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Hitman (2007)

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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... 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 with a barcode on the back of his head. There's lots of BOURNE SUPREMACY-style flash-edits and superhuman stunt work as 47 seeks to find out why moderate Russian presidential nominee Belicoff (Ulrich Thomsen) was the client for his own assassination, a hit that 47 pulled off perfectly, except for one hitch: the target's still alive. For romantic interest we have Olga Kurylenko as a foxy Russian prostitute sold into slavery by the evil Belicoff. She and 47 wind up on the lam together but they'll never be safe as long as Belicoff is still alive. Meanwhile, Interpol agent Mike Whittier (Dougray Scott) has been tracking 47 for years; he's on the scent and about to close in. Luc Besson was the producer on this, and fans of his TRANSPORTER, THE PROFESSIONAL and LA FEMME NIKITA films will eat it up, as it's got the same narrative arc, same hyper-kinetic shoot-em-up flavor, vividly saturated colors, swooping camerawork, tightly choreographed fights, and lots of blood flying from the copious bullet wounds. Vin Diesel executive produced, and one wonders what stopped his big bald head from filling the screen in the lead, but no matter, as Olyphant does a thorough job, speaking in a measured drawl that recalls, of all people, Clint Eastwood in his DIRTY HARRY days. [More]

Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, Robert Knepper

Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, Robert Knepper, Ulrich Thomsen, Henry Ian Cusick, Michael Offei

Director: Xavier Gens

Director: Xavier Gens
Screenwriter: Skip Woods
Producer: Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, Charles Gordon, Adrian Askarieh
Composer: Geoff Zanelli
Studio: 20th Century Fox

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Garth Franklin

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Dark Horizons

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Dec., 07 2007 03:15 AM

Sydney Morning Herald

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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.

Full Review Source: | comment 2 Comments | Nov., 30 2007 08:28 PM

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Tom Meek

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Boston Phoenix

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1/5

Pablo Villaca

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.

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Cinema em Cena

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3/5

Kevin Carr

You should see this movie for the action and gunfights... oh, and for Olga Kurylenko.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 18 2008 12:04 AM

7M Pictures

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Desson Thomson

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Sue Pierman

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jun., 19 2008 03:15 AM

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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2/4

Rossiter Drake

An army of skinhead assassins in matching suits seems a bit conspicuous for an agency supposedly shrouded in secrecy.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Apr., 10 2008 09:04 AM

San Francisco Examiner

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Apr., 03 2008 03:15 AM

Boxoffice Magazine

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Prairie Miller

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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 19 2008 07:14 PM

NewsBlaze

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5/10

John J. Puccio

...a better film than I was expecting, even if it doesn't do much beyond the ordinary.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 11 2008 09:35 AM

DVDTown.com

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Tricia Olszewski

47 doesn't even want the girl. What kind of action movie is this? A skippable one, ultimately.

Full Review Source: | comment 3 Comments | Mar., 06 2008 04:26 PM

Washington City Paper

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2/10

Brandon Fibbs

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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Feb., 28 2008 07:38 AM

Colorado Springs Gazette

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Jules Brenner

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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Feb., 20 2008 03:03 PM

Cinema Signals

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JoBlo

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JoBlo's Movie Emporium

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2/6

Stephen Garrett

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Time Out New York

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Joseph Proimakis

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 14 2008 03:37 AM

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2/4

Maitland McDonagh

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.

Full Review Source: | comment 1 Comment | Jan., 04 2008 03:40 PM

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2/4

Linda Cook

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.

Full Review Source: | comment 2 Comments | Dec., 11 2007 09:26 PM

Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

 
 
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