Review of Hitman: Agent 47 (2015) by Idontliketomato — 22 Sep 2015

Ok so first of all, if you have never played the games or watched the first Hitman movie, you might enjoy this movie enough to not start crying over how much of a waste of time and money this was (If you are into action movies without any context, a meaningful storyline, interesting characters and sophisticated dialogues).

So if you don't know the Hitman Universe basically you get:

- Dialogues as deep as a saucer.

- Supporting roles as interesting and charismatic as a pebble stone.

- No context or reasons why everything happens.

- Mediocre acting performance.

- Sometimes forcefully inserted emotions as if the writers finished it and then spread "twists" and "feelings" over their work to make you care about the characters (which didn't work out very well).

- Obvious and bad CGI.

So if you can live with those things then you will probably enjoy this movie because the action sequences and the fighting itself is pretty good.

But then if the movie fails at everything but the action, it needs more of it. (Hurts a bit saying that as a Hitman veteran but for fans like me is more further down in this review).

So in the end there could be more of the action instead of useless scenes which did nothing to 'story' development and made just no sense.

If I was to rate this movie without thinking about the Agent 47 I know, I would have had probably given this movie a 4 to 5 out of 10.

So now for the Hitman fans:

I re-watched the first Hitman movie and I really like that movie now thanks to this one.

Because it was at least a bit like the games.

The trademark of Agent 47 is stealth which was barely shown in the movie.

There were a handful of scenes where he would disguise or sneak up on enemies.

But it was not one bit thrilling to watch those scenes because there was no tension at all.

And of course all the points as mentioned above count too, because even the old games had better stories, dialogues and interesting characters than this movie had.

In the end there were still some pretty decent scenes of Agent 47 just not giving a f*** and going on a killing spree which have their right to exist in Hitman since Hitman: Absolution.

Also Rupert Friend did a surprisingly good job portraying Agent 47. (The only character you would care for in this movie).

To conclude:

If you're not a fan of the Hitman games and like action movies without deeper stories - go ahead give this movie a shot, it would be worth lending it from a video rental store.

If you're a fan of the series - believe me you are better off not spending any money for this thing.