Hitman
Hitman woof! 2007 (R)
Just like the videogame on which the film is based, orphaned kids are recruited by a top-secret organization that trains them as assassins. Grown, the killers are all bald with their heads tattooed with large bar codes, and they roam around the rest of the world with large guns, knocking off whomever needs knocking off. One of these guys, known only as “47” (Olyphant), is on task to murder Russian President Belicoff (Thomsen), which he does with brutal (and predictable) violence. But when Belicoff later shows up alive on television, 47 realizes he's been had, and now he's running from police, Interpol, and worse yet, a handful of his old cronies. Somehow gorgeous Nika (Kurylenko) gets tossed into the mix and is on the lam with 47. She lends some eye-candy and a touch of humanity, but that's about it. The violence is over the top, the plot is less than thin, and the acting perfunctory at best. 100m/C DVD . US Timothy Olyphant, Olga Kurylenko, Dougray Scott, Robert Knepper, Ulrich Thomsen, Henry Ian Cusack, Michael Offei; D: Skip Woods, Xavier Gens; C: Laurent Bares; M: Geoff Zanelli.