Hitman: Extreme Edition (2007)

Adaptation after adaptation from video games, the only good adaptation was Silent Hill. When I heard that Hitman was going to be turned into a live-action movie, I was quite excited. The way I viewed was a Michael Mann type espionage thriller, not an action movie. Unfortunately, the filmmakers saw it as an action movie. They changed from 47 being a clone to an orphan. . . . why? To be different? The director said "I'm a fan of the games", if he didn't say that. . . . I would have given this movie a fair review. The script was terrible, especially with the line "the Agency is so secret, no one knows it exists". . . . then who hires 47? The other Agents are supposed to look like 47, not different bald people. Olga Kurylenko was quite bad in the role, but I'll give her a chance for Quantum of Solace since Hitman was her first acting role. The fight scenes were poorly choreographed. Being faithful to the source material? Only to the look of 47, Timothy Olyphant was okay but would have actually been better if it was played by David Bateson (the voice of 47 in the video games and the person who the creators based his facial appearance on). The music was another let-down. Jesper Kyd's music in the games is terrific, making Hitman's world dark, brutal and gothic. But instead changed it on having it trying to be like Bourne and Bond.

My advice? Play the games, THEN (rent or download) watch the movie. Just to see how Xavier Gens (his first directorial debut. . . . not promising) really screwed it up from what could have been great.

Worst film I have ever seen. Yet another film/game tie-in that is a complete waste of time and money. Also, Timothy Olyphant woefully miscast.

Computer games to movies are usualy a hybrid from hell, hardly any have managed the transfer to the silver screen whilst balancing the quality's of the game whilst having a good enough story to drag the film along.
anybody who was unfortunate to see the pathetic Doom,The average Tomb Raiders, or the workman like Resident evil trilogy, will know exactly what i mean.
Hitman however is different, casting Timothy (Die Hard 4.0) Olyphant as agent 47 is perfect.
Agent 47 is cloned professional assassin for hire, but now the hunter becomes the hunted when 47 gets cought up in a political take over.Both interpol and the Russian miliary chase the hitman across eastern europe as he tries to find who set him up and why they are trying to take him out of the game.
The film runs at a break neck pace, from one shoot out to another. The film owes alot to the Bourne trilogy, but is never in the same class, even the music score by Daniel Alter sounds like the Bourns music score. But none of this really matters. As a film it is a very entertaing 100 minutes, that will not shatter the world for being original, but is passes the time and raises the the bar of Game to film tie- in's of the future.
Well worth watching.

If you've played the game then this is a must see movie, if you havn't played the game then this is still a must see movie as its awesome. The fight scenes are brillant and the plot is really good.

Its jam packed with action , stunts and pure brilliance.

Recommend 5/5

This is a great attempt at bringing Agent 47 to life on screen, Tim Olyphant did a very good job, and it wasn't easy either. You see slight fluctuations in the characters expressions etc, but a solid job overall. Once reviewer said this movie lacks action, but that's straight up nonsense, it's action is very decent and there's enough, thats what keeps the film ticking along. We must remember, it is impossible to make a movie identical to the vid game, this is due to tech reasons and a few others, so some slack should be cut, and this is the best game to movie so far. I'm not a fan of trying to make popular vid game franchises into movies for a few more bucks, as gaming is my passion, but i admit a good thing when i see it. It's easy to follow the norm but hard to be individual. I dont think movie versions of MGS, Devil May Cry , etc can bring these heroes to life properly and will likely fail to do it as good as this, but that's another subject.