Hitman: Agent 47- Movie Review

Rating: D- 

This weekend, Hitman: Agent 47 hit theaters. In a second attempt to cinematize the successful video game franchise, director Aleksander Bach made his directorial debut. Unfortunately, it was a rather disastrous and underwhelming entry into the cinematic universe. This movie sucked. On tons of levels. 

The only thing I enjoyed about this film was Rupert Friend. Although he was at times extremely dull, I enjoyed Friend's portrayal of Agent 47. He fit the part pretty well and was decent in the leading role. The rest of the cast was just bad. Zachary Quinto felt so out of place. I don't know who casted him, but it was a poor decision. I'm not knocking Quinto as an actor. I'm just saying this role wasn't right for him. I also didn't enjoy Hannah Ware at all. She was whiney and annoying and just extremely bad.

Now, I can't say the flat performances are due to the actors themselves. Quinto has proven he's a pretty good if not great actor in other roles. I'd like to turn the blame to the writers. Skip Woods was a writer on this project. He also wrote on the previous Hitman film. That film was absolutely trash. Yet, the studio brought back the same guy to write this one. The script was absolutely horrible. At times, I looked around genuinely shocked at what characters were saying. There was no emotional depth and nothing worth listening to. The writing was far below what I find to be trash. It was absolutely terrible. I'm shocked a studio approved this script. It floors me to think a studio backed a script as bad as this. I wonder what studio would approve a garbage script. Oh wait, it was 20th Century Fox! As opposed to making a dialogue heavy film like their hit Fantastic Four, the characters barely spoke in this. It was all random fight scenes and unnecessary explosions. And when characters did have dialogue, it was absolutely laughable. 20th Century Fox really needs to reevaluate what they're doing as as studio.   

The CGI in this film was also horrific. It was as if not effort was put into it at all. There's a scene where a CGI biker runs into a car. It looked so fake that the theater laughed. They laughed during an intense car chase scene. Instead of conveying wonder and awe from great special effects, people laughed and shook their heads. This film had tons of issues. It had no idea how to convey emotion from the audience. The story had plot holes left and right and at times felt outright dumb. I left the theater confused and with a lighter wallet. Do not see this film. It's not worth your time.