The first trailer for Chow Yun Fat’s
new period epic The Assassins has just
landed, and frankly it looks pretty
standard fare. Directed by first-timer
Zhao Linshan and produced by the same
team behind Zhang Yimou’s The Flowers
Of War, it tells the story of Han
Dynasty Prime Minister Cao Cao (Chow),
who in his twilight years only grew in
power and threatened to take over the
Han Empire. The story also deals with
a pair of young lovers, played by Liu
Yi Fei and Japanese actor Tamaki
Hiroshi, who are snatched from a
prison camp and trained to become
deadly assassins.
While the premise sounds intriguing
enough this first trailer shows us
precious little that we haven’t seen
in dozens of similar medieval war
epics over the past decade. There is
someone clomping around in a full suit
of armour, which is a rare novelty,
but little else really stands out.
That said, WellGo USA has already
bought the film for North American
distribution and the film hits
theatres in China at the end of
September, so we don’t have too long
to wait before we can test the mettle
of The Assassins for ourselves.
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