Hitman (2007)

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Simply Perfect

Just perfect...

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

he is the basic motif to see this movie. as a movie, with performances, solid character, decent purposes of the lead hero and his romanticism in hard situations. Olga Kurylenko is the second motif. for a large public. for the expected classic story between him and her. but the film has the gift to be the perfect choice for the fans of video action games. this is its basic characteristic. simple, convincing, fascinating. who transforms "Hitman" in wise option just for fun. and, maybe, for a fascinating character with virtues of vulnerable super- hero.

More generic twaddle hits the screen with this oh-so-passe console game adaptation that couldn't be more bland or derivative if it tried. Hit-man is a film mired in clichés from the very beginning, completely happy to be following predictable scenarios without ever delivering anything original in terms of style or content. Thus we get scenes in which our hero, hiding out in a hotel, is attacked by a SWAT team, scenes of snipers assassinating politicians, fights in train carriages, spy-type bits in railway stations, a big set-piece climax and not a great deal else.Timothy Olyphant is about the worst actor I could ever imagine playing a bald, expressionless hit-man. Even the other choice for the role, Vin Diesel, sounds good at this point, but Jason Statham would have been most effective, I think. Olyphant is supposed to be this tough cookie, a real bad ass, but he just feels like a mummy's boy instead. He's neither tough nor appealing to watch in the many action scenes, as worse a leading actor as you can get. He's supported by a decent Dougray Scott as a sympathetic Interpol agent hot on his tail, a goth-looking Olga Kurylenko as a sort-of love interest who goes naked (she was much better in QUANTUM OF SOLACE and looks unrecognisable here, complete with awful face tattoo), and Robert Knepper, a slimy Russian cop who stars in the most unintentionally funny scene (an off-kilter homage to the SAW films in which he's tortured with some kind of trap in a bathtub – it's hilarious, it really is).The action scenes are very poorly shot with silly martial arts stuff thrown in (the bit in which the assassins fight with knives is ludicrous). The suspense scenes scream Bourne, especially with the rip-off music playing all the while and the shaky-cam stuff thrown in for good measure. I was close to holding my head in my hands for this one, as it really is that bad. A disjointed mess and a slick, soulless Hollywood thriller to boot.

Based on a Video Game, but that Hardly Matters to Anyone but a Myopic, Pimply-Faced, Shut-In. This Movie's Only Concern is Entertaining Raging Testosterone Types in High-Contrast-Style with more than a bit of the "Old Ultra-Violence".Timothy Olyphant is "Agent 47", You Know, Nameless, Brain-Washed Assassins Trained to Kill and Drained of a Soul. Sometimes Though, it Doesn't Take and Human Elements start to surface, and that makes for Movie Fun. Just ask Jason Bourne.Here the Blood-Splatter is in High-Definition and Delivered at Regular Intervals as the Story Rapidly Unfolds and it is Quite the Sophomoric Thrill-Ride in the "Unrated" Version. Olga Kurylenko as the Obligatory Female, who Shows Some Female Parts to get the Juices Flowing for its Target Audience, becomes Attached to 47 like a Beautiful Barnacle.Overall, this cannot be Denied its Ability to Deliver what is Expected from this Type of Thing, and if You go into it with the Right Attitude it is Exactly what One Wants if One is Want to Watch this Form of Entertainment. Be it from Comic-Books or Videogames, this is what it is and that's All that it is. Pop-Art.

I really don't understand what you don't like about this movie, because I really enjoyed it. While the story is not revolutionary or something, it is still good and hides the plot as long as possible from you, which keeps you excited about three quarters of the movie. And in the other quarter of the movie, you are still excited, because you wanna know how agent 47 works it out.There are only a few action scenes in this movie, which are all fights, and these are really good.What I liked the most was not knowing what is going to happen next, or what I would do in this situation, but seeing agent 47 exactly knowing what he is doing. But the movie does not tell you what he is about to do, so you have to figure it out yourself, which is very difficult too because agent 47 is a very close-mouthed person and so on and so on.Definitely a recommendation.