| Hitman | 
 enlarge | Director: Xavier Gens
Actors: Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, Robert Knepper, Ulrich Thomsen
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.98
Buy Used: $3.86
You Save: $16.12 (81%)
New (18) Used (24) Collectible (1) from $3.86
Avg. Customer Rating:  90 reviews
Sales Rank: 4363
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Russian (Original Language), Serbo-croatian (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 93
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 2250287
UPC: 024543502791
EAN: 0024543502791
ASIN: B0012RLX7Y
Theatrical Release Date: November 21, 2007
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: dvd is a ex-library copy in a library case guaranteed to play great or your money back no shipping to APO FPO AK HI
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
It's hard not to feel like one has entered a certain dimension of video-game logic while watching Hitman, a lightly enjoyable action-suspense movie indeed based on a popular and bloody game about a mysterious hired gun with a bar-code tattoo on his bald head and a number (47) in lieu of a name. Living like a chaste monk while slipping past borders to kill his targets, 47 (Timothy Olyphant of Deadwood) moves like a determined shark and speaks softly to his contact at the enigmatic "the Organization," which raises cast-off children to become well-paid assassins. Fruitlessly pursued by an Interpol cop (Dougray Scott) who can never get sovereign governments to cooperate, 47 has no trouble slipping in and out of countries to ply his trade. Until, that is, he's set up to take a fall in Russia by shooting a national leader who is promptly replaced by a lookalike double. Suddenly on the run, 47 has to retrace his steps and formulate a lethal plan for extricating himself from a trap. Caught in the chaos is the lovely Nika (Olga Kurylenko), forced into sex slavery by 47's new enemies and the one person who seems uniquely qualified to break through 47's many personal barriers. Directed by France's Xavier Gens, Hitman features loads of bloody mayhem and unabashed moments of pulp absurdity, such as a scene in which 47 and three other Organization killers agree to fight one another respectfully, then proceed to pulverize each other with swords and fists. As fodder for gamers, however, Hitman is packed with visuals and dramatic moments that seem so odd on the big screen until one realizes they are basically placemarkers for the video-game edition. --Tom Keogh
Beyond Hitman 
Hitman Video Games | 
Hitman Books and Game Guides | 
More from Timothy Olyphant |
Stills from Hitman
Product Description
The best-selling videogame HITMAN roars to life with both barrels blazing in this hardcore action-thriller starring Timothy Olyphant (Live Free or Die Hard). A genetically engineered assassin with killer style and deadly aim known only as "Agent 47" eliminates strategic targets for a top-secret organization. But when he's double-crossed on a mission the hunter becomes the prey as 47 finds himself ensnared in a life-or-death game of international intrigue and violent retribution.System Requirements:Running Time: 93 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/CRIME Rating: UNRATED UPC: 024543502791 Manufacturer No: 2250287
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 85 more reviews...
 The Bald and the Beautiful September 30, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I actually had some expectations from this movie, I'm a big fan of the lower budget and simple action flick, and the trailer actually had me very interested. Let me also say that I don't play video games and even though I'm very well read this video-game just isn't popular enough for me to know much about, unlike say earlier adaptations like doom or Mario etc, or the coming Halo.
The movie basically follows the formula take a popular video game, make it into a 100 min script, put in a decent actor, a hot exotic chick, and stuff it full of guns, explosions and a bunch of good one liners. Yet somehow this movie fell bellow my expectations, and I have a feeling the Censor Board had lot to do with, scene after scene of gratuitous violence and nudity fell pray to their hypocritical morality. So much so that even some of the dialogues that i saw in the teasers were butchered.
Despite this fact there is no doubt that the film has its weakness' such as:
1). Lack of a good villain, a staple of older movies nowadays its hard to come across a good one, a powerful hero needs a powerful hero to really shine.
2). No really big scenes.
3). Weak and much rehashed script, almost everything has been seen on film before.
4). Timothy Oliphant? While I agree he does have charisma and did carry of his role quite well there is no doubt in my mind that it could have been much better, he was good in the cool parts, but he just didn't look menacing enough when he had too.
Beside that, Olga looks smoking hot even with the punk look, when she dresses up she crosses over into the amazing territory, too bad the censor board cut of most of her hot scenes, but she was one of the best things about this movie. Some of the one liner are really good, especially good were the conversations between Olga and 47. Other than these things this movie is quite good.
Hitman September 22, 2008
A real shoot em up. Not for the squeamish as there are plenty of blood highlights. Action packed and loaded. Not for kids.
 movielover September 16, 2008
When i herd hitman was going to the movies i could not wate to see it. When i rented it from redbox i watched it as soon as i got home I love it and soon got it off of amazon.com thx for this dvd.
entertaining September 15, 2008
Hitman is simple entertainment and this is what it does - it is entertaining. The movie is simple (sometimes questions are raised - how does he never get shot)but do you care?
I have not seen all the extras yet but there are some. The idea of the extra disc so that you can transfer your film seems to have no function to me at all. I should have read the reviews more carefully but to call it a two-disc special edition is tenuous at best
If you want simple entertainment - buy it as a single disc?
hit man not quite Jason Bourne September 8, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
the plot is ok and the action is fine. Be sure to check out the alternate endings. Because the plot is sort of a Jason Bourne story, the comparison makes this not on the same level of intensity. In the end you just don't care about what happens to him compared to the Bourne stories.
|
|
|
