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Hitman
20th Century Fox


7.0

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MPAA RATING: R for strong bloody violence, language, and some sexuality/nudity

Starring Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, Robert Knepper, Ulrich Thomsen, and Michael Offei

Based on the top-selling, award-winning videogame franchise, the HITMAN is a genetically-engineered, elite assassin known only as Agent 47. His hallmarks are a lethal grace, unwavering precision, and resolute pride in his work. But even 47 couldn't anticipate a "random equation" in his life of exactitude: the unexpected stirrings of his conscience and the unfamiliar emotions aroused in him by a mysterious Russian woman. (20th Century Fox)

GENRE(S):	Action \| Crime \| Suspense/Thriller
WRITTEN BY:	Skip Woods
DIRECTED BY:	Xavier Gens
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: March 11, 2008 Theatrical: November 21, 2007
RUNNING TIME:	100 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	France / USA

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Hitman stands right on the threshold between video games and art. On the wrong side of the threshold, but still, give it credit.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

The best movie derived from a violent computer game we've ever seen. You can take or leave that kind of qualified high-five, but, for us, it was a thoroughly entertaining experience. Think of bargain basement "James Bond" amped up into TV den-sittin', mouse-clickin' overdrive. But with human actors.

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

In the finest tradition of adolescent identification figures, he's not only ruthless, dispatching numerous baddies with hair-trigger shots to the head, but profoundly desexualized, brushing off the insistent come-ons of a slinky prostitute (Olga Kurylenko) he's taken under his wing.

Chicago Tribune Kelley L. Carter

Here’s all you really need to know before the opening credits roll in Hitman: There’s going to be a lot of bloodshed. And that’s a good thing, considering there isn’t much dialogue to carry the film.

Baltimore Sun John Anderson

Essentially an episode of "24." Which may be a step up from a video game, but it's getting hard to tell.

Premiere Karl Rozemeyer

Ultimately Hitman is about bullets, blood, and bombs. For die-hard fans of the videogame, there is much to relish in terms of cobblestone car chases, punishing fistfights, cool weaponry, impossible physical feats, and ear-popping gun battles that rage through exclusive hotels in exotic locations.

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

As a movie on its own, it's simple monotony. Olyphant, affecting Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry voice, is about as menacing as Mr. Clean, and the action scenes - whether the weapons are fists, feet, swords or guns - fly past without any tension or suspense. Hitman is a miss.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

This violent action is stylish but painfully formulaic, even by the undemanding standards of video-game narratives.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen

It's all meant, I suppose, to conjure up cold visions of Terminators and Robocops past, or, in this post-9/11 world, of bin Ladens and Bushes present. If so, conjure at will.

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub

Not a spectacular movie, but the action scenes are well shot, there's no shortage of R-rated gore and the plot moves along quickly enough to mask the fact that the whole endeavor is completely ridiculous.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

The movie's one saving grace is Olyphant ("Live Free and Die Hard," HBO's "Deadwood"), whose sociopathic elegance is gradually winning, and whose dry, monotonic, Eastwood-like delivery of one-liners is frequently, if perhaps unintentionally, very funny.

Boston Globe Ty Burr

There have been plenty of movies adapted from video games before, but Hitman may be the first one that actually feels like a computer wrote and directed it.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson

By the time Olyphant leaves an enemy in the most ridiculous deathtrap since the '60s "Batman," just because it looks kinda neat, the whole project has started to feel like "Ultraviolet 2: The Further Stupidening."

LA Weekly Scott Foundas

While Gens can splatter gore with the best of them -- early in the film, a human body packed with C4 goes off in graphic detail -- he fails to stage so much as a single rousing action scene, even when he has four double-fisted swordsmen facing off inside an abandoned subway car. Game over. The audience loses.

The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

All the while, the music screams and clamors like an ignored child because director Xavier Gens and writer Skip Woods can't pump suspense into this inept mess.

The New York Times Manohla Dargis

Hitman exploits every action-flick cliché imaginable and still manages to be dull. It’s bang, boom, blah -- action movies for bored dummies.

Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar

Let's start with the obvious: Olyphant just isn't that intimidating an assassin. Think of some of cinema's more memorable button men: Léon, Luca Brasi, Frank Nitti...that's right, not a pretty boy in the bunch.

Entertainment Weekly Clark Collis

Based on a videogame, Hitman could be the year's dumbest movie.

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

Seeing Hitman isn't like playing a video game or even like watching someone else play a video game. It's like watching someone stupid play a bad video game.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

To be sure, Hitman is a lousy film, but like the video game that inspired it, it's also great fun, drawing as it does on everything from James Bondian Eurotrash panache to Vin Diesel's moribund XXX character.

New York Post Kyle Smith

If someone ran this guy through a scanner, the readout would say: “Mark down and stock in straight-to-video aisle."

Variety Todd McCarthy

A Eurotrashy vidgame knockoff that misses its target by a mile. Numbingly unthrilling as it lurches from one violent encounter to another, the pic's dark roots in an electronic, non-dramatic medium are plain to see, and unsuspecting gamers lured to theaters will soon wish they were back home participating in the action themselves.

The average user rating for this movie is 7.0 (out of 10) based on 104 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Chris gave it a9:
The sheer intensity exuded by Olyphant and the emotional performance by the lovely Olga make this movie what it is. It was the interaction between the two: the way Agent 47 cared for her wellbeing and yet brutally disposed of the corrupt characters in such a cold, calm, and flawless manner. The two sides of his character were wonderfully played. It gives a glimpse into the life of 47... "How does a good man decide when to kill?" I've played all the games but I prefer the movie depiction of 47. The story could use some work, but it didn't ruin the movie for me. I'm buying the DVD!

whatever gave it a7:
It was ok, I would have rather seen Jason Stathom as Agent 47 It also side tracked from the game quite a bit Would have rather just seen the story straight from Blood Money turned into a movie Still, it's not terrible.

Greg S. gave it an8:
Much better than all the critics claim. I went into it not expecting much and was very pleasantly surprised. Can get a little confusing in places but a pretty decent plot overall. Let's home there's a second movie.

Alec B. gave it a6:
i dont know what was up the critics asses on this one. Hitman was niether good or bad it was decent. It should have gotten better ratings then it recieved. It had a decent plot, the action was good, and Agent 47 was unstoppable. Hoping for a sequel.

Bill W. gave it a9:
Best action movie i have seen in a while.

[Anonymous] gave it a0:
Very boring, almost unbearable to sit through.

Agent 47 Howell gave it a10:
i own hte movie and i think it is the best!! Timothy Olyphant did a great job portraying Agent 47. i even fing Timothy Olyphant very sexy with a gun....im a girl and i have my opinions!

Hitman 20th Century Fox

Hitman
20th Century Fox