Hitman: Agent 47 (2015)

Release date: 2015-08-21
Country: USA|UK|Germany
Language: English
Director: Aleksander Bach
Production Co: Twentieth Century Fox, Daybreak Productions, Prime Universe Productions
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Rating: 5.7/10
Length: 1h 36min

Storyline

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.

Plot Keywords

based on video game, character name in title, assassination, human experiment, tattoo, hitman, assassin, body landing on a car, hit by a car, falling from height, falling down stairs, prologue, laboratory, factory, armory, singapore, flashback, memory, helicopter, helicopter crash

Short Review

Some of the set-pieces -- chases through airports, fights on train tracks, car crashes or helicopters hurtling into skyscrapers -- are very niftily choreographed but you can't help thinking this would be more fun as an interactive game.