"Hitman" on Target?

Good Question

Genres: Action/Adventure, Crime/Gangster and Adaptation
Running Time: 1 hr. 40 min.
Release Date: November 21st, 2007 (wide)
MPAA Rating: R for strong bloody violence, language, and some sexuality/nudity.
Distributors: 20th Century Fox Distribution

Directed by: Xavier Gens

JJ Rating: B+

Agent 47 (Timothy Olyphant) is a Hitman who gets his jobs from a laptop that he checks in with daily. One questionable job is set up and completed with an odd ending. He is alerted that something is off by a Russian woman who he finds oddly attractive. Hitman.

I've never played the video game before. I have seen the video game and I believe Olyphant has not only an interesting last name but he was a dead on Agent 47. He has that crazy look of he would shoot without question. Some people have a look of maybe I won't maybe I will. But Olyphant has that crazed look that makes one question if he will or not and that's perfect for someone who is an assassin.

I found Hitman to be entertaining with the story and the action. There were funny moments that have to deal with Agent 47 having great skills with figuring out what is going on and killing this person or that, but he could not figure out how to deal with a woman in a sexual nature. It's amusing. It's a great running joke. It presented funny moments and created one of my favorite scenes with Olga Kurylenko eating a sandwich for lunch that Agent 47 got for her.

With the sexual tension there was a scene where Kurylenko walks around nude. I'm sure that might be a big plus to some but to me that's just a bog down thing for a movie. I don't find nudity as a need in most story lines. I mean sometimes a story can work it in there. This one is no exception. Because of the joke of Agent 47 not having good female relationships, her being nude around him was funny. But I think the nudity lasted longer than it was needed and ruined the over all funny moment.