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LaidBack4Life

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Action, gore, cold and bald killer all mixed together in a great film ! Love it ! Added to my favourites :D **** what the critics say.

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Posted jul 9, 2008 5:02 am pt

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I honestly found this film a lot more likeable than the majority of critics did.

Sure the plot is quite weak, and the characters aren't that memorable, but the action comes thick and fast, causing a severe lack of boredom for me :).

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Posted jun 22, 2008 11:58 pm pt

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It started out much like Dark Angel, but ended up being so much more, it was smart, quick, "in the moment", rational, easy to watch, and had great flow.
I enjoyed how the action scenes, and character scenes were balanced out so...
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It started out much like Dark Angel, but ended up being so much more, it was smart, quick, "in the moment", rational, easy to watch, and had great flow.
I enjoyed how the action scenes, and character scenes were balanced out so well. It was an action movie that could pass as a drama. It was solid and very enjoyable.
A perfect weekend kickoff movie.

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Posted apr 28, 2008 3:35 pm pt

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awlsome!!!! no qeustoin

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Posted apr 19, 2008 8:39 pm pt

scraffy009

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Movie was good and entertaining with nice action scenes. I thought the cast looked great but my only downside of it was that it wasnt AS action packed as i would have liked. But other than that the story was good.

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Posted apr 10, 2008 1:18 pm pt

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i m the die hard fan of hitman game series!!
well hitman film is just right!!

no more comments!!

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Posted mar 31, 2008 1:22 am pt

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When I first saw this, I didn't know it came from a game, otherwise, I would have passed since I have not seen a decent movie made from a game. But this turned out to be more entertaining than I had bargained for. The disappointments came from...
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When I first saw this, I didn't know it came from a game, otherwise, I would have passed since I have not seen a decent movie made from a game. But this turned out to be more entertaining than I had bargained for. The disappointments came from not executing all the great plot ideas that were introduced, but never finished.

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Posted mar 28, 2008 4:45 am pt

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I thought this was A great action movie i don't really think that it captured the game that much in the movie and it didnt really feel like he was 47 at least not to me he just seemed like a cool hitman with nice guns 47 to me was alot less...
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I thought this was A great action movie i don't really think that it captured the game that much in the movie and it didnt really feel like he was 47 at least not to me he just seemed like a cool hitman with nice guns 47 to me was alot less talking and alot more ruthless so i have to say the movie was good stand alone but when yu put it up and see if it was like the game i don't think it is very much at all

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Posted mar 15, 2008 3:11 am pt

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I watched this movie not expecting much, instead I got a pretty solid action flick that was fun to watch throughout. Yes, it had its flaws because it wasn't as exciting as people would expect from a Hitman movie, but overall there's nothing about...
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I watched this movie not expecting much, instead I got a pretty solid action flick that was fun to watch throughout. Yes, it had its flaws because it wasn't as exciting as people would expect from a Hitman movie, but overall there's nothing about it that made me dislike it half as much as most of the critics out there.

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Posted feb 4, 2008 7:03 pm pt

ladette

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good movie to get into and has a good story line to go with it

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Posted jan 18, 2008 10:19 am pt

• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  75
  Hitman stands right on the threshold between video games and art. On the wrong side of the threshold, but still, give it credit.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  70
  The best movie derived from a violent computer game we've ever seen. You can take or leave that kind of qualified high-five, but, for us, it was a thoroughly entertaining experience. Think of bargain basement "James Bond" amped up into TV den-sittin', mouse-clickin' overdrive. But with human actors.

  by Desson Thomson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  70
  In the finest tradition of adolescent identification figures, he's not only ruthless, dispatching numerous baddies with hair-trigger shots to the head, but profoundly desexualized, brushing off the insistent come-ons of a slinky prostitute (Olga Kurylenko) he's taken under his wing.

  by J.R. Jones | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  50
  Here's all you really need to know before the opening credits roll in Hitman: There's going to be a lot of bloodshed. And that's a good thing, considering there isn't much dialogue to carry the film.

  by Kelley L. Carter | Read Full Review »
• [+] Baltimore Sun
  
  50
  Essentially an episode of "24." Which may be a step up from a video game, but it's getting hard to tell.

  by John Anderson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Premiere
  
  50
  Ultimately Hitman is about bullets, blood, and bombs. For die-hard fans of the videogame, there is much to relish in terms of cobblestone car chases, punishing fistfights, cool weaponry, impossible physical feats, and ear-popping gun battles that rage through exclusive hotels in exotic locations.

  by Karl Rozemeyer | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Daily News
  
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  As a movie on its own, it's simple monotony. Olyphant, affecting Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry voice, is about as menacing as Mr. Clean, and the action scenes - whether the weapons are fists, feet, swords or guns - fly past without any tension or suspense. Hitman is a miss.

  by Jack Mathews | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  50
  This violent action is stylish but painfully formulaic, even by the undemanding standards of video-game narratives.

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
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  It's all meant, I suppose, to conjure up cold visions of Terminators and Robocops past, or, in this post-9/11 world, of bin Ladens and Bushes present. If so, conjure at will.

  by Rick Groen | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
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  Not a spectacular movie, but the action scenes are well shot, there's no shortage of R-rated gore and the plot moves along quickly enough to mask the fact that the whole endeavor is completely ridiculous.

  by Peter Hartlaub | Read Full Review »
• [+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
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  The movie's one saving grace is Olyphant ("Live Free and Die Hard," HBO's "Deadwood"), whose sociopathic elegance is gradually winning, and whose dry, monotonic, Eastwood-like delivery of one-liners is frequently, if perhaps unintentionally, very funny.

  by William Arnold | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
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  There have been plenty of movies adapted from video games before, but Hitman may be the first one that actually feels like a computer wrote and directed it.

  by Ty Burr | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
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  By the time Olyphant leaves an enemy in the most ridiculous deathtrap since the '60s "Batman," just because it looks kinda neat, the whole project has started to feel like "Ultraviolet 2: The Further Stupidening."

  by Tasha Robinson | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
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  While Gens can splatter gore with the best of them -- early in the film, a human body packed with C4 goes off in graphic detail -- he fails to stage so much as a single rousing action scene, even when he has four double-fisted swordsmen facing off inside an abandoned subway car. Game over. The audience loses.

  by Scott Foundas | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Hollywood Reporter
  
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  All the while, the music screams and clamors like an ignored child because director Xavier Gens and writer Skip Woods can't pump suspense into this inept mess.

  by Kirk Honeycutt | Read Full Review »