Never having played a Hitman game, I can't comment on the veracity of the franchise's filmic qualities, but I would add that more often than not, if a video-game-film maintains the aesthetic which made the game worth making into a film, it'll go a long way towards it being a success.

Which is why they turned The Hobbit from a slow, impossibly boring "walk out the door" "look at map" game into a slow, impossibly boring trilogy of movies. 😉

An empty film indeed, this one is.

Here was me thinking a movie called "Hitman" would feature… you know, a hitman doing hitman things, not Jason Bourne things.

It would seem we're in agreement here!

They just fail on every level at adapting the style, tone and especially the character of 47 to the screen. He's meant to be an older gruff guy, similar to Walter White in Breaking Bad, only with the skills for stealth instead of cooking meth. The fact that this film is even a straight up action movie proves they completely misunderstand/don't care about the source material which should be adapted to something like a thriller. There should never be a car chase in a Hitman movie.

Sorry, I can't help but get angry when even thinking of this film, and spoilers for Tuesday, it's not even in my top 10 worst films of the year (although it makes the 20 worst) which just says something about the quality of films we got last year…