‘Ninja Assassin’ preview clip

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News | Film News | by Mark Pollard

NINJA ASSASSIN (2009)

A video preview of James McTeigue’s NINJA ASSASSIN has been published by MTV. The one-minute clip features a fight sequence where leading man and Korean pop superstar Rain is being chased by ninjas through a busy street. This provides an example of why people should not wear black ninja suits at night and run through traffic. Either that, or drivers in this film simply do not break for ninjas.

MTV also published a super short Q&A session with Rain where fans submitted questions. Topics covered included minor injuries the star received, his steady diet of chicken during training, his desire to work with Al Pacino (who he seems to think is an action star), and a call for fans of his music to wait for him to come up with a plan to release an English-language album.

NINJA ASSASSIN is set for release on November 25.

Update: What this scene is missing are… roller skates (thanks Daniel).

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  • The Realist
    Nothing we haven't seen before. But still that was pretty cool. Glad to see Rain get a chance in Hollywood
  • Johnny Devlin
    Well personally I didn't think it was all that great. There was one traffic pattern when everyone was running and then a different one when they stopped to fight. Also, seemed to me the pursuing ninjas could have made things a whole lot easier for themselves by flinging a few shuriken. Did anyone doubt that last overconfident ninja was going to get smucked by a vehicle? Thought it would be a bus or semi - oh well.
  • tikkiexx
    well considering the dude getting hit by a car was in prior trailers id have to agree it wasnt a big shock. i dont know about the traffic patterns, i wasnt exactly focusing on that. i dont really recall seeing too many fight scenes staged in traffic tho but maybe i havent seen enough action flicks. lol.
  • Lionclaw77
    Everything so far made up my mind that this movie will be great. This fight was done very actually. Was the ninja that was about to finish Rain, Rick Yune?
  • tikkiexx
    yes. yes it was Rick Yune. im really looking forward to seeing him get busy. looks like hes playing a main character too. sweet.
  • tikkiexx
    great point about multiple camera cuts. i hate that crap too. i call it the Jean Claude shot, like when he,d do a spin kick and theyd show it from 3 different angles to make it seem like he hit them 3 times. but like you said the rest of the clip wasnt shot like that so my fingers are crossed. plus these guys are pretty good at filming action so you can see whats going. thats one good thing about the Matrix movies is at least you could see the action clearly and there wasnt a lot of shakey cam or jump cuts. god i hate shakey cam. lol
  • paulchenprost
    considering this is a hollywood movie I think it look really good. lets hope they don't use too much closeups:)
    this is by the way the first official tv spot:
    http://www.moviejungle.com/videoDetail.aspx?Mov...
    I really like this one:D
  • tikkiexx
    whoa. ive never seen that before. that was 10 times better than the first trailer they released. it showed a lot more action.
  • bogodile
    MAN!!! MAN!!! This movie is going to be excatly what I'm expecting from the Matrix Trilogy family :)
    did you see the way those Ninjas were moving on top of the cars? AMAZING!!!
    I can really wait to see this :)
  • Notice the number of cuts it took for Rain to jump out of the window. It wasn't exciting enough to see it once from one angle. We had to have it cut six ways and the same leap and landing shown from three different angles. That's squeezing some serious value out of one jump. Must have been expensive breakaway glass.
  • tikkiexx
    so Mark are you not looking forward to this or are you just cautiously optimistic? good point about the 6 different camera cuts, but i didnt see a lot of that in that clip so i,ll let it slide. lol. looks to be the end of some sort of on foot chase scene anyway. hard to tell with only a minute clip.
  • I've always thought editing that artificially extended the length of a stunt like this looks ridiculous. I didn't like it in ONG BAK or INVISIBLE TARGET either. It's a gimmick that's been around for years and used to be applied more often to explosions where it actually made sense, as filmmakers typically only had one chance to shoot a big fireball sequence and would set up multiple cameras to make the most of it. Here it's being applied to make a routine stunt look more impressive than it is. Although tightly edited, the rest of the sequence looks better. I like the concept of a fight taking place in traffic. You don't see that very often.
  • tikkiexx
    oh hell yeah. that was pretty damn cool. i wish theyd show some of the more violent fight scenes. but apparently the movie is pretty gory so i guess we have to wait for a red band trailer, if they even do one.
  • danielzelter
  • tikkiexx
    WTF was that? lol.
  • santoscaez
    This movie looks promising! Just what the genre needs!
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