Movie Trailer: Ninja Assassin
Click to viewYou might be able to guess from the trailer that Ninja Assassin was directed and produced by the same team that put together V For Vendetta. On that basis alone, I'd say this film has the potential to be an enjoyable, if ridiculously over-the-top martial arts romp, with little in the way of intellectual merit.
However, if you factor in J. Michael Straczynski (writer of Babylon 5), who part-wrote the screenplay, it suggests there may be more to this movie than fast camerawork and impossible bodily contortions. Saying that, if there's no hilariously out-of-sync vocal dubbing, I'll be asking for my money back.
It stars Rain, a Korean singer and actor previously seen in the underrated Speed Racer, as well as the lass who played Tia Dalma in the Pirates Of The Carribbean film series. Oh yeah, it also features the guy who played Nick The Greek in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels so... yeah.
Ninja Assassin will be out at the end of November 2009.
Official Ninja Assassin website.