HITMAN

HITMAN, based on the top-selling videogame franchise of the same name, stars Timothy Olyphant as Agent 47, a highly trained assassin working for a clandestine international agency.

Agent 47 has been trained, since he was a small child, to be cold and calculating in everything he does. His life-long training and expertise, such as always keeping a weapon hidden somewhere nearby and never entering a room without planning his escape route, has helped him to become one of the absolute best at what he does.

However, after an assassination attempt on the Russian president goes awry, Agent 47 finds himself a target of the very agency who trained him. Trying to outsmart fellow assassins and trying to elude an Interpol agent hot on his trail, Agent 47 must also finish the job he set out to do: killing the Russian president. Adding to 47’s troubles is a beautiful young woman, Nika, who, like a prostitute, is owned by the Russian president. After he rescues her, she emotionally connects with Agent 47 and touches his life in a human way that the cold, calculating assassin could never have imagined.

HITMAN is an ultra-violent movie that, like most action films, relies heavily on plenty of gunplay and action imagery and not so heavily on story and plot. Although this movie has some interesting twists, the story is basic fare for this type of genre and even leaves out some information assuming that the audiences will make the imagination leap with the filmmakers. The director takes great care, however, in remaining true to the artistic imagery of the HITMAN videogame design, so fans of the game should be pleased. The movie, however, contains a lot of action violence, including some rather graphic fight sequences and shootout scenes, which most audiences will find excessive.

Even though there are some quick biblical references and some very light Christian elements, HITMAN contains some sexual content and nudity as well as strong foul language that media-wise audiences will find too gratuitous to be enjoyable.