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"Timothy Olyphant is a great actor", We really enjoyed this movie. Mr. Olyphant is a great actor. We enjoyed the movie "Live Free Die Hard." But this movie was a joy to watch.

"Great Escapist Film", Considering its origins, the plot and texture of "Hitman" are well-formed and strong. Timothy Olyphant, Olga Kurylenko and Dougray Scott handle their respective roles perfectly, and the pace of the action is excellent. While an action-adventure film, it also examines personal issues of self-examination among the characters.

My only question is, why does Amazon not list these actors in the header information for this video?

"Hitman hits the mark!", Pure action / adventure escapism, Hitman does a nice job of balancing a credible plot with the inevitable fights and explosions. Tim Olyphant is very good as the stoic hitman if only because he tends to be a bit stiff in his delivery anyway (sorry Tim). Olga Kurylenko steals every scene she's in if only because you can't take your eyes off of her see-through clothing, uh, when she's wearing clothing. Well produced and directed, the action sequences are tight and exciting, the explosions semi-believeable. I did a rewind - slo-mo at least twice because of jaw-droppers. Anyway..., a very good action flick with Aaes and Bees in every category.

"Much better than your typical video game movie...", Hitman is much better than I expected it to be. Most video game to movie adaptations are terrible, neither respecting the source material or providing anything even resembling a watchable movie. Hitman is one of the rare exceptions.

The Hitman games allow the player to kill all sorts of people in all sorts of ways, not just blasting them away but poisoning them and much other assorted nastiness.

The main character, Agent 47, is an assassin who works for a shadowy organization known only as, well, "The Organization". The movie avoids many of the more obvious science fiction bits from the games (i.e. cloning tanks). Timothy Olyphant is great in the main role, with a quiet menace and an occasional hint of humor. The plot follows the usual twists and turns of a Bourne-ish movie, with chases and shootouts and some more chases and a few dozen explosions thrown in the mix. The ending is a little less conclusive than I would have liked, probably to make room for a potential sequel. Sigh. Just like a video game...

The level of violence is quite high and there is a lot of blood, but it's all a little bit over the top so it's not too grotesque or realistic. Some of the cinematography is quite stunning, with nice slow motion shots and interesting camera angles. While it's not exactly great film making or high art by any means, it kept me entertained for an hour and a half.

""How Does a Good Man Decide When To Kill?"", After the beginning credits roll with scenes of Agent 47(Timothy Olyphant) of his youth in the Organization, we get the above quote from 47 to Inspector Mike (Dougray Scott). The answer to this quote, according to 47, will decide whether he kills Mike, or not. And thus, our movie continues on how we get to this point in the movie.
HITMAN, based on video game released in 2000, was an enjoyable, action-packed film from the start. Agent 47 is contracted by his employers, the Organization, to assassinate the Russian President, Mikhail Belicoff. 47 pulls off the kill, only to learn later that he has been double-crossed by someone. He kidnaps Belicoff's girlfriend, Nika, and attempts to discover who set him up.
Timothy Olyphant does a great job of portraying a slick professional killer with a cold sense of humor. In one scene, while being seduced by Nika, instead of "giving in", he knocks her out with a tranquilizer. Classic! Dougray Scott is 47's nemesis, a Interpol inspector who has been hunting him for 3 years. Robert Knepper (from Prison Break,T-bag) plays a Russian FSB agent, who also hunts after 47. I found it hard to believe him as a Russian, considering the Southern convict he plays on Prison Break. And I swear, I heard a Russian/Southern accent on a couple of his conversations.
The stunts are typical action movie fare, with nothing new. However, as mentioned before, the fight scene between 47 and 3 other Organization agents was very entertaining. There is also a great action scene with Udre Belicoff, who is Mikhail's drug runner brother. Udre is played by Henry Ian Cusick from Lost.

DVD Extra's:
* 2 Previews of AVP:Requiem and Live Free or Die Hard
* "In the Crosshairs: The Making of Hitman" : interesting take on the process of how to transition the video game to film.
* "Digital Hits": describing the video game, Hitman.
* "Instruments of Destruction": shows the different weapons that are used in the movie. Also shows a guy firing about 5 of the weapons. He enjoys his work too much.
* "Settling the Score": music from the movie
* "Deleted Scenes": 3 deleted scenes, along with an alternate ending. I am glad that decided on the original.
* "Gag Reel": actually, not that funny.
* "Theatrical Trailer"

I recommend the Hitman, especially if you like a high volume of action and violence !

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"Won't work in Europe!!! Region Coded!", I ordered this BluRay from Germany, but unfortunately it won't work n my BD Player (PS3) because it proteced with a stupid region Code.

Now what sense does it make to protect BluRays that are also available in Europe and partially older releases?

Well, be advised european customers, DO NOT buy this BD unless your player can handle it (there is only very few)...

"Not even close", OK I'm a huge fan of the Hitman games and I thought hey it has a great story all the games have great scripts and great action but i was surely disappointed. I have major gripes with this movie not only does Timothy Olyphant not even closely resemble agent 47 but his acting pukes all over a great games serious and who ever wrote the script needs to be punched in the face none of the action would even closely resemble what agent 47 does in any of the games if you want your hitman fix from a source other then the games i strongly suggest the book (Hitman:enemy within) it a great book on its own even if you know nothing of the Hitman series of games it one hell of a read and if you love the games as i do you'll need the book trust me get the book not the movie

"Excellent Movie!", Great Eye-Candy for the ladies, awesome action for the guys! Amazon has the best price around on Blu Ray - PERIOD!

"Movie: 3.5/5 Picture Quality: 3.75~4.75/5 Sound Quality: 4.5/5 Extras: 4/5", Version: U.S.A (Unrated) / Region-A
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
MPEG-4 AVC BD-25
Running time: 1:34:14
Movie size: 15,72 GB
Disc size: 21,85 GB
Average Video Bit Rate: 15.95 Mbps
DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 24-bit English
DD AC3 5.1 Spanish

Subtitles: English SDH / French / Spanish / Chinese / Korean

# Featurette: "In the Crosshairs" (HD - 25 minutes)
# Featurette: "Instruments of Destruction " (HD - 14 minutes)
# Featurette: "Digital Hits " (HD - 11 minutes)
# Featurette: "Settling the Score " (HD - 5 minutes)
# Deleted Scenes (HD - 7 minutes)
# Gag Reel (SD - 5 minutes)
# Theatrical Trailer (HD)
# DVD Digital Copy

"The Bald and the Beautiful", I actually had some expectations from this movie, I'm a big fan of the lower budget and simple action flick, and the trailer actually had me very interested. Let me also say that I don't play video games and even though I'm very well read this video-game just isn't popular enough for me to know much about, unlike say earlier adaptations like doom or Mario etc, or the coming Halo.

The movie basically follows the formula take a popular video game, make it into a 100 min script, put in a decent actor, a hot exotic chick, and stuff it full of guns, explosions and a bunch of good one liners. Yet somehow this movie fell bellow my expectations, and I have a feeling the Censor Board had lot to do with, scene after scene of gratuitous violence and nudity fell pray to their hypocritical morality. So much so that even some of the dialogues that i saw in the teasers were butchered.

Despite this fact there is no doubt that the film has its weakness' such as:

1). Lack of a good villain, a staple of older movies nowadays its hard to come across a good one, a powerful hero needs a powerful hero to really shine.

2). No really big scenes.

3). Weak and much rehashed script, almost everything has been seen on film before.

4). Timothy Oliphant? While I agree he does have charisma and did carry of his role quite well there is no doubt in my mind that it could have been much better, he was good in the cool parts, but he just didn't look menacing enough when he had too.

Beside that, Olga looks smoking hot even with the punk look, when she dresses up she crosses over into the amazing territory, too bad the censor board cut of most of her hot scenes, but she was one of the best things about this movie. Some of the one liner are really good, especially good were the conversations between Olga and 47. Other than these things this movie is quite good.