Hitman (2007)
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Critics Consensus: Hitman features the unfortunate combination of excessive violence, incoherent plot, and inane dialogue.
Critics Consensus: Hitman features the unfortunate combination of excessive violence, incoherent plot, and inane dialogue.
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An international assassin known only as Agent 47 (Timothy Olyphant) carries out high-profile hits for a mysterious organization known only as "The Agency" in this adaptation of the popular Eidos Interactive video-game series. Agent 47 is an elite, genetically engineered assassin who takes great pride in his work. His lethal grace, steady shot, and unparalleled precision have all served to make him one of the most sought-after assassins in the world. But when the killer without a conscience is … More
- Rating:
- R (for strong bloody violence, language and some sexuality/nudity)
- Genre:
- Mystery & Suspense , Action & Adventure
- Directed By:
- Xavier Gens
- Written By:
- Skip Woods
- In Theaters:
- Nov 21, 2007 Wide
- On DVD:
- Mar 14, 2008
- US Box Office:
- $39.6M
- Runtime:
Cast
as Agent 47
as Mike Whittier
as Nika Boronina
as Yuri Marklov
as President Mikhail Be...
as Udre Belicoff
as Jenkins
as Gen. Kormarov
as Bwana Ovie
as Captain Gudnayev
as Smith Jamison
as Hitman No. 2
as Hitman No. 3
as Hitman No. 4
as Hitman No. 5
as Hitman #6
as Hog-Tied Prisoner
as Another Buyer
as The Sad Girl
as Mr. Price
as Sad Girl
as Old SUV Leader
as Russian John
as HRT Guy
as Yuri's Guy #3
as Russian Captain
as Belicoff's Wife
as Belicoff's Daughter
as SWAT Team Leader #1
as Female News Reporter
as Reporter #3
as Mike's Daughter - 8 ...
as Russian Forensic
as Another Officer
as Director McRay
as Swanky Restaurant Wa...
as SWAT Team Guy #3
as Russian EMT
as June
as FSB Driver
as Clergyman
as Terrified Maid
as SWAT Team Guy #2
as Swanky Restaurant Wa...
as Russian Soldier With...
as Interpol Driver
as Leader Assistant
as Belicoff's Whore
as News Correspondent
as Reporter #1
as Reporter #2
as Young Agent 47
as The Priest
as Video Game Player #1
as Video Game Player #2
as Diana
as General Ajunwa
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All Critics (103) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (88) | DVD (17)
Hitman the film is a conventional action thriller that seeks to do nothing more than entertain with an assortment of carnage and sex, at which it is moderately successful.
Awkwardly paced and muddled.
Olyphant faz o possível com um personagem unidimensional por natureza, mas o roteiro absurdo e a direção frágil de Gens, que parece acreditar que cortes rápidos substituem arcos narrativos, conferem ao filme um ar de produção feita para DVD.
You should see this movie for the action and gunfights... oh, and for Olga Kurylenko.
Though stylishly shot and occasionally exciting, this adaptation of the popular video game can only go so far with its mindless violence and cardboard characters.
A thoroughly entertaining experience.
French director Xavier Gens keeps the action riveting and spectacular.
An army of skinhead assassins in matching suits seems a bit conspicuous for an agency supposedly shrouded in secrecy.
Only the deadpan delivery of Timothy Olyphant as Agent 47 enlivens the wooden dialogue of this collection of clichés masquerading as a silver-screen adaptation.
A slick take on sniping, strangling, homicidal body doubles, and a seductive Moscow sex slave in distress, the property of a local baddie, whom the hero invites to tag along from inside his car trunk, don't ask.
...a better film than I was expecting, even if it doesn't do much beyond the ordinary.
47 doesn't even want the girl. What kind of action movie is this? A skippable one, ultimately.
Hitman is the oddest of action movies %u2014 a film all but devoid of action. Not satisfied with simply being another mindless video game adaptation, the film also forgets to be entertaining.
There's a certain primitive simplicity to it, the editing is awkward in spots, and it derives from a game, but I flat-out enjoyed it.
Director Xavier Gens admirably tries his best with the material but he is failed by a sub-par script by Skip Woods.
[An] occasionally laughable action-thriller.
Hitman is inspired by a video game. That of course carries all sorts of baggage.
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A mechanical series of violent set-pieces decorated with underdressed hotties. It's handsome but astonishingly dull and weirdly sexless, despite the aforementioned underdressed girls and frequent discussion of Nika's undergarments or lack thereof.
Can a video game turn a movie into a hit, man? Maybe. But that doesn't mean that "Hitman" is far removed from its video game origins.
Audience Reviews for Hitman
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Hey, it's another girl with a dragon tattoo! What are the chances? Don't you think the bald heads with the barcodes shown off to the world are a bit obvious. All you need is one person to figure it out and this whole gang would be wiped out pronto. Pretty ridiculous -- although I did like the bit about the kids actually playing the video game in the hotel room. Some nice action, some poor story. Walter, if you're in the mood for a little intense killing, I'd check this one out.
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This is actually OK, very true to the game ideas and not over the top, its actually quite smart, I did lose the plot abit near the end, plenty of double cross, agents and dark suits running around but its still quite good. The plot is the usual way you make a crappy idea or 'young peoples' based film seem intelligent, just add double cross of the main hero by his own and viola..instant confusion and apparent deep plot hehe but this was never gonna be intelligent.
The gun battles are good, look nice and do bring back memories of 'Leon', there is also no stupid John Woo slow-mo ballet crap haha or not too much anyway. Olyphant is a very good choice for the role, he has the movements of the computer game anti-hero to a tea and looks real.
Adding a female partner of sorts kinda messes with the lone hitman premise though, but Kurylenko is very cute. Its good and a surprise to be honest. Although the tatoo on the head still confuses me, surely he would be easy to spot with that target on the back of his head haha.
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Hitman Quotes
- Nika Boronina:
- What color of underwear am I wearing?
- Agent 47:
- You're not wearing any underwear.
- Nika Boronina:
- What color of underwear am I wearing?
- Agent 47:
- You're not wearing any underwear.
- Agent 47:
- The place I was raised, they didn't give us names. They gave us numbers. Mine was 47.
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