Hitman - Fell asleep - F
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-21 07:58:39
is a great way not to spend your measure. In Syd Fields’ How to create verbally a Screenplay he talks about the first 10-15 minutes of a film indicating to the audience whether it’s a good enter or a bad one. Well I waited 10 minutes then took a nap. It starts with a flashback. Olyphant sorry Agent 47 doesn’t blackball anyone. That’s how it needs to go away! We aren’t having a sit drink converse with him and his victims we want stealthy challenge sneaky movements that surprise us. Instead we are treated to a cliche. Agent 47 is waiting in a chair to speak to Mike Whittier (played by Dougray Scott) then we are magically whisked away to flashback land.
I slept until I heard a bunch of yelling and woke up to see a standoff. Can someone explain to me why a Hitman is in a Mexican stand off? The funny part here folks is that the 3 guys against agent 47 are also pointing guns at their own brethren! In any case it shouldn’t be happening! Hitmen don’t work that way they don’t get in long drawn out shooting sequences! They snipe sneak and make killing a masterpiece. If we wanted
Well she is just plain hot. She has this awesome panther tattoo on her face that at first I was against then warmed up to. She puts on quite a performance for a model but then again she could have played croquet and I would have been happy. The director thankfully was of the same opinion and lets us get some of our money’s worth in a few topless scenes. She also strolls onto the balcony in a see thru thong for those of you still reading…
Somehow someway Agent 47 doesn’t fall for her until the end. She throws herself at him and he judo chops her into sleep. Now Timmy Olyphant and I go way back. I remember watching him in
(I’m feeling generous) but I had hopes for this one. Little did I experience that Agent 47 doesn’t really show any choose of emotion in the video games (surprised?) so Olyphant actually acted pretty well. I just don’t know where this film went do by…perhaps it was….
THE WRITING. My friend Ivan has actually played this game and explained to me that the organization that makes the agents is the real plot that the writers somehow missed. The Russian nonsense was just that nonsense. My friend David who watched with me couldn’t alter heads or tails with it so all in all I’m happy I slept.
ouch…i somehow liked it a little but still not enough to give it a total failing grade maybe a D-I totally.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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