Hitman: Agent 47 Movie Review

[@genericname34]

WHY THE HELL DID THEY BRING BACK SKIP WOODS TO WRITE THIS HITMAN IF HES PROVEN HE CANT WRITE A GOOD HITMAN FILM THE FIRST TIME?!

[@inFAMOUSBlastshards]

tropicAces He can't write a good script period.

[@Darkslayer289]

+Austin DL He probably has some pull in Hollywood.

[@inFAMOUSBlastshards]

Ironheart73 Also think the problem was that the producer of this movie is fairly inexperienced in hollywood. The only other 3 projects he's done are the other Hitman movies and a tv series I've never heard of.

[@4203105]

I guess I'm in the minority here, but I did love the first Resident Evil movie. It was a fun action flick with an okay story, relateable enough characters (I was upset when Michelle Rodriguez's character died, so they must have done something right) and great choreography and effects. Ofcourse all the sequels were absolute garbage, but the first was good.

[@kirk1701]

Miles I like the first Resident Evil, myself. Primarily because Milla runs around in a red skirt and black boots. The third one is _okay_ as well.

[@worldprez6655]

Miles I don't know why everybody is acting like nobody likes the resident evil movies, those movies are fun

[@Darkslayer289]

+Hugh G Wrection I feel like stroking out during those movies.

[@Derpalon]

Part of the problem with video game adaptations is that they keep picking all the wrong games to adapt in the first place. Like, who the fuck asked for Blood Rayne? It was already a mediocre game to begin with. Mario Bros doesn't work because there's no story to adapt. Doom--again, THERE'S NO STORY THERE. The game was about running down corridors shooting up random demons. The plot didn't fucking matter. You didn't play the game for the plot. Prince of Persia was finally at least a half decent pick, and lo and behold, we got at least a half decent movie, but what Hollywood should really be adapting is stuff like Metal Gear Solid, Half-Life, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic, Mass Effect, Warcraft, StarCraft. KOTOR could easily surpass the original Star Wars trilogy with how awesome the characters, story, and plot twist is. MGS already is basically a blockbuster movie with some gameplay segments in between. Mass Effect has created a new sci-fi universe that rivals anything in recent memory from Hollywood. The Warcraft movie is shaping up to be potentially epic, and knowing the expansive lore of Warcraft, it has strong potential to rival the LOTR universe if done right. I think the Warcraft movie could very well be the turning point for video game adaptations, and once it's proven to Hollywood that they can be financially and critically successful, we'll start seeing them taking the source material more seriously and having as many VG adaptations being pumped out as there are comic book movies every year.

[@overlored1]

Hit man story kill the target the end.

[@Ketraar]

Derpalon THe problem of the examples you mention like ME, KOTOR, etc they have HUGE lore, some need multiple games to explain. Besides most of the story is made by the player anyway, which is impossible to portray in film. Hitman is actually the better choice for adaptation, its essentially a Bond meats Bourne type movie. The Hitman Films fall short due to lack of care, not because they are hard to make. One reason I think some of these fail is the people making them a) dont care and just want the brand or b) have no clue about the original material. As I said in an other review, just take the Hitman Blood Money story and run than, its all there already.

[@samponcho3412]

+Derpalon The best games for adapting into movies are games with interesting concepts, rather than interesting stories. You need to think of games that can be easily summarized in one or two sentences, but that are still much deeper once you delve in. I'm sure I'll get flak for saying it, but I still think Halo could easily be the ideal template for video game movie. It has a layered story, but it's not too deep, long, or complex. Story driven games are too complicated. Mass effect is 20 hours - how the hell do you make that into a movie? The problem is also that the point is to make movies that sell people on the games and make people interested in learning more - people watch a 2 hour movie, and then say "Wow, I'd like to see the 5 hour version of this" if it works out. With long story based games, the only way to make a movie is to make it about a smaller story within the larger game - for example making a KOTOR movie about the mandalorian wars. But, that would never be successful, because only people who have already played KOTOR would be interested in that. tl;dr games that are rich thematically, but have simple storylines will make the best movies in the future.

[@Ketraar]

Galaith100 Well 47 is not boring, its a character like Max Rockatansky, they serve as vehicles to convey a story revolving around them. As far as action goes, sure you can make it an action movie, an action movie does not require shoot'em'ups ceanes all the time. You can have the movie build up to a great end fight/action finale, by using more suspense/adventure "mechanics", like the M:I series, with infiltration, scouting. Again, go check out the Blood Money story on how to make a good Hitman movie.

[@Derpalon]

Ketraar I disagree. Adapting games with multiple choices decided by the player would be no different than how many anime get adapted from visual novels with multiple branching story routes. The producers would obviously have to decide which route would best be portrayed on film, and build a character around that. Also, while many of these games are of course 20+ hour expansive experiences, much of that content is not actual story, but often a lot of corridors and landscapes filled with "gamey" content that you wouldn't ever need to portray in film, like endless hordes of baddies to shoot down, the occasional puzzle-solving segment, driving the Mako around aimlessly on open worlds in search of minerals, navigating from point A to point B for your next objective. If you cut most of that fat out and just stick to the key events of the story, you could easily refine the first ME game down to a 2-hour movie, as you could also do with many other games. The goal isn't to make a complete recreation of the game on the big screen; obviously as with any translation between mediums, some things would have to be changed or cut because they simply don't translate well. Regarding Hitman in particular, perhaps I'm just biased by my personal lack of interest in the franchise, but I never felt any inclination for a movie adaptation, and I've never exactly heard Hitman praised for having a standout story in comparison to other games. Maybe it is better than others have stated, and maybe it could work well as a movie if producers cared more about its source material. At the end of the day though I think a game that already has a rich story and characters to work with would certainly be easier and better to adapt than one where the story is so thin that you have to invent new characters and plot points to fill in the void where gameplay would normally take its place.

[@D4niel_gt]

They actually managed to make this movie worse than the first one

[@Ketraar]

Danny Meléndez Well they casted wrong imo, Olyphant was a more accurate 47 than this one, not just the looks, but the posture and speech. Just watched the trailer and never seen 47 speek or care as much in all the games combined, nvm training some chick. I mean he even killed Diana[1] in Absolution. [1] spoiler (not really)

[@evillink1]

Danny Meléndez That's actually kind of impressive.

[@katra777]

Danny Meléndez I liked the first one

[@niemanickurwa]

Danny Meléndez Have you seen it?

[@casterama9051]

+Danny Meléndez Exactly! I though it's impossible but now I know I was wrong.

[@seekingseaker]

The guy who said that the movie does a good job at portraying the game needs to do more homework. Here is what the Hitman games are like. You stand on a corner, kill a guy when he walks past you, take his clothes, stuff the dead body in a box, continue to your target, listen to funny conversions from passerbys, and then kill your target. All this is done in a stealthy fashion. There are no all out shoot outs in every level nor car chases. It's a stealth game. This movie on the other hand does not focus on stealth but the all out shoot outs.

[@seekingseaker]

Matt Atchity Have you played the game? The game is almost entirely stealth dude. A few sequences a stealth doesn't really give justice to the game.

[@seekingseaker]

Matt Atchity lol, of Course Assassin's Creed will have big battle scenes. Half the time you're fighting like 20 Templars in the middle of the city and then the other half is climbing trees and buildings to air assassinate your target and then fight another 20 Templars to clear the area.

[@BrotherAlpha]

The first Moral Kombat movie was good, for it's genre. all I needed there was a lot of cool fighting scenes with characters that had wildly different fighting styles. Bloodsport, but with video game characters.

[@DatAsuna]

He says it's just like the game?? The sheer amount of gunning people down conspicuously in broad daylight says otherwise.

[@MobiusCoin]

You know what's a good Hitman movie? Source Code.

[@bradleybindle6428]

MobiusCoin I wanna play too! You know what's a good Hitman movie? Tremors.

[@worldprez6655]

MobiusCoin Leon the Professional

[@MobiusCoin]

Hugh G Wrection Not like just a good hitman/assassin movie, but like a good Hitman: Agent 47 movie. Source Code imitated the gameplay of the Hitman games, there's a sandbox, go find your target and eliminate him, you go and try and fuck up and die, restart, try a different thing, fuck up and die but get a little further, and so on and so on. Come to think of it, Edge of Tomorrow is a pretty good Hitman movie in that respect too.

[@worldprez6655]

MobiusCoin Ah ok gotcha

[@iSOBigD]

MobiusCoin Yeah they're both good, they just need that with the main character dragging bodies and changing into their clothes. They can have a typical story of a kid turned into a killer who then realizes his boss is evil and turns on him...maybe throw a puppy pet in there, and you got yourself a movie.

[@SharpWanker]

Have the makers of this movie ever played hitman.. I mean they should at least know how he operates, blazing guns in broad day isn't very hitman like

[@AntiSharkSpray]

SharpWanker What do you expect the film to be like? LOL. Agent 47 stealthily walking in the shadows for an hour and a half? This will be as close of a movie adaptation to a Hitman video game that you will ever get.

[@Ketraar]

AntiSharkSpray Hope not. But SharpWanker is right if you going to call it Hitman, it better be like Hitman, not CoD with stile. There is plenty of ways to make a good action movie in the style of Hitman, the 2007 one was closer, even though it had a odd story.

[@LeonidSaykin]

+AntiSharkSpray would still be better then generic action movie

[@thecritigamer4321]

You could have a stealth montage that is almost horror like.

[@jpnw3272]

Does "Final Fantasy: The Spirit Within" movie be considered as a video game movie? I'm not a video gamer, but I thought that movie was very good.

[@jpnw3272]

I'm replying to what Alonzo said about video game movies. I agree. Most are pretty bad.

[@worldprez6655]

Joshua Friedlander I like FF: TSW too but I don't think it really counts, it's not based on any FF games

[@jpnw3272]

+Hugh G Wrection, so that's what Alonzo meant. To me, it wasn't clear. And now I know about FF relationship to the game. Thanks!

[@DominiqueMarsell]

I grew to like the Timothy Olyphant Hitman movie. I wish they would have compared the two being that it gave us Olga Kurylenko.

[@acetrippin1988]

I thought the 1st one was pretty good. Is the new one out yet?

[@user-hardbrain]

I'm just hoping that Sly Cooper, Ratchet and Clank, and the Warcraft movies would save the videogame to film adaptations. Although I must say that Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is a decent adaptation IMO despite critics bashing on it.

[@OnlyRoke]

I am just really curious about the Warcraft movie since I have the feeling that it has great potential to be a modern, cheesier fantasy epos. I am sure that it'll be a cool movie to look at. Especially since Duncan Jones made two very gorgeous movies already. I just really hope it won't end up like Josh Trank's career.

[@rugby1971]

why is the guy with the laptop there? does he speak?

[@tributestoeverythingmusic]

how was the action well shot in this movie like really everything it quick cut bullsiht which makes you dizzy in the worst way possible

[@GrowinupinSincity81]

The "Citizen Kane" of "August, Video-Game-based-film" remains..."Mortal Kombat."

[@charlieholdsworth6086]

They can make 2 Hitman films but struggle to adapt Mass Effect either a film or a TV series... Smh

[@TrangleC]

Charlie Holdsworth Could you film a Mass Effect movie cheaply by just dropping a few actors in Berlin and pointing a camera at them? There is your reason.

[@MrRLYWhite]

there is already a mass effect TV show. It is called star trek.

[@charlieholdsworth6086]

TrangleC I guess, I just wish they would make something new and awesome then milking the cash cows.

[@TrangleC]

Charlie Holdsworth I understand, me too, but movies are just a business, like any other. If they can make money while spending less, they'll do that.

[@charlieholdsworth6086]

TrangleC Yeah, a man can dream though right?

[@scienceismyopium]

I love playing films and watching video game...or is it the other way round...?

[@Disthron]

Ok, to be fair, I haven't played the games but I suspect "Agent 47" has no personality outside being a badass. Let's face it, no one's really tried to make a good video game adaptation, for a number of reasons. On the movie side, studios pick properties that are really popular regardless of how good or bad the narrative is. On the gaming side, most games just don't have good stories in them. Writers are often brought in when the project is almost complete and asked to peace a story together from a loosely connected set peaces.

[@WoodysPickle]

we get another hit man movie yet we can't get a Dredd sequel...

[@jeffg6861]

Matt's comments were very helpful, allowing me justification to see this movie. (The preview looked good but the tomato meter was traumatic.)

[@maximeteppe7627]

As far as video game adaptation goes, the first silent hill movie was pretty decent. It had faults for sure, (infodump, acting...) but it competently told it's story, had great atmosphere and respect for the material.

[@jimthehermit8113]

You can make a decent movie BASED on most video games. Take Skyrim for example- There can be a bunch of people- the Dragonborn, a Forsworn, a Thief, etc going on a major protect-the-world-from-Alduine-apoclypse quest and they could enlist the help of the Graybeards to fight the army of the Draugr, etc. As long as there's character development, it would be a good movie.

[@worldprez6655]

Jim the Hermit Most likely it would turn out like those awful dungeon siege movies

[@evillink1]

Review Mr. Robot! The next Breaking Bad folks. I'm calling it.

[@danielfindura2569]

They should review it

[@Mass40KGaming]

The thing about video games is that the narratives are usually crafted to unfold very slowly over a period of say 9-15 hours generally. To fit that into a movie block is challenging so I feel like thus far the people making these movies have essentially said "fuck it" and throw out all the plot. But yeah, it's not that they're incompatible ideas they just keep DOING IT WRONG. I saw this being bad from day 1.

[@worldprez6655]

I've really tried to think of a good video game movie and the best I can come up with is the Silent Hill movie was pretty good, the Prince of Persia movie was fine, and the Resident Evil movies are fun (I'm a little soft on RE because when I studied abroad in college one of my classes had a project where they had to reenact a movie scene in English and preform it at the end and one group picked the scene where Alice says "I'm not on the menu" or whatever to Wesker and I thought it was great) Actually I honestly kind of enjoyed the DOOM movie when it came out in theaters

[@KainErrow]

I always wonder how bad a movie has to be in it's first half to make a reviewer walk out of the theater. I mean, there are movies that are so bad that you're compelled to watch them, so where would a movie fall that after however much time is invested in the first half is enough to make the reviewer pack up? It's actually very interesting to me that 'True Detective, season 2' managed to lock in 'What the flick?!' to the very end. I wouldn't have blamed them for having a cap to their 4th review that said, "Nope," we're done, there's other programs to watch. I wouldn't have minded watching Ben, Alonzo, Christy, and Matt review Penny Dreadful or Peaky Blinders, 2 shows I really loved in their ongoing seasons.

[@5821022]

Dominic Marsell I agree, I liked the first one so much better. Someone else commented on his acting. He played the part perfectly. Even his voice was so unemotional. Granted, there wasn't very much 'action'. But go see Mission Impossible if want that crap. The character development was very good in the 1st one. As one of the reviewers said that he didn't give a shit about any of the characters in this one. Timothy & Olgla rule!

[@everydaykidinus]

Okay, I realize this is super superficial, but Christy, whatever you are doing is working. You look fucking fantastic. Great review all around guys, as usual

[@USgCinema]

no its not like the game they took scenes and quick sets of the game but thats it

[@kingoceanblu4445]

You can't say "Game Movies Can't be done" when you say if the script was better it would of had a chance. The problem is not the Game it is writers fault

[@mysteryman8048]

Ben, Matt, Alonso and Christy should be the only reviewers on WTF imo, I like Bibbs but these guys have the best chemistry

[@thelinedrive]

I'm going support this film because it seems like the director got it, but you can only do so much with a Skip woods script. And I'll be damned if I watch that Hack ruin another potentially good franchise again. So I'm supporting the film just to hope for said sequel with the same team with a screen writer whose actually worth a damn.

[@bfunkhouser]

No scores?

[@uptoedownsasquatch4517]

The scores are given around 7:15

[@bfunkhouser]

UpToeDownSasquatch DOH. I was getting bored around halfway through so I skipped through the rest by a few seconds at a time and somehow I still missed it. Thanks.

[@MarcosIsABaritone]

The first Resident Evil really wasn't that terrible, it was decent even. First Tomb Raider was decent, dialogue issues aside... BUT TRULY, and I know this is cheating but it makes sense because of the visual medium and fantasy of it all, Wreck-It-Ralph and Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children are both solid animation movies based on video games. So there, Alonsa!

[@NicksMagicstorytime]

The worst movies I have ever seen in a theater were based on video games. No thanks.

[@notabot835]

i feel bad for you guys this week. lotta shit out there

[@Jarethenator]

It was alright. Not fantastic by any means, but it was alright for what it was. Action was good, looked good. For a video game adaptation, it is fairly well done in that regard.

[@TraumaQueen65]

Why was Ben even in this review?

[@benjibuttons6380]

The best part of the Doom movie was the "fps" scene. And the movie, while not great, isn't really awful.

[@oliviaharrison3038]

i think starcraft could make a decent movie!

[@inFAMOUSBlastshards]

THEY KEEP TRYING TO MAKE IT AN ACTION MOVIE!!!! A good Hitman movie should be character driven and stealthy. 47 is an enhanced human, but he's not some super hero action man. I don't think any of these guys have played Hitman. It's about stealth.

[@Stand_By_For_Mind_Control]

Nothing like a reboot for a film that came out what, 8 years ago? Alonso - Silent Hill (NOT Revelations). That is the rare VG film that delivered on its promises.

[@4203105]

***** I think even the first Silent Hill movie was generally panned. I thought it was pretty meh.

[@brandogg974]

+Miles Silent Hill was a great movie for the fans. Others didn't get it most of the time.

[@Stand_By_For_Mind_Control]

***** ^This.

[@DontTouchMyCroissant]

Why does the agent look like Orlando Bloom?

[@NotCharlesMorse]

foist

[@HassanLuv78]

Best video game movie : Mortal Kombat

[@Philbert-s2c]

HassanLuv78 What? Not Streetfighter? LOL

[@worldprez6655]

HassanLuv78 That movie sucked so much, I just watched it fairly recently

[@HassanLuv78]

Hugh G Wrection The second Mortal Kombat sucked... The first one was a major success with both fans and critics. And make a decent amount of money at the box office.

[@Frey_2026]

"Yes it's like the story in the game" Oh shut up. You know nothing Jon Snow. These people think they know the game because they played 5 minutes of it. His jaw would drop if he knew a game could have more plot than a movie or a book. And yeah it is very close to the plot in the game eh? What about the five fathers, cloning and doctor ort-meyer?

[@casterama9051]

No. Just NO! It's not Hitman. Please make a different title for this "movie".

[@cjwright79]

These sorts of movies cater to adolescent power fantasties of omnipotence and omniscience, when in reality the target audience knows nothing but impotence and gaping ignorance in their daily lives. Its very existence is kind of depressing.

[@ChristopherFinalBye]

you suck bitch

[@cjwright79]

ChristopherFinalBye Of course I do lad, of course I do. Pull the other one.

[@madphantom92]

The Last Of Us can be a great movie. Hugh Jackman and Mckenzie Foy.

[@rikumajumder1558]

Witcher series need to be brought to life. GOT has proved it can work...

[@kingoceanblu4445]

Again I have never seen Someone Crap on a movie this consistently like every critic does to Fantastic Four!! Which is really annoying when I liked the movie haha

[@blueeyesaf]

I think it's hard to make a good video game movie because games are inherently repetitive, you've got your gameplay mechanics and you need to stretch that out to an hour and a half. Games spend twenty minutes to one minute gameplay to story respectively (an awkward sentence but that's about as coherent as I can make it without thinking too much, I'm tired, sorry) and in almost every game the story is just an excuse to get you to do stuff, so unless you're doing a Spec Ops the Line or The Last of Us where the story is the selling point you're not given alot to worth with you're going to struggle to find things to do. At the end of the day the source material's just too shallow. It's not true of every game that the story's shallow, like I said some have great stories, to rival some really good films even, but by and large it's just there to tell you where to shoot.

[@brandogg974]

+Alexander Forbes A spec ops the line movie would just be Apocalypse Now

[@davidemorricone3967]

I think Silent Hill is a good movie taken from a videogame

[@Bohmer]

Assassin's Creed might very well be the first video game adaptation that is gonna work.

[@georgewood6211]

Warcraft

[@georgewood6211]

And btw Mortal Kombat Prince of Persia Got positive reviews. Some people (not me) like Tomb Raider Resident Evil

[@FancyKerbloops]

Some people like the odd silent hill movie or two.

[@wolfwing1]

Prince of persia was good, but then again...it was more a arabian knights style movie then a video game hehe.

[@MarcosIsABaritone]

wolf wing Gurrrl...

[@thephezzaniferengi1456]

wolf wing The director never looked at the game he just did an adventure movie with some of the elements.

[@wolfwing1]

The Phezzani Ferengi hehe yeah it shows, I would say for it's flaws Mortal Kombat was good too.

[@DominiqueMarsell]

wolf wing I loved Prince of Persia but i like to call it An American Prince in Persia!

[@RockBottomRiser21]

A good video game movie: Takashi Miike's Ace Attorney

[@worldprez6655]

Steven W I liked the first silent hill movie

[@RockBottomRiser21]

Hugh G Wrection Yeah it's one of the better ones for sure.

[@worldprez6655]

Steven W Miike actually did a movie based on the first Yakuza game too I don't know if it was any good though

[@Dodge8charger]

I gave the movie 9/10 deal with it :3

[@cammameil]

I'm disappointed by your scores, this movie was going to be my escape from my stupid family this week.

[@sonicjrjr14]

Silent Hill, Prince of Persia, Mortal Kombat, and the Tomb Raider movies are what I would consider decent video game adaptations. But much like you guys I'm still waiting for that one legitimately good movie.

[@LeonidSaykin]

everyone comes to conclusion tthat 2007 movie sucked, the solution make a more or less carbon copy of that movie.

[@Parkersnumberonefan]

Eddie Izzard well done.

[@AbnormalWrench]

We need a Fallout movie.

[@jed52]

***** Hollywood has no respect for video game movies. I still have hope for WOW because they got Duncan Jones to direct, but until they have at least three good video game movies under their belt, Hollywood needs to stay away from Fallout.

[@SoCalTC1]

we have one. it's called The Book of Eli

[@jed52]

Thunderkill sit Hell the fuck no! The Book of Eli is okay, but it's not a "Fallout" movie. Lets not lower our standards too much.

[@AbnormalWrench]

Thunderkill sit Not even close.

[@cactaceous]

This looks absolutely terrible.

[@PedroTawa]

Lol they are almost right wreck it Ralph sorta

[@ciprianmogosanu7169]

For me,this is by far the best movie based game ever made,and a great movie I like the begening where we see the girl running from angent 47,and we know she can not escape forever from him. My friend said:who is this guy? (agent 47)a terminator or something?

[@huamulan9279]

6:27 One word: *Warcraft.* ;)

[@The8347135]

Hua Mulan Five words: Not out ;)

[@huamulan9279]

:"D Touché

[@thinhvo3893]

4 words: That's not five words.

[@VI5H]

I thought Silent Hill was the best video game to movie so far.

[@Tummons5150]

hitman agent 5oclock shadow lol

[@KoopaKidOneMillion]

Wreck it Ralph

[@spacecadet28]

mortal kombat

[@PhantasmagoricSplend]

So boring!

[@WTFZOMG]

that final fantasy movie did pretty well

[@ericpleasant7225]

Character development is not what these kind of movies are about.

[@atkhan]

Only good video game movie ... Silent Hill

[@KoopaKidOneMillion]

Wreck it Ralph

[@Derpalon]

KoopaKidOneMillion Wreck It Ralph technically isn't a video game though. It was made up for the movie, and some other video game characters just basically made some cameos but didn't really contribute anything to the film.