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
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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