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[4-March-2009] Someone has seen NINJA ASSASSIN!
Posted by Frosty
Source: http://www.collider.com/entertainment/news/article.asp?aid=11156&tcid=1
Steve here. Earlier tonight in Burbank was the very first test screening of director James McTeigue's “Ninja Assassin”. I heard about it really late tonight and if I had known they were screening
the film, I swear I would have put on a costume and brought a fake I.D. to get in. You know
why? The Wachowski Brothers. They were involved in this film and whatever they do I see. It’s
really
that simple. And to those that didn’t like “Speed Racer”, you missed
out on one of the best films of 2008. Yes, I just wrote that. But enough
about my love of the Wachowski’s; here's what Alan Smithee thought
about “Ninja Assassin”.
Alan Smithee here and I had a chance to check out Ninja Assassin tonight at a preview screening and wanted to share some thoughts.
This is foremost an old-school martial arts revenge
flick,
made distinguishable by elaborate effects and polished spectacle. It
also has enough blood and gore to put most horror films to shame. Before
even
the film’s title appears, heads and limbs have
popped off or been sliced in two, and the blood
sprays like geysers. Fans of Kill Bill’s carnage are
gonna go nuts.
It’s been produced by the Wachowski brothers, whom I’m guessing are responsible for the film’s stylized effects, which drive the action sequences to nearly insane heights. There’s fights involving swarms of
ninja, crazy stunts, and one particularly good hand-to-hand fight while standing in a busy street. CG
effects are often laced in, such as when the hero
battles a crowd and the camera speed ramps and
bobs in and out similar to the look of 300. A spray
of throwing stars are dodged almost like Neo
dodging bullets.
What took me by surprise though, was the brutality of the action. Guys are gutted, hit by cars,
and
stabbed in ways that made the audience repeatedly gasp, and, just as
often, applaud. When the hero needs to kill a giant dude in a bathroom,
what should be a quick assassination is drawn
out into an increasingly vicious fight. By the end, the white tile walls have been sprayed entirely
red.
The story is very straightforward and fairly familiar, traveling from the hero’s early days of
boyhood
training, to the final showdown with the master. But in this similar
structure, the training scenes are the most interesting. The school for
assassins-in-the-making is more like a punishing prison,
forcing
kids to fight one another and not be gentle about it. Like the rest of
the film, the brutality in these scenes is surprising.
Rain,
as an actor, is a huge improvement over his minor role in Speed Racer,
although his dialogue is kept short. I just respect the guy for letting
himself drop the boy band image to get cut up and ugly with a growing
collection of wounds and gore throughout the movie. In an over-the-top
gore film, he just rolls with it.
So that’s it. Ninja Assassin is an audience pleaser for sure. Like an amped up, CG-fueled Kill Bill. It may not signal a comeback for the ninja genre, if there was such a thing, but I have to admire a balls-out martial arts flick
for the modern age.
And for those that like bullet points:
The Good:
- Heavy and surprising doses of crowd-pleasing ultra-violence.
- Fairly non-stop action scenes, from modern locations like freeways to an old-school dojo.
- Ninjas, crouching in shadows. Gotta love 'em.
The Not So-Good:
- The plot, rather than presenting an original spin on ninjas or martial arts stories, relies on cliches and archetypes. Betraying the clan, avenging a girl, fighting the master.
- The relationship that grows between the hero and the female cop he's mixed up with, grows from an incomprehensible notion that he can hear her heartbeat, and that it's "special". This is also how we know the warrior hero is, in fact, gentle and sensitive.
- There's the embarrassing use of Asian mysticism in some scenes, such as the act of meditation being able to heal wounds.
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hongtha
2009.03.05 ]How much would star's guaranteed fee cost?
Focusing on Rain:
Star's guaranteed fee is highly confidential, so it is unexposed and is detachedly difficult to gather statistics.
Even if it has been frozen
according to the level of the last year because of the economic
slowdown, Rain's been selected as a star who commands more than 1billion
won a year, per CF, and it is the biggest one among the male stars'
deals.Next to Rain, it is known that 'Jang Dong-Geon' and 'Jo In-Seong' each receive 8 hundred millions won a year.
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