Review of Hitman: Agent 47 (2015) by Guidevault — 14 Jan 2017

I, alongside many other millenial (or so we hate to be called, apparently) grew up with the Hitman franchise as our gold standard for assassin video games so it makes sense we would judge this movie harshly.

As for many of the pointless add-ons this movie brought to the franchise it was still a decent movie. If you asked me to buy it or recommend it, I would probably say no to buying and yes to watching it a few times every few years. The story is in the decent category. Agent 47 is contracted to find and eliminate a man who other Agents have failed to kill before. Then he meets a neo-Agent who just so happens to be the daughter of the creator of the Agent program. Also, there is a man who seemingly is immortal (getting shot and electrocuted just doesn’t seem to cut it when killing villian’s anymore). Now even though they added her as the pinnacle of the Agent legacy it still isn’t that far-fetched to say it never happened in the story which makes it feasible that it could happen in the movie. This by itself added more to Hitman itself than just doing your run of the mill one man sneaky Rambo. It was unique and stayed true to the story.

The “Hollywood” in this movie was pointlessly (but understandably) added to make this movie more bearable to watch. If we had 47 sneaking everywhere it wouldn’t be fun to watch, now would it? That said, the gunfights in public were too outlandish for me.

The build up to the ending was great by the way. We started off thinking we knew who the target was and then found out it was someone (someone’s) in this case. Good use of misleading us and in my opinion when its done in a way that drops hints but that we can’t tell its coming then its okay in my book.

Overall this movie is a decent one to watch, just don’t let your dogmatic views cloud your view of what makes a movie good and you’ll be able to watch this.