Hitman: Agent 47 Movie Review 

tropicAces He can't write a good script period.

+Austin DL He probably has some pull in Hollywood.

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.

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.

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.

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)

Danny Meléndez That's actually kind of impressive.

Danny Meléndez I liked the first one

Danny Meléndez Have you seen it?

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

Hit man story kill the target the end.

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.

+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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

MobiusCoin Leon the Professional

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.

MobiusCoin Ah ok gotcha

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 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.

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.

+AntiSharkSpray would still be better then generic action movie

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

They should review it

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

TrangleC Yeah, a man can dream though right?

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

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

+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!

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

HassanLuv78 What? Not Streetfighter? LOL

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

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.

The scores are given around 7:15

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.

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

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

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

***** ^This.

Warcraft

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

Some people like the odd silent hill movie or two.

Steven W I liked the first silent hill movie

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

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

wolf wing Gurrrl...

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

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

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

you suck bitch

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

***** 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.

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

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.

Thunderkill sit Not even close.

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.

Hua Mulan Five words: Not out ;)

:"D Touché

4 words: That's not five words.