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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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
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