‘Hitman’ strikes back, boring audiences to tears

WHENthe last Hitman film came out in 2007, there were cries that the film was too rigid. The argument was that, it was hard to adapt a game into a film. Yet, Timothy Olyphant and Olga Kurylenko made a great film out of what could have been a disastrous affair.

But the 2015 version of the film, Hitman: Agent 47 is almost a challenge to see how many yawns you can squeeze in, in 96 minutes.

Most action-lovers will appreciate some of the action scenes in this film, but they cannot miss the fact that the story is beyond poor.

No amount of cool gunfights or car chases can make up for a non-existent story.

This is intriguing because Skip Woods who wrote the Olyphant film is also on the writing team here.

Perhaps we can blame it on co-writer Michael Finch. This accusation could actually stick given that Finch’s previous jobs include Predators and The November Man.

Both films have good action scenes, but they’d do well with strong storylines that could make the viewer care about the characters and their fate

In this film, Agent 47 is back and he’s out to fight the corporation that made him into a killing machine.

The bigwigs of the corporation are trying to clone more powerful agents that will have better stamina, speed and strength. Knowing what this power will do, Agent 47 teams up with a young woman, (Ware) who is in the centre of this plan to suppress the world domination. This rough synopsis is actually more exciting than the movie itself.

The main guy, Friend ( Pride & Prejudice) is visibly out of his depth and you can’t tell whether he is imitating The Terminator or Robocop. He is just too mechanical, a thing we never saw from Olyphant.