Hitman
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: November 21, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
35
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
8
Negative:
11
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Hitman stands right on the threshold between video games and art. On the wrong side of the threshold, but still, give it credit. Read full review
70
Washington PostDesson Thomson
The best movie derived from a violent computer game we've ever seen. You can take or leave that kind of qualified high-five, but, for us, it was a thoroughly entertaining experience. Think of bargain basement "James Bond" amped up into TV den-sittin', mouse-clickin' overdrive. But with human actors. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
In the finest tradition of adolescent identification figures, he's not only ruthless, dispatching numerous baddies with hair-trigger shots to the head, but profoundly desexualized, brushing off the insistent come-ons of a slinky prostitute (Olga Kurylenko) he's taken under his wing. Read full review
50
PremiereKarl Rozemeyer
Ultimately Hitman is about bullets, blood, and bombs. For die-hard fans of the videogame, there is much to relish in terms of cobblestone car chases, punishing fistfights, cool weaponry, impossible physical feats, and ear-popping gun battles that rage through exclusive hotels in exotic locations. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
As a movie on its own, it's simple monotony. Olyphant, affecting Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry voice, is about as menacing as Mr. Clean, and the action scenes - whether the weapons are fists, feet, swords or guns - fly past without any tension or suspense. Hitman is a miss. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
This violent action is stylish but painfully formulaic, even by the undemanding standards of video-game narratives. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
It's all meant, I suppose, to conjure up cold visions of Terminators and Robocops past, or, in this post-9/11 world, of bin Ladens and Bushes present. If so, conjure at will. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Hartlaub
Not a spectacular movie, but the action scenes are well shot, there's no shortage of R-rated gore and the plot moves along quickly enough to mask the fact that the whole endeavor is completely ridiculous. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneKelley L. Carter
Here’s all you really need to know before the opening credits roll in Hitman: There’s going to be a lot of bloodshed. And that’s a good thing, considering there isn’t much dialogue to carry the film. Read full review
50
Baltimore SunJohn Anderson
Essentially an episode of "24." Which may be a step up from a video game, but it's getting hard to tell. Read full review
42
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
The movie's one saving grace is Olyphant ("Live Free and Die Hard," HBO's "Deadwood"), whose sociopathic elegance is gradually winning, and whose dry, monotonic, Eastwood-like delivery of one-liners is frequently, if perhaps unintentionally, very funny. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTy Burr
There have been plenty of movies adapted from video games before, but Hitman may be the first one that actually feels like a computer wrote and directed it. Read full review
33
The A.V. ClubTasha Robinson
By the time Olyphant leaves an enemy in the most ridiculous deathtrap since the '60s "Batman," just because it looks kinda neat, the whole project has started to feel like "Ultraviolet 2: The Further Stupidening." Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
All the while, the music screams and clamors like an ignored child because director Xavier Gens and writer Skip Woods can't pump suspense into this inept mess. Read full review
30
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
Hitman exploits every action-flick cliché imaginable and still manages to be dull. It’s bang, boom, blah -- action movies for bored dummies. Read full review
30
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
While Gens can splatter gore with the best of them -- early in the film, a human body packed with C4 goes off in graphic detail -- he fails to stage so much as a single rousing action scene, even when he has four double-fisted swordsmen facing off inside an abandoned subway car. Game over. The audience loses. Read full review
30
Film ThreatPete Vonder Haar
Let's start with the obvious: Olyphant just isn't that intimidating an assassin. Think of some of cinema's more memorable button men: Léon, Luca Brasi, Frank Nitti...that's right, not a pretty boy in the bunch. Read full review
25
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
Seeing Hitman isn't like playing a video game or even like watching someone else play a video game. It's like watching someone stupid play a bad video game. Read full review
25
Entertainment WeeklyClark Collis
Based on a videogame, Hitman could be the year's dumbest movie. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
To be sure, Hitman is a lousy film, but like the video game that inspired it, it's also great fun, drawing as it does on everything from James Bondian Eurotrash panache to Vin Diesel's moribund XXX character. Read full review
12
New York PostKyle Smith
If someone ran this guy through a scanner, the readout would say: “Mark down and stock in straight-to-video aisle." Read full review
10
VarietyTodd McCarthy
A Eurotrashy vidgame knockoff that misses its target by a mile. Numbingly unthrilling as it lurches from one violent encounter to another, the pic's dark roots in an electronic, non-dramatic medium are plain to see, and unsuspecting gamers lured to theaters will soon wish they were back home participating in the action themselves. Read full review
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