REVIEW: THE HITMAN

You know that we're not big fans of movies based on novels or comic books. Creating a film based on a video game is a whole different animal - one that should be extinct!

Still, there was something about the trailer we saw for The Hitman starring that guy from HBO's Deadwood that really grabbed us.

Here's the trailer:



HUBBY'S REVIEW

Garbage. Complete and total garbage. I guess we have ourselves to blame for thinking this movie adaptation of a popular video game would be any different from those before it. You know, like such masterpieces as Double Dragon, Mortal Kombat, and Super Mario Brothers.

This movie had the potential to shatter those preconceived notions, but instead it only continued the sad trend. When our story begins we are given several interesting teasers regarding the main character's background. For some strange reason, however, none of them are explored beyond merely mentioning them.

This is where the film completely fails and lost us. The action was great and the special effects were pretty cool, but so what? We can get that in almost any movie these days.

Again, the potential to tell a really neat Alias-meets-Bourne Identity story was lost on the creators.

For their laziness I give this 1 Ben & Jerry's.