Storyline
The best-selling videogame, Hitman, roars to life with both barrels blazing in this hardcore action-thriller starring Timothy Olyphant. A genetically engineered assassin with deadly aim, known only as "Agent 47" eliminates strategic targets for a top-secret organization. But when he's double-crossed, the hunter becomes the prey as 47 finds himself in a life-or-death game of international intrigue.
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Cast
Olga Kurylenko, James Faulkner, Timothy Olyphant, Nicky Naudé, Ulrich Thomsen, Dougray Scott, Anca Radici, Robert Knepper, Eriq Ebouaney, Atanas Srebrev, Velizar Binev, Michael Offei, Henry Ian Cusick, Christian Erickson, Joe Sheridan, Jean-Marc Bellu, Abdou Sagna, Ilya Nikitenko, Loïc Molla, Youssef Diawara, Patrick Ligardes, Cyril Gueï, Ivan Yurukov, Vladimir Kolev, Makssim Kolev Genchev, Kamen Ivanov, Stefka Yanorova-Trenfafilova, Yasmine Meddour, Iosis Shamli, Desislava Bakardzhieva, Viktoria Dimova, Emile Abossolo M'bo, Paul Bandey, Nikolay Valentinov Lukanov, Boiko Boyanov, Deyan Donkov, Sabine Crossen, Assen Blatechki, Dobrin Dosev, Vili Dimitrova, Anatoli Nechev, Blagovest Argirov, Nikolay Stoyanov Ilchev, Milko Marinov Milanov, Elvis Delannay, Dessislava Zidarova, Lisa Ray-Jacobs, Samantha Timmerman, Borislav Parvanov, Hristo Neykov Neykov, Nicolay Milev, David William James Elliott, George Venev, Özcan Özdemir
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Reviews
75
Hitman stands right on the threshold between video games and art. On the wrong side of the threshold, but still, give it credit.
70
The best movie derived from a violent computer game we've ever seen. You can take or leave that kind of qualified high-five, but, for us, it was a thoroughly entertaining experience. Think of bargain basement "James Bond" amped up into TV den-sittin', mouse-clickin' overdrive. But with human actors.
50
Premiere
Ultimately Hitman is about bullets, blood, and bombs. For die-hard fans of the videogame, there is much to relish in terms of cobblestone car chases, punishing fistfights, cool weaponry, impossible physical feats, and ear-popping gun battles that rage through exclusive hotels in exotic locations.
50
As a movie on its own, it's simple monotony. Olyphant, affecting Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry voice, is about as menacing as Mr. Clean, and the action scenes - whether the weapons are fists, feet, swords or guns - fly past without any tension or suspense. Hitman is a miss.
42
The movie's one saving grace is Olyphant ("Live Free and Die Hard," HBO's "Deadwood"), whose sociopathic elegance is gradually winning, and whose dry, monotonic, Eastwood-like delivery of one-liners is frequently, if perhaps unintentionally, very funny.
