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''I don't know - you think we have time for foreplay?
A genetically made egghead assassin based on the computer game.
Timothy Olyphant looks the part, saw him in Die Hard 4.0 first and this looked like a good move by his agent (47) and is. (Bad joke i know!).
Hitman is perhaps style over substance. Especially its action sequences are well directed and great looking, making this simply a fine action-flick to watch. The movie gets really carried by those sequences and are what is making "Hitman" still a seriously fine and enjoyable flick to watch. You don't have to be a fan of the video games to enjoy this movie.
Because the story doesn't really work out, the character of agent 47 also doesn't really. They try to give him a more humane face and he wants to start a normal life on his own. The movie builds up and hints to this constantly but in the end it doesn't wrap it up properly, which makes it look like as if all those moments within the movie are pointless and don't serve a significant enough purpose for the main character. Same goes for the love interest played by former model Olga Kurylenko. In the long run you're only wondering; 'Now what was exactly the purpose of this character in the movie?'.
Perhaps it's also Timothy Olyphant fault, who plays the movie its main character. At times he's acting too much, rather than being agent 47 enough. Agent 47 is cool and to the point, who never looses his focus on things. In this movie he's constantly struggling with himself and the world and by default he also has way too many lines, in my personal opinion. I think that the character would had worked out way better if he had been an almost complete mute. It would had made the character cooler and more mysterious and would had given the other actors, mainly Olga Kurylenko and Dougray Scott, to do their thing and become the more 'human' face of the movie.
For Olga Kurylenko is especially a real discovery. She had starred in movies before but mostly in small unknown small French flicks. But main thing is that she can really act and she of course also has the looks, which helps her a lot. Because of those two reasons she also got cast as Bond-girl in the new Bond movie "Quantum of Solace", which will be released later this year.
All in all, "Hitman" is a movie, with superior action sequences, that I enjoyed watching but its story and main approach of things prevent this from being an absolute genre must-see.
Action packed and a tense thrill ride. Lots of twists and clever assassin ploys, snipering and is so much like the game that it feels like your playing it.
Loved the scenes with the sword fight on the train and the other part where the kids are actually playing Hitman when he bursts through a window into their room.
Olga Kurylenko as the female lead does very well and her chemistry is above par with Timothy. Some awkward scenes but mostly great.
A very good film.
7/10
