Dozens of men die–and it’s only ever men–so Agent 47 can survive. She rides with a dead body, so finds it hard to trust his motives.Īgent 47 avoids hired brethren from killing him and uses brutal means of drawing out the men behind this conspiracy. First, Agent 47 kidnaps Nika and throws her in the trunk, ostensibly to “protect” her. Much of the second act features the two fugitives interacting. He’s also ordered to kill a witness to his alleged failed hit, a woman with a face tattoo named Nika ( Olga Kurylenko).Īgent 47 finds himself the target of his employing organization, and he drags Nika through and out of Russia, trying to protect her and extract information from her. Agent 47 takes a call from his contact “Diana” at The Organization, and realizes he’s got a mystery to unravel. Plans unravel when Agent 47 sees the Belicoff alive on TV the next day. The next day, we find him standing on a high floor of an unfinished tower, four kilometers from the president. Agent 47 shoots a guards to clear a path, and then shoots the president, gobs of his blood covering bystanders. Petersburg, former imperial capital of Russia, where he’s instructed to murder the Russian president, a man named Belicoff ( Ulrich Thomsen), and publicly.Īgent 47 had a much different plan for killing Belicoff, but he accepts the job anyway. Let’s visit the past. Agent 47 works for The Organization, a group so sinister it doesn’t officially exist, yet it has connections with every government on Earth, and its only job is the raising and training of killers. Agent 47’s next job takes him to St. One of those agents, numbered 47 ( Timothy Olyphant) , later finds himself the subject of a worldwide investigation.Īgent 47 opens the film inside the London home of his adversary, an Interpol agent named Mike ( Dougray Scott). Agent 47 asks the agent one question, “How does a good man decide when to kill?” Great question, one that this film won’t answer. The boys didn’t receive names, only numbers, and barcodes tattooed to their permanently bald scalps. Hero (3/10)īorn and raised in a clean, metallic facility, a group of bald boys trains for years in the assassin arts. ONE SENTENCE PLOT SUMMARY: An unnamed hitman with a barcode tattooed on his scalp navigates a murky Russian political scandal that threatens to end his life and that of a woman caught in it. Hitman sought to turn a fun, stylish action game into a movie with those same modifiers. Video game movies were a hot item in the Aughts.
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