Leofwine_draca More generic twaddle hits the screen with this oh-so-passe console game adaptation that couldn't be more bland or derivative if it tried. Hit-man is a film mired in clichés from the very beginning, completely happy to be following predictable scenarios without ever delivering anything original in terms of style or content. Thus we get scenes in which our hero, hiding out in a hotel, is attacked by a SWAT team, scenes of snipers assassinating politicians, fights in train carriages, spy-type bits in railway stations, a big set-piece climax and not a great deal else.Timothy Olyphant is about the worst actor I could ever imagine playing a bald, expressionless hit-man. Even the other choice for the role, Vin Diesel, sounds good at this point, but Jason Statham would have been most effective, I think. Olyphant is supposed to be this tough cookie, a real bad ass, but he just feels like a mummy's boy instead. He's neither tough nor appealing to watch in the many action scenes, as worse a leading actor as you can get. He's supported by a decent Dougray Scott as a sympathetic Interpol agent hot on his tail, a goth-looking Olga Kurylenko as a sort-of love interest who goes naked (she was much better in QUANTUM OF SOLACE and looks unrecognisable here, complete with awful face tattoo), and Robert Knepper, a slimy Russian cop who stars in the most unintentionally funny scene (an off-kilter homage to the SAW films in which he's tortured with some kind of trap in a bathtub – it's hilarious, it really is).The action scenes are very poorly shot with silly martial arts stuff thrown in (the bit in which the assassins fight with knives is ludicrous). The suspense scenes scream Bourne, especially with the rip-off music playing all the while and the shaky-cam stuff thrown in for good measure. I was close to holding my head in my hands for this one, as it really is that bad. A disjointed mess and a slick, soulless Hollywood thriller to boot.

niklhoer I really don't understand what you don't like about this movie, because I really enjoyed it. While the story is not revolutionary or something, it is still good and hides the plot as long as possible from you, which keeps you excited about three quarters of the movie. And in the other quarter of the movie, you are still excited, because you wanna know how agent 47 works it out.There are only a few action scenes in this movie, which are all fights, and these are really good.What I liked the most was not knowing what is going to happen next, or what I would do in this situation, but seeing agent 47 exactly knowing what he is doing. But the movie does not tell you what he is about to do, so you have to figure it out yourself, which is very difficult too because agent 47 is a very close-mouthed person and so on and so on.Definitely a recommendation.

yashrajs536 I watched "Hitman" last night and I must say it was a good movie the acting was OK but the action was as hit-man deserves and the film felt good not at all boring.The actor who played role of this iconic assassin in the movie is a bit talented and he played it very beautifully other cast were also good at their places, the story was a bit different and I liked it the action as I mentioned above was awesome and the direction was good at its place.Contains a spoiler:- The film features around hit-man being contracted by someone who wants him to kill belicoff a Russian minister and all and he kills him when he was standing on road to answer the press. but he realizes that he is being cheated as he founds out that there are two belicoffs and the original one is still alive then he decides to kill him and uses his girl so that he will track him and all finally he kills him and all. I will not write much so I wrote short.......overall movie was good and quite appreciable......

nsharky-732-789549 This movie was way better than I expected. Timothy Olyphant is very believable as Agent 47: An orphaned child, kidnapped and trained to become an elite assassin. Dougray Scott also does an excellent job as the Interpol agent in pursuit. The action scenes and the suspense in this movie were impeccable. I was indeed very impressed. But to top it all, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the US was not portrayed as the evil empire. In most other spy/action movies (including the Bourne trilogy), the bad guys are always CIA executives or US military zealots. If you are sick of this stereotype and you like a good spy/action movie, you will definitely enjoy this one. I recommend it very highly.