Rihanna Ready To Battle In New Action Film

Singer Rihanna will take on the role of an FBI agent in a board game-based film, set to be released next year.

Battleship, directed by Peter Berg, sees the R&B star taking on the role of Raikes - an agent who helps the Navy defeat aliens at sea.

Although she can only be seen for split seconds - first at 1:13 minutes, then 1:50 - in the trailer, the movie is actually Rihanna's second feature film.

The What's My Name? singer had a role in the cheerleader film Bring It On: All Or Nothing, alongside Hayden Panettiere and Solange Knowles.The action role may strike many of Rihanna's fans as an odd choice given her recent controversial Man Down music video involving the violent use of a gun.

The video showed the 23-year-old firing a gun at a man's head and then fleeing the scene, leaving him dying in pool of blood at a busy train station.

There was a public outcry at the violence.

One fan wrote on twitter: "This Man Down video is violent... I really need Rihanna to get her life together."

Battleship, which is to be released on April 20 2012, also stars Liam Neeson and True Blood star Alexander Skarsgard.

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