Hitman is so concerned with making sure its characters look badass that it’s often cut like a trailer, obscuring the greater form of the fights, and the complete windup and follow-through of each movement. Meanwhile, even with John Wick's David Leitch on staff, the action is good but never exceptional. This important scene establishes that the hotel has a swimming pool. I guess she’s swimming because she’s… upset… about the hitman? In this movie, Ware takes a nighttime dip in a hotel pool for no reason. Daniel Craig’s contemplative rooftop swim in Skyfall, for instance, said a little about his headspace, and was a damn cool establishing scene. She appears at the beginning in a movie-ready state: a woman whose only defining qualities are plot points, like Lisbeth Salander if all we knew about her was that she has a dragon tattoo, and that the tattoo is a treasure map.Īnd that’d all be fine if Agent 47 had James Bond or John Wick or The Raid levels of style and choreography, but it only timidly approaches those films to ask if it can borrow some of their stuff, and then breaks their stuff. Hannah Ware plays the best of the characters, because she’s allowed to express feelings with her face, but the story doesn’t let her be much more than a human MacGuffin. Zachary Quinto is also boring, and doesn’t convince me that he is a tough man, though he tries. Turns out an emotionless dude with a moderately close head shave is not very exciting to watch any time he’s not shooting people. I’ve tried not to spoil the details of the plot because the only thing it has going for it is a couple misdirections.
He comes up with a convoluted plan to hit his man, sure, but everyone is looking at him like, “I know who you are, you are a hitman, and I have seen your face.” That’s just not good hitman work. Establishing shot of car.Īnyway, it’s fun to look at, but is Agent 47 finally a good hitman here, at the end? No way. Depressed woman’s empty pill bottle rolls across the floor.
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Meanwhile, most of the rest of the movie oozes with all style of stock art: Bald man uses laptop. It’s also the most visually arresting scene, with 47’s white shirt losing its edges against the impossibly white walls of an evil office building, which was the signature technique of one of my favorite American illustrators, Coles Phillips. This is a cool scene, because it involves helicopters and the roof of a skyscraper-you might say that the final gunshot was an exclamation mark-and Hannah Ware finally becomes the badass she secretly was the whole time. Holding one gun is hard enough, two is just impossible! Skyscraper fight
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Also, he picks up Hannah Ware and carries her through streets full of people and no one cares and that's dumb. Everyone sees it and Agent 47 is not stealthy at all. This happens in the middle of the street. They could have just shot at Agent 47 from the relative safety of the rooftops, but instead they get all plugged by his dual handguns while slowly descending. It turns out, those zipline guys made a bad mistake. No one mourns the Audi, but I suppose they don't have time what with bad guys coming from every direction. I really felt the Audi’s pain when it was being shot full of cables from rooftop bad guys, who held it in place with their evil grapples, and then tried to zipline down the cables to kill Agent 47. I guess Agent 47 is driving it, but let's just pretend the Audi is its own character with its own motivation. This is the best scene because it stars an Audi RS 7 drifting around the bends of a parking garage and killing the hell out of a bunch of motorcycle jerks chasing it.
This is a little bit sneaky! Audi RS 7 chase
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