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And Now It's Time For Excitement. The Official Trailer For Teddy Chen's BODYGUARDS AND ASSASSINS!

by Todd Brown, August 6, 2009 5:37 PM


Giving the mammoth production budget sunk into building a full scale set of turn of the century Hong Kong, the presence of Peter Chan as producer, and the presence of virtually everyone who matters in current Hong Kong film in the cast - with Donnie Yen anchoring - expectations have been running rather high for Teddy Chen's upcoming Bodyguards and Assassins. High enough that when a temp teaser leaked out a little while back I found it curiously flat and more than a little bit deflating. But no more. The first official trailer is out and while I'm not quite sure how I feel about the metal soundtrack the visuals are exactly what I wanted: Richly detailed and chock full of kinetic energy. And the entire cast looks great. The set is obviously one of the big stars here and they're still not prepared to tip too much in terms of story but there's more than just a taste of the action included and I'm certainly over my previous reservations now. Check it below the break!


Official Trailer


Extended Cannes Promo

 
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Bodyguards and Assassins looks like it will be a truly amazing film.
The cast is awesome and the set building is astounding with an interesting story.
Why am I the first to comment on this film?!

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This just keeps getting better and better...

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Awesome, awesome, awesome! I am amazed!

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good lord... cant wait... chinese are producing high quality films... love asian films

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How come you guys are covering this steadfastly but aren't covering The Message more? It's got more much more disturbing scenes than usually found in a Chinese film.

http://cfensi.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/2-min-the-message-trailer-released-and-other-behind-the-scenes/#more-8685

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Wow looks good. But all trailers do. What more Donnie Yen then i will be happy.

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That looks pretty good, but for the awful music. PLEASE for the love of god, people, stop using rock music in period films. It's a jarring immersion breaker, like silicone breasts in a Victorian era movie.

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Looks like it'll be a good film but not epic!
I don't know why people hyped up Red Cliff, calling it epic:/

Donnie Yen is just sick...that's all:P

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Agrees with Agent Wax.