You have to hand it to director Kevin Tancharoen. He was just a man with a dream of making a live-action Mortal Kombat movie. His proof-of-concept short film, Mortal Kombat: Rebirth, was enough to convince WB to fork over some cash and commission him to write and direct a web series called Mortal Kombat: Legacy. That series was received well enough that Tancharoen has now been given the reins of the theatrical Mortal Kombat reboot (currently slated for fall 2015, because that year isn't crowded enough with geek-focused films as it is).
But before the reboot becomes a reality, WB also green-lit a second season of Legacy, all 10 episodes of which were released simultaneously this week. Two key elements have changed this time around. The first is that, where Legacy Season 1 delivered a set of loosely connected origin vignettes set before the fateful Mortal Kombat tournament, Season 2 offers a somewhat more cohesive storyline that covers the tournament itself. The second is that Tancharoen has a much bigger budget to work with this time. With Microsoft throwing no less than $10 million into making Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn last year, the bar for video game-inspired web series has risen very high indeed. The increased budget is immediately apparent from the very first shot in Legacy Season 2. In its best moments, Legacy already feels very much like a proper reboot of 1995's Mortal Kombat, widely considered to be one of the only decent film adaptations of a video game. But in other instances, Legacy seems to be aiming more for the much-despised sequel, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation instead.
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