![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNcSVWwtbrkqSqrvHUEZiF26_s_kXvrfE7IqQNJ3IBpyCRTzlbMbDTNfX1ZNc9ZL53bdr8GwebtAx_H4S4-bM5GuRc0kdHwxA_X6JG9GP23Afx-wc5NRn0T10ABvAPTPnprrqy3w/s280/Hitman.jpg)
The plot’s pretty hard to follow, although I’m fairly sure it does all make sense of a sort in the end. Also, I kept asking myself why in the world a bunch of professional assassins who work for some super-secret organization would walk around with their heads shaved and barcodes tattooed on them. Not exactly inconspicuous, is it? But a movie like this isn’t really about making sense. It’s about staging bloody, over-the-top action sequences and looking cool, and HITMAN succeeds pretty well on both those counts. Olyphant does a pretty good job as Agent 47, in a part that doesn’t require him to say much, and the supporting cast is okay. There’s a little too much quick-cut editing in the action scenes for my taste, but I’ve seen worse. And as gory as it is, it’s not as gory as it could have been. There’s actually a little restraint here and there.
HITMAN is pretty much a live-action cartoon, but there are touches of humor here and there and it moves fast. Overall, I enjoyed it and thought it succeeded in what it set out to do. I don’t ask much more than that from a movie.
No comments:
Post a Comment