'Oh great,' I thought to myself as I sat down to watch Hitman and found out it was another film based on a computer game. 'Why am I bothering?' However, 1 hour and 29 minutes later, I sat there having just enjoyed one fo the most easy-to-watch films I have seen in a long time. A good notch for relatively new director Xavier Gens to have on his directing belt. To give a brief summary of the plot, Hitman is based on the computer game of the same name, the title kind of giving it away! Timothy Oliphant plays Agent 47, a member of an elite group of hired assassins raised from an early age by a rebellious segment of the Church. He is relentlessly pursued by Interpol ...  Read the complete review

I didn't want to go really, I was dragged along to see this and had to drag myself out of the cinema after one and of half hours of degrading torture. The withdrawal symptoms of tedious monotony took a while to wear off. It's like watching someone play a video game for three hours... no it wasn't, that would have been exhilarating in comparison. This is a French-US videogame adaptation (why?) produced by Luc Besson in which sad git Timothy Olyphant plays the role of a mysterious and elusive assassin with a bar-coded stuck on his head. This is because he's a member of a mysterious monastic organisation made up of the "unwanted and disposable." As if. ...  Read the complete review

It is usual for a hit movie to be released and the game version to either follow on or launch at the same time, in fact it has been known to come out before but usually it is the film that provides the inspiration for the game however with Hitman the game was the inspiration for the film. Often game versions of films are disappointing well in this case the film failed to live up to the excellence of the game. It was not a bad film and Timothy Olyphant does a good job of creating the assassin Agent 47, in fact the role calls for a pretty deadpan efficient approach to the role and Olyphant achieves this. The film is based around Agent 47 being set up ...  Read the complete review

BACKGROUND INFORMATION Hitman is one of the most renowned computer games developed by a Danish company named IO Interactive. This Danish game developer company rose to fame and claimed worldwide appreciation for their famous HITMAN game series. It is a game specially designed for playing in PC, later it was modified and made it more suitable for playing with different gaming consoles such as PS2, XBOX and NINTENDO etc. Since then, HITMAN has been a popular selection in different media .There is a novel written by William C Dietz named "Hitman: Enemy Within" published at the end of August, 2007, based on this computer game. In the ...  Read the complete review

The Hollywood adaptation of the acclaimed 'Hitman' series was always going to be a hard concept to realise. How would the director Xavier Gens manage to encompass the brutal indifference of the contract killer Agent 47 in a film of only a couple of hours? How would the depth of thought and precision in his attacks be realised? Such questions aroused my interest to watch the film. Nevertheless, I couldn't help but feel underwhelmed by this blockbuster offering, which opted for thrills over thought and in straying from the formula which made 47 so unique marks a missed opportunity to create a masterpiece. The plot itself concerns Agent 47 as he is embroiled in a ...  Read the complete review