Hitman is a 2007 film based on the same-titled video game series. The film was directed by Xavier Gens and stars Timothy Olyphant andDougray Scott. Hitman was released on November 21, 2007. The film opens with a montage showing a group of bald children receiving tattoos of bar codes and receiving training in firearms and hand-to-hand combat. These scenes were actually not filmed for this movie but were taken from numerous episodes of the Fox show Dark Angel, starring Jessica Alba. Interpol agent Mike Whittier discovers Agent 47 in his study, where the two talk briefly. The scene flashes back 3 months, as 47 is completing a hit in Niger. He receives a communication from his Agency contact, Diana, and is told he is to kill his next target, Russian President Mikhail Belicoff, publicly. Agent 47 kills Belicoff using a sniper rifle to achieve a head shot from over 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) away. However, when 47 is in the train station ready to leave, he's told there's a witness–Nika Boronina–whom he must kill. Confronting Nika on a street, he realizes she's never seen him before and decides not to kill her. Additionally, Belicoff's death was covered up, being portrayed in the media as a grazing wound. Agent 47 then escapes a failed assassination attempt. Agent 47 confronts Diana about who would want Nika dead when she wasn't a witness and why Belicoff is still being portrayed as alive. Outside, Mike Whittier and his partner have been tipped off that 47 is in the hotel. They encounter the FSB, led by Yuri Marklov, who sends in an emergency response team to capture 47. Diana calls 47 directly, informing him that it was Belicoff himself who ordered the hit. The troops attack and a hotel battle ensues. Agent 47 successfully escapes. However, the Agency he works for has dispatched assassins to kill him for failing his mission. Agent 47 kidnaps Nika, who was about to be killed by her driver, and questions her. She suggests 47 may have killed one of Belicoff's doubles, but 47 denies that possibility. The two try to leave by train, but are intercepted by the Agency's assassins. Agent 47 defeats four of them including the assassin who tried to assassinate him earlier. He then shoots Mike Whittier in his bulletproof vest, sparing his life. He then escapes with Nika. Agent 47 arranges a meeting with Agent Smith, later to be revealed as a member of the CIA. Smith reveals to Agent 47 that Belicoff's opponents ordered the hit on the real Belicoff and after he was killed, replaced him with a double who is loyal to them. Agent 47 then offers Smith a deal: if Smith helps him during some unrevealed time in the future, 47 will kill Belicoff's brother, Udre, a slave trafficker, and arms dealer. Smith accepts the deal. Agent 47 and Nika travel to Turkey and after killing and impersonating arms-dealer Mr. Price, he kills Udre in an ensuing fire fight. Udre is shot in the head. The death of Udre was a set-up designed to draw into the open the fake Belicoff who, working with Yuri and an unseen cabal, is part of a plot to have a puppet leader in control of Russia. Agent 47 kidnaps Yuri and forces him to have his own FSB agents try to shoot Belicoff as he delivers a eulogy for Udre. Agent 47, disguised as a soldier, manages to kill all of Belicoff's guards and takes him into the archbishop's chamber in the church, and after having a small conversation with Belicoff, he kills him by shooting him point blank in the head. He then allows himself to be taken into custody by Interpol and Mike Whittier, being transported in a Mercedes-Benz G500. However, Agent Smith intercedes at the last minute with a fleet of black Audi Q7's, allowing 47 to escape. There is a flash forward to the conversation between Agent Whittier and 47 occurring at Whitter's house. After wrapping up their conversation, 47 reveals the body of Mr. Price, shaved and dressed to look like 47. They make a deal in which Whitter would go along with 47's plan, admitting that the body in his home is the real 47. As 47 leaves, he turns to Whittier and says that he hopes to never see Whittier again. The scene then changes to Nika, who is shown picking up an envelope from an undisclosed sender. Inside it, there were papers and a message saying that she now owns a vineyard (she had told 47 of her childhood dream of having one). Meanwhile, 47 is watching her from afar, through the scope of his sniper rifle. He then looks at the corpse of another hitman, lying close to him, and says "I told you to leave her alone. You should have listened." He then turns back, and walks away. An Alternate ending in the Special Features of the DVD show 47 watching Nika through his Sniper Scope as she opens the envelope. She then turns down a corner of a small street to be shot dead in a Drive-By. Possibly by men loyal to the organisation behind the fake Belicoff. All while 47 watches. In February 2003, Hitman makers Eidos and IO Interactive entered negotiations with Hollywood production companies to adapt the video game to film.[1] Twentieth Century Fox eventually acquired the rights and hired screenwriter Skip Woods to pen the screenplay with actor Vin Diesel executive producing and starring in the film.[2] In December 2006, Vin Diesel stepped down from the role. In January 2007, Timothy Olyphant was cast into the lead role with director Xavier Gens attached at the helm.[3] In March, actor Dougray Scott was cast as the antagonist to Agent 47, with Olga Kurylenko, Robert Knepper, Ulrich Thomsen, and Michael Offei also joining the cast. Production began the week of March 27, 2007 in Sofia, Bulgaria and lasted 12 weeks.[4] A second unit also shot in locations including London, Istanbul, St. Petersburg, and Cape Town.[5]. The release of the movie was set back a few months before release, this was to allow for the reshooting of several scenes. The new scenes included a stand-off between 4 assassins who go on to participate in a sword fight, which replaced the original train platform sequence, simply consisting of Agent 47 facing off against one assassin. Reports before the movies release confirmed that not only reshoots were taking place, but that Fox may have totally removed Xavier Gens from his directing position and denied him the final cut. Nicolas de Toth was brought in at this stage to soften the edit and cut down material.[6] 47's origins were also changed at this stage, Xavier Gens told an interviewer that whilst they are not directly dealing with the clone storyline, one scene (being the original train station sequence) which shows a bald, barcoded assassin (Jean-Marc Bellu) following Agent 47 (Timothy Olyphant), another bald, barcoded assassin, is very explicit and showed his intention to keep him as a clone.[7] The detail was likely changed to accommodate for the casting of actors of mixed races during reshoots, making it impossible for them to be clones (or at least clones of the same person). Errors of Hitman. In the frame of 1 h 09 m can be seen the inscription on the forms of FSB officers, while the average letter - «C» mirror display. Also, when you show the Kremlin, at the bottom we see the inscription: «Saint-Petersburg». Most of the filming took place in Sofia. Therefore, in the movie, you'll notice a lot of Bulgarian inscriptions: «teatr people», «poscha» etc. In the cathedral in St. Petersburg, read the burial service which killed 47-m brother Russian President Belikova, facing benches, as in the Catholic church, and when the machine seized 47 th leaves from the cathedral in the background mountains are visible. Also, it seems absurd appearance at the end of the movie CIA agent with extraordinary powers to check on the Interpol officers involved in terrorist acts in the light of the fact that the action takes place in the Russian Federation. And what is Russia on the movie? - Banana republic of El Salvador and Honduras. Agent 47 and Nika vezhayut in Russia by car from Turkey, you see the inscription "RUSSIAN BORDER - TURKEY". Russia has no land border with Turkey. Captain Gudnaev and General Kormarov are non-existent in the Russian army pursuit. Hitman was originally slated to be released on October 12, 2007 in the United States and Canada,[8] but the film's release was postponed to November 21, 2007.[9] Hitman opened in 2,458 theaters in the United States and Canada, grossing $13,180,769 in its opening weekend, ranking fourth at the box office.[10] The following weekend, Hitman opened in 12 markets, having the following highlights: $150,355 in 38 theaters in Indonesia, $224,449 in 37 theaters in Malaysia. and $244,329 in 32 theaters in the Philippines. In Taiwan, the film opened in fourth place with approximately $100,000. The film also performed weakly in Lebanon with $19,321 in 6 theaters.[11] As of July 2, 2008, the film has grossed $39,687,694 in the United States and Canada and $60,245,563 in other territories for a worldwide total of $99,933,257.[10] The film has been almost universally panned by critics. The most common complaints are a lacking, often confusing plot, dry acting and extreme violence. On the film review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, Hitman has received a Rotten rating of 15% based on 91 reviews,[12] and it has received a Rotten rating of 6% from 19 "Cream of the Crop" reviewers from mainstream news outlets. However, top film critic Roger Ebert gave it three stars out of four, saying "Hitman stands right on the threshold between video games and art. On the wrong side of the threshold, but still, give it credit."[13] On the website Metacritic, the film has received a metascore of 35 out of 100 based on 22 reviews.[14] In 2009, Time listed the film on their list of top ten worst video games movies.[15] An unrated version of Hitman was released in the high definition Blu-ray format on March 11 2008, and features extras including deleted scenes, an alternate ending and a gag reel. This version also features a special digital copy of the movie which can be transferred to a portable media device like an iPod.[16] A standard definition DVD was released on March 11 as well in three versions. A single disc theatrical version, a single disc unrated version, and an unrated special edition including many extras, and the digital copy mentioned above.[17] The unrated DVD is one minute longer than the theatrical cut and includes a few extended scenes with more blood.[18] The UK version of the film was available on Blu-ray and DVD from 31 March 2008. The French, Blu-Ray version of the movie came with 10 deleted scenes, accompanied with French audio commentary by Xavier Gens. Some of the scenes included are the original assassination, in which Ovie survives, is taken to hospital only to be killed via lethal injection by 47 disguised as a doctor. The alternate train platform sequence which features no sword fight, as well as showing the older assassin biting off his tongue to avoid giving answers to 47, and an extended departure sequence between 47 and Nika, which shows Yuri and his men stopping their train and boarding it to look for 47.Hitman 
Poster for the filmDirected by Xavier Gens Produced by Chuck Gordon
Adrian Askariah
Daniel Alter
Luc BessonWritten by Skip Woods Starring Timothy Olyphant
Dougray Scott
Robert Knepper
Olga KurylenkoMusic by Geoff Zanelli Distributed by 20th Century Fox Release date(s) 
November 21, 2007Running time 93 min. Country 
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