Reboots of old franchises seem to be the hip thing these days.  Most of them are just a half-hearted attempt to squeeze a few more bucks out of a series that has become a joke from endless terrible sequels.

This is different.  Mortal Kombat was sort of a joke to begin with.  Even the first movie in the series was ridiculous.  This reboot seems like an attempt to do for MK what Tim Burton originally did for Batman - take a campy spoof-of-itself and make a legitimate action movie out of it.  It’s not scheduled for release until 2013, but this nearly 8 minute trailer leads me to believe that the new Mortal Kombat might actually be good, brutal fun.