Agent 47 the movie, a mistake or a sign of things to come ?

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Ive just finished watching the movie and its only my opinion thus far but found it to be exactly what hitman is most certainly not. The stealth , the art of the perfect kill all backseated for the lure of the action. Had this been our actions in the first 4 hitman games, silent assassin graded we would not be.

Also and its once again only my feeling but i suspect future titles, maybe even the one coming soon might have a change or option to of protagonist. It may well and i certainly hope not trade what made hitman games so great in the first place with do it yourself action set pieces that dont punish the player for being loud and reckless.

I hope we will see a move away from the likes of absolution in the next game to something more befitting blood money except this time with more urgency pressed onto the player so once they make a decision, they have to deal and live with the consequences it brings be it good or bad.

Whats your view on the movie and future hitman games ?

[supertrooper225]

Even Absolution was ten times more of a Hitman experience than that movie. There hasn't been a director that respects the source material yet. Not to mention that Hitman isn't really the source material for a balls out action movie, more like a thriller. 47 isn't Stallone. He doesn't just mow people down left and right in the game. He specializes in stealth and never being seen. A movie needs to tap into that. But why do they avoid it? Its difficult to do that in a movie.

[♠ZerØ♠]

I found it to be yet ANOTHER video game movie done by people that have no idea what made the game great in the first place. The fact that the film is nothing but a poorly written action film goes to show that. Hollywood can't do video game films, despite the fact that video games should lend themselves very easily to the silver screen.

There are so few decent videogame based films, and even they are pretty far from perfect.

SIlent Hill 1+2 ( A weird blending of the first three games, and I enjoyed them.)
The CGI Resident Exil movies (They connect to the games, and you could see them being RE games)
The CGI Final Fantasy films (Yes, I think Spirits Within was good.)
Doom (They got monsters in on mars, and the Rock and Karl Urban to shoot them. Sounds like they nailed it)
Mortal Kombat (Only the first one, which stuck to the core concept, had a bunch of really good fight scenes, and didn't ♥♥♥♥♥ around with making the movie kid friendly)

The trick Hollywood seems to miss is that you can make a few changest to the concept, but you can't make it completely different. And you can't make it kid friendly, especially when it shouldn't be. Street Fighter was a crap movie because they removed the Martial Arts from a franchise about martial arts, and made if a goofy and colorful kiddy film about Raúl Juliá flying around with the power of magnets. Tomb Raider, despite it readily being adaptable as the the Lady Indiana Jones films, were turned into fighting evil businessment sub-standard action flicks. And every film by Uve Boll... ♥♥♥♥ that guys.

I am so glad they cancled the Bioshock film, what with them wanting a PG-13 rating and a minimum budget.