Hitman (2007)

Video games may be responsible for the ever growing laziness in the male population over the past decade but they're also responsible for giving the movie industry additional avenues of making easy money off horrible films. Hitman becomes just another glaring example of how video game based films should never see the light of day, especially when the storyline is worse than that found in an actual game.

Timothy Olyphant is Hitman's famed Agent 47, an assassin who works for a group known as "The Agency", paid to take out high profile political leaders and anyone else for a high price. But when a recent hit supposedly doesn't go down as planned Agent 47 seems to be The Agency's next target. Agent 47 is quite certain he successfully completed the hit, so it's clear someone has tampered with the evidence in order to take him out. With the help of a Russian prostitute, played by Olga Kurylenko, he sets out to find out who wants him dead and why.

If you're looking for mediocre action, horrible acting and a terrible story, Hitman is your film. Hitman is an embarrassment in the sense that the story isn't even on par with that of many video games, and voice over work would have been welcomed compared to the dull reciting of lines seen in most of the film. On mulitiple occassions I expected Olyphant to burst out laughingly at his lines due to the sheer camp that they brought to an already campy film, and the scenes between him and Kurylenko are so unnatural and unrehearsed that it appears they were handed their scripts minutes before the scene. As for the action scenes they are mediocre at best and are spiced up with special effects seen in every other action film since The Matrix. Really the only thing Hitman succeeds in accomplishing is providing Kurylenko a decent role to be recognized in which probably lead to her being cast as the Bond girl in Quantum of Solace. Ultimately, Hitman is a huge miss and will doubtfully satisfy fans of the video game; any action fan should have no trouble finding a film half as better. Even with that said Hitman is not unwatchable just don't expect you'll want to watch it again.

5/10