![]() ![]() The deadly fight scene with 47 and assassins from his own Agency is an amazing martial arts displayknife fighting, joint locks, and close in boxing. There is the automatic weapons orchestrated mayhem in the Russian night club. ![]() Perhaps Gens was a music video director? Or "Hitman" is resourcefully produced on a medium budget? Some of the action sequences in "Hitman" are breathtaking. "Hitman" is puzzling in that the movie trailers appear more polished than the actual movie. Analogous to "The Fugitive" narrative pretext, director Gens expediently overlays the origins of the mysterious 47 as a youth bred and trained to become the perfect assassin in the opening credits. She embodies vulnerability and smarts in what could have been a one dimensional victim. Kurylenko is stunning naked, and surprisingly she is a genuine and compelling actress. Also a surprise is Olga Kurylenko who plays Nika, the woman 47 must protect in the enveloping conspiracy. Olyphant (recently seen in "Live Free or Die Hard") has a decidedly dark air about him, and wisely underplays the role. However, "Hitman" surprises with narrative and visual style, and the charismatic Olyphant as Agent 47. Movie genesis from video games usually does not bode well. The screenplay by Skip Woods is based on the video game "Hitman". Reviewed by jon.h.ochiai 8 / 10 Hit-man on TargetĪs Agent 47 played by Timothy Olyphant aims his gun at Interpol's Mike Whittier (Dougray Scott), he asks, "How does a good man decide when to kill?" That is the paradox of Director Xavier Gens's slick "Hitman". But even 47 couldn't anticipate a "random equation" in his life exactitude: the unexpected stirrings of his conscience and the unfamiliar emotions aroused in him by a mysterious Russian woman. A gun-for-hire "Hitman" is a genetically-engineered, elite assassin known only as Agent 47 hired by a group known only as 'The Organization' is ensnared in a political conspiracy, which finds him pursued by both Interpol and the Russian military as he treks across Eastern Europe. ![]()
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