ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Film O. Mat The bad thing about this movie is that it bears the title "Hit-man". It basically has nothing to do with the video game series, however. In the games, which I highly recommend, by the way, the objective is to remain silent and invisible. Usually, there is just one kill per mission, which is the one of the target person. The movie, on the other side, is a typical action movie. No need for brains, no need for sneaking or silence. The Hit-man in this movie just shoots down everyone in his way, leaving a trail of corpses behind and not being very subtle. But it still is an acceptable action movie. Timothy Olyphant and Olga Kurylenko are doing a great job in playing a killer and a prostitute. Olyphant's movement and behavior (except for action sequences) actually even remind you of the "real" 47. The action itself is okay as well. Quite gory at times and over the top, but entertaining nevertheless. If you watch this movie and expect it to be a film version of the game series, you are going to be really disappointed. But if you, as I did, take it as a simple action movie and forget about the fact that it is trying to resemble the video game, you are probably going to enjoy it at least a little bit as it is a decent action movie.

BobbyT24 I will preface this with the fact and apology I have never played the video game. Honestly, I'd never even heard of it before watching this movie. I must also state I like Timothy Olyphant in pretty much anything he tries. :-) I found this DVD at the discount movie store for $1 and thought, "Why not?" I'm soooo happy I purchased it.This movie is exactly as it states: It's about an Unrated Hit-man that acts more machine-like than human who tracks down and eliminates any and all targets without the least amount of emotion. Just cold, bloody murder-for-hire. You will figure out where he came from within the first few minutes of the film so there is very little mystery when the movie starts. What followed, however, was pure, violent entertainment. It was stylish, sexy, brutal, graphic and genuinely enjoyable as a movie experience. I truly believed Agent 47 could live/kill/slaughter without emotion. It was stylistically up in the "Kingsman"/"Lucy" range of movie violence. That is high praise as far as I'm concerned.I'm not giving anything away by saying there is a lot of killing. And the director obviously perfected original, graphic ways of portraying said death. It takes a special someone to create new ways of celluloid bloodiness without going overboard into the Tarantino-enthused "blood explosions" that are both non-realistic and off-putting. "Hitman" had the necessary blood-letting, but refrained from becoming the crazed, unrealistic, explosion of human tissue bloodfests so associated with the Tarantino-like crowd.Timothy Olyphant was perfectly cast. I understood they thought of other actors for the character, but Olyphant really was Agent 47. His expressive eyes and the ability to convey venom and danger by simply standing still was marvelous. Dougray Scott played the tortured, ethical Interpol operative trying to track a ghost with excellent restraint and tenacity -- think Stephen Rea in "V for Vendetta" and always being one step behind a genius of mayhem. You gotta feel for a law enforcer who has to track someone as beautifully violent and elusive as Agent 47.Olga Kurylenko is gorgeous and very sexy as the prostitute/witness. This is NOT a PG-13 movie, hence the "Hitman UNRATED" title. Spoiler alert maybe - this movie has nudity. You can read that in the "Content Advisory" section of this site. Sorry to the folks who are against that part. But if you can handle an unrated movie about an emotionless hit-man killing people with gusto, seeing a beautiful actress in various stages of undress shouldn't be all that shocking.For a movie I hadn't heard anything about and bought for $1, this was one of those excellent surprises I always hope for. After watching literally thousands of movies, it is refreshing to see something with some originality, style, charm and intelligence. I would recommend this to anyone wanting a good action movie with a wonderful protagonist acting exactly as a hit-man should - he gets his prey and doesn't apologize about it. Watch this one. I think it is worth your time.

Adam Foidart Critics have denounced "Hit-man" as yet another video game turned into a terrible film, but maybe you're one of those people that think they just followed the ongoing trend of hating on those type of films (you're wrong) or maybe you're wondering why exactly this movie sucks as much as it does. Well, after seeing the unrated version for myself, it would be my delight to point out exactly why this movie is so bad. The plot is riddled with plot holes, but I will contain myself with a simple synopsis and then we'll dig into it a bit later.The film follows Timothy Olyphant as a hit man with no name, so we'll call him "Hit-man". As a young boy he was collected and trained in a mysterious organization only known as "The Organization". They train men to be skilled martial artists and gunmen to send into the world and kill for money. They shave the heads of their agents and tattoo bar codes onto the back of their heads... Hit-man's next target is Russian President Mikhail Belicoff (Ulrich Thomsen). In an unusual request, he is to kill Belicoff in public. After the kill, Hit-man in instructed to eliminate a witness, a woman named Nika (Olga Kurylenko). When Hit-man approaches her, he realizes that she is not, in fact a witness and that HE is the target to be eliminated.This is a movie that moves just quickly enough that while you're watching, you're not asking too many questions but once it slows down even just the tiniest bit, it falls apart completely. This plot makes absolutely no sense. First of all, if you're a super secret organization, why would you make all of your agents easily identifiable by making them stand out like sore thumbs in the middle of every crowd? Bald guys with bar codes on the back of their heads don't exactly look inconspicuous. Next, couldn't you think of a better name than "The Organization"? If the idea is to sound so silly that no one will believe you exist that's a step in the right direction, but maybe you shouldn't label all of your agent's equipment with your super secret logo, that might be a dead giveaway that all of these bald dudes with guns are linked together. That's just the tip of the iceberg because our ridiculous protagonist is caught in the middle of a conspiracy so amateurish and poorly scripted it sounds like it was written 15 minutes before the deadline, and by a 13-year-old.Let's break down the master, evil plan that drives all of the action of this movie. Step 1) Get some bad guy plastic surgery to look exactly like the Russian president. Step 2) Kill the real president and take his place. Step 3) Eliminate all witnesses to the assassination and anyone close enough to the real Belicoff to tell the difference between the two. Step 4) Get re-elected and proceed with further super-villainous plans. Step 1 goes perfectly well and is pretty much done the moment the conspiracy is set up, since the person responsible for hiring Hit-man is already the president's double. Step 2 makes no sense though. Why the request to make the killing public? If you were trying to make the ol' switcheroo, wouldn't it be much more logical to kill the real Belicoff quietly, clean up the crime scene and sneak in the new guy? That's where Step 3 makes even less sense. The real Belicoff is killed in broad daylight, in the middle of a crowd of hundreds. Was the plan to kill every single person in the crowd that might have seen Belikoff get killed? What about the doctors and ambulance people who picked him up, where those guys in on the conspiracy? And the guys who disposed of the body? How widespread is this thing? Then, all the people that are put on the "to be silenced list", there are seemingly only two that need to be taken care of with swift and silent deaths: Nika and Hit-man. You would think that the plan would be as follows to implicate as few people as possible: hire Hit-man to kill Nika, then kill Hit-man. That way you only have to pay one guy for two kills, what a deal! But they blunder that step too! Why did they even feel the need to kill this Hit-man anyway? Our protagonist is an assassin. What is he going to do, assuming he finds out about the conspiracy? Go to the police and tell them he knows that the man in power is not the real Belicoff because he murdered the real one? As a cherry on the sundae, they send another hired gun from The Organization to take out Hit-man. Hmm. First of all, you have to assume that training these agents is pretty expensive and that there aren't that many of them out there, so it seems strange that they would so easily dispense with one of their own members. Also, we know Hit-man has to get his ammunition and custom equipment from some kind of special source, so just call the guy and say "Hey, come back to warehouse 1, we have a new shiny gun for you". When he shows up, just slip him a poisoned sandwich or something. Hey Organization, hire me! I'll save you guys billions of dollars and you won't have to train me to do anything! This film is a colossus with feet made of toilet fudge. Not only is the plot totally ludicrous, but our main character is about as interesting as a block of wood. It's actually painful to watch these actors dredge through this abysmal material. I'd go on, but you get the idea. It's just yet another terrible action-oriented video game-based movie. No need to take a second look at "Hitman". (Unrated version on DVD, April 18, 2014)

Adam Peters (28%) With its muddled, awkward, messy plot; overblown action, and bog- standard direction making this yet another poor computer game adaptation. And why almost all movies based on video games screw around with the standard plot so much is something only the bean counters at the studios can properly answer as this feels like something made not by a writer/director/producer, but a large group of money men. As far as performance go there's Timothy Olyphant being a bit too baby faced for the role and largely miss-cast as Agent 47 because the real silent assassin does not, and never will have an American accent. Or big damn swords hidden away under his shirt for that matter either. While the script is from the pen of one of the worst writers in Hollywood history, enter Mr Skip Woods (I wish he'd skip off). And yet all told this is still somewhat watchable, all be it still pretty poor action thriller. And compared to most video game movies it isn't among the worst. To sum this up: imagine the Transporter movies if all the fun had been taken out.