Raised from childhood by the mysterious Diana organisation, Agent 47 is the perfect killer, but when he is dispatched to kill the Russian president, 47 discovers that his employers have betrayed him.
Taking prostitute and possible witness Nika with him, the enigmatic assassin flees from both Interpol and the Russian secret service as he fights to uncover the root of the conspiracy......
Call it what you want, but Hitman is a film that has stayed in 2007, thanks to its generic score, filming style, and the whole feel of the film. Films of this style and substance were rife around this time, and because of this, Hitman got lost in the Bourne style action genre.
Plus, it's not a very good film either.
Olyphant is woefully miscast as the titular anti hero, and spends most of the film giving people really dirty looks, or fighting in that nauseating style that every film maker used back in the late noughties.
Dougray Scott turns up to add some gravitas and exposition to the film, and he is the best thing in it, giving a believable performance, whilst convincingly uttering woeful dialogue that is provided by Skip Woods, the man who could kill a franchise thanks to his woeful screen writing.
Olga Kurylenko gives us her most revealing role to date, and although she is easy on the eye, she rises above the mundanity of the film, and also puts in a good performance.
Thankfully it never gets boring, because Wood decides to put an action set piece in the film every five minutes, so you forget the cruddy dialogue we have just heard and just take the '101 ways to kill a bad guy' attitude the film has, and just go for the spectacle.
But this shouldn't have been just for spectacle, this should have been the start of what could have been a decent franchise. Instead, we get a film that isn't very good, but for some strange reason, you can't help but go back to it every now and again.
As for the reboot a few years later, this is so much better.
Like it's better to break your fingers, than it is to break your legs....
Taking prostitute and possible witness Nika with him, the enigmatic assassin flees from both Interpol and the Russian secret service as he fights to uncover the root of the conspiracy......
Call it what you want, but Hitman is a film that has stayed in 2007, thanks to its generic score, filming style, and the whole feel of the film. Films of this style and substance were rife around this time, and because of this, Hitman got lost in the Bourne style action genre.
Plus, it's not a very good film either.
Olyphant is woefully miscast as the titular anti hero, and spends most of the film giving people really dirty looks, or fighting in that nauseating style that every film maker used back in the late noughties.
Dougray Scott turns up to add some gravitas and exposition to the film, and he is the best thing in it, giving a believable performance, whilst convincingly uttering woeful dialogue that is provided by Skip Woods, the man who could kill a franchise thanks to his woeful screen writing.
Olga Kurylenko gives us her most revealing role to date, and although she is easy on the eye, she rises above the mundanity of the film, and also puts in a good performance.
Thankfully it never gets boring, because Wood decides to put an action set piece in the film every five minutes, so you forget the cruddy dialogue we have just heard and just take the '101 ways to kill a bad guy' attitude the film has, and just go for the spectacle.
But this shouldn't have been just for spectacle, this should have been the start of what could have been a decent franchise. Instead, we get a film that isn't very good, but for some strange reason, you can't help but go back to it every now and again.
As for the reboot a few years later, this is so much better.
Like it's better to break your fingers, than it is to break your legs....