Hitman: Agent 47
HITMAN: AGENT 47 centers on an elite assassin who was genetically engineered from conception to be the perfect killing machine, and is known only by the last two digits on the barcode tattooed on the back of his neck. He is the culmination of decades of research and forty-six earlier Agent clones -- endowing him with unprecedented strength, speed, stamina and intelligence. His latest target is a mega-corporation that plans to unlock the secret of Agent 47's past to create an army of killers whose powers surpass even his own. Teaming up with a young woman who may hold the secret to overcoming their powerful and clandestine enemies, 47 confronts stunning revelations about his own origins and squares off in an epic battle with his deadliest foe.
6 April 1960, Weil am Rhein, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
2 June 1977, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
July 14, 2016
So here we have another video game adaptation that critics will largely dismiss and audiences will mostly ignore.January 16, 2016
Rupert Friend plays an assassin even deadlier than Homeland's Peter Quinn... But his very indestructibility means the story's formulaic action never gets particularly gripping.August 21, 2015
The friction between stateliness and lunacy is more intriguing than, say, the line-toeing mediocrity of a second-rate Marvel movie.August 20, 2015
Ultimately "Hitman: Agent 47," like the profession it worships, feels purely contractual.August 21, 2015
Only a bare minimum of non-action scenes were included in the final cut. There's enough here to piece together a rudimentary storyline but the details are often either confusing or nonsensical.August 20, 2015
About as violent and soulless as its title suggests.August 21, 2015
As such films go, it's efficiently done juvenilia.April 05, 2016
Overall though, this is a film to be taken with a pinch of salt. There's a certain sense of enjoyment to be found in the hyper-action of Hitman: Agent 47, but absolutely nothing to chew on or take away.August 24, 2015
Agent 47 doesn't feel like a character who's got what it takes to be a franchise hero - he, and the film, are lacking in personality.December 30, 2015
Unfortunately, while Hitman: Agent 47 may offer a passable diversion for the action fans among us, for everyone else it's best avoided.