Hannah Ware:I think when you’re immersed in the story, you’re not really thinking ‘are we doing anything different?’ and kind of monitoring and engaging where it fits in terms of what’s going on in the current mode of movie making, but that’s why I did it and I’m pleased that that stands out.
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Ahead of its U.S. release this Friday, 20th Century Fox has debuted another poster for the video game adaptation Hitman: Agent 47, which we have for you here… Agent 47 is one of them, and has been tasked with finding the program’s creator before the nefarious “Syndicate” gets its hands on him in an effort to create an army of super assassins. For this, they require the person responsible for the original program, Dr. Litvenko (Ciaran Hinds), but as he’s off the grid, they are willing to settle for Litvenko’s daughter, Katia van Dees (Hannah Ware), hoping she can lead them to her father.
The film was shot on location in Berlin and Singapore, and Friend is out-acted by the gorgeous scenery. White walls, stairs and even an elevator provide a clean palette for fights in which men tumble over railings, onto rumbling subway tracks, are sucked into a whirring jet engine or dispatched in other blood-splattering ways. The film was directed by Aleksander Bach and written by Skip Woods and Michael Finch. Details or in-depth dialogue need not apply. The premise of the movie is intriguing, but it’s executed in chilly, dispassionate fashion and buried under too many bodies. Both feature young men trained by a covert agency to be ideal killing machines.
“Hitman: Agent 47” begins with a short preamble that looks and sounds like a government dossier, then delves straight into brain-splattering gunplay.
Actor Zachary Quinto is determined to do it all, whether it is a money-spinning action franchise, a quirky television show or an award- winning off-Broadway play. We know this group is powerful because the head guy (Thomas Kretschmann from “Avengers: Age of Ultron”) sits behind the coolest high-tech desk you’ve ever seen. Its attempts at being intelligent come through when it tries to talk about whether or not free will exists, but it winds up a superfluous thought that feels as if it was tossed in just so the filmmakers could say that their movie is “about” something.
“Hitman: Agent 47” is another in a long series of films – and one of two this week – with the same theme. I won’t do it this time and here’s why. But I’m not holding my breath.
Hitman: Agent 47 opens with a sequence that could be best described as “John Wick on shoestring budget”.
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Prior to meeting director Aleksander Bach at the Crosby Hotel in New York for an exclusive interview, he undoutedly had been told how much I loved “Hitman: Agent 47″. We’ll have a full review of the movie posted this weekend, but for now, we wanted to give you all a quick review of the film. The bad news is that, like a number of its main characters, while yearning for human connection is visible, it favors function over genuine emotion. That’s right. In the decades since Agent 47 – as Friend’s character is known – was created, no other geneticist has been able to crack the code of how to make them.
