Will Keanu Reeves do a Ben Affleck and turn out to be a better director than he is an actor? We’ll get out first test of that when Man Of Tai Chi opens later this year. Now the trailer for that movie has arrived, which is a little light on plot, but certainly suggests Keanu has been channelling his inner Neo for plenty of fighting.
Indeed Keanu had plenty of Matrix help with the fights, as he hired Yuen Woo-Ping, who was the action choreographer on the Wachowski directed movies, to put the battles together. The movie is about a young martial artist (Tiger Hu Chen) who gets lured into an underground tournament in Beijing. He’s promised the chance for greatness by the scheming Reeves, but only if he survives the no rules, no referees and no-holds barred battles.
No release date has been set yet, but we should see it later this year.
This does not look appealing to me so doubt I will see it. I do have to disagree with you though and say Ben Affleck is an excellent Actor, as good as any out there today. There are a very few like Daniel Day Lewis who I guess you could say are really above the rest but Ben is one of the BEST! He knows less is more and how to be natural, not to over act. I have watched his career over the years and been saddend by how people in the news part of this movie industry just seemed to go after him relentlessly. I always see a Ben Affleck movie and usually more than once. As he has gotten older he has gotten better and will only get better still. Unfair to call him a better director than Actor, he is an all around very talented fim maker who can do it all, Act, Direct, Write and produce, even edit according to what I have read, so it is time to be fair to a talented man!