Another failure With all due respect to the game series, I didn’t want to watch “this” at all. But they did, anyway.
However, I did not expect much, and I watched it not on the day of the premiere, because I heard negative reviews about “captive” Russia and other nonsense.
Yes, if the main role was played by a more outstanding and suitable actor for this role, then I would go to the cinema without a doubt, even if it was a lousy film in all other respects, as it actually turned out.
Now I will criticize the main character and his protege in the game. Oliphant is a handsome, rude, psychotic type with a childish evil face. This is what we could see in the video. But he didn't fail his "exam" at all, and in some ways he even looks like that bald "47" agent from the game. But he also failed to pass his exam for a positive assessment.
It seems that many of the basic details of the game are present in the image of the 47th: the style of clothes, the constantly red tie, the favorite pair of “Silverballs” (by the way, why they do not appear in the title of the film, but some “Glocks” with silencers – for me a mystery) in crossed hands on the chest, a bar code on the bald back of the head, a weapon hidden in a toilet bowl barrel, a syringe with poison, even a similar gait with a computer character. But why is there no brand name?
The same goes for murders and their style. It seems that everything is beautifully quietly doing: here he put “poison” in a glass, the victim drinks, she becomes ill, and she goes to the toilet, followed by our hero, where the guard carefully passes and quietly wets the victim in the toilet. But immediately pulls out a gun, shouts for help, security breaks in and he brutally kills everyone.
The scene when he kills the president’s brother from all the cool fighters of the 90s of the last century in the style of “Die Hard” or “Terminator” paired with “The Matrix”. Or the scene of the escape from the hotel in St. Petersburg – like “Mission impossible”.
Why would you make up this love story with a Russian prostitute? Well, there was no "47" girl. All these snots are infuriating.
In the game, all these agents were clones. There are no orphans here. How ridiculous it was when a Negro, some stiff, and even earlier very old agent appeared.
And this scene of "worthy" death - the battle on the sabers - pissed me off. The action of pure water and no stealth.
To be honest, the whole film reminds exactly those fighters of the mid-90s. And that's all because of what's happening on the screen. If it were not for mobile phones and a cool car, which drives g – you can believe it.
He was so passionate about the image of Hitman that he paid almost all attention to him during the viewing: looking for similarities, ugliness, etc., that he did not watch the plot very closely. However, it was clear that the writers (if any) decided to laugh. It is annoying that most of the film takes place in Russia, or rather in Russia, as it was in the film. And it is clear that the creators did not even go there. They dullly watched the old American militants and decided once again to swindle / mock the Russians. Apparently, only a Russian man laughed at all this nonsense happening in the film. Although the film is supposedly serious. I will not say anything more about this: and so everyone saw / see, and so much talk about it.
Well, fans are indignant, fans of computer games once again with fans, ordinary viewers as simple spectators, someone will like, someone will not. Although after hurricane summer blockbusters, really "cool" action movies will be missed on this film. So the verdict: No.
By the way, thanks to our distributors that did not think to translate literally the title of the film and left as is “Hitman”.
5 out of 10
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