Best. Mortal Kombat Movie. Ever?
What Say You about what could be our first look at a new MK movie?
June 8, 2010

We're not exactly sure where this video came from. Is it Warner Bros. viral marketing plan for the new game? Is it a sales pitch to attract investors for another movie?

What we do know, is that this is the best live-action Mortal Kombat anything, in the history of ever.

Watch the YouTube video below and see for yourself a very gritty, very real world take on the once and future kombatants of Outworld. Follow Detective Jackson (or "Jacks" as the last two letters are faded on his office door, a nod to "Jax") as he flips through dossiers on Fatality-happy folk like Reptile and Baraka, setting the stage for what could be the best thing to ever happen to the MK movie franchise.

Give it a click to watch "Baraka Begins".
But is this some sort of long-formed pitch for a movie? Or is it a first salvo to promote the new game, just a few days shy of E3?

Latino Review seems to think that it is a "test video shot for Warner Brothers to get funding for a full-blown, hard "R"-rated MK movie".

Our fanboy brethern at CHUD.com further support the proof-of concept-idea, as Devin Faraci reports that he recently chatted with someone involved with the game's latest film adaptation, where he learned that "the hook of [the MK movie]" is going to be realism. Also, CHUD's source revealed that the movie would include the origins of Reptile and Baraka, which get a tease in the video.

Hell, IGN even gave the actor who plays "Jacks" in the vid a call, The Dark Knight's Michael Jai White. His reps told us that White believed the shoot was a marketing component for the game.

   
What Say You about the MK video?
    
As IGN Movies continues to track down what exactly the video is, What Say You about it? Clearly, this footage, which runs shy of 8 minutes, is better than the combined running times of the previous live-action films. Could this be the turning point videogame movies need to break the box office and critical stigma - more Seven gritty and less Prince of Persia everything?

Put down your old SNES and Genesis controllers and give us an opinion or six in the Comments. Oh, and wherever this video came from - thank you, Internet. Thank you.
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