Hitman (2007)

After watching this flick with a clearer head, I believe it is time to re-evaluate my review. As a movie based on a video game, it is safe to say that it does not completely suck.
This movie revolves around an assassin, genetically engineered and raised throughout childhood to their best. He bears a bar code on the back of his head, and is given a number instead of a name. This is evident in the games.

Agent 47 (Timothy Olyphant) is the assassin in question; he is heavily successful and very elusive to the authorities--he is called a 'ghost' as he has eluded authorities for three. He has just completed a task in Niger Republic and is reassigned for an assassination of a Russian politician, Mikhail Belicoff. However the task is complicated as it appears a double was killed instead of the intended target. Now he has been set up and is on the run from the Russian FSB and Interpol.

This movie has its share of excess bloodshed, even for a 15-certificate, but it must be contradictory to the games which had less bloodshed. Although uncalled for, such violence is not so frequent.
I don't want to sound strict but some of the acting was stiff. The actors were trying to stay in character, but they ultimately failed to show emotions at appropriate moments. Their dialogue also sounded out of place with the situations at hand, and as if they forgot their lines as a result of language barriers.

It looks apparent that Agent 47 was bred to be a cold-hearted killer, but has shown a soft side for women, as evidenced by shots with magazines focused on the fairer sex. So that explains why the director Xavier Gens decided to include Nika (Olga Kurylenko) in this movie: her sex appeal must be the catalyst to drilling emotions into 47.

I can vouch that critics were derisory towards this movie, but that did not stop this movie from grossing its budget. To be fair I think it can be rated by the audience as one of the best video game movies of the 2000s.