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Director: Xavier Gens
Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, Robert Knepper, Ulrich Thomsen, Michael Offei
Little known director Xavier Gens joins the auspicious club of directors whose career has been reduced to movies based on video games. As far as that sorry film genre goes, this effort is not bad. It offers plenty of imaginative slo-mo action and is thankfully sparing with the handheld scenes. The graphic violence is framed by a minimal story that is a blatant Bourne rip-off, that runs out of steam before they fun out of film. The dialog and characters are standard fare for the genre and the overall result may please action fans and few others.
Timothy Olyphant plays a cranium-tattooed man of few words who has been raised with a number (47) instead of a name to become part of a lethal Hair Club For Men, each of whom is yet another perfectly trained killer, blah, blah, blah. You know the story. It’s nothing new or innovative. However, this time out, something goes wrong, when the man whose brains he has blown out, turns out to still be alive. This somehow leads to a bunch of people trying to kill poor number 47, while he tries to figure out why the man he killed isn’t dead. He meets a girl (they always meet a girl), who helps him figure things out, and find a little humanity, while he’s leaving dead bodies all over the place.
Hitman is a run of the mill action film, that is long on body count and short on substance. If you like these high-energy shoot-em ups, then you will still find this to be a pleasant, but unmemorable motion picture, but if you have seen all the Bournes and the latest Jason Statham release, then i guess you have to watch something.
