History Film / Hitman

** Similarly, the military officers gathered towards the climax to capture 47 all wear uniforms with elements from the Romanian, Bulgarian, and other Eastern European armies--just not from Russia.

''Hitman'' is a 2007 action film directed by Xavier Gens. A gun-for-hire "Hitman" is a genetically-engineered assassin known as Agent 47. He is hired by "The Agency" to assassinate a public official and becomes ensnared in a political conspiracy. He finds himself pursued by both Interpol and the Russian military. The film stars [[{{Series/Justified}} Timothy Olyphant]], [[Film/MissionImpossible Dougray Scott]], and [[OlgaKurylenko Olga]] [[{{Film/QuantumOfSolace}} Kurylenko]]. ''Hitman'' was released on November 21, 2007. A sequel, under the working title of ''Hitman 2'', is currently in pre-production.

* AMatchMadeInStockholm: 47 initially kidnaps Nika, stuffs her in the trunk with a dead body, drives across Russia with her in there, pulls her out of a restaurant by her hair, and threatens to torture and kill her. She seems strangely attracted to him. It blends with RescueRomance and BodyguardCrush as the body was of the man sent to kill ''her'', and the final scene shows how he killed another Agent sent to kill her.

** 47 himself makes a blunder though, as the weapon being discussed here is an Arsenal Shipka. Granted, it is close to a Kedr, but it is not one, and there exists no Chinese-manufactured clone of the Kedr. [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Hitman_%282007%29#Arsenal_Shipka An explanation can be found here.]]

-->'''Agent 47:'''[Udre has a Makarov point blank in a hooker's eyeball] Whoa whoa whoa, hold up. This is not a Kadr. It's a Chinese copy. In fact, I don't know if it's the drugs, or if you're usually this inept, but you've been wrong about most of these weapons. If the gun you're holding is as cheap as this one, even if you did manage to shoot her in the eye, and I'm not saying you could, you wouldn't kill her.

''Hitman'' is a 2007 action film directed by Xavier Gens. A gun-for-hire "Hitman" is a genetically-engineered assassin known as Agent 47. He is hired by "The Agency" to assassinate a public official and becomes ensnared in a political conspiracy. He finds himself pursued by both Interpol and the Russian military. The film stars [[{{Series/Justified}} Timothy Olyphant]], [[Film/MissionImpossible Dougray Scott]], and [[Film/QuantumOfSolace Olga]] [[{{Main/Centurion}} Kurylenko]]. ''Hitman'' was released on November 21, 2007. A sequel, under the working title of ''Hitman 2'', is currently in pre-production.

* CriticalResearchFailure: When 47 meets Udre Belicoff as a "weapons buyer", Belicoff misidentifies pretty much every gun he offers. For Example: He refers to an M4A1 with M203 Underbarrel Grenade Launcher as "an M203 with an Underbarrel Grenade Lancher."

* CriticalResearchFailure: When 47 meets Udre Belicoff as a "weapons buyer", Belicoff misidentifies pretty much every gun he offers. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by 47 in a ShutUpHannibal moment.

'''''Hitman''''' is a film based on the [[{{Main/Hitman}} video game of the same name.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:BaldOfAwesome? Check. [[GunsAkimbo Twin pistols?]] Check. [[BadassLongcoat Badass Suit?]] Check. Time to go to work.]]

* [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice King]]: Spending time with Nika, hearing her stories, and watching her cry repeatedly allows 47 to [[CharacterDevelopment change]] into someone more relatable by the end of the film, [[spoiler: to the point that he has apparently decided to protect her as long as "The Agency continues to send other Agents to eliminate her.]]

* KatanasAreJustBetter: The train duel shifts from a 4 way GunsAkimbo MexicanStandoff, to hectic fencing match to the death with everyone [[GunsAkimbo dual-wielding]] small katanas.

* LatexPerfection: Subverted in that [[spoiler: Belicoff's double is the product of an extremely painful and intricate surgical procedure]]. Yet the final product is a flawless duplicate.

* PragmaticAdaptation/[[{{Main/Woolseyism}} Woolseyism]]: The original concept of 47 being just another unit of a long line of cloned assassins is changed to him being one of many genetically engineered children specially trained for assassination. This was done to accomodate more actors to portray the other Agents that 47 meets throughout the film.

--> '''Agent 47:'''[Udre has a Makarov point blank in a hooker's eyeball] Whoa whoa whoa hold up. This is not a Kadr. It's a Chinese copy. In fact, I don't know if it's the drugs, or if you're usually this inept, but you've been wrong about most of these weapons. If the gun you're holding is as cheap as this one, even if you did manage to shoot her in the eye, and I'm not saying you could, you wouldn't kill her.

* WorkingTheSameCase: Mike Whittier of Interpol has been trailing 47 for some time. FSB agent Yuri Marklov becomes part of the investigation after 47 assassinates the Russian President, and proeceeds to take more and more [[TookALevelInJerkass levels in jerkass]] as time goes on. [[spoiler: It makes sense as he was working with the BigBad anyway]].

* ActorAllusion: Tymothy Olyphant is a well-trained killer with superb [[APerfectGetaway situational awareness]].

* HyperAwareness: 47 is no [[TheBourneIdentity Jason Bourne]] but he does have some exceptional situational awareness.

* HyperAwareness: 47 is no [[TheBourneIdentity Jason Bourne]] but he dose have some exceptional situational awareness.

* LampshadeHanging: When 47 is informed that the assassination is being changed to public and messy, he states "That's not my usual style," referencing the game's more subtle approach to murder.

[[caption-width-right:350:At least the pose is right.]]

''Hitman'' is a 2007 action film directed by Xavier Gens. A gun-for-hire "Hitman" is a genetically-engineered assassin known as Agent 47. He is hired by "The Agency" to assassinate a public official and becomes ensnared in a political conspiracy. He finds himself pursued by both Interpol and the Russian military. The film stars [[{{Series/Justified}} Timothy Olyphant]], [[Film/MissionImpossible Dougray Scott]], and [[Film/QuantumOfSolace Olga]] [[{{Main/Centurion}} Kurylenko]]. Hitman was released on November 21, 2007. A sequel, under the working title of Hitman 2, is currently in pre-production.

The film received generally negative reviews. RottenTomatoes reported that 14% of critics gave the film a positive rating, based on 98 reviews, with an average score of 3.7/10. At the website [=MetaCritic=] the film earned an unfavorable rating of 35/100 based on 22 reviews. The most common complaints are a lacking, often confusing plot, dry acting and extreme violence. However, film critic RogerEbert gave it three stars out of four, saying "Hitman stands right on the threshold between video games and art. On the wrong side of the threshold, but still, give it credit".

* ArmorIsUseless: When the Russian military makes its move on 47 in his hotel room, some are killed by traps and many others are taken out by just his pistols.
* AlmostKiss: After Agent 47 has killed the man he's going to impersonate later and taken Nika back to their hotel, Nika, who is pretty drunk begins to seduce 47, going as far as undoing his pants and straddling him topless on the bed. Just when they get close enough to kiss, Agent 47 jabs her in the neck with a sedative.
* {{Main/Asexuality}}: Agent 47 is not very social. Comes with the territory of being trained as a child to be a perfect killer. As evident by his AlmostKiss with Nika.
* AlternateContinuity: Agent 47's origins as a clone are replaced with him being an orphan raised with other children to be perfect assassins.

* BadassBoast: Agent 47 delivers one in the opening to Mike Whittier.

* BadassInANiceSuit: He is Agent 47 after all.
* BadHabits: The Agent at the climax is wearing a monks robe when he attacks Agent 47.
* BatmanGambit: Agent 47 has [[spoiler: Interpol agent Mike Whittier arrest him after the climax, because he knew that he had jurisdiction, and made a deal earlier on with Agent Smith to allow for his escape shortly thereafter.]]
* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler: Agent 47 allegedly turns out to have been this from the moment his first hotel was raided, according to Mike.]]
* ContractOnTheHitman: Agent 47 for some reason finds himself pursued by his fellow Agents on several occasions.
* CoolGuns: Agent 47's iconic silver pistols are intact.
* DeadpanSnarker: Everything Agent 47 says is in monotone but he gets a few moments of fun.

* DistractedByTheSexy: Agent 47 may be TheStoic but even he is prone to stare at Nika's "assets", even for a second.

* [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice King]]: Spending time with Nika, hearing her stories, and watching her cry repeatedly allows Agent 47 to [[CharacterDevelopment change]] into someone more relatable by the end of the film, [[spoiler: to the point that he has apparently decided to protect her as long as "The Agency continues to send other Agents to eliminate her.]]
* TheDulcineaEffect: Agent 47 contemplates killing Nika, as she is an expendable liability who has seen his face and even accidentally interfered with his mission, but by the end he decides to become her watchful protector.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The infamous "train duel" scene was filmed in a rush after the director was fired over creative differences. Also, in the near-final script, agent Markov is revealed to be the BigBad who wants to replace the president-to-be with an EvilDoppelganger loyal to him, 47 is chased by Spetsnaz (not the other clones) and the whole EvilPlan is foiled by Mike Whittier (who recorded Markov's EngineeredPublicConfession after slipping one of 47's spy microphones under the collar of his coat and gave the tape to a Russian general) and 47 (who manipulates Markov into ordering his Dragon to shoot the President during Udre's funeral and blows him up anyway).
* TheFaceless: Diana makes it from the game as just a voice on the phone. Early she is a computer-synthesized voice from a computer. Later she actually calls Agent 47 with her natural voice to help demonstrate her sincere desire to help 47.
* {{Fanservice}}: For all the film's faults, it's a welcome experience to see Olga Kurylenko strutting topless on multiple occasions.

* HannibalLecture: Agent 47's meeting with Udre Belicoff quickly descends into one after one of Udre's thugs whispers to him that Agent 47 is an impostor. He then starts trying to intimidate him by showing off some of his guns and tries to look menacing by grabbing one of his hookers and jamming a Makarov into her eye socket, about to shoot her. [[ShutUpHannibal Agent 47 is not impressed.]]
* HereWeGoAgain: It seems that "The Agency" won't stop hunting Nika anytime soon, as the final shot shows Agent 47 watching over her with a sniper rifle, and cuts back to show the corpse of another Agent, and 47's final line.

* HyperAwareness: Agent 47 is no [[TheBourneIdentity Jason Bourne]] but he dose have some exceptional situational awareness.

* ImprobableAimingSkills: With all the movements he makes, Agent 47 is still perfectly capable of shooting [[{{Main/Mook}} mooks]] who look like the came straight out of ''{{Main/Killzone}}'' and killing them with very few shots. ArmorIsUseless indeed.

* InstantSedation: Both times, when he kills Price in order to impersonate him, and when he knocks out Nika during their AlmostKiss.

* LampshadeHanging: When Agent 47 is informed that the assassination is being changed to public and messy, he states "That's not my usual style," referencing the game's more subtle approach to murder.

* [[LaxativePrank Purgative Prank]]: Agent 47 covertly drugs his impersonation mark's drink to send him to the bathroom to be dispatched.
* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Agent 47 initially kidnaps Nika, stuffs her in the trunk with a dead body, drives across Russia with her in there, pulls her out of a restaurant by her hair, and threatens to torture and kill her. She seems strangely attracted to him. It blends with RescueRomance and BodyguardCrush as the body was of the man sent to kill ''her'', and the final scene shows how he killed another Agent sent to kill her.

* NoNameGiven: Agent 47 of course.
* PragmaticAdaptation/[[{{Main/Woolseyism}} Woolseyism]]: The original concept of Agent 47 being just another unit of a long line of cloned assassins is changed to him being one of many genetically engineered children specially trained for assassination. This was done to accomodate more actors to portray the other Agents that 47 meets throughout the film.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: To keep Udre Belicoff from killing one of his hookers with one of the guns he's selling (as mentioned above in the HannibalLecture), Agent 47 stops him with his excellent firearm knowledge.

* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Nika doesn't mind strutting her stuff in front of Agent 47 while wearing nothing more than some ''very'' skimpy panties.

* ShowerScene: Agent 47 gets one all by his lonesome in the beginning.

* StockFootage: It seems that Agent 47 grew up at [[DarkAngel Manticore]], judging from all the familiar footage seen in the intro.
* SWATTeam: Armed to teeth, every inch covered in armor, with [[{{Main/Killzone}} glowing red visors]], and Agent 47 still kills several of them in a hotel, with just [[GunsAkimbo dual wielding pistols]] in a [[ArmorIsUseless shirt, pants, and no shoes]].
* VerticalKidnapping: Used by Agent 47 to capture FSB agent Yuri Marklov before the climax.

* WaitHere: Just before scouting out the restaurant for his next hit, Agent 47 says this to Nika, who promptly disobeys him for a bit.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: After the timer on Agent 47's elaborate execution setup for Yuri Marklov expires just as he completes his part of the deal, it's not explained if Yuri was electrocuted for the shooter being just milliseconds late, or if he was saved by the MagicCountdown and slow motion.]]
** Again with Diana who was just a voice over the phone, who helped Agent 47 begin uncovering the conspiracy plot. After calling him with her natural voice as opposed to using a computer synthesizer, she is never heard from or mentioned again.
* WorkingTheSameCase: Mike Whittier of Interpol has been trailing Agent 47 for some time. FSB Agent Yuri Marklov becomes part of the investigation after Agent 47 assassinates the Russian President, and proeceeds to take more and more [[TookALevelInJerkass levels in jerkass]] as time goes on. [[spoiler: It makes sense as he was working with the BigBad anyway]].

''Hitman'' is a 2007 action film directed by Xavier Gens. A gun-for-hire "Hitman" is a genetically-engineered assassin known as Agent 47. He is hired by "The Agency" to assassinate a public official and becomes ensnared in a political conspiracy. He finds himself pursued by both Interpol and the Russian military. The film stars [[{{Series/Justified}} Timothy Olyphant]], [[MissionImpossible Dougray Scott]], and [[QuantumOfSolace Olga]] [[{{Main/Centurion}} Kurylenko]]. Hitman was released on November 21, 2007. A sequel, under the working title of Hitman 2, is currently in pre-production.

* FullFrontalAssault: {{YMMV}} on whether it's FetishFuel or FanDisservice as it is a flashback showing the incredible abuse that Nika suffered under the ownership of Belicoff.

* HereWeGoAgain: It seems that "The Agency" won't stop hunting Nika anytime soon, as the final shot shows Agent 47 watching over here with a sniper rifle, and cuts back to show the corpse of another Agent, and 47's final line.