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Andrew Britton | 448 pages | 01 Feb 2008 | Kensington Publishing | 9780786018017 | English | New York, United States The Assassin () - IMDb

After a brief detour to pick up the Best Director award at Cannes earlier this year, "The Assassin," the eagerly awaited historical martial arts epic from renowned Chinese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien, The Assassin finally arrived on our shores and it is indeed a curious experience. The story is told in such an enigmatic manner that even with the voluminous notes that I took during the screening, I remain The Assassin confused by certain plot points. On The Assassin other hand, conventional and easy-to-follow narratives can be found The Assassin, but very few of them occur in films that are as visually ravishing and formally graceful as what Hou has cooked up here. The Assassin in ninth-century China during a time of unrest that would eventually lead to the decline of the Tand Dynasty, "The Assassin" tells the story of Nie Yinniang Shu Quiwho was kidnapped by her family when she was only 10 by Jiaxin Sheu Fang-yia nun who trained her to become a brutally efficient assassin specializing in killing corrupt government officials. As the story begins, she demonstrates her abilities by killing her target—a man on horseback—with such lethal precision that it takes both her victim and viewers of the film a few moments to register that the deed has been done. Alas, Yinniang is not quite as ruthless as she seems to be, and when she confronts her next target and finds his young son in the room with him, she finds that she is unable to do the deed and lets him live. This The Assassin of mercy sends Jiaxin into a rage, and she devises a plan that she believes will force Yinniang to do her duty and divest her of the sympathy that caused her to The Assassin her previous mission. Yinniang is sent to Weibo, the largest province and one where the Imperial Court is currently of an unstable nature, to kill the governor, Lord Tian The Assassin Chang Chenand plunge the region into chaos. This is a bit tricky for Yinniang The Assassin not only is Lord Tian her cousin, it is revealed that before her disappearance, she was supposed to one day marry him The Assassin a union that would have helped bring lasting peace between the region and his court. Of course, Yinniang cannot bring herself to kill Lord Tian, though she does perform a series of brief ambushes designed to alert him The Assassin her presence. At the same time, Lord Tian dismisses his right-hand man, Xia Jing Juan Ching-tian from the court because of his outspoken nature and it is Xia's The Assassin to this that turns out to be the spark that incites the battles to come. Instead of rushing through the plot-oriented material The Assassin order to get to the action, Hou allows the story to reveal The Assassin in a deliberately slow and occasionally digressive manner that prefers having characters recount their The Assassin directly, rather than streamlining the plot threads The Assassin flashbacks The Assassin other tricks. For those not used to this manner of storytelling, especially in the context of what is supposed to be a martial arts narrative, "The Assassin" may prove to be bewildering. That said, it should be stressed that the story is confusing but not confused, and my guess is that it will make a lot more sense upon a second viewing. And for many of those who The Assassin "The Assassin," a second viewing will probably be in the cards as other aspects of the film The Assassin simple stunning to behold. Shooting in glorious 35mm, Hou and cinematographer Mark Lee Ping Bing have come up with the most stylistically fascinating and visually striking work of their numerous collaborations—there is not a single uninteresting shot that I can recall and many The Assassin so beautiful that one looks The Assassin them as they might observe a painting in a museum. The fight scenes have been devised in a way so that they are drained of all lurid excess in order to accentuate that participating in such violence is merely a job for Yinniang, and not something that she derives any pleasure from—that said, the combat staging is still The Assassin expertly done despite the lack of tricked-up editing or flashy camera moves that it stands as a silent rebuke to all the noisy and messy dust-ups in most contemporary blockbusters. Besides, a film does not need such visual fripperies when it has a presence as magnetic as Shu Qui at its The Assassin. In her third collaboration with Hou, she is never less than absolutely mesmerizing, adding immeasurably to The Assassin dramatic heft of the story. Moviegoers attending "The Assassin" in the hopes of seeing another auteur-driven martial arts epic along the lines of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "House of Flying Shadows" or "The Grandmaster" are likely to come away from it feeling a little disappointed—those who dig the genre because of the bloodshed will be appalled to discover that it is practically gore-free. However, if they are at the film because they want to be transported to another time and place by a world-class filmmaker working at the peak of his powers, they're likely to find themselves as enraptured as I was by The Assassin Hou has come up with this time around. Peter Sobczynski is a contributor to eFilmcritic. Shu Qi as Nie Yinniang. 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Larry was a professional wrestler billed as "The Mauler". ByHamilton had started teaming with his brother Larry and worked as a full-time professional wrestler. After the Hamilton brothers time in New York, Jody Hamilton decided to strike out on his own working as a singles wrestler. Hamilton has revealed in The Assassin years that the "Silent" moniker was because he was not very good at interviews and promos. Renesto had teamed with Hamilton's older brother Larry but the two did not know each other before stepping into the ring in December The team worked well together from the onset and soon moved up the card towards the main events. For over a dozen years Hamilton and Renesto teamed together as the "vile" Assassins, a team hated for their "rulebreaking ways" wherever they wrestled. At times the Assassins would be backed up by Jody's brother the Missouri The Assassin to take on the Kentuckians and their "fellow hillbilly" . 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