So, this just came up on the Hitman Facebook page:

While it's too early to tell anything of the film itself, I'm worried it will be a generic action flick with the hot love interest like the last one. Not to knock Timothy Olyphant, but the general directing of the film felt overly saturated with atypical Modern Hollywood film styles.

What's your opinion folks?

the first Hitman film was terrible,

first of all, 47 is a CLONE, but in the film they showed him as an Orphan...
than we have the fact it didn't even seem like a plot that would exist in the Hitman universe..
and Smith rescuing 47? pfft, yeah right...


Agent 47 is not an easy character to portray on the big screen, because in all honesty he has very little emotion and only cares about getting the job done (at least, until Absolution retconed the 2 prior games).. which all in all, doesn't make for good film..

I can accept compromises in the transfer from video game, book or play to cinema, but I feel like somewhere around the mid to late 80s Hollywood's standards changed to keep pushing out these overly cliche big guns super swift badasses in flashy cars and exploding helicopters. I think if the director did the film right, you could still pull off a slow scene building up to killing the target in his sleep with a pillow vs 'Oh hell, I've been spotted, here comes that attack chopper off the horizon. I know, I'll chase the target getting away in a flashy sports car in this other flashy sports car and kill him when he hits that gas tanker on the highway!'

I mean, it's all so cliche and it keeps being pumped out and, in my opinion, it drastically undermines the vibe of a series as rich in theme use and tones that it alters what the series is about in terms of vibe. It goes from 'the patient spider' to 'the wrecking ball bull'.

I never heard of Rupert Friend before or seen him in anything, but after a quick google I'm already convinced he will do a much better job as 47 than Timothy Olyphant did. So in that light, it's promising already

I'm not quite willing to write it off as Hollywood trash already (although I saw A Good Day to Die Hard last week for the first time and it was absolutely horrible) cause in the past few years there been a number of movies based on comics that I enjoyed much more than I anticipated, maybe it's time for a good movie based on a video game to be made too? Even if still a bit doubtful

Berlin is an interesting choice too, especially since I've been in a strong 60/70s spy mood lately (recently watched Three Days of the Condor & The Quiller Memorandum for example), and Berlin is pretty much the spy city. So I'm hoping for some good spy stuff, even though it's present day(?)

Oh no, I'm not writing it off, but if this movie is from the same team who did the previous film, I'll be doubtful.

Also, maybe my standards are just a bit high for the moment, I've been watching a lot of old B/W films from the 30s and 40s lately. The plots and writing are so much more drawing to me.

Berlin actually gives me some hope it may be decent, since as we know from both Codename47 and Silent Assassin, 47 had most of his early contracts in Europe..
but, that is likely because of the fact the ICA reports directly to the British Royal Family (which once again, was another thing they retconned in Absolution.. which is why I don't believe Absolution should be considered canon)

Seems like there's a new director involved, but it will be his debut movie so it's hard to predict anything.

Heh, when I think of movies of the 30s I just think about the various horror movies from Universial with Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, and Modern Times with Charlie Chaplin I suppose. That said, I did watch Kind Hearts and Coronets from 1949 just two weeks ago, a brittish B/W black comedy with Alec Guinness. Great movie, seen it many times now.

I'm predicting more nun hokers after the infamous scene from their marketing trailer. Eugh..... god that game was a mess. So dodged a bullet with cancelling preorder. Now this is how you do http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq5KWLqUewc and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XbQgdSlsd0. Deus Ex is also getting a movie. however they're not adapting the game to film. Making a cyber punk movie in the setting. So it has a sound theory behind it. Remains to be scene if it turns out to be any good.