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| Year: 2007 |
| Director: Xavier Gens |
| Cast: Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, Ulrich Thomsen, Michael Offei, Eriq Ebouaney, James Faulkner |
| Genres: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Adventure, Action |
| Runtime: 100 min. |
| IMDB: This film on IMDB |
| Soundtrack: available |
| Wallpapers: available |
The film opens with a montage shows a group of bald, blue-eyed boys receiving tattoos of bar codes and then shows them being instructed in the use of firearms and martial arts.
Interpol agent Mike Whittier discovers Agent 47 in his study, where the two talk briefly. The scene flashes back 3 months, as 47 is completing a hit in St. Petersburg, Russia. He receives a communication from his Organization contact, Diana, and is told he is to kill his next target, Russian President Mikhail Belicoff, publicly.
Agent 47 succeeds in killing Belicoff using a sniper rifle to achieve a head shot from over 4 km away. However, when 47 returns to his hotel room, he’s told there’s a witness–Nika Boronina–he has to kill. Confronting Nika on a street, he doesn’t kill her as he realizes she’s never seen him before. Additionally, Belicoff’s death was covered up, being portrayed in the media as a grazing wound.
Agent 47 confronts Diana about who would want Nika dead when she wasn’t a witness and why Belicoff is still being portrayed as alive. Outside, Mike Whittier and his partner have been tipped off that 47 is in the hotel. They encounter the FSB, lead by Yuri Marklov, who sends in an emergency response team to capture 47. Diana calls 47 directly, informing him that it was Belicoff himself who took out the contract. The troops attack and a hotel battle ensues. Agent 47 successfully escapes, however, the Organization he works for has dispatched assassins to kill him for failing his mission.
Agent 47 kidnaps Nika–who was about to be killed by her driver–and questions her. She suggests 47 may have killed one of Belicoff’s double, but 47 denies that possibility. The two try to leave by train, but are intercepted by the Organization’s assassins. Agent 47 is able to defeat four of them, defeats Mike Whittier who pursued, and escapes with Nika.
Agent 47 arranges a meeting with Agent Smith from the CIA. Agent 47 makes a deal: if Smith helps him sometime in the future, 47 will kill Belicoff’s brother, Udre, a slave trafficker, and arms dealer. Smith accepts the deal. Agent 47 and Nika travel to Turkey, where he succeeds in killing Udre.
The death of Udre was a set-up designed to draw Belicoff’s double–who, working with Yuri and an unseen cabal, is part of a plot to have a puppet leader in control of Russia–into the open. Agent 47 kidnaps Yuri and forces him to have his own FSB agents try to shoot "Belicoff" as he delivers a eulogy for Udre. Agent 47, disguised as a soldier, takes the double and kills him in the church. He then allows himself to be taken into custody by Interpol and Mike Whittier. However, Agent Smith intercedes at the last minute, allowing 47 to escape.
There is a flash forward to a conversation between agent Whittier and 47, which is taking place at Whitter’s house. After wrapping up their conversation, 47 reveals the body of Mr. Price, shaved and dressed to look like 47. They make a deal in which Whitter would go along with 47’s plan, admitting that the body in his home is the real 47. As 47 leaves, he turns to Whittier and says that he hopes to never see Whittier again, for the sake of both of them.
The scene then changes to Nika, who is shown picking up an envelope from an undisclosed sender. Inside it, there were papers and a message saying that she now owned a vineyard (she had told 47 of her childhood dream of having one). Meanwhile, 47 is watching her from afar, through the scope of his sniper rifle. He then looks at the corpse of another Hitman, lying close to him, and says "I told you should have left her alone". He then turns back, and walks away.
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| Date: 2008-01-27 12:40:55 |
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Going into the adaptation of the Hit-man video game series, I was very doubtful of the quality of the movie I was going to see. Video game adaptations don't have a very good history, and are almost always destined to fail except in some rare cases like the Resident Evil series. Hit-man is one of those rare cases. The film kept me entertained from beginning to end and left me wanting more. While it certainly isn't perfect, it isn't a bad idea to see this movie to see how a video game adaptation should be done.
The film has a great mixture of plot and action. The plot is intriguing and interesting, and the action is awesome and has some very nice fight scenes, some of the best I've seen in awhile. The film does take itself pretty seriously, which at some times can be good and at others can be bad. There's the occasional joke cracked here and there, like the two gamers who are playing Hit-man: Blood Money when Agent 47 crashes into the room (which is also a great nod to the game), and Nika adding a bit of humor in here and there, but it mostly remains serious. Like the games, it takes itself pretty seriously in some parts and just gets ridiculous in others. This can amount to both good and bad things. At some parts it is just too serious for what is going on, refusing to have a little fun with it. And in others, it just goes a little over the top, but it doesn't really matter, as that just adds on to the fun. For the most part, the mixture of fun and serious scenes works out rather well.
The actors do a very nice job in portraying their characters. Timothy Olyphant is surprisingly very good in the role of Hit-man. I didn't think he would amount to much as he just isn't the type of actor I would expect to portray Agent 47. But he portrayed the character with a good amount of skill, as if he had already done it before. There is one problem with him. If you have seen his other movies (which consist of movies such as Live Free or Die Hard and Scream 2), you might have noticed that he shows a lot of emotion in his acting. Not necessarily intentionally, but his face just shows a lot of expressions. Agent 47 isn't really supposed to show much emotion. He does an adequate job in holding it back, but sometimes it just really shows. Now, this isn't really a problem to the ordinary moviegoer, but this might irritate a fan of the game. Olga Kurylenko, who plays Nika, does a nice job, especially for one of her very first projects and her being a foreigner having to speak English, which is probably her second language. It will be interesting to see her future in the business. Dougray Scott's performance is pretty good, and he portrays a pretty interesting character. Everyone else does an adequate job in playing his or her characters.
Overall, Hit-man, while flawed in some parts is the right way to do a video game adaptation, and should please fans of the series as well as people who have never heard of it.
8/10 |
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