First full trailer for Dead Man Down released: watch now

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“Do you know what it is to kill a man?”

The first full trailer for psychological thriller Dead Man Down has been released online, and promises a glut of action spills.

Directed by Niels Arden Oplev, it sees the Danish filmmaker reunite with his Girl With The Dragon Tattoo star Noomi Rapace.

She hires Colin Farell’s professional killer to take out Terrence Howard, a man who once violently maimed her.

Check out the trailer below…

Filled with slow-mo action shots and what looks like a deliciously oily turn from Howard, Oplev’s first English-language film doesn’t seem to be breaking any thriller moulds.

It does look to be a fairly straightforward – and solid – revenge thriller, though, with Rapace and Farell on top form.

Only time will tell if it’s able to match The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo for gritty kicks.

Dead Man Down opens in the US on 8 March 2013. It has yet to receive a UK release date.

Joshua Winning

Josh Winning has worn a lot of hats over the years. Contributing Editor at Total Film, writer for SFX, and senior film writer at the Radio Times. Josh has also penned a novel about mysteries and monsters, is the co-host of a movie podcast, and has a library of pretty phenomenal stories from visiting some of the biggest TV and film sets in the world. He would also like you to know that he "lives for cat videos..." Don't we all, Josh. Don't we all.  

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