Hitman - The Movie
 

View synopsis and trailer here.

Wow. First impressions: I love that they used classic Hitman music in the trailer. The actor looks pretty awesome as 47, I like that they include the religious angle... it'll make 47 seem more complex than a simple assassin.

Second impressions: Its a video game movie. It's pretty well pre-destined to suck. They might over play the religious angle a bit too, since I never considered 47 'divinely inspired to combat evil'.

Either way, whats yas all think? Bust, or first video game movie thats actually good?

I think Statham should have been 47. So much more well known, especially for action roles already, and on most days he already looks like 47 without alteration.

I'm pretty sure it's going to blow, but at least I enjoyed the trailer. I enjoyed it because of the original music! Blood Money ate my life for a good week or two, so the trailer conjured up some nostalgic happiness. The movie...I doubt.

Your disregard for Mortal Kombat makes me die on the inside.

But ONLY the first one.

Sorry, I already feel my loathing for this movie growing with every passing breath. I liked the games because 47 was a merciless hard ass who would kill without question. He was your darkest desires personified, and subsequently unleashed.

Now? He's...a real evil dude (no seriously look how bad he is!) but he's trying to kill evil for the greater good?

I'm seen this movie before. In every action movie starring an assasin who works "for the bad guys."

I'm with Darth on this one, it just screams "Hollywood fucks things up again". I saw a trailer for this a while back and I could tell from the first explosion that something was wrong. Then it got to a shootout bit and intense dissapointment crept in. Then I saw the whole "fighting evil for the greater good", and "working for the Vatican" part and just went WTF?!

Add in that crappy romance plot and this is just your basic Hollywood action flick which we've all seen a thousand times by now. It is nothing like Hitman, except in that his name is 47, he is bald, he wears a suit and kills people.

That's it. That's as close to the games as it comes.

The music and the symbol and the barcode...

But yes, I fear the overplaying of the morality tale and the religious bit. The whole point of Hitman is that he's a killer who lets nothing get between him and his target. Sure, he's got a bit of a conscience crisis at points, but for the most part he's totally ruthless.

And Hollywood has a bad reputation at doing ruthless anti-heroes.

But one can hope, can't he? They surprised me with Transformers, maybe they can here too. Maybe.

What about Silent Hill? That wasn't a bad film. (Nothing on the original, but not in any way bad.)

There's only one. Just one. No sequels.

I think he looks way too young, and not beefy enough. To me, 47 was hooje.

I remember in the second one, I think it was, you were the groundskeeper of a church, and the Priest was kidnapped - so you went to save the Priest. He was trying to be good.

I didn't like the Transformers movie.