Synopsis
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
- Timothy OlyphantAgent 47
- Dougray ScottMike Whittier
- Olga KurylenkoNika Boronina
- Robert KnepperYuri Marklov
- Ulrich ThomsenMikhail Belicoff
- Henry Ian CusickUdre Belicoff
- Michael OffeiJenkins
- Christian EricksonGeneral Kormarov
- Ériq EbouaneyBwana Ovie
- Joe SheridanCaptain Gudnayev
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Chicago Sun-Times
Hitman stands right on the threshold between video games and art. On the wrong side of the threshold, but still, give it credit. - 70
Washington Post
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
New York Daily News
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
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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. - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
All the while, the music screams and clamors like an ignored child because director Xavier Gens and writer Skip Woods can't pump suspense into this inept mess. - 30
The New York Times
Hitman exploits every action-flick cliché imaginable and still manages to be dull. It’s bang, boom, blah -- action movies for bored dummies. - 20
Austin Chronicle
To be sure, Hitman is a lousy film, but like the video game that inspired it, it's also great fun, drawing as it does on everything from James Bondian Eurotrash panache to Vin Diesel's moribund XXX character.