Hitman: Agent 47 movie trailer....

So...I like the fact that he seems to be the antagonist... 47 should be scary. But every other choice they've made, from the music to the limbo dual wielding, seems to be hokey and silly as shit. Seems to be about crazy goofy action rather than being a smooth operator. Thoughts?

You beat me by a minute! I deleted my thread since you were first.

But as I said in the other thread, I'm really disappointed by this. Hitman is one of my favorite game series, and this is just using the name to make an action movie. Agent 47's goal is to go unnoticed by law enforcement and the public, and everything in the trailer would be noticeable. Hitman 2 is called Silent Assassin, not Loud Assassin.

Haha noticeable? It'd be on every news outlet for days!! I wish it were more like a Bourne movie...

Haven't watched the trailer but shouldn't 47 be an older dude? Just shave Liam Neesons head and GO!

I do actually like the actor they casted as 47 though

That looks really bland and generic.

It should be more like a Bourne movie or Casino Royale where things aren't exploding and being shot all the time.

Must say I kinda like the look of this trailer. Though it remains to be seen if the movie is actually good.

From the point of an action movie it is probably better to have the hitman being noticed by the police. It kinda makes the main character a more fearsome killer than having
him just quietly killing people. The movie could have probably taken a more subdued approach but from the trailer it seems to be a straight action movie.

This doesn't look great.

Cartoony action movie I'd say. More akin to a Bulletstorm or Stranglehold movie than Hitman.

Bruce Willis, think about it.

The last one was a modern masterpiece and i expect no less from this

Well, that looks predictably terrible.

@the_ruiner: Though there really hasnt been a good hitman movie so far. Dunno if one can call this a bulletstorm movie since there is no such movie to my knowledge.

Just wishing this to be a decent action movie in the vein of "elephant white" or "the man from nowhere". Btw i recommend everyone checking those movies out.

Had absolutely no idea they were making another hitman movie, I hope it's better than the 2007 one at least, the actor seems a bit better anyway.

edit: wait... 47 is the bad guy? wtf

This trailer makes Timothy Olyphant's Agent 47 look like Marlon Brando.

...I mean the tone is all wrong for the Hitman franchise. The tone of the action is more cartoony and over the top like Bulletstorm or Stranglehold.

I still think Rupert Friend makes a cool 47. Peter Quinn was the best character on Homeland until the last season. Ciaran Hinds is also one of my favourite actors, so it's nice to see he's in here too.

Seems like they're trying to adapt (or reimagine) the end of first game, which would actually be really cool. None of this orphan nonsense like in the last one. I imagine 47 will be the bad guy for the early parts of the movie and at some point you realize Quinto and Hinds are actually the bad dudes.

The action seems silly, but I'm past expecting a Hitman movie to be super slick. And they took the damn Rorschach line! You can't just up and take a line like that! Don't get me wrong, it's a great line, but seeing it here like that was cringeworthy.

Dunno, sounds like he's hunting down other agents and his creator. That's in-line with the mythos right?

no timmy o no deal!

Also to people say is it good or not. Does it have to be good? Its a damn action movie and its based on a video game, we should be grateful.

yeah it does seem very over the top and goofy, and not very appealing but on the plus side the interrogation scene made me wanna play some Hitman!

He's always been the bad guy. He murders people for money. And I don't just mean his main targets. I mean the poor sap he strangles because he needs a janitor outfit. I like the idea seeing things from the perspective of one of his victims rather than from his.

A few interesting looking shots, but everything else looks a bit bobbins.

While I'm hardly expecting high-art, it could at least be a laugh. Or it could be a painfully mediocre modern action movie. I'm thinking the latter.

I just wish this was a movie based around the HitmanAgent47 from Giant Bomb.

His targets are almost always terrible. The only person I recall that you had to kill who wasn't clearly bad in some way is the reporter in Blood Money.

But killing janitors on the way to a target is on you. :P

Yup, that all happens in the first game.

I watched this trailer a few more times, and I'm kinda getting into it. I should probably stop before I get excited and end up disappointed again.

Utter bollocks! 47 was always presented a blank slate character, and it was up to the player to decide how they wanted to approach the game. Anyone who plays Hitman seriously and plays it well goes for killing only enemies, specifically targets. You always got a rubbish rating at the end of the level for killing random innocents.

"The Illuminati, they're after us all."

This looks terrible in every way and I am so excited to watch it.

All of this Hitman stuff has me itching to play the games again. Hopefully we get the new Hitman announcement at E3 this year.

could be a decent loud and dumb movie of the week but it doesn't capture the series in the right way. a hitman movie should be a dark comedy.

Looks like Transporter levels of ridiculousness

This actually looks pretty fuckin fun in that completely dumb ridiculous action movie sorta way.

Yeah I think him as a Terminator like antagonist could work but I also don't like the big action. Something more realistic with its action and more of a spy thriller feel would be more appropriate. At least Bourne levels. This was really extreme.

I guess if I was doing a Hitman movie I might make the movie follow more of say a gang of criminals and Hitman is picking them off one by one while remaining a bit more in the background. It could be kind of like a slasher film when he shows up but ultimately you're rooting for him. In a way this is kind of what Blood Money did in between the missions but you could expand how it worked there and tie it in more.

The last one was a complete fucking travesty. This one looks just as awkward. Also none of the Hitman games had anything to do with sexy eastern european girls - it was all about finding out and coming to terms with who you are - and as a huge fan of the games that is already making it sound a lot deeper than it really was.

I don't know why it's so hard to find a guy that looks tough and stoic and not like a chemo patient.

I don't know, I'm a fan of the games although the last one was sorta disappointing on many levels, so it kinda pains me to see this pretty decent character get the absolute worst movie adaptations. At this point The Jackal from 1997 with Bruce Willis and Richard Gere is a way better Hitman movie than the stuff actually based on the game.

Here's hoping for a super cheesy scene where he bursts into someones apartment and they're playing the Hitman game on TV like in the previous movie.

@hammondoftexas: Hah, I remember when the first movie was coming out folks were trying to get Bateson the lead role.

But yeah, the perfect Hitman movie is a David Fincher joint with David Bateson as 47. Just make Blood Money and have the whole movie focus on the ganglang myth of a bald, barcoded hitman that goes around killing criminals and such. The reporter could be the main character and go around following 47's trail. Like a Hitman version of Zodiac with a dash of Keyser Soze or something.

You get vignettes of various assassinations as the reporter uncovers more and more hits 47 was involved in, learning more about 47 and the Agency along the way, and the end is just 47 showing up and killing the reporter for getting too close. Done.

Wow, this looks awful. But Skip Woods is the writer behind this mess, so I'm not surprised.

God damnit, they've completely missed the mark again. 47 isn't the fucking transporter. And this makes the second Hitman movie where they've managed to cast a lead who actually can play a badass as well as be a legitimately good actor (see: Olyphant on Justified and Friend on Homeland), yet will be completely wasting the lead's talents amidst a bunch of cheesy, overstylized shoot-em-up bullshit, which, BTW, is not representative of the actual video game character AT ALL. 47 doesn't go in guns-blazing, doesn't give a shit about pretty women, and doesn't hop in flashy cars to do e-brake powerslides. 47 should be cold, calculating, precise, and invisible, not ostentatious.

The Hitman universe is ripe for a fantastic story. It's a complete disservice to make such dumb movies off of it. Leon: The Professional should be more along the lines of what they should shoot for, and @theht is on the right track as well. How hard is this? Maybe one day someone will make an appropriately dark, understated, and intense movie off of the franchise, but we'll clearly have to wait longer for that. Ugh.

It looks like the good kind of bad movie. I didn't realize how much I missed Mr. Quinto and I'm just glad Rupert Friend is trying to put some distance between him and Carrie.... I've never seen any show go from amazing to absolute garbage that fast.

Huh.
On one hand, this is so far away from how I, and most people it seems, play Hitman. Hell, I beat all of Hitman 2 with Silent Assassin ratings. Spent hours on it. So this is all wrong.
On the other hand... they are making an action movie. Could 47 go all out action like what it appears in the trailer? Why not? I am sure with his skills he could. I would rather have a slow, awesome thriller starring 47 though.
With that being said, this seems a lot better than the last one. The showing no emotion, being faster, stronger and kinda super human. The fact that they use the basic story of the first game, having 47 hunt down his creator. Hell, they even got the silverballers right, and he seems to change outfits to get the job done. So I'll probably see this, and I might even like it.

Yep, that looks like a bad movie.

Thats a young 47, cool i dig it. May not suck

Is no one going to point out that the "you're stuck in here with me" was taken verbatim from Watchmen?

This game seems to be missing the point of hitman the same way that garbage absolution game did. A hitman movie should be more of a heist but with an assassin instead of thieves.

@nardak said:

Who says Hitman should be an action movie at all? Neo Noir Thriller is the perfect genre for the character and world 47 inhabits. That way you get the smooth operator as well as a neat yarn about intrigue and trust.

I would have preferred if this trailer had slow, calm opera music had this actor as 47 planting flowers outside a beautiful mansion he then picks up a garden tool and has a slow montage of him eviscerating the guards one by one all while the music never changes with little to no sound. He then changes into one of the now dead guards uniforms gets access to the master bedroom making the owner think he is a guard through the camera, drops his ass when he opens the door, and walks out the front door dressed in a chicken suit.

Ya'll are crazy. I thought that looked awesome.

Hitman is not even popular enough to be having shitty movies made in its name. Especially a second.

I don't know how I feel about ANY of that. The movie might be an okay action movie, but it seems like a terrible Hitman movie.

Looks like an action flick. Still, better to have this than the Olyphant movie. At least 47 is cast in a more villainous role this time around.