An assassin teams up with a woman to help her find her father and uncover the mysteries of her ancestry.
Director:
Aleksander BachWriters:
Skip Woods (screenplay), Michael Finch (screenplay), 1 more credit »Stars:
Rupert Friend, Hannah Ware, Zachary Quinto | See full cast and crew »Storyline
HITMAN: AGENT 47 centers on an elite assassin who was genetically
engineered from conception to be the perfect killing machine, and is
known only by the last two digits on the barcode tattooed on the back of
his neck. He is the culmination of decades of research and forty-six
earlier Agent clones -- endowing him with unprecedented strength, speed,
stamina and intelligence. His latest target is a mega-corporation that
plans to unlock the secret of Agent 47's past to create an army of
killers whose powers surpass even his own. Teaming up with a young woman
who may hold the secret to overcoming their powerful and clandestine
enemies, 47 confronts stunning revelations about his own origins and
squares off in an epic battle with his deadliest foe.
Hitman: Agent 47 Movie Reviews
I'll be honest, I
didn't go into this movie expecting much. I'm not a big fan of the
Hit-man franchise because I've always been a story-orientated player and
the idea of playing a seemingly static character like 47 never appealed
to me. Since seeing this movie, I've done some research and found out
my initial opinion of the franchise was wrong and I should probably give
the games a chance.
Rupert Friend does an excellent job as Agent 47, capturing a man who is stoic and seemingly emotionless but also a liar. One of the cool elements of the movie is you can never tell if 47 is genuinely opening up to Katia (Hannah Price) about his feelings or whether he's just trying to manipulate her. Given he's contrasted, directly, against John Smith (Zachary Quinto) who does the exact same thing, it leaves the viewer with an interesting conundrum as to whether anything they're seeing from them is true. This is a cunning and cerebral 47 who knows exactly what he needs to do in order to get his target.
The action scenes are, of course, the only reason anyone should go see this movie and they don't disappoint. They're silly, awesome, fun, and bloody. Agent 47 can do the John Woo guns akimbo thing with the best of them but he's also capable of taking down people with piano wire or shoving them into plane engines. None of them make a damn bit of sense in the real world but, honestly, who cares? This isn't the real world. This is the world where the Syndicate and ICA are dueling over a cloning project's future despite having cyborg super-soldiers at their beck and call.
I'm not a believer that big, dumb action movies are automatically forgiven for being dumb. Captain America: The Winter Soldier is a big, intelligent action movie for instance. However, I do think Hit-man is a big, silly action movie, which is something else entirely. It also benefits from a re-watch, yes I saw it twice, because 47's motivations are consistent throughout the movie but hidden from the viewer. I would very much be willing to watch another installment of this franchise with the same cast and hope it does well at the box office.
Rupert Friend does an excellent job as Agent 47, capturing a man who is stoic and seemingly emotionless but also a liar. One of the cool elements of the movie is you can never tell if 47 is genuinely opening up to Katia (Hannah Price) about his feelings or whether he's just trying to manipulate her. Given he's contrasted, directly, against John Smith (Zachary Quinto) who does the exact same thing, it leaves the viewer with an interesting conundrum as to whether anything they're seeing from them is true. This is a cunning and cerebral 47 who knows exactly what he needs to do in order to get his target.
The action scenes are, of course, the only reason anyone should go see this movie and they don't disappoint. They're silly, awesome, fun, and bloody. Agent 47 can do the John Woo guns akimbo thing with the best of them but he's also capable of taking down people with piano wire or shoving them into plane engines. None of them make a damn bit of sense in the real world but, honestly, who cares? This isn't the real world. This is the world where the Syndicate and ICA are dueling over a cloning project's future despite having cyborg super-soldiers at their beck and call.
I'm not a believer that big, dumb action movies are automatically forgiven for being dumb. Captain America: The Winter Soldier is a big, intelligent action movie for instance. However, I do think Hit-man is a big, silly action movie, which is something else entirely. It also benefits from a re-watch, yes I saw it twice, because 47's motivations are consistent throughout the movie but hidden from the viewer. I would very much be willing to watch another installment of this franchise with the same cast and hope it does well at the box office.
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