The first episode of web series Mortal Kombat: Legacy has hit.
What started as a bizarre one-shot trailer with gruesome, pseudo-realistic imagery has evolved into this 10 episode action-packed web series. "Evolved" in the sense that (at least in this first entry,) it has slightly toned-down the grotesque, over-the-top aspects of that trailer from last year and comes out of the gate with more of a solid, realistic action style. As a result, while it still deviates heavily from the style of the iconic fighting game franchise, it simultaneously has more of the feel for the game's mythology.
Check out the first episode just below.
WARNING: Profane language which melts children's ears is used in this video.
So, we have Mortal Kombat original, Kano (Darren Shahlavi), a mercenary, smuggler, and just all-around undesirable human being running an underground robot factory. (Even low-down criminals are embracing geek aesthetic.)
Besides getting an introduction to what will be his famous laser-eye-thingy which becomes fodder for his fatalities, he also gets to interrogate a sexily-chained-up Sonya (Jeri Ryan). Oh, but s*** goes down when Jax (Michael Jai White) runs a rescue operation that results in some epic battles.
I'm actually pretty impressed with this first entry. Last year's trailer was intriguing, but its abundant references to the game in that gruesome-realistic context, almost made it seem that it was trying too hard. This time, the realistic deviation is coupled with more subtle references to the games. (Kano's eye-piece, reference to Stryker, robots likely to become Cyrax and Sektor, and Kano's knives.) Director Kevin Tancharoen was pretty effective in making it all come together nicely this time.
Have any thoughts on this first episode?
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markusnegative
The thing I do not get is this belief that there has to be 'realism' to comic book and video game movies. This mentality is what ruined movies like FANTASTIC FOUR-RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER because 'Hollywood' believed that audiences would NOT except Galactus as a 50 foot giant man in a blue/purple space armor. Instead, they make him....a CLOUD? I'm sorry, but what you see in video games is NOT real, so it should NOT be made where the characters are human with no super powers, no special abilities, just humans fighting humans- THAT would be BORING. I DO like what I see. and hope there is more to come, with possibly longer episodes, but that will only come with time and the success of this web series (of which, it would be awesome to be picked up by HBO, SHOWTIME or AMC).
ITZZZ-JOSEE
Not bad to be honest...but it could get better! alot better actually! I'm looking forward to more episodes and I did enjoy this episode.
morewill86
amazing
col.guile
it has BEGUN
Jameson777
Off to somewhat of a slow start, but leaps and bounds better than any live action MK that came before. I like it being a bit more down to Earth and not so fantastical and colorful. Gritty is good. Dark is good. Looking forward to ep 2.
shughes2187
Meh...kind of lame 1st episode in my opinion. No cool fighting sequences. Just a boring gun fight. Needs more fighting!
NinjaVirus00
looks good so far i realy hope they drop baraka and reptile as they showed them in the trailer and retun them to how they where supost to be they are my favorite chariters and i didnt like how they showed them but all in all looks ok so far
LuxuryYacht92
This is awesome! I wish they would've made a movie, but from the looks of this first episode I'm not complaining.
whiskby
awesome can't for ep2
JKING2012
So Dope* MK 4Ever
gamerx4_03
I would watch it on tv it is good. Better than some shows on tv right now
mavthemeek
all have i to say is seven of nine back in action= epic, kano and jaks fighting with a explosion at the end of the fight= epic win, this awesome idea i had to keep from drooling all over my laptop
Symicide
Lol @ 1:55
"Don't poop me in this position"
-_-
resevil239
10 episodes, eh? If each one is ten minuets like this, thats about two hours. They are essentially taking a movie and splitting it into 10 parts AND making it free. I just hope they dont try to make everything realistic. I want kano and Jaks to get their robotic parts, and I want supernatural stuff (esp. when it comes to scorpion and Sub-zero). Not a big fan of the games (Im not into fighting games, outside of tekken), but I love the story and mithology of the series and I hate how hollywood feels it neccesary to make everything realsitic. Realism is BORING!
Symicide
Ugh....It could of been an amazing movie instead.
cyranoone
I hope this starts the heavy trend with networks to take shows that can't pull the numbers they want, and turn them into web based series. IE (firefly, V, Heroes, ETC.)
Infinius
When the season is over and the DVD is released, Kevin will have made the movie he originally wanted. I love it when things work out like that.
nightninja13
So I take it this is meant for people who know about mortal Kombat... I thought it was entertaining but confusing.
Tone_DEFcheck_123
More, more, more!!!
MrFallenAngel
that was actually a nice web series. The gun play and future style weapons are a nice touch. Just waiting for Jax's arm and leg and Kanos face.
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