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Reviews Counted:92
Fresh:14
Rotten:78
Average Rating:3.7/10
Consensus: Hitman features the unfortunate combination of excessive violence, incoherent plot, and inane dialogue.
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
US Box Office: $39,617,876
Synopsis: Based on the popular Playstation 2 game, HITMAN chronicles the frame-up and retribution-packed odyssey of Number 47 (Timothy Olyphant), a bald assassin raised from birth to be a killer and tattooed... [More]
Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, Robert Knepper
Director: Xavier Gens
Fans of the video game on which this film is based may get a kick out of the cinematic treatment, but even these low level kicks will be tempered by the film's failure to articulate its main plot points or to create characters we care about.
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Top CriticHitman is by no means great filmmaking but as video game adaptations go, it proves mindlessly entertaining and at least it's not irritatingly stupid.
There’s a cool opening credits sequence, but beyond that ‘Hitman’ doesn’t make much sense, is encumbered by clunky dialogue, some amateurish performances and clichéd set-pieces we’ve seen umpteen times before.
Incoherent and utterly lacking in panache, style or originality, Hitman is missing an ‘s’.
Top CriticAll a goof. Revealing the pragmatic side of the CG-assisted filmmaker, [director] Gens makes a movie that seems entirely computer generated.
Hitman continues the grand Hollywood tradition of completely failing to turn a computer game into a decent movie.
It's just one blazing gun battle, knife fight and torture scene after another, staged in a vaguely tongue-in-cheek Tarantino style by French director Xavier Gens, with cardboard characters, Ed Wood dialogue and the storytelling values of a cockfight.
A movie so bland it's hard to believe it was inspired by anything more than a Wikipedia entry on 'action thrillers.'
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.
There have been plenty of movies adapted from video games before, but Hitman may be the first one that actually feels like a computer wrote and directed it.
You should see this movie for the action and gunfights... oh, and for Olga Kurylenko.
Here's all you really need to know before the opening credits roll in Hitman: There's going to be a lot of bloodshed.
This is a script written with the sensibility of a geeky 12-year-old boy and then dumbed-down some. More than some.
If there is someone out there willing to support Hitman and who believes that it conforms to the basic attributes of a cinematic experience, then there is something wrong with you.
Hitman may represent some progress in the video game adaptation genre, but it's not enough to recommend.
A bit po-faced and unremarkable; more outrageousness and humour would have helped.
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.
Based on the video game franchise of the same title, Hitman exploits every action-flick cliché imaginable and still manages to be dull.
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