Hitman: Agent 47 (2015)

An assassin teams up with a woman to help her find her father and uncover the mysteries of her ancestry.

Director:

Aleksander Bach

Writers:

Skip Woods (screenplay), Michael Finch (screenplay)

Stars:

Rupert Friend, Hannah Ware, Zachary Quinto

2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Angelababy	...	Diana
Dan Bakkedahl	...	Sanders
Charlene Beck	...	Tenement Woman
Michael Bornhütter	...	Berlin Police Officer #1
Melissa Broughton	...	Gardens by the Bay Woman with Baby
Nils Brunkhorst	...	Syndicate Doctor
Michaela Caspar	...	Hall of Records Clerk
Alvin Chan	...	Gardens by the Bay Man #1
Michael Corcoran	...	Robert's Dad (as Michael T. Corcoran)
Manuel Depta	...	Russian Soldier
Andrew DiBartolomeo	...	Gardens by the Bay Man #2 (as Andrew Di Bartolomeo)
Georg Ebinal	...	Salzburg Syndicate Operator Driver
Jörg Ellmer	...	Russian Soldier
Rupert Friend	...	Agent 47
Waye Leon Goh	...	Gardens by the Bay Man #3

Storyline

HITMAN: AGENT 47 centers on an elite assassin who was genetically engineered from conception to be the perfect killing machine, and is known only by the last two digits on the barcode tattooed on the back of his neck. He is the culmination of decades of research and forty-six earlier Agent clones -- endowing him with unprecedented strength, speed, stamina and intelligence. His latest target is a mega-corporation that plans to unlock the secret of Agent 47's past to create an army of killers whose powers surpass even his own. Teaming up with a young woman who may hold the secret to overcoming their powerful and clandestine enemies, 47 confronts stunning revelations about his own origins and squares off in an epic battle with his deadliest foe.

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Plot Keywords:

based on video game | assassin | hitman | tattoo | human experiment | 

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Taglines:

Your number is up

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for sequences of strong violence, and some language.

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official Site

Country:

USA UK Germany

Language:

English

Release Date:

21 August 2015 (USA)

Also Known As:

Hitman: Agent 47

Filming Locations:

Berlin, Germany

Box Office

Budget:

$35,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$8,326,530, 23 August 2015

Gross USA:

$22,467,450

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$82,347,656

Company Credits

Production Co:

Twentieth Century Fox, Daybreak Productions, Prime Universe Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital Datasat Dolby Atmos

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Wilhelm Scream: at 45:25, as a Syndicate soldier is thrown into machinery.

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Goofs

At the beginning of the fight between 47 and John Smith in the Engine Testing facility, you can clearly see the face of the John Smith stunt double.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Diana: [narrating] The history of man is defined by war. And war by the men who fight it. What if we could create a better man? Someone did.
Diana: The Agent program was initiated in August of 1967 by a man named Peter Aaron Litvenko. It's purpose was to create the perfect killing machine. Human beings without emotion, or fear, or remorse. The resulting subjects were called, Agents. The Program was a success. But the price of creating men without humanity, was Litvenko's conscience.
Diana: Applying his ...
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Crazy Credits

SPOILER: In a mid-credits scene, the camera zooms over Smith's body, now with white hair, to reveal he's still alive. This is the origin of The Albino villain of the franchise.

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Connections

References The Matrix (1999)

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Soundtracks

Night Patrol
Written by Colin Halliwell
Performed by Two Wounded Birds
Courtesy of Alpha Music UK Ltd

User Reviews

A Disappointing Miss

Hit-man: Agent 47 teems with spectacularly choreographed action scenes, so real looking you would think you are actually watching a real video game, like the one the film's based upon. But you can't expect more than that. Outside the territory of its gore explosiveness and visual intensity, stretches bare ground of pure dumbness, of pointless narrative entanglements, that is more often bereft of sense and tension, you probably wouldn't care to follow. It's ironic, really, when the film itself suits itself as a complex one, but barely constructs a coherent storyline to make us drawn and interested. It's an effort to lay groundworks for supposedly incoming conflicts and answers, but the thinly-structured backstories, more often than not, mess up during the process.

The narrative is complex. That's probably what first time director, Alexandre Bach, and his team of writers, want to claim. That's one easy thing to justify when you've stuffed your storyline with bunch of needless, if not poorly-structured expositories, but looking at it as a whole, it's basically just about a genetically-engineered assassin trying to stop a malevolent organization from making more killing machines like him. This involves going after a girl named Katia (Hannah Ware), who is actually the daughter of our hero's creator. In pursuit of her, is Agent 47(Rupert Friend), the last and perfect, of his kind, and John Smith (Zachary Quinto) of the international criminal organization, Syndicate International (nope, not the one we heard in Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible). Katia, herself, has been trying to locate her father, and that's exactly the information the 'Syndicate' hopes to get from her, so they could resume creating more of Agent 47's kind, a dream only Katia's father could help them fulfill.

Once the adrenaline picks up, deadly cat and mouse chases follow, and explosive breath-takingly executed fight setpieces roll out like dominoes, as if nothing can't stop them.'Hit-man' works fine with this set up, and those who only look for action of such seismic scale, should get satisfied, but for a film that actually seems to aim achievements far beyond just perfectly-choreographed violence and visually explosive setpieces, this film is a misfire.