Like a hollow-cheeked Terminator, he walks through the film impassively at all times, delivering stock death to a variety of equally robotic armed opponents. Olyphant managed to exert himself a little, but Friend has been instructed more or less to ignore the difference between a cloned human and an android. What it lacks is much excitement, or any soul, and it might be the most asexual genre flick ever made.
Rupert Friend and Hannah Ware in Hitman: Agent 47 Credit:Ĭommercials director Aleksander Bach handles the action with as much strobe lighting and mechanical efficiency as he can possibly cram into each sequence: the film’s as ruthlessly competent as a fresh-off-the-line BMW. Protecting her from Friend is a guy who calls himself John Smith ( Zachary Quinto), before admitting that his name is actually Brian, in one of the very few gestures at humour the film permits itself. Next to Berlin, where a hit is taken out on mysterious female lead Katia van Dees (Hannah Ware) – her very name a solution to the enigma if you say it in sufficiently broad French. This unsmiling boss does so much brisk left-swiping to terminate calls with his underlings, you wouldn’t fancy your chances with him on Tinder. The head of this outfit, a man called Le Clerq, is played behind a bank of touch-screen remote controls by the German Liam Neeson, Thomas Kretschmann. The story so far being wiped clean, we’re plunged into the action in Salzburg, where Friend’s nameless agent goes head-to-head with members of a dastardly global corporation. Like the main character he’s writing around, Woods has a job to do that you’d ideally take your name off: if the hit goes well, it’s best all round if you manage to slink off unnoticed. Writers-for-hire routinely have to tear their scripts up and start from scratch, but it’s rare to have one actually made and then pretend it never happened. The odd point of overlap is that Hitman: Agent 47 gives a story and screenplay credit to one Skip Woods, who also did the earlier film. Instead, they’ve simply done it over, this time with German money, a different star (Rupert Friend) and a distinctly more clinical tone.
Timothy Olyphant played the role in a French-American co-production, back in 2007 – a moderate global hit, but not well-received enough to spawn a conventional sequel. Hitman is a Danish-produced stealth video game franchise in which you play a bald, cloned assassin with a barcode on the back of his head.
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