My friend Patrick Pilarski is currently in Japan, training to become a ninja. At least, I think he is. It’s entirely possible that he’s already completed his training and is, in fact, hiding in the very room in which I’m typing this entry. Ninjas are like that. If you can see them, you’re already dead.
As cool as it will be to have a friend who is a ninja, I suspect that he will not actually use his newly learned martial art for the purposes of assassination. Unless someone messes with his wife-to-be. You don’t mess with a ninja’s lover.
And, so, since it is unlikely that I will ever see Patrick bust out some ninja shit and kill a man for looking at him the wrong way, I will instead have to go and watch Ninja Assassin.
(The trailer is in widescreen, so you may wish to click-thru to YouTube so that none of it is cut-off.)
If the trailer is any indication of what the movie will actually look like, Ninja Assassin is an honest-to-goodness, old fashioned ninja movie. It’ll be a little bit campy, and a whole lot awesome. Who’s in for opening night?
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