Hopefully this will be as good as all of the previous films based on video games were.

hopefully there's a scene where he runs into a closet and waits for all the guards to come in it and takes them out one by one.

Teaser Trailer

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/180984...tv-s.38932611-

Looks pretty damn good.

I thought the trailer was ridiculously over-the-top, in an operatic bad way.

Yeah, that's how I feel about the games.

No advance reviews or a rating yet? I actually assumed this had been pushed back due to not seeing any previews or marketing... but it still looks to be set for Nov 21.

Anyone know anything?

the commercials they've been showing lately state it's rated 'R'. Actually, from what I've seen it looks pretty good.

I like Olyphant. Hopefully this is decent. It's too much to ask for these sorts of movies to be "good" anymore.

I absolutely adore the trailer(s). I hope the movie lives up.

It's not getting dumped. They had to have a bit of confidence in it.

rotfl

I am looking forward to this, I love the Trailers and TV spots, This looks like the best looking videogame flick too, from the previews and trailers the cinematography looks great and stylish.

Hopefully this will be good.

C'mon. Haven't we seen enough of Bruce in that type of role?
(I know that I have!)

Hotel scene - http://www.movieweb.com/video/V07KcklrsxNSUV

The only thing I know is that fox isn't screening it for critics.

I still don't know why on earth Jason Statham wasn't chosen for this unless he turned it down of course.

And it's starring a dude with fake teeth

why, because he's bald?

I don't have much faith in Olyphant playing Hitman. Actually, I don't have much faith in games turned into movies.
I wanted a more seasoned actor to play Agent 47. Like Bruce Willis. Or Jason Statham but Statham's not that tall and with Transporter under his belt, it might seem like an extension of Frank's role to people not familiar with the game.
After reading the review, I'm feeling kinda iffy about watching the movie now =/

This should've been your review. :lol:

ebert gave it 3 stars.

he's one of the few critics I can stand to read.

By Roger Ebert

This may only be my quirky way of thinking, but if you wanted to move through the world as an invisible hit man responsible for more than 100 killings on six continents, would you shave your head to reveal the bar code tattooed on the back of your skull? Yeah, not me, either. But Agent 47 has great success with this disguise in "Hitman," which is a better movie than I thought it might be.

Agent 47 (Timothy Olyphant) has no name because he was raised as an orphan from birth by a shadowy organization named the Agency, which is "known to all governments" and performs assassinations for hire. He was been trained in all the killing skills and none of the human ones, which is why the young woman Nika (Olga Kurylenko) is such a challenge for him. A prostitute held in slavery by the drug-dealing brother of the Russian president, she follows him, obeys him, offers herself to him and, although he remains distant, 47 cannot remain indifferent.

Agent 47 is in Russia on a job: Assassinate Belicoff (Ulrich Thomsen), the president. This he thinks he does. Yet Belicoff appears in public almost immediately after the hit, alive and speaking. How did this happen? An Interpol agent named Mike (Dougray Scott) is just as puzzled: "My man doesn't miss."

How it happens is not my business to tell you, but I will say that Agent 47 is betrayed by the Agency and finds himself being pursued by both Interpol and the Russian secret police. As he and Nika move from St. Petersburg to Moscow, there is one shoot-out after another, close escapes, daring leaps into the void, high-tech booby traps, and so on.

The movie, directed by Xavier Gens, was inspired by a best-selling video game and serves as an excellent illustration of my conviction that video games will never become an art form -- never, at least, until they morph into something else or more.

What I found intriguing about the movie was the lonely self-sufficiency of Agent 47, his life without a boyhood, his lack of a proper name, his single-purpose training. When Nika comes into his life, he is trained to guard against her, but he cannot, because she is helpless, needy, depends on him and is a victim like himself. So he takes her along (which only increases her danger) while not making love. You know what? I think he may be a virgin trained to make war, not love.

To the degree the movie explores their relationship, it is absorbing. There is also intrigue at the highest levels of Russian politics, as the moderate Belikoff is apparently targeted for death. All of that is well done. Other scenes, which involve Agent 47 striding down corridors, an automatic weapon in each hand, shooting down opponents who come dressed as Jedi troopers in black. These scenes are no doubt from the video game. The troopers spring into sight, pop up and start shooting, and he has target practice. He also jumps out of windows without knowing where he's going to land, and that feels like he's cashing in a chip he won earlier in the game. If you want to see what Agent 47 might have seemed like without the obligatory video game requirements, I urge you to rent Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le Samourai" (1967), which is about a lone-wolf assassin in Paris (Alain Delon). He too works alone, is a professional, cuts off his emotions, seems lonely and cold. But the movie is about him, not his killing score.

The key producer on "Hitman" was Adrian Askarieh, who told Variety he doesn't consult or collaborate with the makers of a video game he has purchased for filming, but focuses on the characters and situation. Wise. To the degree he doesn't try to reproduce the aim-and-shoot material, he has a movie here. To the degree Olyphant and Kurylenko can flesh out their characters, they do.

The movie is rated R, despite reports that the studio demanded edits to trim down the violence. It has a high body count but very little blood and gore. I wish it had less. It's the people we care about in movies, not how many dead bodies they can stack up. "Hitman" stands right on the threshold between video games and art. On the wrong side of the threshold, but still, give it credit.

I saw the previews and figured I'd check it out on dvd. However, a friend had a free ticket so we went and saw it tonight.

First, the theater was packed! Perhaps it's because of the holiday weekend, but I was surprised.

I haven't played any of the Hitman series, so I had no background knowledge going in. The beginning sets up the background, but then you're thrown right into the middle of the larger story. The rest of the film centers around a cat and mouse chase with several parties, all the while surrounding an individual "hit". All in all the film was self contained.

After leaving and talking about it there are a lot of plot holes, or rather unanswered questions. Not necessarily a bad thing given the source material I suppose, but it would have been nice to have a few cleared up. I understand leaving some of them, as the answers lend themselves to a sequel.

Overall, I really enjoyed the film. Perhaps because my expectations were so low I was plesantly surprised. The audience seemed to like it to. There was a good bit of humor mixed in, and the audience seemed to collectively react when they "supposed" to.

I do believe that the cinematography was probably the best aspect. On top of that, the lighting stood out in some sense, moreso than anything I can recall recently.

Lastly, based on the photos up thread, I thought the guy didn't look the part (lanky). However, he carried himself well and acted fairly well.

From your review:

You obviously don't watch Deadwood.

Not to defend Brian (cause I haven't seen the movie...and frankly cause some of his reviews...a little wacky) - but, he does make a point that if Olyphant does have the skill to play the heavy, he's not showing it. He was as intimidating as a wet towel in LFODH....and just from the "marketing" of Hitman, he doesn't seem to have "it" for this kind of role.

Not that we wasn't great in Deadwood....but this isn't Deadwood the movie.