Honky dory TAB

Gah, so the day has finally come. My favorite game franchises is getting turned in to a mainstream popcorn movie. Maybe they have learned? Maybe they actully do take a look at the style of the game and try at best to recreate the dark visual gritty sickening atmosphere and moral dillemas that is Hitman. Then the trailer hits the www... I get the same taste in my mouth as when I watched Transporter 2. Blood in my mouth should only occure when Im working out or have been in a near fatal injury.

Man, if this turns into a main stream PG-13 Im gonna curse alot and then be so disappointed. I dont really care about the movie yet I love the games to much to look away at this monstrosity. When it first got green-lighted, I thought: Hey, finaly! Wicked! I love the game so why wouldent I like this movie. ERRN! The only two game-to-movies that I liked was silent hill and Mortal Combat 1 (a fucking classic!). All the others have been shit! (Alone in the Dark, Doom, BloodRayne, DOA, Resident Evil, Double Dragon, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, House of the Dead)

Here is the story:
"A gun-for-hire known only as Agent 47 (Olyphant) is ensnared in a political conspiracy, which finds him pursued by both Interpol and the Russian military as he treks across Eastern Europe. Hired by a group known as "The Agency" to kill targets for cash" (Its a bit like "The Bourne Identity" meets "Behind enemy lines")

The trailer isent that bad. Its just that since I havent watched Deadwood so I dont really know what to expect of Timothy Olyphant (Agent nr 47). The guy directing this spectacle is Xavier Gens, who clearly knows martial arts and actiosn sequences since his has been a "trainee assistant director" on a lot of Jean-Claude Van Damme films + a bunch of underdogs and never_heard_of movies. BUT this is not that kind of movie.. Hitman isent about action, explotions and kung fu. Its about ice-cold executions, infiltration and figuring out how to take out your target the most quiet and stealthfully way possible. This is just a teaser so Im not worried yet.



My main problem is the simple fact that Olyphant doesnt really look like 47. He`s to small, plus looks too young. More like your everyday great guy neighbour. Its the kind of guy you wish your sister got married too. Not a guy who flew to singapore to strangle people with pianowire. Plus in the trailer, he is grimacing when he`s running down a corridor guns blazing. *sight* I know that I might be a bit of a gamble to see a movie that is two hours long and the assassin only smirks once.. but Im willing to support it.

My perfect choice would of course be Mads Mikkelsen (Adams apples, Casino royale) Check out the bald badness!




Ohh well at least its not Vin "grease-monkey" Diesel or Jason "pratty-focking-boi" Statham ;)

Here is the trailer:

and in HD