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A slick but uneven video-game adaptation with a few effective action beats, a pulpy international-conspiracy setup, and enough style to keep genre fans engaged. The plotting is messy and the emotional stakes are thin, so it works more as disposable assassin entertainment than a fully satisfying thriller.
Where to watch: Buy
Wed · 1h 29m
Director: Xavier Gens
Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko
A genetically engineered assassin with deadly aim, known only as "Agent 47" eliminates strategic targets for a top-secret organization. But when he's double-crossed, the hunter becomes the prey as 47 finds himself in a life-or-death game of international intrigue.
Xavier Gens
Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko
A slick but uneven video-game adaptation with a few effective action beats, a pulpy international-conspiracy setup, and enough style to keep genre fans engaged. The plotting is messy and the emotional stakes are thin, so it works more as disposable assassin entertainment than a fully satisfying thriller.
Hitman is the kind of movie that should be better than it is, but it never quite finds the right balance between cool premise and coherent execution. The setup is strong: a genetically engineered assassin, a global conspiracy, and a protagonist designed to be all precision and no personality. That concept gives the film a clean, comic-book-like appeal, and the production has enough polish to suggest a sharper movie hiding inside it.
What holds it back is the storytelling. The movie moves fast, but not always purposefully, and the emotional beats arrive without much weight. It often feels like a pilot for a larger franchise rather than a complete feature, which can make the whole thing feel rushed and oddly hollow even when the action is working.
Still, there’s a certain appeal in its bluntness. If you’re in the mood for a sleek, disposable assassin thriller with international locations, coded identities, and a lead performance that leans into dead-eyed detachment, it can go down easily enough. Just don’t expect elegance where the film mostly offers momentum and attitude.
c.w. scott (1★) · 432 likes
my Google Search history today 2 hours ago: 'download hitman movie 2007' just now: 'how to hire an actual hitman to murder me'
Matt Singer (1.5★) · 265 likes
Somehow, there are two of these Hitman movies. And if you look them up online, you’ll see not even Amazon can tell the difference between them. (It has a picture of Rupert Friend attached to this movie, where the lead character is played by Timothy Olyphant.)
shookone (1★) · 231 likes
looks like someone took randomly film strips out of the editors rubbish bin and glued them arbitrarily together. a festival of continuity errors and narrative levels that feel like the fast forward button got jammed.
Jackie Stargrove (0.5★) · 178 likes
Shitman.
oliviathebi (1★) · 145 likes
It must've been difficult to make an action film so boring
Shares the amnesiac-man-on-the-run energy, clipped action, and globe-trotting conspiracy framework.
A tighter, more urgent version of the same paranoid assassin-thriller mode.
For viewers who want a cleaner, more propulsive spy-action film from the same era.
A sleek urban hitman story with a cool, controlled lead performance and nocturnal atmosphere.
Offers revenge-driven momentum and a hard-edged professional-killer framework with more emotional force.
A glossy, efficient action vehicle built around a hyper-competent loner and clean genre mechanics.
More polished, more outrageous assassin-adjacent action with a similar disposable thrill factor.
For viewers who prefer their action movies fast, absurd, and aggressively kinetic rather than polished.
A similarly pulpy, comic-book action approach that embraces excess with more personality.
A classic professional-assassin film that gives the premise more style, melancholy, and precision.
The definitive minimalist hitman film, focused on ritual, silence, and cool detachment.
A lean conspiracy-and-chase thriller with grounded action and a professional, procedural feel.
assassins, identity and conditioning, double-crosses, international conspiracy, manhunt, state power and secret organizations, stoic antihero, weaponized professionalism
action thriller, video game adaptation, assassin, espionage, international intrigue, antihero, mid-2000s, conspiracy, stylized violence, pulp