Review of Hitman: Agent 47 (2015) by Gft4 — 04 Sep 2015

I was advised by one of the critic's reviews to watch this movie for the beauty without worrying too much about the plot. Maybe that's why I liked it.

Someone did a great job choosing the locations - Singapore looks breathtaking. And you see a lot of it. Seriously, it actually makes you think, what are you doing spending you life in some other place? On the other hand, the more I think about the plot, the less I like it. It's not that ridiculous for an action movie - if you can accept the premise of genetically engineered assassins, it actually makes some sense. It's not that confusing - there is an organization that our Hitman and an army of other superkillers work for, and a rival organization trying to build a similar army by tracking down a geneticist, the original creator of the first army, through his daughter Katia (who is searching for her father on her own). Got it? What might be surprising is that the Hitman, who was sent to stop the rival organization, DOES NOT follow instructions and does not kill everyone whom he was ordered to. Some scenes and ideas are ridiculous (Katia disassembling both of Hitman's guns and leaving him and her seemingly defenseless, why? Because she was bored), I just ignored them waiting for something better to appear on the screen. Extra points, however, to the filmmakers for not making the pseudoscience in the movie so prominent that it ruins it (like it did ruin "Lucy" some time ago, for example, or most of the Marvel works - but I might be one of the few who dislike Marvel for it). My actual problem with "Hitman: Agent 47" was that I simply didn't like what Katia was turning into (or turning out to be?) during the course of the movie.

No comment about the movie's similarity to the video games (which, I guess, there isn't any).