Hitman: Agent 47 Film Review

Finished watching Hitman: Agent 47, directed by Aleksander Bach and staring Ciarán Hinds, Hannah Ware, Thomas Kretschmann, Zachary Quinto and Rupert Friend. The film opens up with with the origin of the Agent program created by head scientist Dr Peter Litvenko (Ciarán Hinds) who went missing years prior after the termination of the program. After many failed attempts in reviving the Agent Program the company named Syndicate International find Dr Litvenko's daughter Katia (Hannah Ware) in Berlin as she's looking for information about her father. The Syndicate chairman Antoine LeClerq (Thomas Kretschmann) assigns John Smith (Zachary Quinto) to bring in Katia to see if he can find her father for the Syndicate so they can create their own functional Agents. Causing 47 (Rupert Friend) to find the pair and take Katia into his custody from John as the two go on the run from the Syndicate to find Dr Litvenko to answer questions to their past. Overall this was a decent film as there are some great action scenes with the progression of the fight scenes with 47 taking centre stage in the majority of them. The character development/backstory of 47 and Katia even though its brief is very intriguing in how the two characters are connected. Some of the special effects feel very video game like causing some disarray in some parts and they don't seem to connect well within the chase scene, while in the fight scenes the effects work for some of the elaborate deaths of the Syndicate International's henchmen. 6/10.