Here's a movie that was the hope to begin a new wave of video game movies that are actually great, because nothing before this came close to being decent; although some may argue that Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil were good, but not me.
However, Hitman: Agent 47 did not live up to the great trailers that it put out. And I have to say the faults landed squarely on the director's shoulders.
But before going into the negatives, let me just say that the cast involved in this one were great. Rupert Friend look great as Agent 47. Hannah Ware looked like she could kick ass and be another female action star. And Zachary Quinto would have been a good villain too.
Then came director Aleksander Bach, who has no other credits to his name as of yet on IMDb. And what we've seen in the trailers were the grand action set pieces with the one in Singapore standing out the most. But those were the only good scenes in the movie. Everything else did not work.
Especially when it came to continuity issues. Early on Quinto and Ware's characters were running away from Agent 47, and suddenly they stopped running and just walked in a quicker pace, in order to give some expositions and exchange dialogue. Yet at the same time, Quinto was still telling Ware how dangerous 47 was and that they really have to run away. By walking.
There were a lot more of similar scenarios to the above example and this director has not grasp the marriage of great action sequences from telling stories yet.
And why is Angelababy eve in this movie. We barely saw her face in the three scenes she was in and I'm not even sure if she was dubbed over.
Quinto's character was the one that wasn't written in properly at all. And 47 had multiple opportunities in the beginning on the train station to put a bullet in Quinto's head, but for the weirdest of reasons decided not to. The beginning was just a mess that the director tried to hide behind the action.
Overall, this movie had some style and zero substance.
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