The formula is not that far removed from James Bond except there's a hole at its center. Agent 47, played by a virtually expressionless Timothy Olyphant, is a soulless, emotionally dead protagonist.
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11/21/07
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.
Theatrical Release:30-11-2007
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
Reviews for Hitman
Top CriticBased on the video game franchise of the same title, Hitman exploits every action-flick cliché imaginable and still manages to be dull.
11/21/07
Top CriticThere's enough intelligence behind it that you don't feel you're just waiting to hit the reset button.
11/21/07
It delivers top-notch action, dazzling gunplay and lots of fireworks. What more could we ask for?
11/21/07
A movie so bland it's hard to believe it was inspired by anything more than a Wikipedia entry on 'action thrillers.'
11/20/07
This is a script written with the sensibility of a geeky 12-year-old boy and then dumbed-down some. More than some.
11/20/07
You know how people will sometimes describe a bad action movie as being like watching someone else play a video game? This one is so uninvolving that watching it is more like listening to someone reading out loud from the game's instruction manual.
11/20/07
Plays like a music video without the music, a spectacle of shiny weapons, spurting blood, and Jesus Christ poses that would have benefited from more overlaid songs and less blabber.
11/20/07
An overcooked time killer that finds bad acting, bad direction, bad cinematography, and bad screenwriting in a furious race to dominate the running time. I'd call it a four-way tie.
11/20/07
Abysmal in the extreme, Hitman is 100 minutes of soul-crushing nothingness.
11/20/07
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.
11/20/07
Hitman has no more imagination than its title, which just as easily could have been The Bourne Idiocy or Mission: Possible and Boring.
11/20/07
Hitman may represent some progress in the video game adaptation genre, but it's not enough to recommend.
11/20/07
Hitman is exactly the kind of movie you'd expect it to be. The bad kind.
11/20/07
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.
11/20/07
A Bourne knock-off, and not a very good one at that.
11/20/07
A Eurotrashy vidgame knockoff that misses its target by a mile. Numbingly unthrilling as it lurches from one violent encounter to another, the pic's dark roots in an electronic, non-dramatic medium are plain to see.
11/20/07
Top CriticHitman was based on a video game, which tells you everything to know about this film. Well, that and the fact that it was originally conceived as a vehicle for Vin Diesel.
11/20/07
All a goof. Revealing the pragmatic side of the CG-assisted filmmaker, [director] Gens makes a movie that seems entirely computer generated.
11/20/07
Sluggish, humorless and pointlessly graphic, it will appeal to only the most desperate genre junkie.
11/20/07
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