HITMAN movie review

HITMAN

How good can a game about being the best assassin on the planet translate into a movie? Will Luc Besson being a producer help this movie pass the hurdle that so many other video game movies have failed to in the past? Well read on to find out.
Hitman is about an assassin named agent 47 who works for the “agency” and is considered the best assassin in the world who never misses a target. His latest assignment has him killing the Russian president but something goes wrong and 47 is now being chased by his own agency as well as the cops and has to find out who is setting him up before they kill him.

Ok so I haven’t played every single Hitman I played most of the second one on ps2. And from what I’ve found out 47 is a clone in the games and has increased strength and agility in the movie they dump the clone thing and have the agency take in orphans and train them to be assassins.

What I remember from the game is the many different ways you could get to and kill your target. There where disguises, poison, piano wire and of course 47s dual pistols. Now while in the movie 47 does impersonate a person in one scene its more guns blazing action then sneaky spy stuff. However the movie does do a good job of showing off 47’s intelligence and other skills as an assassin.

The action scenes where good they weren’t too over the top and fit within the story nicely unlike other movies where the action seems to be there just to be there. 47, Diana, the agency and agent smith are all from the games. But in the games agent smith is a bumbling fool who keeps getting himself caught while in the movie he is a very competent CIA agent.

Throughout the movie 47 has his signature outfit and pistols. The barcode tattoo is present. His insignia is everywhere and he genuinely acts like 47.

I believe that the movie was able to capture 47’s neutral attitude not caring one way or the other if someone has to die for his mission even a bystander but like just about every other assassin movie it suffers from sudden emotionitis. Sudden emotionitis is when a movie character that at first is shown as ruthless or uncaring about anyone ends up uncharacteristically caring for someone more than they should. The professional, Bangkok dangerous, chronicles of Riddick and the Bourne identity are a few, this doesn’t make them bad movies it’s just a trend that seems to show up a lot.

There is a deleted scene in the DVD that shows the female lead being killed while 47 watches as opposed to the original where 47 protects her from another Hitman. Apparently some of the original scenes hinted at 47 being a clone but it was changed at the last minute and some scenes where reshot.

The acting was pretty good Timothy Olyphant was good as 47 keeping a calm tone even when threatening to kill just like in the game and it was nice to see a bald main character who isn’t Vin Diesel or Jason Statham.

The plot could be a Hitman type plot as far as killing the president and finding out who set him up but the movie dumps 47’s background for the one invented for the film.

Overall this is definitely one of the better video game movies out there the acting and action are great and entertaining and it does a decent job of capturing some of the main themes from the game.

Overall I give the movie 7 out of 10 AMT Hardballers. The action and acting was good the director did a nice job with the scenes and it was an all around decent movie.

The acting gets 7 out of 10. No award winning performances here but decent job all around.

The plot gets 5 out of 10. Like I said not a direct Hitman plot but could very well be however it loses points for dumping the clone story line.

The content gets 6 out of 10. Most major players are here. Hitman's classic outfit is present as are his guns and insignia.

Ok well that wraps up this short and sweet review next we have a bad good bad sequence of boll movies and no the good is not a typo then Max Payne. And somewhere in there will be my review of Boll himself. Then sometime soon I will review Chun Li and in august Tekken hits theaters.