YMMV / Hitman: Agent 47

• Alternate Character Interpretation: Is Agent 47 trying to help Katia out of the goodness of his heart or just to get close to Doctor Litvenko to terminate him? Even if he is, does he feel any regret or is he just trying to reassure her he wasn't responsible for her father's death (despite being so) to avoid a fight? Either way, Agent 47 comes off as far-far more manipulative than he's usually portrayed.
• Awesome Music: Say what you want about the film, but the music for the trailer, a remixed version of "Voodoo Child" by Brick + Mortar, is awesome.
  • From the main soundtrack, check out "Point Blank".
• Broken Base: Is this film an improvement over the last outing Agent 47 had with Hitman? Is it equally as disappointing as that film? Or as critics and detractors have claimed; even worse? The dividing difference is whether you're okay with a live-action video game in all respects rather than just a movie inspired by one. However you would hard pressed to find anyone, even people who like this film, claiming it is anything more than a passable action flick.
• Cliché Storm: Critics have accused it of being a generic action flick that rips off popular movies such as The Terminator, The Matrix and even the more modern John Wick to an extent. Ultimately, lots of critics felt the film just felt unoriginal.
• Fridge Brilliance: While criticized by the fans, the buzzcut 47 has on his head answers a question a few have had about the character: how does nobody notice 47 by the barcode behind his head? His haircut camouflages it.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Doubles as a possible Take That!. The movie contained an extended scene where Agent 47 infiltrated an embassy by allowing himself to get captured and only escaped through a combination of The Guards Must Be Crazy, Gambit Roulette, and Too Dumb to Live. In the third level of Hitman (2016) game, 47 has to infiltrate an embassy which requires extensive use of disguise or sneaking past both guards as well as soldiers. It's also one of the more difficult levels in the game and has numerous redundancies.
• Magnificent Bastard: Agent 47 is a genetically engineered assassin who works to find his creator Dr. Petr Litvenko before The Syndicate can use him to create more assassins. Discovering the location of Litvenko's daughter Katia by ambushing Syndicate operatives. When Syndicate agent John Smith hides Katia by getting her arrested, 47 also gets himself arrested before tricking his interrogator into giving him the means of escape. Capturing Katia, he reveals that she is Agent 90 and begins testing her abilities. After reuniting Litvenko and Katia, 47 is forced to leave him behind when he is injured. When Litvenko is brought to Syndicate chairman Antoine Le Clerq, 47 crashes a helicopter into Syndicate headquarters and sneaks in disguised as a firefighter. 47 is then able to defeat the nearly invincible Smith through quick thinking and when Le Clerq escapes with Litvenko, it’s revealed that 47 secretly handed Litvenko a bomb which he uses to kill himself and Le Clerq. 47 ends the film deciding to break away from his role as a killer by betraying his superiors to keep Katia safe.
• So Okay, It's Average: It's hardly the worst film in the world, but it is painfully average, and doesn't really do anything new. The plot is pretty basic (47 escorting Katia to Litvenko, The Syndicate want to kill Katia, it all goes awry), the characterisation is wonky (47 is depicted close to his source material, Katia is nothing like Victoria from Absolution, with whom she's based on, while Diana is shockingly ruthless, and not at all friendly like she is in the games), and generally the film just feels a bit uninspired. That said, there's nothing outright bad about it either; the action scenes are well shot, the soundtrack is decent, and there are several scenes that are praised for being a good translation of hitman gameplay to the big screen (The scene of Katia avoiding cameras, for example, is well-liked for the creative ways of hiding Katia from the cameras).
• Tainted by the Preview: After announcing a promising cast things looked positive until it became clear Skip Woods, the very same writer of 2007's Hitman film, was on board. This didn't inspire confidence among some fans that the writing was going to be improved.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • You'd think a movie about Hitman would be about, say, 47 being a hitman and assassinating targets? Nope, instead it's a generic action movie plot of "escort someone to set them free while baddies shoot at you to stop you".
  • The first trailer pitched an interesting twist on adapting the game, in that instead of being the protagonist, 47 would be the villain hunting the main character.
• Video Game Movies Suck: The film has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 8% for critic reviews, and 40% for the audience score. The average star rating is 3.5/ 5 stars, and that the general consensus is that it was too action-oriented for fans of the games, and too much like a video game to please mainstream action movie fans, meaning nobody was happy with the outcome, making it very much a mediocre videogame movie.

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