Video-game adaptation on the big screen has never been known for its quality, or commercial success, but for some odd reason studios keep greenlighting them. Latest movie I had the chance to catch was Hitman, based on the Hitman videogames. The movie is pretty faithful to the videogame, featuring Agent 47, a bald uber-assassin employed by the uber-shadowy organization known as Organization that has ties to every government. One day, Agent 47 is tasked to kill the president of Russia, and after the job is done, he somehow turns up alive. Now Agent 47 must fight his own peers and the Russian President’s men to save himself and his new-found female friend.
If you expect the story to make logical sense, you are watching the wrong movie. Agent 47 has a UPC tattooed to the back of his head, making him extremely easy to spot in the crowd. Wouldn’t an assassin want to eliminate that? He is tasked to publicly killing the Russian President so that he could be replaced with a body double. Wouldn’t it make more sense to make the switch private so no one can ever suspect it? Also, why is every other assassin that the Organization sends after Agent 47 so incompetent? If Organization wanted to get rid of whoever kills the Russian President afterwards, shouldn’t they have chosen an easier target?
At least the action sequences are pretty good, and that’s about the only positive aspect of the movie. If you are a die-hard fan of the game franchise and have to see how it looks when you are not in control, go ahead and rent this flick. Everyone else can easily find a better action movie to watch than this mess.
Rating: 35%
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