Ripman

I watched Hitman last night with some friends. We all agreed it was a disappointing rip off of several better films, including but not limited to: The Bourne Identity (and sequels), The Matrix, James Bond, with a bit of Scarface thrown in, and possibly even Ocean's 11. I'm all for sex and violence, and this movie had plenty of the latter and a decent amount of the former, but nothing made a lick of sense. I don't expect much from the plot of an action movie, but this was awful.

The coup-de-grace of stupidity is this scene where four of the badass secret assassins, of which the main character is one, have a Mexican standoff. From what I could tell, the other three were supposed to be hunting down the main character. But instead of all attacking him, they all walk towards each other with guns drawn. When they finally get into the standoff, they all look around at each other, then simultaneously eject their gun magazines, drop their weapons, and each pulls a pair of short katanas out of the back of his sport coat. Honestly, they all supposedly had a pair of 3 foot razor sharp swords up their shirt on the off chance this situation arose. Once again, instead of a 3 against 1 sword battle as logic would dictate, they all start fighting each other. This scene perfectly sums up the entire movie: Over-styled, under-thought, and ultimately a failure as a result.