Blu Ray Disks: Hitman (+ Digital Copy) [Blu-ray]

Hitman (+ Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] Review

I was unaware of the game Hit Man so I didn't watch the movie with expectations or baggage linked to the game. I really identified with Timothy Olyphant's character "47". His focused and unyielding pursuit of his target is heroic in technique and execution. 47's ability to acknowledge yet evade the seduction of female interest Nika Boronina, played by Olga Kurylenko, was a pleasant twist on the typical plot and aided in the development and understanding of the no compromise mind set of the character. His proactive and offensive use of automatic weapons is admirable while his political understanding of covert missions allows him to effectively interface with Interpol and Moscow CIA field agents to his advantage. If there ever was a Hollywood covert affairs field agent training model this would be it.

Hitman (+ Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] Overview

Disc 1: Widescreen Feature **Forced Trailers - Alien vs. Predator: Requiem, Hitman Teaser Trailer, Hitman Theatrical Trailer

**In the Crosshairs Featurette **Digital Hits Featurette **Instruments of Destruction Featurette **Para-Ordnance P18.9 Featurette **Blaser R93 LRS2 Featurette **M16 Featurette **FN F2000 Featurette **Micro Uzi Featurette **M240 Featurette **Settling the Score Featurette

**Deleted Scenes - Ovie's Pool Scene, Hospital Scene, A Different Train Platform, Udre's Death

**Alternate Ending **Gag Reel

Disc 2: Digital Copy **Portable Digital Copy of Hitman

Hitman (+ Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] Specifications

It’s hard not to feel like one has entered a certain dimension of video-game logic while watching Hitman, a lightly enjoyable action-suspense movie indeed based on a popular and bloody game about a mysterious hired gun with a bar-code tattoo on his bald head and a number (47) in lieu of a name. Living like a chaste monk while slipping past borders to kill his targets, 47 (Timothy Olyphant of Deadwood) moves like a determined shark and speaks softly to his contact at the enigmatic "the Organization," which raises cast-off children to become well-paid assassins. Fruitlessly pursued by an Interpol cop (Dougray Scott) who can never get sovereign governments to cooperate, 47 has no trouble slipping in and out of countries to ply his trade. Until, that is, he’s set up to take a fall in Russia by shooting a national leader who is promptly replaced by a lookalike double. Suddenly on the run, 47 has to retrace his steps and formulate a lethal plan for extricating himself from a trap. Caught in the chaos is the lovely Nika (Olga Kurylenko), forced into sex slavery by 47’s new enemies and the one person who seems uniquely qualified to break through 47’s many personal barriers. Directed by France’s Xavier Gens, Hitman features loads of bloody mayhem and unabashed moments of pulp absurdity, such as a scene in which 47 and three other Organization killers agree to fight one another respectfully, then proceed to pulverize each other with swords and fists. As fodder for gamers, however, Hitman is packed with visuals and dramatic moments that seem so odd on the big screen until one realizes they are basically placemarkers for the video-game edition. --Tom Keogh

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