starring Michael Kai White and Jeri Ryan, as a high-budget violent thriller

[xannoside]

Where the hell was this version when I was a kid?

It's totally worth clicking through and watching in 720p or higher if your comp can manage it.

EDIT: So apparently (thanks to TV, in the comments) it's the most elaborate film pitch ever. Good luck to the guy. I know some people will complain about the (supposed) lack of the game's larger mythology, but I really don't care, but I only have visions of a yellow top-knotted dude with an extra pair of rubber arms.

Comments

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this is so much better than the actual movie we got. There's speculation this is for a new game, but it seems like a lot of trouble to go to, doesn't it? But we would have heard if there's going to be a new movie, right?

[xannoside.livejournal.com]

There is a new movie listed on IMDB for *2013*, so who knows?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

The secret revealed!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

And now that I've seen it, not bad. I find it hard to believe that they could maintain this gritty realism over what would be an endless series of staged fights, but I'd never say they shouldn't try.

[xannoside.livejournal.com]

If Unleashed could manage it, they *might* be able to do it with this.

Admittedly, at least half of Unleashed is specifically not involving fighting.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I don't believe I'm familiar with Unleashed, but it seems vaguely familiar. Jet Li movie?

[xannoside.livejournal.com]

Jet Li, with Morgan Freeman, Bob Hoskins, and Kerry Condon, directed by Louis Letterier, produced by Luc Besson, choreographed by Yuen Wo Ping.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

That's pretty awesome. I'd see it.

And to be fair, the first Mortal Kombat movie was totally awesome...when we were 14.

[xannoside.livejournal.com]

...it wasn't even awesome then.