Hitman: the movie

I didn't read any of the previous posts but my opinion about this movie is that the hitman was bad chosen.

I think Hitman should at least have the following atributes:

- Mid/high height;
- Mid/skinny weight;
- Kinda high but small head with high neck;
- A pale guy not a tanned one!
- Someone that you would look to him and say "this guy has no heart" "He has nothing inside him" instead of a guy that looks a badass guy to showoff to the girl in the movie. Someone you would look and tell that he has an hollow inside, an assassin.

Seriously, from what i saw in the trailer, he's nothing from what i've pictured Hitman.
 
Von Drunky said:
watching him sneak around for 2 hours taking other peoples clothing just wouldn't appeal to the the general public.
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Even so, they could have easily made a move similar to the Bourne series and gone for a more realistic style of action rather than this hyperactive boom-boom-diarrhea-in-a-dixie-cup business...

After all, the series does entail several of his hits going awry and big gunfights as a result.
 
Vasuki said:
The thing that bothers me most is the guy they pick for the movie is too damn young looks like a teenager and not really scary looking. Agent 47 was born or cloned if you will in 1964. So if that movie is in todays time which is 2007 our agent 47 would be in fact 43 years old. More so the reason David Bateson should be the actor! Also, in the games series 47 is in his 30's and late 30's.
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I couldn't agree more in that. It's a kid, I cannot believe that's 47. It makes me want to laugh.

47 did had a personality of it's own, even if he wasn't charismatic, because he wasn't supposed to be charismatic at all. It's a cold unsympathetic character that does not care about anything but doing his work right, more than right, perfect.

Also his style is not going around killing people left and right. The game is supposed for you to play it killing as less non targets as possible, driving as less attention as possible, making the less noise possible and eliminating nuisances swiftly and quietly.

So, in my opinion, for viewers that do not know what hitman is about: just another action flick. For people that actually played the games: aw sucks!

Overall: I'll rent it when it comes on DVD and there is nothing more interesting to watch on a boring Saturday night.
 
Funny you mention this.

I keep seeing the trailer and the TV spot and its all about how a sinner becomes a saint, but all I keep seeing is this bald dude killing people with some goofy religious shit floating over it. I don't know if this flick is any good, but the ads make me feel like writing it off until it comes on Home Box.

So why is this shit funny? Because I am also reading Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, the film for which has opened up.

Here's the irony- you got a video game based, I guess, on someone killing people- and your goal is to assassinate someone. To me this is a play on that old Charles Bronson, Jan Michael Vincent flick The Mechanic a tough but fairly smart Bronson flick that was done probably during the high point of his career.

Still Hitman- a videogame turned into movie is being advertised to a basic gum chewing audience that bought the game and wants to see a video game. Commercial exploitation of violence mixed with religious bullshit? Well that's what it looks like.

It might be good. Ebert liked it and although I think his taste suffers some consequence of age, I will give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe I am being harsh. I haven't seen the film.

But at the same time, you have No Country for Old Men. No Country is set in the 1980s but is essentially an updated western. Border conflicts continue with rustlers being replaced by drug dealers. Two of the characters are US veterans, but the third major character is this new breed of psychotic that might also have government links. This pschotic fellow meditates on the causal sequence that leads, inevitably, to doom or, in a few cases, a chance of life. In two cases life and death is determined by a flip of the coin. Life is as meaningless as characters in a video game.

The main narrator, Bell, is a World War 2 vet who is also the local sherriff- he's the old man. And he's coming to realize that the world is becoming much to violent, that a new breed of soulless murder has grown that he is frankly unprepared for. And the story meditates on the brutality of the world that leaves Bell feeling defeated after years of dedicated service of caring for the people he's hired to protect. The world is sliding into a bad place, and its probably too far on the down hill slide to change.

SOme good bits of the book are found here-
http://dir.salon.com/story/books/review/2005/08/24/mccarthy/index.html?source=RSS
(- as a fan of McCarthy, this review got me to read the book and I thought it was great)

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpa...937A15754C0A9639C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1

Not all the reviews are good, but I have found McCarthy hit and miss- I loved All the Pretty Horses and Outer Dark and The Road, but I found the Crossings a bit tiresome. Old Country was pretty taut. There is a lot there, but it requires some slow reading.

Anyway, I can't help compare "No Country for Old Men," with "Hitman." and I have to wonder if this is life imitating art.
 
Would rather have him:

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SuAside said:
wrong fucking actor. they shouldve taken Jason Statham.
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That's what i also had in mind .
Where the fuck did they just find this Timothy Olyphant guy ?!
last time i checked ,agent 47 didn't looked like fag !
 
I liked the movie. Nice action. Wasn't really like the game, and not a real good plot, and I wouldn't even compare it to the Bourne series but I don't think it was a real waste of time, seeing it on big screen. What I didn't like was 47 going around with a girl. He should've been more like Demonslayer says, hollow and without feelings.

+1, actor too young.
 
What they should've considered is having a fit, but average looking guy play Hitman.

Remember the games? He was strong, fast and damn endurant (able to take seven gutshots or so before succumbing), but he had an average white complexion, average height, average weight, average looks and average behaviour. Jo. Errr, wrong script.

That's why he blended in so well.
 
Vault 13 said:
SuAside said:
wrong fucking actor. they shouldve taken Jason Statham.
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Where the fuck did they just find this Timothy Olyphant guy ?!
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Tim has played co-star or star rolls in many movies. He is one of those people that seem to be vary, transparent. I'm not sure how to properly describe it, he is not a bad actor by any means... Just, not the BEST person for this roll, not the worst either.

I just picked up this film and found it to be the equivalent of "XxX" with Vin Diesel... The movie blows but... for some reason, you just enjoy watching it... "Bitches come!"

On top of that, I was disgusted and amused at the same time... How cheap were the people that made this movie?

Hey, guys! I've got an idea... Lets steal footage for James Cammeron's Dark Angel and use that as story line fill for our new movie Hitman!

One could argue that the storyline for Dark Angel is supposed to be one and the same with Hitman.... Just two different people from the same organization... Still, were that the case, they should have hung a lantern on that.

The girl... holly hanna thats one hot Russian girl! Olga Kurylenko... I officially have the hots for... And I get to oogle all of her in the movie Hitman... Just to be clear, when I say "all" I mean... good god she is amazingly naked more times than I can count! *jaw hits floor* She should have played a roll in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve6KkoXyucM

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I also thought it interesting to use Robert Knepper as an Russian agent... The guy just looks like such a... gross individual.
 
This movie was shot here, in Bulgaria, and knowing, that the Russian Police Department is our very own Central Post Office and most of the buildings are actually places I pass by with my groceries does kinda' put me off. It would be the same as watching Van Damme's 'Hell' or whatever it's called. Yeah, he's in Russia, all right, more like in the fucking tram I use to go to my girlfriend.
Besides I've never played the Hitman game, and that Timothy guy is on my top 3 actor hate list.
Oh yeah. Friends who saw it said about things happening on the Russian-Turkish border. Last time I checked there wasn't one.
Nothing in this film for me.
 
patriot_41 said:
Oh yeah. Friends who saw it said about things happening on the Russian-Turkish border. Last time I checked there wasn't one.
Nothing in this film for me.
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Bahahah I laughed at that as well. Unfortunately, the fact is, most Americans have no clue that Russia no longer shares a border with Turkey... It's sad really but, we tend to ignore everything going on outside of our little country.
 
I didn't read any of the previous posts but my opinion about this movie is that the hitman was bad chosen.

I think Hitman should at least have the following atributes:

- Mid/high height;
- Mid/skinny weight;
- Kinda high but small head with high neck;
- A pale guy not a tanned one!
- Someone that you would look to him and say "this guy has no heart" "He has nothing inside him" instead of a guy that looks a badass guy to showoff to the girl in the movie. Someone you would look and tell that he has an hollow inside, an assassin.

Seriously, from what i saw in the trailer, he's nothing from what i've pictured Hitman.
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I got nothing against Olyphant, but I'm agree with your description. I think Statham (just like Diesel) play too much with his muscular appearance. My opinion is that Willis could have been great. I found this on the net (so I guess I'm not the only one thinking this way)=>

 
Maphusio said:
patriot_41 said:
Oh yeah. Friends who saw it said about things happening on the Russian-Turkish border. Last time I checked there wasn't one.
Nothing in this film for me.
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Bahahah I laughed at that as well. Unfortunately, the fact is, most Americans have no clue that Russia no longer shares a border with Turkey... It's sad really but, we tend to ignore everything going on outside of our little country.
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didnt they also mention Russia as part of the EU or something?
 
McRae said:
I didn't read any of the previous posts but my opinion about this movie is that the hitman was bad chosen.

I think Hitman should at least have the following atributes:

- Mid/high height;
- Mid/skinny weight;
- Kinda high but small head with high neck;
- A pale guy not a tanned one!
- Someone that you would look to him and say "this guy has no heart" "He has nothing inside him" instead of a guy that looks a badass guy to showoff to the girl in the movie. Someone you would look and tell that he has an hollow inside, an assassin.

Seriously, from what i saw in the trailer, he's nothing from what i've pictured Hitman.
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I got nothing against Olyphant, but I'm agree with your description. I think Statham (just like Diesel) play too much with his muscular appearance. My opinion is that Willis could have been great. I found this on the net (so I guess I'm not the only one thinking this way)=>

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Ohh man, I remember Bruce in The Jackal... So yes, he would have been perfect for the roll.

SuAside said:
didnt they also mention Russia as part of the EU or something?
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I don't recall... I do recall some funny looking may as well have been in the 5th Element police and military officer uniforms though... I somehow doubt thats based on any form of reality.
 
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