Hitman 47 
                                 
Director: Xavier Gens
Year: 2007
Rating: 5.5
Another hitman movie. As long as they keep making them, I will keep watching them. The only job I would have preferred over my 30 years in the exciting world of banking. Though in a sense I was a hitman of a different kind. This is based on a video game which ensures a lot of mayhem and death though I doubt if the video game had as much nudity but I could be wrong. And those of us who like the hitman genre are appreciative of orphanages that train their children for the future by making them excel in killing. We all need a career. One suggestion though. Perhaps you should not shave their heads clean and stamp a tattoo like a bar code on their skull. It makes it easy to spot them but confusing when they are fighting each other.



Agent 47 (Timothy Olyphant) is the best. When he accepts an assignment from the company, it is as good as done. He is a careful man. At night when he is ready for sleep in the hotel room, he booby traps his door with plastic C4 and spreads marbles on the floor. Pity the poor maid who comes to turn down his sheets or to put a mint on his pillow. His latest target? To assassinate the Russian Premier. Easier than you would think. A sniper bullet to the head from about a mile away. An explosion of blood. Thus he is surprised when he learns that the Premier is alive and well. So is the Interpol agent played by Dougray Scott who looks a lot like a nicer version of Ron DeSantis. He has been after Agent 47 for years.




47 is contacted by the Organization and told that there was a witness. He needs to clean it up. Instead he is the target. He knows too much. He kidnaps the "witness" to question her. If you have to kidnap a witness and watch her walk around naked, let her look like Olga Kurylenko (Bond Girl and Ukranian, two of my favorite things). I am not sure if the orphanage castrated him but when she crawls on top of him wearing nothing but eye liner, all he does is knock her out and goes off to kill a roomful of bad guys. He does that a lot. If the film had given him a personality, maybe this would have been better but then he is a video game. Not the smartest movie but then again it is based on a video game. But Olga is no video game. In 2015 there was another Hitman 47 film.