Release
Date: March 11, 2007 Studio: 20th Century Fox Director: Xavier Gens Screenwriter: Skip Woods Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, Robert Knepper,
Ulrich Thomsen, Michael Offei Genre: Action, Thriller MPAA Rating: R (for strong bloody violence, language, and some
sexuality/nudity)
Review:
It’s
hard not to feel
like one has entered
a certain dimension
of video-game logic
while watching
Hitman, a
lightly enjoyable
action-suspense
movie indeed based
on a popular and
bloody game about a
mysterious hired gun
with a bar-code
tattoo on his bald
head and a number
(47) in lieu of a
name...more
Extras:
Both versions
include deleted
scenes; the two-disc
special edition adds
four featurettes:
"In the Crosshairs,"
"Digital Hits,"
"Instruments of
Destruction" and
"Settling the
Score," a gag reel
and a digital
version of the film.
Hitman Release
Date: November 21, 2007 Studio: 20th Century Fox Director: Xavier Gens Screenwriter: Skip Woods Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, Robert Knepper,
Ulrich Thomsen, Michael Offei Genre: Action, Thriller MPAA Rating: R (for strong bloody violence, language, and some
sexuality/nudity) Official Website:
Hitmanmovie.com
Plot Summary: Agent 47 (Timothy Olyphant) has been educated to become a
professional assassin for hire, whose most powerful weapons are his nerve and a
resolute pride in his work. 47 is both the last two digits of the barcode
tattooed on the nape of his neck, and his only name.
The hunter becomes the hunted when 47 gets caught up in a political takeover.
Both Interpol and the Russian military chase the Hitman across Eastern Europe as
he tries to find out who set him up and why they're trying to take him out of
the game. But the greatest threat to 47's survival may be the stirrings of his
conscience and the unfamiliar emotions aroused in him by a beautiful, damaged
girl...
EN 5 Second Review:
Yes, its a bad movie, ultra violent, nonsensical at
times, and has a lot of gratuitous nudity as well, but we knew that
going in and still somehow we perversely enjoyed it.
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 Kirk Honeycutt: Hollywood Reporter
The hero in "Hitman" has a bar code tattooed on his head and
kills people with professional nonchalance but can't bring
himself to make love to the nearly naked Russian hottie who
continually flings herself at him. Of course, this hero,
known only as Agent 47, is a geek's poster boy...more
Hitman
is one of the best movies ever made from a video game, which
doesn't provide you with very much information. That's like
declaring the best meal you've eaten at a strip club, or the
best love ballad by Kenny Loggins Peter Hartlaub: San Francisco
Chronicle But the first chapter
in the saga of killing machine Agent 47 does deserve
some praise, even if it is faint and damning. "Hitman"
is not a spectacular movie, but the action scenes are well
shot, there's no shortage of R-rated gore and the plot moves
along quickly enough to mask the fact that the whole
endeavor is completely ridiculous. And speaking of strip
clubs, there's even some gratuitous nudity...more
