Hitman is based on a video game, so not much needs to be said about expectations, etc. Resident Evil remains my gold standard for video-game-based movies, and Hitman was no Resident Evil. It was, however, better than Street Fighter and Double Dragon (but that’s not saying much).
My one gripe was with the casting. The video game art shows a totally bad-ass dude with a shaved head.
![[Agent 47]](http://www.eidosinteractive.com/img/db/gamelogos/82_hitman.gif)
The movie cast a very baby-faced Timothy Oliphant:
![[Oliphant]](http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/twentieth_century_fox/hitman/timothy_olyphant/still3.jpg)
I’m sorry, but Oliphant’s face is not one I’d take seriously. Just about any other actor in the movie would have made a better Agent 47: Vin Diesel (the producer), James Faulkner, and any of the other Agent-47-fodder “hitmen”.
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